统一视觉感知框架,让自动驾驶模型跨摄像头配置稳定运行
UniDrive: Towards Universal Driving Perception Across Camera Configurations
- 用虚拟摄像头统一视图,解决真实摄像头参数差异问题
- 在不同配置下测试,性能下降小于5%且可插拔使用
- 适合需要跨车型部署的自动驾驶系统研发人员
以视觉为中心的自动驾驶在使用低成本传感器方面表现出色。作为基础步骤,3D感知通过3D-2D投影从2D图像中推断3D信息,这使得感知模型易受传感器配置(如相机内参、外参)变化影响。然而,跨摄像头配置的泛化能力对在不同车型上部署自动驾驶模型至关重要。本文提出UniDrive,一种面向视觉中心自动驾驶的通用感知框架,可在多种摄像头配置间实现统一感知。我们部署一组统一的虚拟摄像头,并提出地表感知投影方法,将原始图像有效转换为统一虚拟视角。进一步提出虚拟配置优化方法,通过最小化原始与虚拟摄像头间的期望投影误差来优化配置。该虚拟摄像头投影方法可作为即插即用模块应用于现有3D感知方法,缓解相机参数变化带来的挑战,提升模型适应性与可靠性。为评估框架有效性,我们在CARLA中收集数据集,仅改变摄像头配置重复行驶相同路线。实验结果表明,仅在一个特定配置下训练的模型,可泛化至多种配置,性能下降微小。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision-centric autonomous driving has demonstrated excellent performance with economical sensors. As the fundamental step, 3D perception aims to infer 3D information from 2D images based on 3D-2D projection. This makes driving perception models susceptible to sensor configuration (e.g., camera intrinsics and extrinsics) variations. However, generalizing across camera configurations is important for deploying autonomous driving models on different car models. In this paper, we present UniDrive, a novel framework for vision-centric autonomous driving to achieve universal perception across camera configurations. We deploy a set of unified virtual cameras and propose a ground-aware projection method to effectively transform the original images into these unified virtual views. We further propose a virtual configuration optimization method by minimizing the expected projection error between original and virtual cameras. The proposed virtual camera projection can be applied to existing 3D perception methods as a plug-and-play module to mitigate the challenges posed by camera parameter variability, resulting in more adaptable and reliable driving perception models. To evaluate the effectiveness of our framework, we collect a dataset on CARLA by driving the same routes while only modifying the camera configurations. Experimental results demonstrate that our method trained on one specific camera configuration can generalize to varying configurations with minor performance degradation.
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