Multi-camera Bird's Eye View Perception for Autonomous Driving

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09080v2
• Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 10:40:37 GMT
• Title: Multi-camera Bird's Eye View Perception for Autonomous Driving
• Authors: David Unger, Nikhil Gosala, Varun Ravi Kumar, Shubhankar Borse, Abhinav Valada, Senthil Yogamani
• Abstract summary: It is essential to produce perception outputs in 3D to enable the spatial reasoning of other agents and structures. The most basic approach to achieving the desired BEV representation from a camera image is IPM, assuming a flat ground surface. More recent approaches use deep neural networks to output directly in BEV space.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture a 2D perspective projection with inherent depth ambiguity. However, it is essential to produce perception outputs in 3D to enable the spatial reasoning of other agents and structures for optimal path planning. The 3D space is typically simplified to the BEV space by omitting the less relevant Z-coordinate, which corresponds to the height dimension.The most basic approach to achieving the desired BEV representation from a camera image is IPM, assuming a flat ground surface. Surround vision systems that are pretty common in new vehicles use the IPM principle to generate a BEV image and to show it on display to the driver. However, this approach is not suited for autonomous driving since there are severe distortions introduced by this too-simplistic transformation method. More recent approaches use deep neural networks to output directly in BEV space. These methods transform camera images into BEV space using geometric constraints implicitly or explicitly in the network. As CNN has more context information and a learnable transformation can be more flexible and adapt to image content, the deep learning-based methods set the new benchmark for BEV transformation and achieve state-of-the-art performance. First, this chapter discusses the contemporary trends of multi-camera-based DNN (deep neural network) models outputting object representations directly in the BEV space. Then, we discuss how this approach can extend to effective sensor fusion and coupling downstream tasks like situation analysis and prediction. Finally, we show challenges and open problems in BEV perception.

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