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Automotive Engineering ›› 2021, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 492-500.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2021.04.006

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3D Object Detection Method for Autonomous Vehicle Based on Sparse Color Point Cloud

Yutao Luo(),Han Qin   

  1. School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering,South China University of Technology,Guangzhou 510641
  • Received:2020-08-28 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-04-23
  • Contact: Yutao Luo E-mail:ctytluo@scut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Aiming at the current problem of the low accuracy of point cloud segmentation and recognition algorithm in object detection of autonomous vehicle, a sparse color point cloud (SCPC) structure is proposed, which is formed by spatial matching and feature superposition of the image information collected by camera and the point cloud information acquired from lidar. Then, the improved PointPillars neural network algorithm is adopted to conduct operation on the fused SCPC. The results of experiment show that this method can achieve a major rise in average accuracy, compared with original PointPillars algorithm, especially the recognition accuracy of pedestrians and cyclists. The average accuracy of pedestrian and cyclist detections on 3D view under medium difficulty increases by 13.8% and 6.6% respectively, demonstrating the effectiveness of the method adopted.

Key words: lidar, sensor fusion, neural network, object detection