Today, visual recognition systems are still rarely employed in robotics applications. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this is the lack of demanding benchmarks that mimic such scenarios. In this paper, we take advantage of our autonomous driving platform to develop novel challenging benchmarks for the tasks of stereo, optical flow, visual odometry / SLAM and 3D object detection. Our recording platform is equipped with four high resolution video cameras, a Velodyne laser scanner and a state-of-the-art localization system. Our benchmarks comprise 389 stereo and optical flow image pairs, stereo visual odometry sequences of 39.2 km length, and more than 200k 3D object annotations captured in cluttered scenarios (up to 15 cars and 30 pedestrians are visible per image). Results from state-of-the-art algorithms reveal that methods ranking high on established datasets such as Middlebury perform below average when being moved outside the laboratory to the real world. Our goal is to reduce this bias by providing challenging benchmarks with novel difficulties to the computer vision community. Our benchmarks are available online at: www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti

This paper proposes a novel model and dataset for 3D scene flow estimation with an application to autonomous driving. Taking advantage of the fact that outdoor scenes often decompose into a small number of independently moving objects, we represent each element in the scene by its rigid motion parameters and each superpixel by a 3D plane as well as an index to the corresponding object. This minimal representation increases robustness and leads to a discrete-continuous CRF where the data term decomposes into pairwise potentials between superpixels and objects. Moreover, our model intrinsically segments the scene into its constituting dynamic components. We demonstrate the performance of our model on existing benchmarks as well as a novel realistic dataset with scene flow ground truth. We obtain this dataset by annotating 400 dynamic scenes from the KITTI raw data collection using detailed 3D CAD models for all vehicles in motion. Our experiments also reveal novel challenges which cannot be handled by existing methods.

In this paper, we present a novel visual SLAM and long-term localization benchmark for autonomous driving in challenging conditions based on the large-scale 4Seasons dataset. The proposed benchmark provides drastic appearance variations caused by seasonal changes and diverse weather and illumination conditions. While significant progress has been made in advancing visual SLAM on small-scale datasets with similar conditions, there is still a lack of unified benchmarks representative of real-world scenarios for autonomous driving. We introduce a new unified benchmark for jointly evaluating visual odometry, global place recognition, and map-based visual localization performance which is crucial to successfully enable autonomous driving in any condition. The data has been collected for more than one year, resulting in more than 300 km of recordings in nine different environments ranging from a multi-level parking garage to urban (including tunnels) to countryside and highway. We provide globally consistent reference poses with up to centimeter-level accuracy obtained from the fusion of direct stereo-inertial odometry with RTK GNSS. We evaluate the performance of several state-of-the-art visual odometry and visual localization baseline approaches on the benchmark and analyze their properties. The experimental results provide new insights into current approaches and show promising potential for future research. Our benchmark and evaluation protocols will be available at https://www.4seasons-dataset.com/.

结合同时定位和映射（SLAM）估计和动态场景建模可以高效地在动态环境中获得机器人自主权。机器人路径规划和障碍避免任务依赖于场景中动态对象运动的准确估计。本文介绍了VDO-SLAM，这是一种强大的视觉动态对象感知SLAM系统，用于利用语义信息，使得能够在场景中进行准确的运动估计和跟踪动态刚性物体，而无需任何先前的物体形状或几何模型的知识。所提出的方法识别和跟踪环境中的动态对象和静态结构，并将这些信息集成到统一的SLAM框架中。这导致机器人轨迹的高度准确估计和对象的全部SE（3）运动以及环境的时空地图。该系统能够从对象的SE（3）运动中提取线性速度估计，为复杂的动态环境中的导航提供重要功能。我们展示了所提出的系统对许多真实室内和室外数据集的性能，结果表明了对最先进的算法的一致和实质性的改进。可以使用源代码的开源版本。

摄像机是自动化驱动系统中的主要传感器。它们提供高信息密度，并对检测为人类视野提供的道路基础设施线索最优。环绕式摄像机系统通常包括具有190 {\ DEG} +视野的四个鱼眼相机，覆盖在车辆周围的整个360 {\ DEG}集中在近场传感上。它们是低速，高精度和近距离传感应用的主要传感器，如自动停车，交通堵塞援助和低速应急制动。在这项工作中，我们提供了对这种视觉系统的详细调查，在可以分解为四个模块化组件的架构中，设置调查即可识别，重建，重建和重组。我们共同称之为4R架构。我们讨论每个组件如何完成特定方面，并提供一个位置论证，即它们可以协同组织以形成用于低速自动化的完整感知系统。我们通过呈现来自以前的作品的结果，并通过向此类系统提出架构提案来支持此参数。定性结果在视频中呈现在HTTPS://youtu.be/ae8bcof7777uy中。

Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM) is the process of building a mutual relationship between localization and mapping of the subject in its surrounding environment. With the help of different sensors, various types of SLAM systems have developed to deal with the problem of building the relationship between localization and mapping. A limitation in the SLAM process is the lack of consideration of dynamic objects in the mapping of the environment. We propose the Dynamic Object Tracking SLAM (DyOb-SLAM), which is a Visual SLAM system that can localize and map the surrounding dynamic objects in the environment as well as track the dynamic objects in each frame. With the help of a neural network and a dense optical flow algorithm, dynamic objects and static objects in an environment can be differentiated. DyOb-SLAM creates two separate maps for both static and dynamic contents. For the static features, a sparse map is obtained. For the dynamic contents, a trajectory global map is created as output. As a result, a frame to frame real-time based dynamic object tracking system is obtained. With the pose calculation of the dynamic objects and camera, DyOb-SLAM can estimate the speed of the dynamic objects with time. The performance of DyOb-SLAM is observed by comparing it with a similar Visual SLAM system, VDO-SLAM and the performance is measured by calculating the camera and object pose errors as well as the object speed error.

我们介绍了DLR行星立体声，固态激光雷达，惯性（S3LI）数据集，记录在埃特纳山上，西西里山（Sicily），一种类似于月球和火星的环境，使用手持式传感器套件，适用于适用于空间上的属性 - 像移动漫游器。环境的特征是关于视觉和结构外观的具有挑战性的条件：严重的视觉混叠，对视觉大满贯系统执行位置识别的能力构成了重大限制，而缺乏出色的结构细节，与有​​限的视野相连在利用的固态激光雷达传感器中，仅使用点云就挑战了传统的激光雷达大满贯。借助此数据，涵盖了在软火山斜坡上超过4公里的旅行，我们的目标是：1）提供一种工具来揭示有关环境的最先进的大满贯系统的限制，而环境并未广泛存在可用的数据集和2）激励开发新颖的本地化和映射方法，这些方法有效地依赖于两个传感器的互补功能。数据集可在以下URL上访问：https：//rmc.dlr.de/s3li_dataset

In this paper, we present a novel benchmark for the evaluation of RGB-D SLAM systems. We recorded a large set of image sequences from a Microsoft Kinect with highly accurate and time-synchronized ground truth camera poses from a motion capture system. The sequences contain both the color and depth images in full sensor resolution (640 × 480) at video frame rate (30 Hz). The ground-truth trajectory was obtained from a motion-capture system with eight high-speed tracking cameras (100 Hz). The dataset consists of 39 sequences that were recorded in an office environment and an industrial hall. The dataset covers a large variety of scenes and camera motions. We provide sequences for debugging with slow motions as well as longer trajectories with and without loop closures. Most sequences were recorded from a handheld Kinect with unconstrained 6-DOF motions but we also provide sequences from a Kinect mounted on a Pioneer 3 robot that was manually navigated through a cluttered indoor environment. To stimulate the comparison of different approaches, we provide automatic evaluation tools both for the evaluation of drift of visual odometry systems and the global pose error of SLAM systems. The benchmark website [1] contains all data, detailed descriptions of the scenes, specifications of the data formats, sample code, and evaluation tools.

The last decade witnessed increasingly rapid progress in self-driving vehicle technology, mainly backed up by advances in the area of deep learning and artificial intelligence. The objective of this paper is to survey the current state-of-the-art on deep learning technologies used in autonomous driving. We start by presenting AI-based self-driving architectures, convolutional and recurrent neural networks, as well as the deep reinforcement learning paradigm. These methodologies form a base for the surveyed driving scene perception, path planning, behavior arbitration and motion control algorithms. We investigate both the modular perception-planning-action pipeline, where each module is built using deep learning methods, as well as End2End systems, which directly map sensory information to steering commands. Additionally, we tackle current challenges encountered in designing AI architectures for autonomous driving, such as their safety, training data sources and computational hardware. The comparison presented in this survey helps to gain insight into the strengths and limitations of deep learning and AI approaches for autonomous driving and assist with design choices. 1

Robust detection and tracking of objects is crucial for the deployment of autonomous vehicle technology. Image based benchmark datasets have driven development in computer vision tasks such as object detection, tracking and segmentation of agents in the environment. Most autonomous vehicles, however, carry a combination of cameras and range sensors such as lidar and radar. As machine learning based methods for detection and tracking become more prevalent, there is a need to train and evaluate such methods on datasets containing range sensor data along with images. In this work we present nuTonomy scenes (nuScenes), the first dataset to carry the full autonomous vehicle sensor suite: 6 cameras, 5 radars and 1 lidar, all with full 360 degree field of view. nuScenes comprises 1000 scenes, each 20s long and fully annotated with 3D bounding boxes for 23 classes and 8 attributes. It has 7x as many annotations and 100x as many images as the pioneering KITTI dataset. We define novel 3D detection and tracking metrics. We also provide careful dataset analysis as well as baselines for lidar and image based detection and tracking. Data, development kit and more information are available online 1 .

Modern computer vision algorithms typically require expensive data acquisition and accurate manual labeling. In this work, we instead leverage the recent progress in computer graphics to generate fully labeled, dynamic, and photo-realistic proxy virtual worlds. We propose an efficient real-to-virtual world cloning method, and validate our approach by building and publicly releasing a new video dataset, called "Virtual KITTI" 1 , automatically labeled with accurate ground truth for object detection, tracking, scene and instance segmentation, depth, and optical flow. We provide quantitative experimental evidence suggesting that (i) modern deep learning algorithms pre-trained on real data behave similarly in real and virtual worlds, and (ii) pre-training on virtual data improves performance. As the gap between real and virtual worlds is small, virtual worlds enable measuring the impact of various weather and imaging conditions on recognition performance, all other things being equal. We show these factors may affect drastically otherwise high-performing deep models for tracking.

我们介绍了棕色行人内径数据集（BPOD），用于在头部安装的行人设置中基准测试视觉内径算法。在布朗大学校园的12个不同室内和户外地点使用同步全球和滚动快门立体声相机捕获此数据集。与现有数据集相比，BPOD包含更多图像模糊和自动旋转，这在行人内径术中很常见，但罕见的其他地方。地面真理轨迹是从沿行人路径放置的粘贴标记产生的，并且使用第三人称视频记录行人的位置。我们在BPOD上评估代表性直接，特征和基于学习的VO方法的性能。我们的结果表明，需要显着的发展来成功捕获行人轨迹。数据集的链接在这里：\ url {https://doi.org/10.26300/c1n7-7p93

同时定位和映射（SLAM）对于自主机器人（例如自动驾驶汽车，自动无人机），3D映射系统和AR/VR应用至关重要。这项工作提出了一个新颖的LIDAR惯性 - 视觉融合框架，称为R $^3 $ LIVE ++，以实现强大而准确的状态估计，同时可以随时重建光线体图。 R $^3 $ LIVE ++由LIDAR惯性探针（LIO）和视觉惯性探测器（VIO）组成，均为实时运行。 LIO子系统利用从激光雷达的测量值重建几何结构（即3D点的位置），而VIO子系统同时从输入图像中同时恢复了几何结构的辐射信息。 r $^3 $ live ++是基于r $^3 $ live开发的，并通过考虑相机光度校准（例如，非线性响应功能和镜头渐滴）和相机的在线估计，进一步提高了本地化和映射的准确性和映射接触时间。我们对公共和私人数据集进行了更广泛的实验，以将我们提出的系统与其他最先进的SLAM系统进行比较。定量和定性结果表明，我们所提出的系统在准确性和鲁棒性方面对其他系统具有显着改善。此外，为了证明我们的工作的可扩展性，{我们基于重建的辐射图开发了多个应用程序，例如高动态范围（HDR）成像，虚拟环境探索和3D视频游戏。}最后，分享我们的发现和我们的发现和为社区做出贡献，我们在GitHub上公开提供代码，硬件设计和数据集：github.com/hku-mars/r3live

自主车辆的环境感知受其物理传感器范围和算法性能的限制，以及通过降低其对正在进行的交通状况的理解的闭塞。这不仅构成了对安全和限制驾驶速度的重大威胁，而且它也可能导致不方便的动作。智能基础设施系统可以帮助缓解这些问题。智能基础设施系统可以通过在当前交通情况的数字模型的形式提供关于其周围环境的额外详细信息，填补了车辆的感知中的差距并扩展了其视野。数字双胞胎。然而，这种系统的详细描述和工作原型表明其可行性稀缺。在本文中，我们提出了一种硬件和软件架构，可实现这样一个可靠的智能基础架构系统。我们在现实世界中实施了该系统，并展示了它能够创建一个准确的延伸高速公路延伸的数字双胞胎，从而提高了自主车辆超越其车载传感器的极限的感知。此外，我们通过使用空中图像和地球观测方法来评估数字双胞胎的准确性和可靠性，用于产生地面真理数据。

在本文中，我们介绍了一个大型数据集，其中包含各种移动映射传感器，该传感器使用以典型的步行速度携带的手持设备收集了近2.2公里，该设备通过牛津大学的新学院近2.2公里。该数据集包括来自两个市售设备的数据 - 立体惯性摄像头和一个多光束3D激光雷达，该镜头还提供惯性测量。此外，我们使用了三脚架安装的调查级LIDAR扫描仪来捕获测试位置的详细毫米准确的3D地图（包含$ \ sim $ \ sim $ 2.9亿点）。使用地图，我们推断出每次雷达扫描的设备位置的6度自由度（DOF）地面真理，以更好地评估LIDAR和视觉定位，映射和重建系统。这个基础真理是该数据集的特殊新颖贡献，我们认为它将实现许多类似数据集缺乏的系统评估。数据集结合了建筑环境，开放空间和植被区域，以测试本地化和映射系统，例如基于视觉的导航，视觉和激光雷达大满贯，3D激光雷达重建以及基于外观的位置识别。该数据集可在以下网址获得：ori.ox.ac.uk/datasets/newer-college-dataset

高保真大满贯系统的开发过程取决于它们对可靠数据集的验证。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了IBiscape，这是一种模拟基准，其中包括来自异质传感器的数据同步和获取API：立体声 - RGB/DVS，深度，IMU和GPS，以及地面真相场景场景细分和车辆自我摄入量。我们的基准是建立在卡拉模拟器上的，后端是虚幻的引擎，呈现出模拟现实世界的高动态风景。此外，我们提供34个适用于自动驾驶汽车导航的多模式数据集，包括用于场景理解等情况，例如事故等，以及基于与API集成的动态天气模拟类别的广泛框架质量。我们还将第一个校准目标引入了Carla图，以解决CARLA模拟DVS和RGB摄像机的未知失真参数问题。最后，使用IBISCAPE序列，我们评估了四个ORB-SLAM 3系统（单眼RGB，立体RGB，立体声视觉惯性（SVI）和RGB-D）的性能和玄武岩视觉惯性轴测计（VIO）系统，这些系统在模拟的大型大型序列上收集的各种序列 - 规模动态环境。关键字：基准，多模式，数据集，探针，校准，DVS，SLAM

同时本地化和映射（SLAM）正在现实世界应用中部署，但是在许多常见情况下，许多最先进的解决方案仍然在困难。进步的SLAM研究的关键是高质量数据集的可用性以及公平透明的基准测试。为此，我们创建了Hilti-Oxford数据集，以将最新的SLAM系统推向其极限。该数据集面临着各种挑战，从稀疏和常规的建筑工地到17世纪的新古典建筑，并具有细节和弯曲的表面。为了鼓励多模式的大满贯方法，我们设计了一个具有激光雷达，五个相机和IMU（惯性测量单元）的数据收集平台。为了对精度和鲁棒性至关重要的任务进行基准测试量算法，我们实施了一种新颖的地面真相收集方法，使我们的数据集能够以毫米精度准确地测量SLAM姿势错误。为了进一步确保准确性，我们平台的外部设备通过微米精确的扫描仪进行了验证，并使用硬件时间同步在线管理时间校准。我们数据集的多模式和多样性吸引了大量的学术和工业研究人员进入第二版《希尔蒂·斯拉姆挑战赛》，该挑战于2022年6月结束。挑战的结果表明，尽管前三名团队可以实现准确性在某些序列中的2厘米或更高的速度中，性能以更困难的序列下降。

3D object detection is an essential task in autonomous driving. Recent techniques excel with highly accurate detection rates, provided the 3D input data is obtained from precise but expensive LiDAR technology. Approaches based on cheaper monocular or stereo imagery data have, until now, resulted in drastically lower accuracies -a gap that is commonly attributed to poor image-based depth estimation. However, in this paper we argue that it is not the quality of the data but its representation that accounts for the majority of the difference. Taking the inner workings of convolutional neural networks into consideration, we propose to convert image-based depth maps to pseudo-LiDAR representations -essentially mimicking the LiDAR signal. With this representation we can apply different existing LiDAR-based detection algorithms. On the popular KITTI benchmark, our approach achieves impressive improvements over the existing state-of-the-art in image-based performance -raising the detection accuracy of objects within the 30m range from the previous state-of-the-art of 22% to an unprecedented 74%. At the time of submission our algorithm holds the highest entry on the KITTI 3D object detection leaderboard for stereo-image-based approaches. Our code is publicly available at https: //github.com/mileyan/pseudo_lidar.

视觉同时定位和映射（VSLAM）在计算机视觉和机器人社区中取得了巨大进展，并已成功用于许多领域，例如自主机器人导航和AR/VR。但是，VSLAM无法在动态和复杂的环境中实现良好的定位。许多出版物报告说，通过与VSLAM结合语义信息，语义VSLAM系统具有近年来解决上述问题的能力。然而，尚无关于语义VSLAM的全面调查。为了填补空白，本文首先回顾了语义VSLAM的发展，并明确着眼于其优势和差异。其次，我们探讨了语义VSLAM的三个主要问题：语义信息的提取和关联，语义信息的应用以及语义VSLAM的优势。然后，我们收集和分析已广泛用于语义VSLAM系统的当前最新SLAM数据集。最后，我们讨论未来的方向，该方向将为语义VSLAM的未来发展提供蓝图。

This paper presents an accurate, highly efficient, and learning-free method for large-scale odometry estimation using spinning radar, empirically found to generalize well across very diverse environments -- outdoors, from urban to woodland, and indoors in warehouses and mines - without changing parameters. Our method integrates motion compensation within a sweep with one-to-many scan registration that minimizes distances between nearby oriented surface points and mitigates outliers with a robust loss function. Extending our previous approach CFEAR, we present an in-depth investigation on a wider range of data sets, quantifying the importance of filtering, resolution, registration cost and loss functions, keyframe history, and motion compensation. We present a new solving strategy and configuration that overcomes previous issues with sparsity and bias, and improves our state-of-the-art by 38%, thus, surprisingly, outperforming radar SLAM and approaching lidar SLAM. The most accurate configuration achieves 1.09% error at 5Hz on the Oxford benchmark, and the fastest achieves 1.79% error at 160Hz.