Detecting and Mapping Trees in Unstructured Environments with a Stereo Camera and Pseudo-Lidar

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15967v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:46:57 GMT
• Title: Detecting and Mapping Trees in Unstructured Environments with a Stereo Camera and Pseudo-Lidar
• Authors: Brian H. Wang, Carlos Diaz-Ruiz, Jacopo Banfi, and Mark Campbell
• Abstract summary: We present a method for detecting and mapping trees in noisy stereo camera point clouds. Inspired by recent advancements in 3-D object detection, we train a PointRCNN detector to recognize trees in forest-like environments. Results demonstrate robust tree recognition in noisy stereo data at ranges of up to 7 meters, on 720p resolution images from a Stereolabs ZED 2 camera.
• Score: 3.9243546740194586
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present a method for detecting and mapping trees in noisy stereo camera point clouds, using a learned 3-D object detector. Inspired by recent advancements in 3-D object detection using a pseudo-lidar representation for stereo data, we train a PointRCNN detector to recognize trees in forest-like environments. We generate detector training data with a novel automatic labeling process that clusters a fused global point cloud. This process annotates large stereo point cloud training data sets with minimal user supervision, and unlike previous pseudo-lidar detection pipelines, requires no 3-D ground truth from other sensors such as lidar. Our mapping system additionally uses a Kalman filter to associate detections and consistently estimate the positions and sizes of trees. We collect a data set for tree detection consisting of 8680 stereo point clouds, and validate our method on an outdoors test sequence. Our results demonstrate robust tree recognition in noisy stereo data at ranges of up to 7 meters, on 720p resolution images from a Stereolabs ZED 2 camera. Code and data are available at https://github.com/brian-h-wang/pseudolidar-tree-detection.

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