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End-to-End Multi-Sensor Fusion for 3d Object Detection in Lidar Point Clouds

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DOI: 10.23977/appep.2021.020113 | Downloads: 14 | Views: 1601

Author(s)

Kanrun Huang 1

Affiliation(s)

1 Nauto, Inc., California, 94306, United States, China

Corresponding Author

Kanrun Huang

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we propose a new method to fuse camera and lidar point clouds at the same time that outperforms the state-of-the-art network at long range and challenge conditions like poor weather and highly reflective surfaces. Point clouds from LiDAR tend to be sparse and highly variable, especially at long range and poor weather, which may cause 3D object detectors to fail to detect small but important objects (pedestrians, traffic signs, cones, etc.). Our neural network model does not need labels of objects in the 2D images. The neural network model we proposed is evaluated both on the Waymo Open Dataset and on the KITTI dataset [1] and we demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on 3D object detection.

KEYWORDS

Object detection, Deep learning, Sensor fusion

CITE THIS PAPER

Kanrun Huang. End-to-End Multi-Sensor Fusion for 3d Object Detection in Lidar Point Clouds. Applied & Educational Psychology (2021) 2: 67-72. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2021.020113.

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