针对雷达点云设计新数据增强方法,提升3D目标检测性能
Class-Aware PillarMix: Can Mixed Sample Data Augmentation Enhance 3D Object Detection with Radar Point Clouds?
- 在柱状体层级按类别分配混合比例,实现精细化数据混合
- 在Bosch Street和K-Radar数据集上显著提升检测精度
- 特别适合处理稀疏行人等小目标的雷达感知任务
由于3D感知任务中数据采集与标注成本高昂,混合样本数据增强(MSDA)通过混合已有数据生成多样化训练样本,受到广泛关注。尽管已有大量针对点云的MSDA方法,但主要面向激光雷达数据,其在雷达点云上的应用仍鲜有研究。本文探讨了现有MSDA方法应用于雷达点云的可行性,并识别出三大挑战:雷达的不规则角度分布、多雷达配置下的非单传感器极坐标布局偏差,以及点云稀疏性。为此,我们提出类感知柱状体混合(CAPMix),一种在3D点云柱状体层级进行类标签引导的混合策略。不同于采用单一混合比例的方法,CAPMix为每个柱状体独立分配比例,显著提升样本多样性。针对不同类别的密度差异,采用类别特异性分布:对密集物体(如大型车辆)偏向引入另一样本的点,对稀疏物体(如行人)则保留更多原样本点。该机制有效保留关键细节,同时引入新信息,生成更丰富的训练数据。实验表明,本方法在Bosch Street和K-Radar两个数据集上均显著提升性能,优于现有MSDA方法。我们认为这一简单而有效的思路将推动雷达数据增强技术的进一步研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Due to the significant effort required for data collection and annotation in 3D perception tasks, mixed sample data augmentation (MSDA) has been widely studied to generate diverse training samples by mixing existing data. Recently, many MSDA techniques have been developed for point clouds, but they mainly target LiDAR data, leaving their application to radar point clouds largely unexplored. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of applying existing MSDA methods to radar point clouds and identify several challenges in adapting these techniques. These obstacles stem from the radar's irregular angular distribution, deviations from a single-sensor polar layout in multi-radar setups, and point sparsity. To address these issues, we propose Class-Aware PillarMix (CAPMix), a novel MSDA approach that applies MixUp at the pillar level in 3D point clouds, guided by class labels. Unlike methods that rely a single mix ratio to the entire sample, CAPMix assigns an independent ratio to each pillar, boosting sample diversity. To account for the density of different classes, we use class-specific distributions: for dense objects (e.g., large vehicles), we skew ratios to favor points from another sample, while for sparse objects (e.g., pedestrians), we sample more points from the original. This class-aware mixing retains critical details and enriches each sample with new information, ultimately generating more diverse training data. Experimental results demonstrate that our method not only significantly boosts performance but also outperforms existing MSDA approaches across two datasets (Bosch Street and K-Radar). We believe that this straightforward yet effective approach will spark further investigation into MSDA techniques for radar data.
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