解决激光雷达检测中未知物体识别难题,提升开放世界感知能力。
Neural Distribution Prior for LiDAR Out-of-Distribution Detection

- 建模预测分布结构,动态校正分类置信度偏差。
- 在STU数据集上点级准确率达61.31%,超前最优结果10倍以上。
- 无需外部数据,自动生成多样化未知样本用于训练。
基于激光雷达的感知对自动驾驶至关重要,因其在光照和能见度差的条件下仍具鲁棒性。然而,现有模型多基于封闭集假设,在开放世界中难以识别意外的异常物体(OOD)。现有OOD评分函数性能有限,因忽略了激光雷达OOD检测中的显著类别不平衡问题,并假设类别分布均匀。为此,我们提出神经分布先验(NDP)框架,通过学习网络输出的分布先验,动态调整与分布对齐的OOD得分。NDP动态捕捉训练数据的逻辑值分布模式,并利用注意力模块纠正类别依赖的置信度偏差。此外,我们设计了一种基于Perlin噪声的OOD合成策略,从输入扫描中生成多样化的辅助未知样本,实现无需外部数据的鲁棒训练。在SemanticKITTI和STU基准上的大量实验表明,NDP显著提升检测性能,在STU测试集上达到61.31%的点级平均精度,较前最优结果高出10倍以上。该框架可兼容多种现有OOD评分方法,为开放世界激光雷达感知提供有效解决方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LiDAR-based perception is critical for autonomous driving due to its robustness to poor lighting and visibility conditions. Yet, current models operate under the closed-set assumption and often fail to recognize unexpected out-of-distribution (OOD) objects in the open world. Existing OOD scoring functions exhibit limited performance because they ignore the pronounced class imbalance inherent in LiDAR OOD detection and assume a uniform class distribution. To address this limitation, we propose the Neural Distribution Prior (NDP), a framework that models the distributional structure of network predictions and adaptively reweights OOD scores based on alignment with a learned distribution prior. NDP dynamically captures the logit distribution patterns of training data and corrects class-dependent confidence bias through an attention-based module. We further introduce a Perlin noise-based OOD synthesis strategy that generates diverse auxiliary OOD samples from input scans, enabling robust OOD training without external datasets. Extensive experiments on the SemanticKITTI and STU benchmarks demonstrate that NDP substantially improves OOD detection performance, achieving a point-level AP of 61.31% on the STU test set, which is more than 10$\times$ higher than the previous best result. Our framework is compatible with various existing OOD scoring formulations, providing an effective solution for open-world LiDAR perception.
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