Object detection in camera images, using deep learning has been proven successfully in recent years. Rising detection rates and computationally efficient network structures are pushing this technique towards application in production vehicles. Nevertheless, the sensor quality of the camera is limited in severe weather conditions and through increased sensor noise in sparsely lit areas and at night. Our approach enhances current 2D object detection networks by fusing camera data and projected sparse radar data in the network layers. The proposed CameraRadarFusionNet (CRF-Net) automatically learns at which level the fusion of the sensor data is most beneficial for the detection result. Additionally, we introduce BlackIn, a training strategy inspired by Dropout, which focuses the learning on a specific sensor type. We show that the fusion network is able to outperform a state-of-the-art image-only network for two different datasets. The code for this research will be made available to the public at: https://github.com/TUMFTM/CameraRadarFusionNet.
Multi-view radar-camera fused 3D object detection provides a farther detection range and more helpful features for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather. The current radar-camera fusion methods deliver kinds of designs to fuse radar information with camera data. However, these fusion approaches usually adopt the straightforward concatenation operation between multi-modal features, which ignores the semantic alignment with radar features and sufficient correlations across modals. In this paper, we present MVFusion, a novel Multi-View radar-camera Fusion method to achieve semantic…
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville（田纳西大学诺克斯维尔分校）
In this paper we present a novel radar-camera sensor fusion framework for accurate object detection and distance estimation in autonomous driving scenarios. The proposed architecture uses a middle-fusion approach to fuse the radar point clouds and RGB images. Our radar object proposal network uses radar point clouds to generate 3D proposals from a set of 3D prior boxes. These proposals are mapped to the image and fed into a Radar Proposal Refinement (RPR) network for objectness score prediction and box refinement. The RPR network utilizes both radar information and image feature maps to genera…
Radar and Camera Fusion for Object Detection and Tracking: A Comprehensive Survey
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学计算机科学与工程学院）；State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学工业控制技术国家重点实验室）；Hangzhou Dianzi University（杭州电子科技大学）；Pillar of Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design（新加坡科技设计大学信息系统技术与设计 pillar）
The perception system in autonomous vehicles is responsible for detecting and tracking the surrounding objects. This is usually done by taking advantage of several sensing modalities to increase robustness and accuracy, which makes sensor fusion a crucial part of the perception system. In this paper, we focus on the problem of radar and camera sensor fusion and propose a middle-fusion approach to exploit both radar and camera data for 3D object detection. Our approach, called CenterFusion, first uses a center point detection network to detect objects by identifying their center points on the i…
Sparse4D-Radar: An Efficient and Robust Framework for Surround-View 3D Object Detection via 4D Radar-Camera Fusion
State Key Laboratory of Ocean Sensing and Ocean College, Zhejiang University（浙江大学海洋传感与海洋学院海洋传感技术国家重点实验室）；Engineering Research Center of Oceanic Sensing Technology and Equipment, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang University（浙江大学海洋传感技术与装备教育部工程研究中心）；Donghai Laboratory（东海实验室）；Ocean College, Institute of Marine Electronics and Intelligent Systems, Zhejiang University（浙江大学海洋学院海洋电子与智能系统研究所）
LXLv2: Enhanced LiDAR Excluded Lean 3D Object Detection with Fusion of 4D Radar and Camera
School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University（北京航空航天大学自动化科学与电气工程学院）；Continental Autonomous Mobility (Shanghai) Co., Ltd（大陆汽车自动驾驶（上海）有限公司）
Radar Guided Camera Verification for Automatic Emergency Braking Rethinking Object Detection in Radar Camera Fusion
Autonomous Systems Lab, Department of Mechatronics Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology（SRM科学与技术学院机电工程系自主系统实验室）；Centre for Electric Mobility, Department of EEE, SRM Institute of Science and Technology（SRM科学与技术学院电气与电子工程系电动出行中心）
DinoRADE: Full Spectral Radar-Camera Fusion with Vision Foundation Model Features for Multi-class Object Detection in Adverse Weather
Infineon Technologies AG, Austria（英飞凌科技公司，奥地利）；Graz University of Technology, Austria（格拉茨技术大学，奥地利）；Virtual Vehicle Research GmbH, Austria（虚拟车辆研究有限公司，奥地利）
Institute of Automotive Technology, Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学汽车技术研究所）；mLab:Real-Time and Embedded Systems Lab, University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学mLab实时与嵌入式系统实验室）
Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive perception systems cannot be tailored to a narrow field of specific tasks but must handle an ever-changing environment with unforeseen events. As currently no single sensor is able to reliably perceive all relevant activity in the surroundings, sensor data fusion is applied to perceive as much information as possible. Data fusion of different sensors and sensor moda…
Robust 3D object detection is critical for safe autonomous driving. Camera and radar sensors are synergistic as they capture complementary information and work well under different environmental conditions. Fusing camera and radar data is challenging, however, as each of the sensors lacks information along a perpendicular axis, that is, depth is unknown to camera and elevation is unknown to radar. We propose the camera-radar matching network CramNet, an efficient approach to fuse the sensor readings from camera and radar in a joint 3D space. To leverage radar range measurements for better came…
WS-DETR: Robust Water Surface Object Detection through Vision-Radar Fusion with Detection Transformer
College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University（同济大学电子与信息工程学院）；Graz University of Technology（格拉茨工业大学）；Virtual Vehicle Research（虚拟车辆研究院）
Boosting Instance Awareness via Cross-View Correlation with 4D Radar and Camera for 3D Object Detection
College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University（浙江大学信息科学与电子工程学院）；School of Automotive Studies, Tongji University（同济大学汽车学院）；College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University（浙江大学金华研究院）；School of Information and Electrical Engineering, Hangzhou City University（杭州城市学院信息与电气工程学院）；Hangzhou City University Binjiang Innovation Center（杭州城市学院滨江创新中心）
M^3Detection: Multi-Frame Multi-Level Feature Fusion for Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection with Camera and 4D Imaging Radar
Radar Technology Research Institute, School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology（雷达技术研究所，信息电子学院，北京理工大学）；Key Laboratory of Electronic and Information Technology in Satellite Navigation, Ministry of Education（卫星导航电子信息技术重点实验室，教育部）；School of Computer Science, Beijing Institute of Technology（计算机学院，北京理工大学）；Beijing Racobit Electronic Information Technology Co., Ltd.（北京Racobit电子信息技术有限公司）
RCTrans: Radar-Camera Transformer via Radar Densifier and Sequential Decoder for 3D Object Detection
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院香港创新研究院）
In this work, we present an uncertainty-based method for sensor fusion with camera and radar data. The outputs of two neural networks, one processing camera and the other one radar data, are combined in an uncertainty aware manner. To this end, we gather the outputs and corresponding meta information for both networks. For each predicted object, the gathered information is post-processed by a gradient boosting method to produce a joint prediction of both networks. In our experiments we combine the YOLOv3 object detection network with a customized $1D$ radar segmentation network and evaluate ou…
Camera and radar sensors have significant advantages in cost, reliability, and maintenance compared to LiDAR. Existing fusion methods often fuse the outputs of single modalities at the result-level, called the late fusion strategy. This can benefit from using off-the-shelf single sensor detection algorithms, but late fusion cannot fully exploit the complementary properties of sensors, thus having limited performance despite the huge potential of camera-radar fusion. Here we propose a novel proposal-level early fusion approach that effectively exploits both spatial and contextual properties of …
We propose DeepFusion, a modular multi-modal architecture to fuse lidars, cameras and radars in different combinations for 3D object detection. Specialized feature extractors take advantage of each modality and can be exchanged easily, making the approach simple and flexible. Extracted features are transformed into bird's-eye-view as a common representation for fusion. Spatial and semantic alignment is performed prior to fusing modalities in the feature space. Finally, a detection head exploits rich multi-modal features for improved 3D detection performance. Experimental results for lidar-came…
WaterScenes: A Multi-Task 4D Radar-Camera Fusion Dataset and Benchmarks for Autonomous Driving on Water Surfaces
University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Wuhan University of Technology（武汉理工大学）；Nantong University（南通大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））
physfusion: A Transformer-based Dual-Stream Radar and Vision Fusion Framework for Open Water Surface Object Detection
School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；Silkwave Holdings Limited（Silkwave控股有限公司）
Various autonomous or assisted driving strategies have been facilitated through the accurate and reliable perception of the environment around a vehicle. Among the commonly used sensors, radar has usually been considered as a robust and cost-effective solution even in adverse driving scenarios, e.g., weak/strong lighting or bad weather. Instead of considering to fuse the unreliable information from all available sensors, perception from pure radar data becomes a valuable alternative that is worth exploring. In this paper, we propose a deep radar object detection network, named RODNet, which is…
Radar-Camera Fusion for Object Detection and Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Review
University of Liverpool（利物浦大学）；Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University（西交利物浦大学）；Institute of Deep Perception Technology, JITRI（江苏省产业技术研究院深度感知技术研究所）；XJTLU-JITRI Academy of Industrial Technology（西交利物浦大学-江苏省产业技术研究院工业技术学院）
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；Silkwave Holdings Limited（Silkwave控股有限公司）
Radar is usually more robust than the camera in severe driving scenarios, e.g., weak/strong lighting and bad weather. However, unlike RGB images captured by a camera, the semantic information from the radar signals is noticeably difficult to extract. In this paper, we propose a deep radar object detection network (RODNet), to effectively detect objects purely from the carefully processed radar frequency data in the format of range-azimuth frequency heatmaps (RAMaps). Three different 3D autoencoder based architectures are introduced to predict object confidence distribution from each snippet of…
This paper presents two variations of architecture referred to as RANet and BIRANet. The proposed architecture aims to use radar signal data along with RGB camera images to form a robust detection network that works efficiently, even in variable lighting and weather conditions such as rain, dust, fog, and others. First, radar information is fused in the feature extractor network. Second, radar points are used to generate guided anchors. Third, a method is proposed to improve region proposal network targets. BIRANet yields 72.3/75.3% average AP/AR on the NuScenes dataset, which is better than t…
Seoul National University（首尔大学）；AI COLLEGE（人工智能学院）
Even though many existing 3D object detection algorithms rely mostly on camera and LiDAR, camera and LiDAR are prone to be affected by harsh weather and lighting conditions. On the other hand, radar is resistant to such conditions. However, research has found only recently to apply deep neural networks on radar data. In this paper, we introduce a deep learning approach to 3D object detection with radar only. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first ones to demonstrate a deep learning-based 3D object detection model with radar only that was trained on the public radar dataset. To overcome…
Wavelet-based Multi-View Fusion of 4D Radar Tensor and Camera for Robust 3D Object Detection
Thrust of Artificial Intelligence, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（人工智能 thrust，香港科技大学（广州））；Momoniai AI；Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology（机械工程系，麻省理工学院）；School of Information Engineering, Yancheng Institute of Technology（信息工程学院，盐城科技学院）；College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University（信息科学与电子工程学院，浙江大学）；Institute for Math & AI, Wuhan University（数学与人工智能研究所，武汉大学）；College of Science and Engineering and the Centre for AI and Data Science Innovation, James Cook University（科学与工程学院及人工智能与数据科学创新中心，詹姆斯库克大学）；School of Transportation, Southeast University（交通运输学院，东南大学）
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；Ford Motor Company（福特汽车公司）
A distinctive feature of Doppler radar is the measurement of velocity in the radial direction for radar points. However, the missing tangential velocity component hampers object velocity estimation as well as temporal integration of radar sweeps in dynamic scenes. Recognizing that fusing camera with radar provides complementary information to radar, in this paper we present a closed-form solution for the point-wise, full-velocity estimate of Doppler returns using the corresponding optical flow from camera images. Additionally, we address the association problem between radar returns and camera…
Cross-Dataset Experimental Study of Radar-Camera Fusion in Bird's-Eye View
Stellantis, Opel Automobile GmbH（斯泰兰蒂斯集团，欧宝汽车有限公司）；Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau（莱茵兰-普法尔茨凯泽斯劳滕-兰道工业大学）；German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence（德国人工智能研究中心）
REOcc: Camera-Radar Fusion with Radar Feature Enrichment for 3D Occupancy Prediction
School of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院电子工程学院）；Department of Automobile and IT Convergence, Kookmin University（韩国庆熙大学汽车与IT融合系）；Cho Chun Shik Graduate School of Mobility, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院移动技术研究生院）；Robotics Program, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院机器人项目）
Michigan State University（密歇根州立大学）；Ford Motor Company（福特汽车公司）
While radar and video data can be readily fused at the detection level, fusing them at the pixel level is potentially more beneficial. This is also more challenging in part due to the sparsity of radar, but also because automotive radar beams are much wider than a typical pixel combined with a large baseline between camera and radar, which results in poor association between radar pixels and color pixel. A consequence is that depth completion methods designed for LiDAR and video fare poorly for radar and video. Here we propose a radar-to-pixel association stage which learns a mapping from rada…
University of Washington（华盛顿大学）；Zhejiang University（浙江大学）；Silkwave Holdings Limited（Silkwave控股有限公司）
Radar has long been a common sensor on autonomous vehicles for obstacle ranging and speed estimation. However, as a robust sensor to all-weather conditions, radar's capability has not been well-exploited, compared with camera or LiDAR. Instead of just serving as a supplementary sensor, radar's rich information hidden in the radio frequencies can potentially provide useful clues to achieve more complicated tasks, like object classification and detection. In this paper, we propose a new dataset, named CRUW, with a systematic annotator and performance evaluation system to address the radar object…
RC-BEVFusion: A Plug-In Module for Radar-Camera Bird's Eye View Feature Fusion
Stellantis, Opel Automobile GmbH（斯泰兰蒂斯集团欧宝汽车有限公司）；Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau（莱茵兰-普法尔茨凯泽斯劳滕-兰道工业大学）；German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence（德国人工智能研究中心）
Due to the trending need of building autonomous robotic perception system, sensor fusion has attracted a lot of attention amongst researchers and engineers to make best use of cross-modality information. However, in order to build a robotic platform at scale we need to emphasize on autonomous robot platform bring-up cost as well. Cameras and radars, which inherently includes complementary perception information, has potential for developing autonomous robotic platform at scale. However, there is a limited work around radar fused with Vision, compared to LiDAR fused with vision work. In this pa…
