Enhancing Lidar-based Object Detection in Adverse Weather using Offset Sequences in Time

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09049v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:31:58 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Lidar-based Object Detection in Adverse Weather using Offset Sequences in Time
• Authors: Raphael van Kempen, Tim Rehbronn, Abin Jose, Johannes Stegmaier, Bastian Lampe, Timo Woopen and Lutz Eckstein
• Abstract summary: Lidar-based object detection is significantly affected by adverse weather conditions such as rain and fog. Our research provides a comprehensive study of effective methods for mitigating the effects of adverse weather on the reliability of lidar-based object detection.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Automated vehicles require an accurate perception of their surroundings for safe and efficient driving. Lidar-based object detection is a widely used method for environment perception, but its performance is significantly affected by adverse weather conditions such as rain and fog. In this work, we investigate various strategies for enhancing the robustness of lidar-based object detection by processing sequential data samples generated by lidar sensors. Our approaches leverage temporal information to improve a lidar object detection model, without the need for additional filtering or pre-processing steps. We compare $10$ different neural network architectures that process point cloud sequences including a novel augmentation strategy introducing a temporal offset between frames of a sequence during training and evaluate the effectiveness of all strategies on lidar point clouds under adverse weather conditions through experiments. Our research provides a comprehensive study of effective methods for mitigating the effects of adverse weather on the reliability of lidar-based object detection using sequential data that are evaluated using public datasets such as nuScenes, Dense, and the Canadian Adverse Driving Conditions Dataset. Our findings demonstrate that our novel method, involving temporal offset augmentation through randomized frame skipping in sequences, enhances object detection accuracy compared to both the baseline model (Pillar-based Object Detection) and no augmentation.

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