HydraFusion: Context-Aware Selective Sensor Fusion for Robust and Efficient Autonomous Vehicle Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.06644v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 22:19:53 GMT
• Title: HydraFusion: Context-Aware Selective Sensor Fusion for Robust and Efficient Autonomous Vehicle Perception
• Authors: Arnav Vaibhav Malawade, Trier Mortlock, Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque
• Abstract summary: Techniques to fuse sensor data from camera, radar, and lidar sensors have been proposed to improve autonomous vehicle (AV) perception. Existing methods are insufficiently robust in difficult driving contexts due to rigidity in their fusion implementations. We propose HydraFusion: a selective sensor fusion framework that learns to identify the current driving context and fuses the best combination of sensors.
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• Abstract: Although autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to revolutionize transportation, robust perception across a wide range of driving contexts remains a significant challenge. Techniques to fuse sensor data from camera, radar, and lidar sensors have been proposed to improve AV perception. However, existing methods are insufficiently robust in difficult driving contexts (e.g., bad weather, low light, sensor obstruction) due to rigidity in their fusion implementations. These methods fall into two broad categories: (i) early fusion, which fails when sensor data is noisy or obscured, and (ii) late fusion, which cannot leverage features from multiple sensors and thus produces worse estimates. To address these limitations, we propose HydraFusion: a selective sensor fusion framework that learns to identify the current driving context and fuses the best combination of sensors to maximize robustness without compromising efficiency. HydraFusion is the first approach to propose dynamically adjusting between early fusion, late fusion, and combinations in-between, thus varying both how and when fusion is applied. We show that, on average, HydraFusion outperforms early and late fusion approaches by 13.66% and 14.54%, respectively, without increasing computational complexity or energy consumption on the industry-standard Nvidia Drive PX2 AV hardware platform. We also propose and evaluate both static and deep-learning-based context identification strategies. Our open-source code and model implementation are available at https://github.com/AICPS/hydrafusion.

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