Parallel Neural Computing for Scene Understanding from LiDAR Perception in Autonomous Racing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.18165v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 04:56:32 GMT
• Title: Parallel Neural Computing for Scene Understanding from LiDAR Perception in Autonomous Racing
• Authors: Suwesh Prasad Sah,
• Abstract summary: Traditional sequential network approaches may struggle to meet the real-time knowledge and decision-making demands of an autonomous agent. This paper proposes a novel baseline architecture for developing sophisticated models capable of true hardware-enabled parallelism. The proposed model takes raw 3D point cloud data from the LiDAR sensor as input and converts it into a 2D Bird's Eye View Map on both devices.
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• Abstract: Autonomous driving in high-speed racing, as opposed to urban environments, presents significant challenges in scene understanding due to rapid changes in the track environment. Traditional sequential network approaches may struggle to meet the real-time knowledge and decision-making demands of an autonomous agent covering large displacements in a short time. This paper proposes a novel baseline architecture for developing sophisticated models capable of true hardware-enabled parallelism, achieving neural processing speeds that mirror the agent's high velocity. The proposed model (Parallel Perception Network (PPN)) consists of two independent neural networks, segmentation and reconstruction networks, running parallelly on separate accelerated hardware. The model takes raw 3D point cloud data from the LiDAR sensor as input and converts it into a 2D Bird's Eye View Map on both devices. Each network independently extracts its input features along space and time dimensions and produces outputs parallelly. The proposed method's model is trained on a system with two NVIDIA T4 GPUs, using a combination of loss functions, including edge preservation, and demonstrates a 2x speedup in model inference time compared to a sequential configuration. Implementation is available at: https://github.com/suwesh/Parallel-Perception-Network. Learned parameters of the trained networks are provided at: https://huggingface.co/suwesh/ParallelPerceptionNetwork.

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