Radar Voxel Fusion for 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14087v1
• Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 20:34:12 GMT
• Title: Radar Voxel Fusion for 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Felix Nobis, Ehsan Shafiei, Phillip Karle, Johannes Betz and Markus Lienkamp
• Abstract summary: This paper develops a low-level sensor fusion network for 3D object detection. The radar sensor fusion proves especially beneficial in inclement conditions such as rain and night scenes.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive perception systems cannot be tailored to a narrow field of specific tasks but must handle an ever-changing environment with unforeseen events. As currently no single sensor is able to reliably perceive all relevant activity in the surroundings, sensor data fusion is applied to perceive as much information as possible. Data fusion of different sensors and sensor modalities on a low abstraction level enables the compensation of sensor weaknesses and misdetections among the sensors before the information-rich sensor data are compressed and thereby information is lost after a sensor-individual object detection. This paper develops a low-level sensor fusion network for 3D object detection, which fuses lidar, camera, and radar data. The fusion network is trained and evaluated on the nuScenes data set. On the test set, fusion of radar data increases the resulting AP (Average Precision) detection score by about 5.1% in comparison to the baseline lidar network. The radar sensor fusion proves especially beneficial in inclement conditions such as rain and night scenes. Fusing additional camera data contributes positively only in conjunction with the radar fusion, which shows that interdependencies of the sensors are important for the detection result. Additionally, the paper proposes a novel loss to handle the discontinuity of a simple yaw representation for object detection. Our updated loss increases the detection and orientation estimation performance for all sensor input configurations. The code for this research has been made available on GitHub.

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