由于缺乏深度信息，单眼3D对象检测在自主驾驶中非常具有挑战性。本文提出了一种基于多尺度深度分层的单眼单目眼3D对象检测算法，它使用锚定方法检测每像素预测中的3D对象。在所提出的MDS-Net中，开发了一种新的基于深度的分层结构，以通过在对象的深度和图像尺寸之间建立数学模型来改善网络的深度预测能力。然后开发出新的角度损耗功能，以进一步提高角度预测的精度并提高训练的收敛速度。最终在后处理阶段最终应用优化的软，以调整候选盒的置信度。基蒂基准测试的实验表明，MDS-Net在3D检测中优于现有的单目3D检测方法，并在满足实时要求时进行3D检测和BEV检测任务。

Compared to typical multi-sensor systems, monocular 3D object detection has attracted much attention due to its simple configuration. However, there is still a significant gap between LiDAR-based and monocular-based methods. In this paper, we find that the ill-posed nature of monocular imagery can lead to depth ambiguity. Specifically, objects with different depths can appear with the same bounding boxes and similar visual features in the 2D image. Unfortunately, the network cannot accurately distinguish different depths from such non-discriminative visual features, resulting in unstable depth training. To facilitate depth learning, we propose a simple yet effective plug-and-play module, One Bounding Box Multiple Objects (OBMO). Concretely, we add a set of suitable pseudo labels by shifting the 3D bounding box along the viewing frustum. To constrain the pseudo-3D labels to be reasonable, we carefully design two label scoring strategies to represent their quality. In contrast to the original hard depth labels, such soft pseudo labels with quality scores allow the network to learn a reasonable depth range, boosting training stability and thus improving final performance. Extensive experiments on KITTI and Waymo benchmarks show that our method significantly improves state-of-the-art monocular 3D detectors by a significant margin (The improvements under the moderate setting on KITTI validation set are $\mathbf{1.82\sim 10.91\%}$ mAP in BEV and $\mathbf{1.18\sim 9.36\%}$ mAP in 3D}. Codes have been released at https://github.com/mrsempress/OBMO.

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.

3D object detection from LiDAR point cloud is a challenging problem in 3D scene understanding and has many practical applications. In this paper, we extend our preliminary work PointRCNN to a novel and strong point-cloud-based 3D object detection framework, the part-aware and aggregation neural network (Part-A 2 net). The whole framework consists of the part-aware stage and the part-aggregation stage. Firstly, the part-aware stage for the first time fully utilizes free-of-charge part supervisions derived from 3D ground-truth boxes to simultaneously predict high quality 3D proposals and accurate intra-object part locations. The predicted intra-object part locations within the same proposal are grouped by our new-designed RoI-aware point cloud pooling module, which results in an effective representation to encode the geometry-specific features of each 3D proposal. Then the part-aggregation stage learns to re-score the box and refine the box location by exploring the spatial relationship of the pooled intra-object part locations. Extensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the performance improvements from each component of our proposed framework. Our Part-A 2 net outperforms all existing 3D detection methods and achieves new state-of-the-art on KITTI 3D object detection dataset by utilizing only the LiDAR point cloud data. Code is available at https://github.com/sshaoshuai/PointCloudDet3D.

We address the problem of real-time 3D object detection from point clouds in the context of autonomous driving. Computation speed is critical as detection is a necessary component for safety. Existing approaches are, however, expensive in computation due to high dimensionality of point clouds. We utilize the 3D data more efficiently by representing the scene from the Bird's Eye View (BEV), and propose PIXOR, a proposal-free, single-stage detector that outputs oriented 3D object estimates decoded from pixelwise neural network predictions. The input representation, network architecture, and model optimization are especially designed to balance high accuracy and real-time efficiency. We validate PIXOR on two datasets: the KITTI BEV object detection benchmark, and a large-scale 3D vehicle detection benchmark. In both datasets we show that the proposed detector surpasses other state-of-the-art methods notably in terms of Average Precision (AP), while still runs at > 28 FPS.

由于LIDAR传感器捕获的精确深度信息缺乏准确的深度信息，单眼3D对象检测是一个关键而挑战的自主驾驶任务。在本文中，我们提出了一种立体引导的单目3D对象检测网络，称为SGM3D，其利用立体图像提取的鲁棒3D特征来增强从单眼图像中学到的特征。我们创新地研究了多粒度域适配模块（MG-DA）以利用网络的能力，以便仅基于单手套提示产生立体模拟功能。利用粗均衡特征级以及精细锚级域适配，以引导单眼分支。我们介绍了一个基于IOO匹配的对齐模块（iou-ma），用于立体声和单眼域之间的对象级域适应，以减轻先前阶段中的不匹配。我们对最具挑战性的基蒂和Lyft数据集进行了广泛的实验，并实现了新的最先进的性能。此外，我们的方法可以集成到许多其他单眼的方法中以提高性能而不引入任何额外的计算成本。

In this paper, we propose a novel 3D object detector that can exploit both LIDAR as well as cameras to perform very accurate localization. Towards this goal, we design an end-to-end learnable architecture that exploits continuous convolutions to fuse image and LIDAR feature maps at different levels of resolution. Our proposed continuous fusion layer encode both discrete-state image features as well as continuous geometric information. This enables us to design a novel, reliable and efficient end-to-end learnable 3D object detector based on multiple sensors. Our experimental evaluation on both KITTI as well as a large scale 3D object detection benchmark shows significant improvements over the state of the art.

Due to the lack of depth information of images and poor detection accuracy in monocular 3D object detection, we proposed the instance depth for multi-scale monocular 3D object detection method. Firstly, to enhance the model's processing ability for different scale targets, a multi-scale perception module based on dilated convolution is designed, and the depth features containing multi-scale information are re-refined from both spatial and channel directions considering the inconsistency between feature maps of different scales. Firstly, we designed a multi-scale perception module based on dilated convolution to enhance the model's processing ability for different scale targets. The depth features containing multi-scale information are re-refined from spatial and channel directions considering the inconsistency between feature maps of different scales. Secondly, so as to make the model obtain better 3D perception, this paper proposed to use the instance depth information as an auxiliary learning task to enhance the spatial depth feature of the 3D target and use the sparse instance depth to supervise the auxiliary task. Finally, by verifying the proposed algorithm on the KITTI test set and evaluation set, the experimental results show that compared with the baseline method, the proposed method improves by 5.27\% in AP40 in the car category, effectively improving the detection performance of the monocular 3D object detection algorithm.

单眼3D对象检测旨在将3D边界框本地化在输入单个2D图像中。这是一个非常具有挑战性的问题并且仍然是开放的，特别是当没有额外的信息时（例如，深度，激光雷达和/或多帧）可以利用训练和/或推理。本文提出了一种对单眼3D对象检测的简单而有效的配方，而无需利用任何额外信息。它介绍了从训练中学习单眼背景的单片方法，以帮助单目3D对象检测。关键的想法是，通过图像中的对象的注释3D边界框，在训练中有一个丰富的良好的投影2D监控信号，例如投影的角键点及其相关联的偏移向量相对于中心在2D边界框中，应该被开发为培训中的辅助任务。拟议的单一的单一的机动在衡量标准理论中的克拉默 - Wold定理在高水平下。在实施中，它利用非常简单的端到端设计来证明学习辅助单眼环境的有效性，它由三个组成组成：基于深度神经网络（DNN）的特征骨干，一些回归头部分支用于学习用于3D边界框预测的基本参数，以及用于学习辅助上下文的许多回归头分支。在训练之后，丢弃辅助上下文回归分支以获得更好的推理效率。在实验中，拟议的单一组在基蒂基准（汽车，Pedestrain和骑自行车的人）中测试。它超越了汽车类别上排行榜中的所有现有技术，并在准确性方面获得了行人和骑自行车者的可比性。由于简单的设计，所提出的单控制方法在比较中获得了38.7 FP的最快推断速度

We present a new two-stage 3D object detection framework, named sparse-to-dense 3D Object Detector (STD). The first stage is a bottom-up proposal generation network that uses raw point cloud as input to generate accurate proposals by seeding each point with a new spherical anchor. It achieves a high recall with less computation compared with prior works. Then, PointsPool is applied for generating proposal features by transforming their interior point features from sparse expression to compact representation, which saves even more computation time. In box prediction, which is the second stage, we implement a parallel intersection-over-union (IoU) branch to increase awareness of localization accuracy, resulting in further improved performance. We conduct experiments on KITTI dataset, and evaluate our method in terms of 3D object and Bird's Eye View (BEV) detection. Our method outperforms other stateof-the-arts by a large margin, especially on the hard set, with inference speed more than 10 FPS.

近年来，自主驾驶LIDAR数据的3D对象检测一直在迈出卓越的进展。在最先进的方法中，已经证明了将点云进行编码为鸟瞰图（BEV）是有效且有效的。与透视图不同，BEV在物体之间保留丰富的空间和距离信息;虽然在BEV中相同类型的更远物体不会较小，但它们包含稀疏点云特征。这一事实使用共享卷积神经网络削弱了BEV特征提取。为了解决这一挑战，我们提出了范围感知注意网络（RAANET），提取更强大的BEV功能并产生卓越的3D对象检测。范围感知的注意力（RAA）卷曲显着改善了近距离的特征提取。此外，我们提出了一种新的辅助损耗，用于密度估计，以进一步增强覆盖物体的Raanet的检测精度。值得注意的是，我们提出的RAA卷积轻量级，并兼容，以集成到用于BEV检测的任何CNN架构中。 Nuscenes DataSet上的广泛实验表明，我们的提出方法优于基于LIDAR的3D对象检测的最先进的方法，具有16 Hz的实时推断速度，为LITE版本为22 Hz。该代码在匿名GitHub存储库HTTPS://github.com/Anonymous0522 / ange上公开提供。

We present AVOD, an Aggregate View Object Detection network for autonomous driving scenarios. The proposed neural network architecture uses LIDAR point clouds and RGB images to generate features that are shared by two subnetworks: a region proposal network (RPN) and a second stage detector network. The proposed RPN uses a novel architecture capable of performing multimodal feature fusion on high resolution feature maps to generate reliable 3D object proposals for multiple object classes in road scenes. Using these proposals, the second stage detection network performs accurate oriented 3D bounding box regression and category classification to predict the extents, orientation, and classification of objects in 3D space. Our proposed architecture is shown to produce state of the art results on the KITTI 3D object detection benchmark [1] while running in real time with a low memory footprint, making it a suitable candidate for deployment on autonomous vehicles. Code is at: https://github.com/kujason/avod

In this paper we propose to exploit multiple related tasks for accurate multi-sensor 3D object detection. Towards this goal we present an end-to-end learnable architecture that reasons about 2D and 3D object detection as well as ground estimation and depth completion. Our experiments show that all these tasks are complementary and help the network learn better representations by fusing information at various levels. Importantly, our approach leads the KITTI benchmark on 2D, 3D and bird's eye view object detection, while being real-time. * Equal contribution.† Work done as part of Uber AI Residency program.

Object detection in point clouds is an important aspect of many robotics applications such as autonomous driving. In this paper we consider the problem of encoding a point cloud into a format appropriate for a downstream detection pipeline. Recent literature suggests two types of encoders; fixed encoders tend to be fast but sacrifice accuracy, while encoders that are learned from data are more accurate, but slower. In this work we propose PointPillars, a novel encoder which utilizes PointNets to learn a representation of point clouds organized in vertical columns (pillars). While the encoded features can be used with any standard 2D convolutional detection architecture, we further propose a lean downstream network. Extensive experimentation shows that PointPillars outperforms previous encoders with respect to both speed and accuracy by a large margin. Despite only using lidar, our full detection pipeline significantly outperforms the state of the art, even among fusion methods, with respect to both the 3D and bird's eye view KITTI benchmarks. This detection performance is achieved while running at 62 Hz: a 2 -4 fold runtime improvement. A faster version of our method matches the state of the art at 105 Hz. These benchmarks suggest that PointPillars is an appropriate encoding for object detection in point clouds.

对于许多应用程序，包括自动驾驶，机器人抓握和增强现实，单眼3D对象检测是一项基本但非常重要的任务。现有的领先方法倾向于首先估算输入图像的深度，并基于点云检测3D对象。该例程遭受了深度估计和对象检测之间固有的差距。此外，预测误差积累也会影响性能。在本文中，提出了一种名为MonopCN的新方法。引入单频道的洞察力是，我们建议在训练期间模拟基于点云的探测器的特征学习行为。因此，在推理期间，学习的特征和预测将与基于点云的检测器相似。为了实现这一目标，我们建议一个场景级仿真模块，一个ROI级别的仿真模块和一个响应级仿真模块，这些模块逐渐用于检测器的完整特征学习和预测管道。我们将我们的方法应用于著名的M3D-RPN检测器和CADDN检测器，并在Kitti和Waymo Open数据集上进行了广泛的实验。结果表明，我们的方法始终提高不同边缘的不同单眼探测器的性能，而无需更改网络体系结构。我们的方法最终达到了最先进的性能。

它得到了很好的认识到，从深度感知的LIDAR点云和语义富有的立体图像中融合互补信息将有利于3D对象检测。然而，探索稀疏3D点和密集2D像素之间固有的不自然相互作用并不重要。为了简化这种困难，最近的建议通常将3D点投影到2D图像平面上以对图像数据进行采样，然后聚合点处的数据。然而，这种方法往往遭受点云和RGB图像的分辨率之间的不匹配，导致次优性能。具体地，作为多模态数据聚合位置的稀疏点导致高分辨率图像的严重信息丢失，这反过来破坏了多传感器融合的有效性。在本文中，我们呈现VPFNET - 一种新的架构，可以在“虚拟”点处巧妙地对齐和聚合点云和图像数据。特别地，它们的密度位于3D点和2D像素的密度之间，虚拟点可以很好地桥接两个传感器之间的分辨率间隙，从而保持更多信息以进行处理。此外，我们还研究了可以应用于点云和RGB图像的数据增强技术，因为数据增强对迄今为止对3D对象探测器的贡献不可忽略。我们对Kitti DataSet进行了广泛的实验，与最先进的方法相比，观察到了良好的性能。值得注意的是，我们的VPFNET在KITTI测试集上实现了83.21 \％中等3D AP和91.86 \％适度的BEV AP，自2021年5月21日起排名第一。网络设计也考虑了计算效率 - 我们可以实现FPS 15对单个NVIDIA RTX 2080TI GPU。该代码将用于复制和进一步调查。

In this paper, we propose PointRCNN for 3D object detection from raw point cloud. The whole framework is composed of two stages: stage-1 for the bottom-up 3D proposal generation and stage-2 for refining proposals in the canonical coordinates to obtain the final detection results. Instead of generating proposals from RGB image or projecting point cloud to bird's view or voxels as previous methods do, our stage-1 sub-network directly generates a small number of high-quality 3D proposals from point cloud in a bottom-up manner via segmenting the point cloud of the whole scene into foreground points and background. The stage-2 sub-network transforms the pooled points of each proposal to canonical coordinates to learn better local spatial features, which is combined with global semantic features of each point learned in stage-1 for accurate box refinement and confidence prediction. Extensive experiments on the 3D detection benchmark of KITTI dataset show that our proposed architecture outperforms state-of-the-art methods with remarkable margins by using only point cloud as input. The code is available at https://github.com/sshaoshuai/PointRCNN.

激光器传感器的进步提供了支持3D场景了解的丰富的3D数据。然而，由于遮挡和信号未命中，LIDAR点云实际上是2.5D，因为它们仅覆盖部分底层形状，这对3D感知构成了根本挑战。为了解决挑战，我们提出了一种基于新的LIDAR的3D对象检测模型，被称为窗帘检测器（BTCDET）后面，该模型学习物体形状前沿并估计在点云中部分封闭（窗帘）的完整物体形状。 BTCDET首先识别受遮挡和信号未命中的影响的区域。在这些区域中，我们的模型预测了占用的概率，指示区域是否包含对象形状。与此概率图集成，BTCDET可以产生高质量的3D提案。最后，占用概率也集成到提案细化模块中以生成最终边界框。关于基蒂数据集的广泛实验和Waymo Open DataSet展示了BTCDET的有效性。特别是，对于Kitti基准测试的汽车和骑自行车者的3D检测，BTCDET通过显着的边缘超越所有公布的最先进的方法。代码已发布（https://github.com/xharlie/btcdet}（https：//github.com/xharlie/btcdet）。

In this work, we study 3D object detection from RGB-D data in both indoor and outdoor scenes. While previous methods focus on images or 3D voxels, often obscuring natural 3D patterns and invariances of 3D data, we directly operate on raw point clouds by popping up RGB-D scans. However, a key challenge of this approach is how to efficiently localize objects in point clouds of large-scale scenes (region proposal). Instead of solely relying on 3D proposals, our method leverages both mature 2D object detectors and advanced 3D deep learning for object localization, achieving efficiency as well as high recall for even small objects. Benefited from learning directly in raw point clouds, our method is also able to precisely estimate 3D bounding boxes even under strong occlusion or with very sparse points. Evaluated on KITTI and SUN RGB-D 3D detection benchmarks, our method outperforms the state of the art by remarkable margins while having real-time capability. * Majority of the work done as an intern at Nuro, Inc. depth to point cloud 2D region (from CNN) to 3D frustum 3D box (from PointNet)

单眼3D对象检测对于自动驾驶具有重要意义，但仍然具有挑战性。核心挑战是在没有明确深度信息的情况下预测对象的距离。与在大多数现有方法中将距离作为单个变量回归不同，我们提出了一种基于几何几何距离的分解，以通过其因子恢复距离。分解因素因物体到最具代表性和稳定的变量的距离，即图像平面中的物理高度和投影视觉高度。此外，该分解保持了两个高度之间的自我矛盾，当两个预测高度不准确时，导致距离的距离预测可靠。分解还使我们能够追踪不同场景的距离不确定性的原因。这种分解使距离预测可解释，准确和稳健。我们的方法直接通过紧凑的体系结构从RGB图像中预测3D边界框，从而使训练和推理简单有效。实验结果表明，我们的方法在单眼3D对象检测上实现了最先进的性能，而鸟类视图Kitti数据集的眼睛视图任务，并且可以推广到具有不同摄像机内在的图像。