BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17270v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 17:59:01 GMT
• Title: BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers
• Authors: Zhiqi Li, Wenhai Wang, Hongyang Li, Enze Xie, Chonghao Sima, Tong Lu, Qiao Yu, Jifeng Dai
• Abstract summary: 3D visual perception tasks, including 3D detection and map segmentation based on multi-camera images, are essential for autonomous driving systems. We present a new framework termed BEVFormer, which learns unified BEV representations with transformers to support multiple autonomous driving perception tasks. We show that BEVFormer remarkably improves the accuracy of velocity estimation and recall of objects under low visibility conditions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 3D visual perception tasks, including 3D detection and map segmentation based on multi-camera images, are essential for autonomous driving systems. In this work, we present a new framework termed BEVFormer, which learns unified BEV representations with spatiotemporal transformers to support multiple autonomous driving perception tasks. In a nutshell, BEVFormer exploits both spatial and temporal information by interacting with spatial and temporal space through predefined grid-shaped BEV queries. To aggregate spatial information, we design a spatial cross-attention that each BEV query extracts the spatial features from the regions of interest across camera views. For temporal information, we propose a temporal self-attention to recurrently fuse the history BEV information. Our approach achieves the new state-of-the-art 56.9\% in terms of NDS metric on the nuScenes test set, which is 9.0 points higher than previous best arts and on par with the performance of LiDAR-based baselines. We further show that BEVFormer remarkably improves the accuracy of velocity estimation and recall of objects under low visibility conditions. The code will be released at https://github.com/zhiqi-li/BEVFormer.

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