CALICO: Self-Supervised Camera-LiDAR Contrastive Pre-training for BEV Perception

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00349v2
• Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2023 14:42:52 GMT
• Title: CALICO: Self-Supervised Camera-LiDAR Contrastive Pre-training for BEV Perception
• Authors: Jiachen Sun, Haizhong Zheng, Qingzhao Zhang, Atul Prakash, Z. Morley Mao, and Chaowei Xiao
• Abstract summary: CALICO is a novel framework that applies contrastive objectives to both LiDAR and camera backbones. Our framework can be tailored to different backbones and heads, positioning it as a promising approach for multimodal BEV perception.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Perception is crucial in the realm of autonomous driving systems, where bird's eye view (BEV)-based architectures have recently reached state-of-the-art performance. The desirability of self-supervised representation learning stems from the expensive and laborious process of annotating 2D and 3D data. Although previous research has investigated pretraining methods for both LiDAR and camera-based 3D object detection, a unified pretraining framework for multimodal BEV perception is missing. In this study, we introduce CALICO, a novel framework that applies contrastive objectives to both LiDAR and camera backbones. Specifically, CALICO incorporates two stages: point-region contrast (PRC) and region-aware distillation (RAD). PRC better balances the region- and scene-level representation learning on the LiDAR modality and offers significant performance improvement compared to existing methods. RAD effectively achieves contrastive distillation on our self-trained teacher model. CALICO's efficacy is substantiated by extensive evaluations on 3D object detection and BEV map segmentation tasks, where it delivers significant performance improvements. Notably, CALICO outperforms the baseline method by 10.5% and 8.6% on NDS and mAP. Moreover, CALICO boosts the robustness of multimodal 3D object detection against adversarial attacks and corruption. Additionally, our framework can be tailored to different backbones and heads, positioning it as a promising approach for multimodal BEV perception.

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