Multi-modal Sensor Fusion for Auto Driving Perception: A Survey
University of California Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Shanghai AI Lab（上海人工智能实验室）；Beijing Institute of Technology（北京理工大学）；East China Normal University（华东师范大学）
Keli Huang, Botian Shi, Xiang Li, Xin Li, Siyuan Huang, Yikang Li
Multi-modal fusion is a fundamental task for the perception of an autonomous driving system, which has recently intrigued many researchers. However, achieving a rather good performance is not an easy task due to the noisy raw data, underutilized information, and the misalignment of multi-modal sensors. In this paper, we provide a literature review of the existing multi-modal-based methods for perception tasks in autonomous driving. Generally, we make a detailed analysis including over 50 papers leveraging perception sensors including LiDAR and camera trying to solve object detection and semantic segmentation tasks. Different from traditional fusion methodology for categorizing fusion models, we propose an innovative way that divides them into two major classes, four minor classes by a more reasonable taxonomy in the view of the fusion stage. Moreover, we dive deep into the current fusion methods, focusing on the remaining problems and open-up discussions on the potential research opportunities. In conclusion, what we expect to do in this paper is to present a new taxonomy of multi-modal fusion methods for the autonomous driving perception tasks and provoke thoughts of the fusion-based techniques in the future.
MATS: A novel multi-modality multi-task learning framework for 3D perception in autonomous driving
School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University（郑州大学电气与信息工程学院）；Tianping College of Suzhou University of Science and Technology（苏州科技大学天平学院）；Toronto Metropolitan University（多伦多都会大学）
CORP: A Multi-Modal Dataset for Campus-Oriented Roadside Perception Tasks
Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center（合肥综合国家科学中心人工智能研究院）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）
UniM$^2$AE: Multi-modal Masked Autoencoders with Unified 3D Representation for 3D Perception in Autonomous Driving
Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学）；Tianyijiaotong Technology Ltd.（天宜交通科技有限公司）；Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)（新加坡科技研究局高性能计算研究所）
School of Information, Renmin University of China（中国人民大学信息学院）；Sony Research and Development Center China（索尼（中国）研发有限公司）；National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学）
AIDE: A Vision-Driven Multi-View, Multi-Modal, Multi-Tasking Dataset for Assistive Driving Perception
Fudan University（复旦大学）；Institute of Meta-Medical（元医学研究所）；Engineering Research Center of AI and Robotics, Ministry of Education（教育部人工智能与机器人工程研究中心）；AI and Unmanned Systems Engineering Research Center of Jilin Province（吉林省人工智能与无人系统工程研究中心）；Boli Technology Co., Ltd.（博力科技有限公司）
Can BEV Perception Gracefully Degrade under Sensor Failures?
Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligent Unmanned Swarm Technology and System（天津智能无人群技术与系统重点实验室）；School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University（天津大学电气与信息工程学院）；Key Laboratory of System Control and Information Processing, Ministry of Education of China（系统控制与信息处理重点实验室，中华人民共和国教育部）
University of Rochester（罗切斯特大学）；SAIC USA Innovation Center（上汽美国创新中心）
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been successfully applied to autonomous driving tasks, many in an end-to-end manner. Previous end-to-end steering control methods take an image or an image sequence as the input and directly predict the steering angle with CNN. Although single task learning on steering angles has reported good performances, the steering angle alone is not sufficient for vehicle control. In this work, we propose a multi-task learning framework to predict the steering angle and speed control simultaneously in an end-to-end manner. Since it is nontrivial to predict accurat…
New York University（纽约大学）；University of Southern California（南加州大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication techniques enable the collaboration between vehicles and many other entities in the neighboring environment, which could fundamentally improve the perception system for autonomous driving. However, the lack of a public dataset significantly restricts the research progress of collaborative perception. To fill this gap, we present V2X-Sim, a comprehensive simulated multi-agent perception dataset for V2X-aided autonomous driving. V2X-Sim provides: (1) \hl{multi-agent} sensor recordings from the road-side unit (RSU) and multiple vehicles that enable collab…
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid（马德里卡洛斯三世大学）；Renault SAS（雷诺股份有限公司）
In this paper, a multi-modal 360$^{\circ}$ framework for 3D object detection and tracking for autonomous vehicles is presented. The process is divided into four main stages. First, images are fed into a CNN network to obtain instance segmentation of the surrounding road participants. Second, LiDAR-to-image association is performed for the estimated mask proposals. Then, the isolated points of every object are processed by a PointNet ensemble to compute their corresponding 3D bounding boxes and poses. Lastly, a tracking stage based on Unscented Kalman Filter is used to track the agents along ti…
Cross-Modal Benchmarking for Robotic Perception in Natural Environments
CSIRO Robotics, CSIRO, Australia（CSIRO机器人研究所，CSIRO，澳大利亚）；University of Sydney (USyd), Australia（悉尼大学（USyd），澳大利亚）；Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia（昆士兰理工大学（QUT），澳大利亚）
EmbodiedScan: A Holistic Multi-Modal 3D Perception Suite Towards Embodied AI
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Tsinghua University（清华大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）
Waabi；University of Toronto（多伦多大学）；UIUC（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）；Cornell University（康奈尔大学）
Modern self-driving perception systems have been shown to improve upon processing complementary inputs such as LiDAR with images. In isolation, 2D images have been found to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Yet, there have been limited studies on the adversarial robustness of multi-modal models that fuse LiDAR features with image features. Furthermore, existing works do not consider physically realizable perturbations that are consistent across the input modalities. In this paper, we showcase practical susceptibilities of multi-sensor detection by placing an adversarial object on…
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
In this paper, we propose an Omni-perception Pre-Trainer (OPT) for cross-modal understanding and generation, by jointly modeling visual, text and audio resources. OPT is constructed in an encoder-decoder framework, including three single-modal encoders to generate token-based embeddings for each modality, a cross-modal encoder to encode the correlations among the three modalities, and two cross-modal decoders to generate text and image respectively. For the OPT's pre-training, we design a multi-task pretext learning scheme to model multi-modal resources from three different data granularities,…
Key Laboratory of Machine Perception, Peking University, Shenzhen Graduate School（北京大学深圳研究生院机器感知重点实验室）；Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zurich（苏黎世联邦理工学院计算机视觉实验室）
Multi-modal fusion is proven to be an effective method to improve the accuracy and robustness of speaker tracking, especially in complex scenarios. However, how to combine the heterogeneous information and exploit the complementarity of multi-modal signals remains a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a novel Multi-modal Perception Tracker (MPT) for speaker tracking using both audio and visual modalities. Specifically, a novel acoustic map based on spatial-temporal Global Coherence Field (stGCF) is first constructed for heterogeneous signal fusion, which employs a camera model to map …
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology（塔帕尔工程技术学院）
This paper represents a cost-effective scene perception system aimed towards visually impaired individual. We use an odroid system integrated with an USB camera and USB laser that can be attached on the chest. The system classifies the detected objects along with its distance from the user and provides a voice output. Experimental results provided in this paper use outdoor traffic scenes. The object detection and classification framework exploits a multi-modal fusion based faster RCNN using motion, sharpening and blurring filters for efficient feature representation.
Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University（同济大学智能自主系统上海研究院）；School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University（同济大学计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University（上海大学机械电子工程与自动化学院）
Modality Dominance-Aware Optimization for Embodied RGB-Infrared Perception
College of Electronics and Information Engineering（电子信息工程学院）；School of Computer Science and Technology（计算机科学与技术学院）；Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering（电气与计算机工程系）；School of Future Science and Engineering（未来科学与工程学院）；Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence and Large Models in Provincial Universities（省属大学通用人工智能与大模型重点实验室）
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；SenseTime Research（商汤科技研究院）；Shanghai AI Laboratory（上海人工智能实验室）
Human-centric perception plays a vital role in vision and graphics. But their data annotations are prohibitively expensive. Therefore, it is desirable to have a versatile pre-train model that serves as a foundation for data-efficient downstream tasks transfer. To this end, we propose the Human-Centric Multi-Modal Contrastive Learning framework HCMoCo that leverages the multi-modal nature of human data (e.g. RGB, depth, 2D keypoints) for effective representation learning. The objective comes with two main challenges: dense pre-train for multi-modality data, efficient usage of sparse human prior…
Visual place recognition is one of the essential and challenging problems in the fields of robotics. In this letter, we for the first time explore the use of multi-modal fusion of semantic and visual modalities in dynamics-invariant space to improve place recognition in dynamic environments. We achieve this by first designing a novel deep learning architecture to generate the static semantic segmentation and recover the static image directly from the corresponding dynamic image. We then innovatively leverage the spatial-pyramid-matching model to encode the static semantic segmentation into fea…
Reasoning-Aligned Perception Decoupling for Scalable Multi-modal Reasoning
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab（华为诺亚实验室）；Huawei Cloud Project（华为云项目）
V2X-Radar: A Multi-modal Dataset with 4D Radar for Cooperative Perception
School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University（车辆与移动性学院，清华大学）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；CUMTB（中国交通车辆技术研究所）；University of California, Los Angeles（加州大学洛杉矶分校）；Beijing Jiaotong University（北京交通大学）；ByteDance（字节跳动）
KG-ViP: Bridging Knowledge Grounding and Visual Perception in Multi-modal LLMs for Visual Question Answering
University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；Data Darkness Lab, MIRACLE Center, USTC（数据黑暗实验室，MIRACLE中心，中国科学技术大学）；School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University（西安电子科技大学计算机科学与技术学院）
AWM-Fuse: Multi-Modality Image Fusion for Adverse Weather via Global and Local Text Perception
Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent MicroNano Optoelectronic Technology（粤港澳联合智能微纳光电子技术联合实验室）；Foshan University（佛山大学）；School of Mechanical Electronic and Information Engineering（机械电子信息工程学院）；China University of Mining and Technology（中国矿业大学）；School of Information Engineering and Automation（信息工程与自动化学院）
The human visual perception system has strong robustness in image fusion. This robustness is based on human visual perception system's characteristics of feature selection and non-linear fusion of different features. In order to simulate the human visual perception mechanism in image fusion tasks, we propose a multi-source image fusion framework that combines illuminance factors and attention mechanisms. The framework effectively combines traditional image features and modern deep learning features. First, we perform multi-scale decomposition of multi-source images. Then, the visual saliency m…
