Online Collision Risk Estimation via Monocular Depth-Aware Object Detectors and Fuzzy Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08060v1
• Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:20:36 GMT
• Title: Online Collision Risk Estimation via Monocular Depth-Aware Object Detectors and Fuzzy Inference
• Authors: Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao, Yingjie Xu, Chih-Hong Cheng, Hasan Esen, Alois Knoll,
• Abstract summary: The framework takes two sets of predictions produced by different algorithms and associates their inconsistencies with the collision risk via fuzzy inference. We experimentally validate that, based on Intersection-over-Union (IoU) and a depth discrepancy measure, the inconsistencies between the two sets of predictions strongly correlate to the safety-related error of the 3D object detector.
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• Abstract: This paper presents a monitoring framework that infers the level of autonomous vehicle (AV) collision risk based on its object detector's performance using only monocular camera images. Essentially, the framework takes two sets of predictions produced by different algorithms and associates their inconsistencies with the collision risk via fuzzy inference. The first set of predictions is obtained through retrieving safety-critical 2.5D objects from a depth map, and the second set comes from the AV's 3D object detector. We experimentally validate that, based on Intersection-over-Union (IoU) and a depth discrepancy measure, the inconsistencies between the two sets of predictions strongly correlate to the safety-related error of the 3D object detector against ground truths. This correlation allows us to construct a fuzzy inference system and map the inconsistency measures to an existing collision risk indicator. In particular, we apply various knowledge- and data-driven techniques and find using particle swarm optimization that learns general fuzzy rules gives the best mapping result. Lastly, we validate our monitor's capability to produce relevant risk estimates with the large-scale nuScenes dataset and show it can safeguard an AV in closed-loop simulations.

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