Context-Aware Data Augmentation for LIDAR 3D Object Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.10850v1
• Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2022 02:45:18 GMT
• Title: Context-Aware Data Augmentation for LIDAR 3D Object Detection
• Authors: Xuzhong Hu, Zaipeng Duan, Jie Ma
• Abstract summary: GT-sample effectively improves detection performance by inserting groundtruths into the lidar frame during training. These samples are often placed in unreasonable areas, which misleads model to learn the wrong context information between targets and backgrounds. We propose a context-aware data augmentation method (CA-aug) which ensures the reasonable placement of inserted objects.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: For 3D object detection, labeling lidar point cloud is difficult, so data augmentation is an important module to make full use of precious annotated data. As a widely used data augmentation method, GT-sample effectively improves detection performance by inserting groundtruths into the lidar frame during training. However, these samples are often placed in unreasonable areas, which misleads model to learn the wrong context information between targets and backgrounds. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a context-aware data augmentation method (CA-aug) , which ensures the reasonable placement of inserted objects by calculating the "Validspace" of the lidar point cloud. CA-aug is lightweight and compatible with other augmentation methods. Compared with the GT-sample and the similar method in Lidar-aug(SOTA), it brings higher accuracy to the existing detectors. We also present an in-depth study of augmentation methods for the range-view-based(RV-based) models and find that CA-aug can fully exploit the potential of RV-based networks. The experiment on KITTI val split shows that CA-aug can improve the mAP of the test model by 8%.

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