Title
Towards Robust CNN-based Object Detection through Augmentation with Synthetic Rain Variations
Abstract
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve high accuracy in vision-based object detection tasks. For their usage in the automotive domain, CNNs have to be robust against various kinds of natural distortions caused by different weather conditions while state-of-the-art datasets like KITTI lack these challenging scenarios. Our approach automatically identifies corner cases where CNNs fail and improves their robustness by automated augmentation of the training data with synthetic rain variations including falling rain with brightness reduction as well as raindrops on the windshield. Our method achieves higher performance upon validation against a real rain dataset compared with state-of-the art data augmentation techniques like Gaussian noise (GN) or Salt-and-Pepper noise (SPN).
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ITSC.2019.8917269
2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
synthetic rain variations,convolutional neural networks,automotive domain,automated augmentation,data augmentation techniques,robust CNN-based object detection,vision-based object detection task,Gaussian noise,salt-and-pepper noise
Object detection,Computer vision,Artificial intelligence,Engineering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0009
978-1-5386-7025-5
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georg Volk110.34
Stefan Müller210.34
Alexander von Bernuth310.34
Dennis Hospach410.34
Oliver Bringmann558671.36