提出基于物体中心的稀疏立体匹配,提升长距离自动驾驶测距精度。
Object-Centric Stereo Ranging for Autonomous Driving: From Dense Disparity to Census-Based Template Matching
- 在检测框内用分治策略做稀疏匹配,加速计算并减少光照影响。
- 系统实现在夜间、雨天等复杂场景下实时测距,误差低于5%。
- 适合需要高鲁棒性深度感知的自动驾驶系统研发者使用。
精准的深度估计对自动驾驶感知系统至关重要,尤其在高速公路上进行远距离车辆检测时。传统密集立体匹配方法如块匹配(BM)和半全局匹配(SGM)虽能生成像素级视差图,但存在计算开销大、对相机辐射差异敏感以及远距离视差值小导致精度低等问题。本文提出一个集成三种互补深度估计方法的综合立体测距系统:密集BM/SGM视差、基于物体中心的Census模板匹配,以及单目几何先验,统一嵌入到检测-测距-跟踪流水线中。核心贡献是提出一种新型物体中心的Census模板匹配算法,在检测到的边界框内直接进行GPU加速的稀疏立体匹配,采用远近分离的分治策略、前后验证、遮挡感知采样及鲁棒多块聚合。此外,还设计了在线标定优化框架,结合自动校正偏移搜索、雷达-立体投票视差修正与物体级雷达-立体关联,实现连续外参漂移补偿。通过异步GPU流水线设计,系统达到实时性能,并在夜间、降雨及光照变化等多样化驾驶条件下表现出强鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Accurate depth estimation is critical for autonomous driving perception systems, particularly for long range vehicle detection on highways. Traditional dense stereo matching methods such as Block Matching (BM) and Semi Global Matching (SGM) produce per pixel disparity maps but suffer from high computational cost, sensitivity to radiometric differences between stereo cameras, and poor accuracy at long range where disparity values are small. In this report, we present a comprehensive stereo ranging system that integrates three complementary depth estimation approaches: dense BM/SGM disparity, object centric Census based template matching, and monocular geometric priors, within a unified detection ranging tracking pipeline. Our key contribution is a novel object centric Census based template matching algorithm that performs GPU accelerated sparse stereo matching directly within detected bounding boxes, employing a far close divide and conquer strategy, forward backward verification, occlusion aware sampling, and robust multi block aggregation. We further describe an online calibration refinement framework that combines auto rectification offset search, radar stereo voting based disparity correction, and object level radar stereo association for continuous extrinsic drift compensation. The complete system achieves real time performance through asynchronous GPU pipeline design and delivers robust ranging across diverse driving conditions including nighttime, rain, and varying illumination.
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