Merge with main mmdetection3d repo?

[stanleyshly]

Given this work is modified based on the mmdetection3d repo, are there any plans to update this code to the original mmdetection3d repo?

[filaPro]

Hi @stanleyshly,

There is one problem on this way: dependencies of MinkowskiEngine and RotatedIoU. Both of them require CUDA builds and MinkowskiEngine builds for several minutes during installation. I'm not sure if authors of mmdetection3d will welcome these dependencies.

Probably, the convolutional backbone and neck can be rewritten with spconv, supported in mmdetection3d but I'm not ready to analyse it and probably it would be slower than with MinkowskiEngine.

[stanleyshly]

Thank you your your prompt response, and I do apologize for the slow reply. Thank you for the information, it makes sense, I'll stick with this repo for now.