MuraNet: Multi-task Floor Plan Recognition with Relation Attention

TL;DR

MuraNet is a multi-task, attention-based model that jointly performs segmentation and detection on floor plan data, improving accuracy and training efficiency over single-task models.

Contribution

The paper introduces MuraNet, a unified multi-task model with an attention-based backbone and separate branches for segmentation and detection, tailored for floor plan recognition.

Findings

MuraNet improves convergence speed compared to single-task models.

It achieves higher average AP and IoU in detection and segmentation.

Ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of the unified backbone and multi-head branches.

Abstract

The recognition of information in floor plan data requires the use of detection and segmentation models. However, relying on several single-task models can result in ineffective utilization of relevant information when there are multiple tasks present simultaneously. To address this challenge, we introduce MuraNet, an attention-based multi-task model for segmentation and detection tasks in floor plan data. In MuraNet, we adopt a unified encoder called MURA as the backbone with two separated branches: an enhanced segmentation decoder branch and a decoupled detection head branch based on YOLOX, for segmentation and detection tasks respectively. The architecture of MuraNet is designed to leverage the fact that walls, doors, and windows usually constitute the primary structure of a floor plan's architecture. By jointly training the model on both detection and segmentation tasks, we believe MuraNet can effectively extract and utilize relevant features for both tasks. Our experiments on the CubiCasa5k public dataset show that MuraNet improves convergence speed during training compared to single-task models like U-Net and YOLOv3. Moreover, we observe improvements in the average AP and IoU in detection and segmentation tasks, respectively.Our ablation experiments demonstrate that the attention-based unified backbone of MuraNet achieves better feature extraction in floor plan recognition tasks, and the use of decoupled multi-head branches for different tasks further improves model performance. We believe that our proposed MuraNet model can address the disadvantages of single-task models and improve the accuracy and efficiency of floor plan data recognition.