Benchmarking the Robustness of LiDAR-Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14951v1
• Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 09:35:37 GMT
• Title: Benchmarking the Robustness of LiDAR-Camera Fusion for 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Kaicheng Yu, Tang Tao, Hongwei Xie, Zhiwei Lin, Zhongwei Wu, Zhongyu Xia, Tingting Liang, Haiyang Sun, Jiong Deng, Dayang Hao, Yongtao Wang, Xiaodan Liang, Bing Wang
• Abstract summary: Two critical sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving are the camera and the LiDAR. fusing these two modalities can significantly boost the performance of 3D perception models. We benchmark the state-of-the-art fusion methods for the first time.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: There are two critical sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving, the camera and the LiDAR. The camera provides rich semantic information such as color, texture, and the LiDAR reflects the 3D shape and locations of surrounding objects. People discover that fusing these two modalities can significantly boost the performance of 3D perception models as each modality has complementary information to the other. However, we observe that current datasets are captured from expensive vehicles that are explicitly designed for data collection purposes, and cannot truly reflect the realistic data distribution due to various reasons. To this end, we collect a series of real-world cases with noisy data distribution, and systematically formulate a robustness benchmark toolkit, that simulates these cases on any clean autonomous driving datasets. We showcase the effectiveness of our toolkit by establishing the robustness benchmark on two widely-adopted autonomous driving datasets, nuScenes and Waymo, then, to the best of our knowledge, holistically benchmark the state-of-the-art fusion methods for the first time. We observe that: i) most fusion methods, when solely developed on these data, tend to fail inevitably when there is a disruption to the LiDAR input; ii) the improvement of the camera input is significantly inferior to the LiDAR one. We further propose an efficient robust training strategy to improve the robustness of the current fusion method. The benchmark and code are available at https://github.com/kcyu2014/lidar-camera-robust-benchmark

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