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Automotive Engineering ›› 2024, Vol. 46 ›› Issue (6): 1015-1024.doi: 10.19562/j.chinasae.qcgc.2024.06.008

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Semi Solid-State LiDAR Object Detection Algorithm Enhanced by Feature Stability Enhancement

Lisheng Jin1,2,3,Hongyu Zhang1,Baicang Guo1,3()   

  1. 1.School of Vehicle and Energy,Yanshan University,Qinhuangdao  066004
    2.State Key Laboratory of Crane Technology for Yanshan University,Qinhuangdao  066004
    3.Yanshan University,Hebei Key Laboratory of Special Carrier Equipment,Qinhuangdao  066004
  • Received:2023-11-23 Revised:2024-01-02 Online:2024-06-25 Published:2024-06-19
  • Contact: Baicang Guo E-mail:guobaicang@ysu.edu.cn

Abstract:

Stable point cloud feature extraction is crucial for 3D object detection using LiDAR. For the limitation of existing deep learning algorithms that can only handle point clouds from mechanically rotating LiDAR but lack support for semi solid-state LiDAR data, in this paper a target detection model suitable for semi solid-state LiDAR based on IA-SSD is established. Firstly, Cloth Simulation Filtering (CSF) is added at the front end of point cloud encoding for ground suboptimal filtering. Secondly, an attention mechanism composed of local feature fusion and global bilinear regularization layers is utilized to promote the fusion of geometric information and feature information of point clouds from both local and global perspectives. Thirdly, GhostGConv is employed to replace the original inefficient point-by-point convolution, and enhanced feature interaction of point clouds is achieved through channel shuffling mechanism to construct an enhanced feature extraction network. Finally, the above modules are integrated into the point detector IA-SSD to complete model construction. The validation results conducted on the SimoSet semi solid-state lidar dataset show that the proposed method significantly outperforms other algorithms supported by the SimoSet dataset in terms of accuracy metrics. In the medium difficulty detection tasks on the KITTI dataset, the proposed method enhances the average detection accuracy of IA-SSD in the three categories by 1.17, 1.47, and 0.5 percentage points, respectively.

Key words: vehicle engineering, environmental perception, object detection, semi solid-state LiDAR, feature stability enhancement