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Spatially-Aware Reliability Modeling for BEV LiDAR 3D Vehicle Detection.

Nanzhou Hu1, Zhe Zhang1, Dayong Wu2

  • 1Department of Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.

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Summary

Spatially-Aware Quality Calibration (SAQC) enhances Bird's-eye-view (BEV) LiDAR 3D vehicle detection by improving score-localization alignment. This method boosts detection reliability and ranking accuracy without altering box geometry.

Keywords:
3D object detectionLiDAR sensingbird’s-eye-view (BEV) detectionlocalization reliabilityquality calibrationscore calibration

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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Robotics
  • Machine Learning

Background:

  • Bird's-eye-view (BEV) LiDAR detectors are crucial for real-time 3D perception.
  • Confidence scores in BEV detectors often misalign with 3D box localization quality.
  • This mismatch degrades detection ranking reliability, particularly with strict IoU thresholds and varying LiDAR observations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce Spatially-Aware Quality Calibration (SAQC), a novel framework to enhance the reliability of BEV LiDAR 3D vehicle detection.
  • To address the score-localization mismatch in existing detection systems.
  • To improve the accuracy of detection ranking for autonomous driving applications.

Main Methods:

  • SAQC employs a lightweight, reliability-focused scoring framework for BEV LiDAR 3D vehicle detection.
  • It estimates localization quality using coordinate-augmented local BEV feature patches around detected object centers.
  • The framework fuses estimated quality with raw detector scores and uses post hoc sigmoid calibration with soft IoU targets for alignment.

Main Results:

  • SAQC improved Moderate 3D AP at IoU=0.7 (89.13 to 89.57) and IoU=0.8 (74.40 to 75.72) on the KITTI dataset.
  • Score-IoU Spearman correlation increased from 0.3685 to 0.4043.
  • Post-calibration Q-ECE decreased from 0.0284 to 0.0183, while maintaining 103.6 FPS.

Conclusions:

  • Local BEV spatial context significantly enhances score-localization reliability in 3D vehicle detection.
  • SAQC provides a robust solution for improving detection ranking without modifying decoded box geometry.
  • The proposed method offers a practical advancement for real-time 3D perception systems.