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Area of Science:

  • Autonomous Driving Systems
  • Computer Vision
  • LiDAR Perception

Background:

  • Object detection is crucial for autonomous driving perception.
  • Blind-filling LiDARs, while reducing blind spots, present challenges due to low resolution and point cloud sparsity.
  • Existing methods struggle with crowded pedestrian detection using sparse data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a real-time detection model for crowded pedestrian targets in autonomous driving.
  • To address the limitations of low-resolution LiDAR data and improve detection accuracy and efficiency.
  • To enhance robustness against occlusion in crowded scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • An attention-based point sampling method to reduce point cloud redundancy.
  • Quantization of point cloud space and neighborhood fusion in polar coordinates for feature extraction.
  • An object alignment attention (OAA) module with a heatmap-guided training branch for improved target focus and robustness.

Main Results:

  • The proposed RTCP model demonstrates improved computational efficiency.
  • Enhanced robustness against occlusion for crowded pedestrian targets.
  • Achieved a superior trade-off between detection accuracy and runtime efficiency on multiple datasets (KITTI, JRDB, custom).

Conclusions:

  • RTCP effectively handles sparse point clouds from blind-filling LiDAR for crowded pedestrian detection.
  • The model offers a practical solution for improving perception in autonomous vehicles.
  • RTCP provides a state-of-the-art balance of speed and accuracy for real-world applications.