Title
Instance Segmentation in CARLA: Methodology and Analysis for Pedestrian-oriented Synthetic Data Generation in Crowded Scenes
Abstract
The evaluation of camera-based perception functions in automated driving (AD) is a significant challenge and requires large-scale high-quality datasets. Recently proposed metrics for safety evaluation additionally require detailed per-instance annotations of dynamic properties such as distance and velocities that may not be available in openly accessible AD datasets. Synthetic data from 3D simulators like CARLA may provide a solution to this problem as labeled data can be produced in a structured manner. However, CARLA currently lacks instance segmentation ground truth. In this paper, we present a back projection pipeline that allows us to obtain accurate instance segmentation maps for CARLA, which is necessary for precise per-instance ground truth information. Our evaluation results show that per-pedestrian depth aggregation obtained from our instance segmentation is more precise than previously available approximations based on bounding boxes especially in the context of crowded scenes in urban automated driving.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICCVW54120.2021.00115
2021 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW 2021)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
2021
1
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2473-9936
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maria Lyssenko111.09
Christoph Gladisch261.86
Christian Heinzemann313715.50
Matthias Woehrle419421.93
Rudolph Triebel571158.20