Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Volume 23, Issue 9, Pages 15146-15154Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3137392
Keywords
Point cloud compression; Feature extraction; Three-dimensional displays; Detectors; Proposals; Electronic mail; Shape; 3D vehicle detection; deep learning; autonomous driving; false detection; point cloud processing; data fusion
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Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFE0192900]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41871380, 42101451]
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This paper presents a multi-level fusion network for 3D vehicle detection from point clouds and images. Extensive experiments show that the proposed network has better detection performance on occluded and distant vehicles, and reduces the false detection of similarly shaped objects.
3D vehicle detectors based on point clouds generally have higher detection performance than detectors based on multi-sensors. However, with the lack of texture information, point-based methods get many missing detection of occluded and distant vehicles, and false detection with high-confidence of similarly shaped objects, which is a potential threat to traffic safety. Therefore, in the long run, fusion-based methods have more potential. This paper presents a multi-level fusion network for 3D vehicle detection from point clouds and images. The fusion network includes three stages: data-level fusion of point clouds and images, feature-level fusion of voxel and Bird's Eye View (BEV) in the point cloud branch, and feature-level fusion of point clouds and images. Besides, a novel coarse-fine detection header is proposed, which simulates the two-stage detectors, generating coarse proposals on the encoder, and refining them on the decoder. Extensive experiments show that the proposed network has better detection performance on occluded and distant vehicles, and reduces the false detection of similarly shaped objects, proving its superiority over some state-of-the-art detectors on the challenging KITTI benchmark. Ablation studies have also demonstrated the effectiveness of each designed module.
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