Highlights

• Support a faster but non-deterministic version of hard voxelization
• Completion of dataset tutorials and the Chinese documentation
• Improved the aesthetics of the documentation format

Improvements

• Add Chinese Documentation for training on customized datasets and designing customized models (#729, #820)
• Support a faster but non-deterministic version of hard voxelization (#904)
• Update paper titles and code details for metafiles (#917)
• Add a tutorial for KITTI dataset (#953)
• Use Pytorch sphinx theme to improve the format of documentation (#958)
• Use the docker to accelerate CI (#971)

Bug Fixes

• Fix the sphinx version used in the documentation (#902)
• Fix a dynamic scatter bug that discards the first voxel by mistake when all input points are valid (#915)
• Fix the inconsistent variable names used in the unit test for voxel generator (#919)
• Upgrade to use build_prior_generator to replace the legacy build_anchor_generator (#941)
• Fix a minor bug caused by a too-small difference set in the FreeAnchor Head (#944)

Contributors

A total of 8 developers contributed to this release.

@DCNSW, @zhanggefan, @mickeyouyou, @ZCMax, @wHao-Wu, @tojimahammatov, @xiliu8006, @Tai-Wang

New Contributors

• @mickeyouyou made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection3d/pull/920
• @tojimahammatov made their first contribution in https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection3d/pull/944

Full Changelog: https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmdetection3d/compare/v0.17.0...v0.17.1