BEV Lane Det: Fast Lane Detection on BEV Ground

Recently, 3D lane detection has been an actively developing area in autonomous driving which is the key to routing the vehicle. This work proposes a deployment-oriented monocular 3D lane detector with only naive CNN and FC layers. This detector achieved state-of-the-art results on the Apollo 3D Lane Synthetic dataset and OpenLane real-world dataset with 96 FPS runtime speed. We conduct three techniques in our detector: (1) Virtual Camera eliminates the difference in poses of cameras mounted on different vehicles. (2) Spatial Feature Pyramid Transform as a light-weighed image-view to bird-eye view transformer can utilize scales of image-view featmaps. (3) Yolo Style Lane Representation makes a good balance between bird-eye view resolution and runtime speed. Meanwhile, it can reduce the inefficiency caused by the class imbalance due to the sparsity of the lane detection task during training. Combining these three techniques, we obtained a 58.4% F1-score on the OpenLane dataset, which is a 10.6% improvement over the baseline. On the Apollo dataset, we achieved an F1-score of 96.9%, which is 4% points of supremacy over the best on the leaderboard. The source code will release soon.

SiamPolar: Semi-supervised Realtime Video Object Segmentation with Polar Representation

Video object segmentation (VOS) is an essential part of autonomous vehicle navigation. The real-time speed is very important for the autonomous vehicle algorithms along with the accuracy metric. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised real-time method based on the Siamese network using a new polar representation. The input of bounding boxes is initialized rather than the object masks, which are applied to the video object detection tasks. The polar representation could reduce the parameters for encoding masks with subtle accuracy loss so that the algorithm speed can be improved significantly. An asymmetric siamese network is also developed to extract the features from different spatial scales. Moreover, the peeling convolution is proposed to reduce the antagonism among the branches of the polar head. The repeated cross-correlation and semi-FPN are designed based on this idea. The experimental results on the DAVIS-2016 dataset and other public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.