Optimizing LiDAR Placements for Robust Driving Perception in Adverse Conditions

Y Li, L Kong, H Hu, X Xu, X Huang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17009, 2024 - arxiv.org
The robustness of driving perception systems under unprecedented conditions is crucial for
safety-critical usages. Latest advancements have prompted increasing interests towards …

Investigating the impact of multi-lidar placement on object detection for autonomous driving

H Hu, Z Liu, S Chitlangia… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The past few years have witnessed an increasing interest in improving the perception
performance of LiDARs on autonomous vehicles. While most of the existing works focus on …

Lidar light scattering augmentation (lisa): Physics-based simulation of adverse weather conditions for 3d object detection

V Kilic, D Hegde, V Sindagi, AB Cooper… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Lidar-based object detectors are critical parts of the 3D perception pipeline in autonomous
navigation systems such as self-driving cars. However, they are known to be sensitive to …

LiDAR-BEVMTN: Real-Time LiDAR Bird's-Eye View Multi-Task Perception Network for Autonomous Driving

S Mohapatra, S Yogamani, VR Kumar, S Milz… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
LiDAR is crucial for robust 3D scene perception in autonomous driving. LiDAR perception
has the largest body of literature after camera perception. However, multi-task learning …

Multimodal 3D Object Detection on Unseen Domains

D Hegde, S Lohit, KC Peng, MJ Jones… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
LiDAR datasets for autonomous driving exhibit biases in properties such as point cloud
density, range, and object dimensions. As a result, object detection networks trained and …

Toward Robust LiDAR based 3D Object Detection via Density-Aware Adaptive Thresholding

E Lee, M Jung, A Kim - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13852, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robust 3D object detection is a core challenge for autonomous mobile systems in field
robotics. To tackle this issue, many researchers have demonstrated improvements in 3D …

Towards robust 3D object detection in rainy conditions

A Piroli, V Dallabetta, J Kopp… - 2023 IEEE 26th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LiDAR sensors are used in autonomous driving applications to accurately perceive the
environment. However, they are affected by adverse weather conditions such as snow, fog …

Lidar snowfall simulation for robust 3d object detection

M Hahner, C Sakaridis, M Bijelic… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract 3D object detection is a central task for applications such as autonomous driving, in
which the system needs to localize and classify surrounding traffic agents, even in the …

An Empirical Study of the Generalization Ability of Lidar 3D Object Detectors to Unseen Domains

G Eskandar - Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract 3D Object Detectors (3D-OD) are crucial for understanding the environment in
many robotic tasks especially autonomous driving. Including 3D information via Lidar …

Rethinking lidar object detection in adverse weather conditions

T Vattem, G Sebastian, L Lukic - 2022 International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LiDAR sensors are becoming crucial for achieving higher levels of autonomy. With the
current sensor technology, LiDAR sensors are still susceptible to erroneous measurements …