Temel Kavramlar
Leveraging asynchronous historical LiDAR data from past traversals can significantly improve the performance of monocular 3D object detectors.
Özet
The content discusses a novel approach, termed AsyncDepth, to improve monocular 3D object detection by leveraging asynchronous historical LiDAR data from past traversals.
The key insights are:
- Monocular 3D object detectors suffer from inherent depth ambiguities in images, while LiDAR-based detectors provide accurate 3D information but are expensive.
- In a practical scenario, some vehicles may be equipped with LiDAR sensors and can share their past traversal data with a fleet of camera-only vehicles.
- Even though the past LiDAR data does not capture the current dynamic objects, it can provide accurate 3D information about the static background, which can help the monocular detectors better detect and localize foreground objects.
- The authors propose a simple and end-to-end trainable framework to effectively extract relevant features from the asynchronous LiDAR data and fuse them with the image features for improved monocular 3D detection.
- Experiments on two real-world autonomous driving datasets show consistent and significant performance gains (up to 9 AP) across multiple state-of-the-art monocular 3D detectors, with negligible additional latency and storage cost.
İstatistikler
"LiDAR sensors are more expensive than cameras but are capable of capturing 3D geometry of the traffic scenes at high fidelity."
"Camera-based 3D object detectors are a cheaper but also less accurate alternative due to depth ambiguities induced by perspective projections."