Title
Simulated Intensity Rendering of 3D LiDAR using Generative Adversarial Network
Abstract
In autonomous vehicle, LiDAR is one of the most importent sensor for measurement range. In particular, LiDAR is widely used in mobile mapping systems (MMS) for building high-definition (HD) map. Not only range but also intensity are useful data for extracting road marking and surface data from sensor. However, LiDAR intensity is affected by surface reflecting characteristic as well as range, incidence angle, atmospheric transmittance and others. Therefore, LiDAR intensity model is difficult to reproduce in simulation environments. In this paper, we proposed realistic intensity rendering method with simulator by generative adversarial network (GAN) trained with unannotated real data. We develop LiDAR projection preprocessing method for operating convolution networks. Our approach have advantage to preserve sensor characteristic and to reduce projection scale loss. We modified CycleGAN architecture to render intensity with unpaired real and synthetic data. Our rendered results show possibility of image-based approach for LiDAR and potential for generating LiDAR dataset by using simulator. Especially, we expect to utilize for military vehicle that has difficulty to reproduce the environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/BigComp51126.2021.00062
2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Autonomous Vehicle,LiDAR,Generative Adversarial Network,Data Augmentation,Simulator
Conference
2375-933X
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8925-3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seung-chan Mok100.34
Gon-woo Kim200.34