Title
Epgnet: Enhanced Point Cloud Generation For 3d Object Detection
Abstract
Three-dimensional object detection from point cloud data is becoming more and more significant, especially for autonomous driving applications. However, it is difficult for lidar to obtain the complete structure of an object in a real scene due to its scanning characteristics. Although the existing methods have made great progress, most of them ignore the prior information of object structure, such as symmetry. So, in this paper, we use the symmetry of the object to complete the missing part in the point cloud and then detect it. Specifically, we propose a two-stage detection framework. In the first stage, we adopt an encoder-decoder structure to generate the symmetry points of the foreground points and make the symmetry points and the non-empty voxel centers form an enhanced point cloud. In the second stage, the enhanced point cloud is input into the baseline, which is an anchor-based region proposal network, to generate the detection results. Extensive experiments on the challenging KITTI benchmark show the effectiveness of our method, which has better performance on both 3D and BEV (bird's eye view) object detection compared with some previous state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.3390/s20236927
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
3D objection detection, symmetry, enhanced point cloud, autonomous driving
Journal
20
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
23
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qingsheng Chen100.68
Cien Fan213.06
Weizheng Jin301.01
Lian Zou412.38
Fangyu Li500.68
Xiaopeng Li617132.15
Hao Jiang701.01
Minyuan Wu800.34
Yifeng Liu903.72