DANet: Joint density- and semantics-adaptive convolution for 3D point-cloud semantic segmentation

DOI number:10.3390/s26144561

Journal:Sensors

Abstract:Semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds remains difficult when LiDAR or depth-camera data are sampled unevenly. This paper presents DANet, a 3D semantic segmentation framework built on joint density- and semantics-adaptive convolution. Its core operator, Density-Adaptive Radius Convolution (DAR-Conv), predicts point-wise neighborhood radii before feature aggregation by combining density-driven initialization with semantics-aware modulation. In this way, dense regions can use compact receptive fields, whereas sparse or semantically complex regions can draw on broader contextual support. DANet also includes a Gated Adaptive Cross-Layer Fusion (GACF) module, which aligns encoder–decoder features and performs gated fusion with residual refinement. Experiments on S3DIS and NPM3D show that DANet obtains the highest reported mean accuracy (mAcc) among the compared methods on S3DIS, and high mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and overall accuracy (OA) on NPM3D, supporting the usefulness of density- and semantics-aware receptive-field adaptation.

Indexed by:Journal articles

Document Code:4561

Volume:26

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2026-07-18

Included Journals:SCI

Links to published journals:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/26/14/4561