Probabilistic Oriented Object Detection in Automotive Radar
11 Apr 2020-pp 458-467
TL;DR: In this article, a deep learning-based algorithm for radar object detection is proposed, which takes in radar data in its raw tensor representation and places probabilistic oriented bounding boxes around the detected objects in bird's-eye-view space.
Abstract: Autonomous radar has been an integral part of advanced driver assistance systems due to its robustness to adverse weather and various lighting conditions Conventional automotive radars use digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms to process raw data into sparse radar pins which do not provide information regarding the size and orientation of the objects In this paper we propose a deeplearning based algorithm for radar object detection The algorithm takes in radar data in its raw tensor representation and places probabilistic oriented bounding boxes (oriented bounding boxes with uncertainty estimate) around the detected objects in bird's-eye-view space We created a new multimodal dataset with 102,544 frames of raw radar and synchronized LiDAR data To reduce human annotation effort we developed a scalable pipeline to automatically annotate ground truth using LiDAR as reference Based on this dataset we developed a vehicle detection pipeline using raw radar data as the only input Our best performing radar detection model achieves 7728% AP under oriented IoU of 03 To the best of our knowledge this is the first attempt to investigate object detection with raw radar data for conventional corner automotive radars
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TL;DR: A big picture of the deep radar perception stack is provided, including signal processing, datasets, labelling, data augmentation, and downstream tasks such as depth and velocity estimation, object detection, and sensor fusion.
Abstract: With recent developments, the performance of automotive radar has improved significantly. The next generation of 4D radar can achieve imaging capability in the form of high-resolution point clouds. In this context, we believe that the era of deep learning for radar perception has arrived. However, studies on radar deep learning are spread across different tasks, and a holistic overview is lacking. This review paper attempts to provide a big picture of the deep radar perception stack, including signal processing, datasets, labelling, data augmentation, and downstream tasks such as depth and velocity estimation, object detection, and sensor fusion. For these tasks, we focus on explaining how the network structure is adapted to radar domain knowledge. In particular, we summarise three overlooked challenges in deep radar perception, including multi-path effects, uncertainty problems, and adverse weather effects, and present some attempts to solve them.
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TL;DR: An overview of generic uncertainty estimation in deep learning is provided, and a strict comparative study on existing probabilistic object detection methods for autonomous driving applications is presented.
Abstract: Capturing uncertainty in object detection is indispensable for safe autonomous driving. In recent years, deep learning has become the de-facto approach for object detection, and many probabilistic object detectors have been proposed. However, there is no summary on uncertainty estimation in deep object detection, and existing methods are not only built with different network architectures and uncertainty estimation methods, but also evaluated on different datasets with a wide range of evaluation metrics. As a result, a comparison among methods remains challenging, as does the selection of a model that best suits a particular application. This paper aims to alleviate this problem by providing a review and comparative study on existing probabilistic object detection methods for autonomous driving applications. First, we provide an overview of generic uncertainty estimation in deep learning, and then systematically survey existing methods and evaluation metrics for probabilistic object detection. Next, we present a strict comparative study for probabilistic object detection based on an image detector and three public autonomous driving datasets. Finally, we present a discussion of the remaining challenges and future works. Code has been made available at this https URL
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TL;DR: KAIST-Radar is introduced, a novel large-scale object detection dataset and benchmark that contains 35K frames of 4D Radar tensor (4DRT) data with power measurements along the Doppler, range, azimuth, and elevation dimensions, to-gether with carefully annotated 3D bounding box labels of objects on the roads.
Abstract: Unlike RGB cameras that use visible light bands (384$\sim$769 THz) and Lidars that use infrared bands (361$\sim$331 THz), Radars use relatively longer wavelength radio bands (77$\sim$81 GHz), resulting in robust measurements in adverse weathers. Unfortunately, existing Radar datasets only contain a relatively small number of samples compared to the existing camera and Lidar datasets. This may hinder the development of sophisticated data-driven deep learning techniques for Radar-based perception. Moreover, most of the existing Radar datasets only provide 3D Radar tensor (3DRT) data that contain power measurements along the Doppler, range, and azimuth dimensions. As there is no elevation information, it is challenging to estimate the 3D bounding box of an object from 3DRT. In this work, we introduce KAIST-Radar (K-Radar), a novel large-scale object detection dataset and benchmark that contains 35K frames of 4D Radar tensor (4DRT) data with power measurements along the Doppler, range, azimuth, and elevation dimensions, together with carefully annotated 3D bounding box labels of objects on the roads. K-Radar includes challenging driving conditions such as adverse weathers (fog, rain, and snow) on various road structures (urban, suburban roads, alleyways, and highways). In addition to the 4DRT, we provide auxiliary measurements from carefully calibrated high-resolution Lidars, surround stereo cameras, and RTK-GPS. We also provide 4DRT-based object detection baseline neural networks (baseline NNs) and show that the height information is crucial for 3D object detection. And by comparing the baseline NN with a similarly-structured Lidar-based neural network, we demonstrate that 4D Radar is a more robust sensor for adverse weather conditions. All codes are available at https://github.com/kaist-avelab/k-radar.
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Abstract: We propose a single-stage, category-level 6-DoF pose estimation algorithm that simultaneously detects and tracks instances of objects within a known category. Our method takes as input the previous and current frame from a monocular RGB video, as well as predictions from the previous frame, to predict the bounding cuboid and 6- DoF pose (up to scale). Internally, a deep network predicts distributions over object keypoints (vertices of the bounding cuboid) in image coordinates, after which a novel probabilistic filtering process integrates across estimates before computing the final pose using PnP. Our framework allows the system to take previous uncertainties into consideration when predicting the current frame, resulting in predictions that are more accurate and stable than single frame methods. Extensive experiments show that our method outperforms existing approaches on the challenging Objectron benchmark of annotated object videos. We also demonstrate the usability of our work in an augmented reality setting.
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TL;DR: In this article , a fusion network is proposed to predict the 3D offsets between radar returns and object centers, enabling radar depths to enhance the accuracy of 3D monocular detection, which shows significant improvement in mean average precision and translation error on the nuScenes dataset over monocular counterparts.
Abstract: As a direct depth sensor, radar holds promise as a tool to improve monocular 3D object detection, which suffers from depth errors, due in part to the depth-scale ambiguity. On the other hand, leveraging radar depths is hampered by difficulties in precisely associating radar returns with 3D estimates from monocular methods, effectively erasing its benefits. This paper proposes a fusion network that addresses this radar-camera association challenge. We train our network to predict the 3D offsets between radar returns and object centers, enabling radar depths to enhance the accuracy of 3D monocular detection. By using parallel radar and camera backbones, our network fuses information at both the feature level and detection level, while at the same time leveraging a state-of-the-art monocular detection technique without retraining it. Experimental results show significant improvement in mean average precision and translation error on the nuScenes dataset over monocular counterparts. Our source code is available at https://github.com/longyunf/radiant.
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