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Automotive Engineering ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (10): 1815-1823.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2023.10.004

Special Issue: 智能网联汽车技术专题-感知&HMI&测评2023年

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Research on Multi-modal Late Fusion Framework Based on D-S Evidence Theory

Teng Cheng1,2,3(),Dengchao Hou1,2,3,Qiang Zhang4,Qin Shi1,2,3,Ligang Guo1,2,3   

  1. 1.School of Automotive and Transportation Engineering,Hefei University of Technology,Hefei  230000
    2.Engineering Research Center for Intelligent Transportation and Cooperative Vehicle-Infrastructure of Anhui Province,Hefei  250000
    3.Key Laboratory for Automated Vehicle Safety Technology of Anhui Province,Hefei  230009
    4.Chery Automobile Co. ,Ltd. ,Wuhu  241000
  • Received:2023-02-23 Revised:2023-04-04 Online:2023-10-25 Published:2023-10-23
  • Contact: Teng Cheng E-mail:cht616@hfut.edu.cn

Abstract:

Multi-modal fusion perception is one of the research hotspots of automatic driving. However, in complex traffic environment, due to the interference of weather, illumination and other external factors, the target recognition may be wrong, leading to inevitable classification conflict during fusion. Therefore, this paper proposes a multi-modal late fusion framework based on D-S Evidence Theory. The confidence score of deep neural network is output and used as the probability density function of D-S evidence theory. By modifying the classification result of conflict through evidence combination, this framework can solve the classification conflict problem of fusion between any mode. The framework is verified by experiments based on KITTI data set. The results show that the fusion result of the framework output can increase by about 8% compared with the mAP value of a single sensing network, with the fusion result of Yolov3 and Pointpillar increasing by 32% compared with the single sensing result of Pointpillar, which can effectively solve the classification conflict after multi-mode fusion in the complex traffic environment.

Key words: D-S evidence theory, multimodal fusion, object recognition, conflict classification