BEVDistill: Cross-Modal BEV Distillation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09386v1
• Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 07:26:14 GMT
• Title: BEVDistill: Cross-Modal BEV Distillation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Zehui Chen, Zhenyu Li, Shiquan Zhang, Liangji Fang, Qinhong Jiang, Feng Zhao
• Abstract summary: 3D object detection from multiple image views is a challenging task for visual scene understanding. We propose textbfBEVDistill, a cross-modal BEV knowledge distillation framework for multi-view 3D object detection. Our best model achieves 59.4 NDS on the nuScenes test leaderboard, achieving new state-of-the-art in comparison with various image-based detectors.
• Score: 17.526914782562528
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 3D object detection from multiple image views is a fundamental and challenging task for visual scene understanding. Owing to its low cost and high efficiency, multi-view 3D object detection has demonstrated promising application prospects. However, accurately detecting objects through perspective views is extremely difficult due to the lack of depth information. Current approaches tend to adopt heavy backbones for image encoders, making them inapplicable for real-world deployment. Different from the images, LiDAR points are superior in providing spatial cues, resulting in highly precise localization. In this paper, we explore the incorporation of LiDAR-based detectors for multi-view 3D object detection. Instead of directly training a depth prediction network, we unify the image and LiDAR features in the Bird-Eye-View (BEV) space and adaptively transfer knowledge across non-homogenous representations in a teacher-student paradigm. To this end, we propose \textbf{BEVDistill}, a cross-modal BEV knowledge distillation (KD) framework for multi-view 3D object detection. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms current KD approaches on a highly-competitive baseline, BEVFormer, without introducing any extra cost in the inference phase. Notably, our best model achieves 59.4 NDS on the nuScenes test leaderboard, achieving new state-of-the-art in comparison with various image-based detectors. Code will be available at https://github.com/zehuichen123/BEVDistill.

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