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Table 1 Acronyms and notations

From: A comparative study on point cloud down-sampling strategies for deep learning-based crop organ segmentation

FPS

Farthest Point Sampling

3DEPS

3D Edge-preserving Sampling

RS

Random Sampling

UVS

Uniformly Voxelized Sampling

VFPS

Voxelized Farthest Point Sampling

VBS

Voxel-based Sampling

SBF

3D Surface Boundary Filter

LFEOs

Local Feature Extraction Operations

FFM

Feature Fusion Module

LFEM

Local Feature Extraction Module

DGFFM

Dual-granularity Feature Fusion Module

GT

Ground truth

TP

True Positive

FP

False Positive

FN

False Negative

IoU

Intersection over Union

AveDiff

The average difference to the best performer

mCov

Mean coverage

mWCov

Mean weighted coverage

\({\mathcal{P}}\)

The original point set or point cloud

\(M\)

The number of points in the original \({\mathcal{P}}\)

\(n\)

The number of points after down-sampling

\(m\)

The number of remaining points to be sampled

\(N\)

Number of points not yet visited in \({\mathcal{P}}\)

\(S(m,N)\)

The random variable used in Random Sampling

\(F( \cdot )\)

A probability distribution function

\(A:\)

Permutation

\(U,V\)

Random variables with a uniform distribution in (0, 1)

\(A \leftarrow B\)

Assign the value B to A

\({\mathcal{P}}_{i}\)

The points contained in the i-th voxel

\(c_{i}\)

The gravity centroid in XYZ space of \({\mathcal{P}}_{i}\)

\(l_{x}\), \(l_{y}\),\(l_{z}\)

The length, width, and height of each voxel

\({\mathcal{C}}\)

Internal point set

\({\mathcal{B}}\)

Edge point set

\(C\)

The number of semantic classes

\(C_{ins}\)

The number of semantic classes that have instances

IoU \(( \cdot, \cdot)\)

Intersection over Union calculation of two entities