Griffin: Aerial-Ground Cooperative Detection and Tracking Dataset and Benchmark

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06983v1
• Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:00:07 GMT
• Title: Griffin: Aerial-Ground Cooperative Detection and Tracking Dataset and Benchmark
• Authors: Jiahao Wang, Xiangyu Cao, Jiaru Zhong, Yuner Zhang, Haibao Yu, Lei He, Shaobing Xu,
• Abstract summary: Aerial-ground cooperation offers a promising solution by integrating UAVs' aerial views with ground vehicles' local observations.<n>This paper presents a comprehensive solution for aerial-ground cooperative 3D perception through three key contributions.
• Score: 15.405137983083875
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Despite significant advancements, autonomous driving systems continue to struggle with occluded objects and long-range detection due to the inherent limitations of single-perspective sensing. Aerial-ground cooperation offers a promising solution by integrating UAVs' aerial views with ground vehicles' local observations. However, progress in this emerging field has been hindered by the absence of public datasets and standardized evaluation benchmarks. To address this gap, this paper presents a comprehensive solution for aerial-ground cooperative 3D perception through three key contributions: (1) Griffin, a large-scale multi-modal dataset featuring over 200 dynamic scenes (30k+ frames) with varied UAV altitudes (20-60m), diverse weather conditions, and occlusion-aware 3D annotations, enhanced by CARLA-AirSim co-simulation for realistic UAV dynamics; (2) A unified benchmarking framework for aerial-ground cooperative detection and tracking tasks, including protocols for evaluating communication efficiency, latency tolerance, and altitude adaptability; (3) AGILE, an instance-level intermediate fusion baseline that dynamically aligns cross-view features through query-based interaction, achieving an advantageous balance between communication overhead and perception accuracy. Extensive experiments prove the effectiveness of aerial-ground cooperative perception and demonstrate the direction of further research. The dataset and codes are available at https://github.com/wang-jh18-SVM/Griffin.

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