# MuraNet: Multi-task Floor Plan Recognition with Relation Attention

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00348 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.00348/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 20 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 1 Sep 2023.

## Builds on (most cited first, 20 of 20)

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- [Mask R-CNN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06870/) (2017)
- [DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.00915/) (2016)
- [SegFormer: Simple and Efficient Design for Semantic Segmentation with Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.15203/) (2021)
- [YOLOv3: An Incremental Improvement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.02767/) (2018)
- [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.07919/) (2019)
- [YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.08430/) (2021)
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- [Revisiting the Sibling Head in Object Detector](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2003.07540/) (2020)
- [CubiCasa5K: A Dataset and an Improved Multi-Task Model for Floorplan Image Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.01920/) (2019)
- [FloorPlanCAD: A Large-Scale CAD Drawing Dataset for Panoptic Symbol Spotting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.07147/) (2021)
- [Deep Floor Plan Recognition Using a Multi-Task Network with Room-Boundary-Guided Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.11025/) (2019)
- [Symbol Spotting on Digital Architectural Floor Plans Using a Deep Learning-based Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.00684/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Rotation Invariance in Floor Plan Digitization using Zernike Moments](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.03241/) (2025)
- [FGSSNet: Feature-Guided Semantic Segmentation of Real World Floorplans](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.10343/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

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.
