Aiming at highly accurate object detection for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper presents a Deep Neural Network based 3D object detection model that leverages a three-stage feature extractor by developing a novel LIDAR-Camera fusion scheme. The proposed feature extractor extracts high-level features from two input sensory modalities and recovers the important features discarded during the convolutional process. The novel fusion scheme effectively fuses features across sensory modalities and convolutional layers to find the best representative global features. The fused features are shared by a two-stage network: the region proposal network (RPN) and the detection head (DH). The RPN generates high-recall proposals, and the DH produces final detection results. The experimental results show the proposed model outperforms more recent research on the KITTI 2D and 3D detection benchmark, particularly for distant and highly occluded instances.

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

This paper aims at high-accuracy 3D object detection in autonomous driving scenario. We propose Multi-View 3D networks (MV3D), a sensory-fusion framework that takes both LIDAR point cloud and RGB images as input and predicts oriented 3D bounding boxes. We encode the sparse 3D point cloud with a compact multi-view representation. The network is composed of two subnetworks: one for 3D object proposal generation and another for multi-view feature fusion. The proposal network generates 3D candidate boxes efficiently from the bird's eye view representation of 3D point cloud. We design a deep fusion scheme to combine region-wise features from multiple views and enable interactions between intermediate layers of different paths. Experiments on the challenging KITTI benchmarkshow that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art by around 25% and 30% AP on the tasks of 3D localization and 3D detection. In addition, for 2D detection, our approach obtains 14.9% higher AP than the state-of-the-art on the hard data among the LIDAR-based methods.

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 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.

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.

LiDAR-based 3D Object detectors have achieved impressive performances in many benchmarks, however, multisensors fusion-based techniques are promising to further improve the results. PointPainting, as a recently proposed framework, can add the semantic information from the 2D image into the 3D LiDAR point by the painting operation to boost the detection performance. However, due to the limited resolution of 2D feature maps, severe boundary-blurring effect happens during re-projection of 2D semantic segmentation into the 3D point clouds. To well handle this limitation, a general multimodal fusion framework MSF has been proposed to fuse the semantic information from both the 2D image and 3D points scene parsing results. Specifically, MSF includes three main modules. First, SOTA off-the-shelf 2D/3D semantic segmentation approaches are employed to generate the parsing results for 2D images and 3D point clouds. The 2D semantic information is further re-projected into the 3D point clouds with calibrated parameters. To handle the misalignment between the 2D and 3D parsing results, an AAF module is proposed to fuse them by learning an adaptive fusion score. Then the point cloud with the fused semantic label is sent to the following 3D object detectors. Furthermore, we propose a DFF module to aggregate deep features in different levels to boost the final detection performance. The effectiveness of the framework has been verified on two public large-scale 3D object detection benchmarks by comparing with different baselines. The experimental results show that the proposed fusion strategies can significantly improve the detection performance compared to the methods using only point clouds and the methods using only 2D semantic information. Most importantly, the proposed approach significantly outperforms other approaches and sets new SOTA results on the nuScenes testing benchmark.

近年来，由于深度学习技术的发展，LiDar Point Clouds的3D对象检测取得了长足的进步。尽管基于体素或基于点的方法在3D对象检测中很受欢迎，但它们通常涉及耗时的操作，例如有关体素的3D卷积或点之间的球查询，从而使所得网络不适合时间关键应用程序。另一方面，基于2D视图的方法具有较高的计算效率，而通常比基于体素或基于点的方法获得的性能低。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个基于实时视图的单阶段3D对象检测器，即CVFNET完成此任务。为了在苛刻的效率条件下加强跨视图的学习，我们的框架提取了不同视图的特征，并以有效的渐进式方式融合了它们。我们首先提出了一个新颖的点范围特征融合模块，该模块在多个阶段深入整合点和范围视图特征。然后，当将所获得的深点视图转换为鸟类视图时，特殊的切片柱旨在很好地维护3D几何形状。为了更好地平衡样品比率，提出了一个稀疏的柱子检测头，将检测集中在非空网上。我们对流行的Kitti和Nuscenes基准进行了实验，并以准确性和速度来实现最先进的性能。

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。

我们提出了DeepFusion，这是一种模块化的多模式结构，可在不同组合中以3D对象检测为融合激光雷达，相机和雷达。专门的功能提取器可以利用每种模式，并且可以轻松交换，从而使该方法变得简单而灵活。提取的特征被转化为鸟眼视图，作为融合的共同表示。在特征空间中融合方式之前，先进行空间和语义对齐。最后，检测头利用丰富的多模式特征，以改善3D检测性能。 LIDAR相机，激光摄像头雷达和摄像头融合的实验结果显示了我们融合方法的灵活性和有效性。在此过程中，我们研究了高达225米的遥远汽车检测的很大程度上未开发的任务，显示了激光摄像机融合的好处。此外，我们研究了3D对象检测的LIDAR点所需的密度，并在对不利天气条件的鲁棒性示例中说明了含义。此外，对我们的摄像头融合的消融研究突出了准确深度估计的重要性。

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.

我们呈现PIFENET，一种高效准确的实时3D探测器，用于点云的行人检测。我们解决了在检测行人时遇到的3D对象检测框架的两个挑战：Partion云中的柱特征的表达力量和小型行人的小占领区。首先，我们引入了一个可堆叠的柱子感知注意力（PAA）模块，用于增强的柱子特征提取，同时抑制点云中的噪声。通过将多点感知池，点亮，通道和任务感知注意与到一个简单的模块集成到一个简单的模块，在需要几乎额外的计算资源的同时提高表示功能。我们还存在Mini-Bifpn，一个小而有效的特征网络，创建双向信息流和多级串尺度特征融合，以更好地集成多分辨率功能。我们的方法在Kitti Peistrian Bev和3D排行榜中排名第一，同时以每秒26帧（FPS）运行，并在Nuscenes检测基准上实现最先进的性能。

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.

具有多传感器的3D对象检测对于自主驾驶和机器人技术的准确可靠感知系统至关重要。现有的3D探测器通过采用两阶段范式来显着提高准确性，这仅依靠激光点云进行3D提案的细化。尽管令人印象深刻，但点云的稀疏性，尤其是对于遥远的点，使得仅激光雷达的完善模块难以准确识别和定位对象。要解决这个问题，我们提出了一种新颖的多模式两阶段方法FusionRcnn，有效，有效地融合了感兴趣区域（ROI）的点云和摄像头图像。 FusionRcnn自适应地整合了LiDAR的稀疏几何信息和统一注意机制中相机的密集纹理信息。具体而言，它首先利用RoiPooling获得具有统一大小的图像集，并通过在ROI提取步骤中的建议中采样原始点来获取点设置；然后利用模式内的自我注意力来增强域特异性特征，此后通过精心设计的跨注意事项融合了来自两种模态的信息。FusionRCNN从根本上是插件，并支持不同的单阶段方法与不同的单阶段方法。几乎没有建筑变化。对Kitti和Waymo基准测试的广泛实验表明，我们的方法显着提高了流行探测器的性能。可取，FusionRCNN在Waymo上的FusionRCNN显着提高了强大的第二基线，而Waymo上的MAP则超过6.14％，并且优于竞争两阶段方法的表现。代码将很快在https://github.com/xxlbigbrother/fusion-rcnn上发布。

最近，融合了激光雷达点云和相机图像，提高了3D对象检测的性能和稳健性，因为这两种方式自然具有强烈的互补性。在本文中，我们通过引入新型级联双向融合〜（CB融合）模块和多模态一致性〜（MC）损耗来提出用于多模态3D对象检测的EPNet ++。更具体地说，所提出的CB融合模块提高点特征的丰富语义信息，以级联双向交互融合方式具有图像特征，导致更全面且辨别的特征表示。 MC损失明确保证预测分数之间的一致性，以获得更全面且可靠的置信度分数。基蒂，JRDB和Sun-RGBD数据集的实验结果展示了通过最先进的方法的EPNet ++的优越性。此外，我们强调一个关键但很容易被忽视的问题，这是探讨稀疏场景中的3D探测器的性能和鲁棒性。广泛的实验存在，EPNet ++优于现有的SOTA方法，在高稀疏点云壳中具有显着的边距，这可能是降低LIDAR传感器的昂贵成本的可用方向。代码将来会发布。

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.

在鸟眼中学习强大的表现（BEV），以进行感知任务，这是趋势和吸引行业和学术界的广泛关注。大多数自动驾驶算法的常规方法在正面或透视视图中执行检测，细分，跟踪等。随着传感器配置变得越来越复杂，从不同的传感器中集成了多源信息，并在统一视图中代表功能至关重要。 BEV感知继承了几个优势，因为代表BEV中的周围场景是直观和融合友好的。对于BEV中的代表对象，对于随后的模块，如计划和/或控制是最可取的。 BEV感知的核心问题在于（a）如何通过从透视视图到BEV来通过视图转换来重建丢失的3D信息； （b）如何在BEV网格中获取地面真理注释； （c）如何制定管道以合并来自不同来源和视图的特征； （d）如何适应和概括算法作为传感器配置在不同情况下各不相同。在这项调查中，我们回顾了有关BEV感知的最新工作，并对不同解决方案进行了深入的分析。此外，还描述了该行业的BEV方法的几种系统设计。此外，我们推出了一套完整的实用指南，以提高BEV感知任务的性能，包括相机，激光雷达和融合输入。最后，我们指出了该领域的未来研究指示。我们希望该报告能阐明社区，并鼓励对BEV感知的更多研究。我们保留一个活跃的存储库来收集最新的工作，并在https://github.com/openperceptionx/bevperception-survey-recipe上提供一包技巧的工具箱。

利用多模式融合，尤其是在摄像头和激光雷达之间，对于为自动驾驶汽车构建准确且健壮的3D对象检测系统已经至关重要。直到最近，点装饰方法（在该点云中都用相机功能增强，一直是该领域的主要方法。但是，这些方法无法利用来自相机的较高分辨率图像。还提出了最近将摄像头功能投射到鸟类视图（BEV）融合空间的作品，但是它们需要预计数百万像素，其中大多数仅包含背景信息。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新颖的方法中心功能融合（CFF），其中我们利用相机和激光雷达中心的基于中心的检测网络来识别相关对象位置。然后，我们使用基于中心的检测来识别与对象位置相关的像素功能的位置，这是图像中总数的一小部分。然后将它们投射并融合在BEV框架中。在Nuscenes数据集上，我们的表现优于仅限激光雷达基线的4.9％地图，同时比其他融合方法融合了100倍。

这项工作旨在通过使用路边激光射击环境的3D感知来应对自动驾驶的挑战。我们设计了一个3D对象检测模型，该模型可以实时检测路边激光雷达的交通参与者。我们的模型使用现有的3D检测器作为基线并提高其准确性。为了证明我们提出的模块的有效性，我们在三个不同的车辆和基础设施数据集上训练和评估模型。为了显示我们探测器的域适应能力，我们在来自中国的基础架构数据集上训练它，并在德国记录的其他数据集上进行转移学习。我们为检测器中每个模块进行几套实验和消融研究，这些实验表明我们的模型的表现优于基线，而推理速度为45 Hz（22 ms）。我们对基于激光雷达的3D探测器做出了重大贡献，可用于智能城市应用程序，以提供连接和自动化的车辆具有深远的视野。连接到路边传感器的车辆可以获取有关拐角处其他车辆的信息，以改善其道路和操纵计划并提高道路交通安全性。

在过去的几年中，自动驾驶的感知系统在其表现方面取得了重大进步。但是，这些系统在极端天气条件下努力表现出稳健性，因为在这些条件下，传感器和相机等传感器套件中的主要传感器都会下降。为了解决此问题，摄像机雷达融合系统为所有可靠的高质量感知提供了独特的机会。相机提供丰富的语义信息，而雷达可以通过遮挡和在所有天气条件下工作。在这项工作中，我们表明，当摄像机输入降解时，最新的融合方法的性能很差，这实际上导致失去了他们设定的全天可靠性。与这些方法相反，我们提出了一种新方法RadSegnet，该方法使用了独立信息提取的新设计理念，并在所有情况下都可以在所有情况下真正实现可靠性，包括遮挡和不利天气。我们在基准ASTYX数据集上开发并验证了我们的系统，并在辐射数据集上进一步验证了这些结果。与最先进的方法相比，Radsegnet在ASTYX上提高了27％，辐射增长了41.46％，平均精度得分，并且在不利天气条件下的性能明显更好