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The divergent point pattern of LiDAR, which results in a reduction in point density as the distance increases, leads to a non-uniform point distribution that is ill-suited to discretized volumetric feature extraction. To address this challenge, we propose the Foreground Voxel Proposal (FVP) module, which effectively locates and generates voxels at the foreground of objects. The outputs are subsequently merged to mitigating the difference in point cloud density and completing the object shape. Furthermore, the susceptibility of small objects to occlusion results in the loss of feature space. To overcome this, we propose the Multi-Scale Feature Integration Network (MsFIN), which captures contextual information at different ranges. Subsequently, the outputs of these features are integrated through a cascade framework based on transformers in order to supplement the object features space. The extensive experimental results demonstrate that our network achieves remarkable results. 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