NextStop: An Improved Tracker For Panoptic LIDAR Segmentation Data

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06235v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:08:06 GMT
• Title: NextStop: An Improved Tracker For Panoptic LIDAR Segmentation Data
• Authors: Nirit Alkalay, Roy Orfaig, Ben-Zion Bobrovsky,
• Abstract summary: 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation is essential for scene understanding in autonomous driving and robotics. Current methods, like 4D-PLS and 4D-STOP, use a tracking-by-detection methodology, employing deep learning networks to perform semantic and instance segmentation on each frame. NextStop demonstrates enhanced tracking performance, particularly for small-sized objects like people and bicyclists, with fewer ID switches, earlier tracking initiation, and improved reliability in complex environments.
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• Abstract: 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation is essential for scene understanding in autonomous driving and robotics ,combining semantic and instance segmentation with temporal consistency.Current methods, like 4D-PLS and 4D-STOP, use a tracking-by-detection methodology, employing deep learning networks to perform semantic and instance segmentation on each frame. To maintain temporal consistency, large-size instances detected in the current frame are compared and associated with instances within a temporal window that includes the current and preceding frames. However, their reliance on short-term instance detection, lack of motion estimation, and exclusion of small-sized instances lead to frequent identity switches and reduced tracking performance. We address these issues with the NextStop1 tracker, which integrates Kalman filter-based motion estimation, data association, and lifespan management, along with a tracklet state concept to improve prioritization. Evaluated using the LiDAR Segmentation and Tracking Quality (LSTQ) metric on the SemanticKITTI validation set, NextStop demonstrated enhanced tracking performance, particularly for small-sized objects like people and bicyclists, with fewer ID switches, earlier tracking initiation, and improved reliability in complex environments. The source code is available at https://github.com/AIROTAU/NextStopTracker

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