{"title":"Efficient ConvNet for real-time semantic segmentation","authors":"Eduardo Romera, J. Álvarez, L. Bergasa, R. Arroyo","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995966","url":null,"abstract":"Semantic segmentation is a task that covers most of the perception needs of intelligent vehicles in an unified way. ConvNets excel at this task, as they can be trained end-to-end to accurately classify multiple object categories in an image at the pixel level. However, current approaches normally involve complex architectures that are expensive in terms of computational resources and are not feasible for ITS applications. In this paper, we propose a deep architecture that is able to run in real-time while providing accurate semantic segmentation. The core of our ConvNet is a novel layer that uses residual connections and factorized convolutions in order to remain highly efficient while still retaining remarkable performance. Our network is able to run at 83 FPS in a single Titan X, and at more than 7 FPS in a Jetson TX1 (embedded GPU). A comprehensive set of experiments demonstrates that our system, trained from scratch on the challenging Cityscapes dataset, achieves a classification performance that is among the state of the art, while being orders of magnitude faster to compute than other architectures that achieve top precision. This makes our model an ideal approach for scene understanding in intelligent vehicles applications.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122902735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-camera traffic light recognition using a classifying Labeled Multi-Bernoulli filter","authors":"Martin Bach, Stephan Reuter, K. Dietmayer","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995852","url":null,"abstract":"The correct handling of complex traffic-light-controlled intersections is still a challenge for automated vehicles. While a number of image-based approaches tackle close-range recognitions, an early traffic light detection at high distances is of great importance in the area of energy-efficient driving. For this reason, a traffic light detection system consisting of multiple on-board cameras is presented in this work, enabling the detection of traffic lights even from a distance of more than 200m. Furthermore, the presented system is based on tracking techniques using a Labeled Multi-Bernoulli filter in combination with the fusion of classifications based on the Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence. The system was tested on a real world data set collected in Germany and an increase in performance was demonstrated by a multi-camera approach.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"220-223 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127706503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient combination of Lidar intensity and 3D information by DNN for pedestrian recognition with high and low density 3D sensor","authors":"L. Mioulet, D. Tsishkou, R. Bendahan, F. Abad","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995729","url":null,"abstract":"Pedestrian recognition is one of the key components for assisted and autonomous driving. So far many researchers have investigated systems combining a high density LIDAR with cameras or stereo, which results in an expensive and complex setup where the LIDAR data is mostly used to extract regions of interest for the 2D sensor. Very few work has focused on using pure 3D data coming from the LIDAR to recognize pedestrians, and even less have made an intensive use of the intensity information returned by the LIDAR. The intensity information displays a high frequency change between neighboring points of similar material, this can be due to the angle or distance. Due to this, it has not been frequently investigated as a potentially interesting feature as it would require extensive time consuming feature engineering to be worthwhile. In this paper we present a novel 2D representation of a 3D point cloud including the intensity information. We show the ability of convolutional neural networks to handle this data in order to accurately recognize pedestrians in complex driving scenes. Our system outperformed state of the art technique on the STC database. Additionally we show that this system is still highly accurate on low density LIDAR data.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130191197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Farid Bounini, D. Gingras, Herve Pollart, D. Gruyer
{"title":"Modified artificial potential field method for online path planning applications","authors":"Farid Bounini, D. Gingras, Herve Pollart, D. Gruyer","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995717","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a modified potential field method for mobile robots and intelligent vehicles local navigation. The approach overcomes the well-known artificial potential field (APF) method issue, which is due to local minima that induce the standard APF method to trap in. Thus, the standard APF method is no longer useful in such cases. The advantage of the new proposed method, as opposed to those that resort to the global optimization methods, is the low computing time that lines up with the standardA-Star (A∗) method. The strategy consists of looking for a practical path in the potential field-according to the potential gradient descent algorithm (PGDA) — and adding a repulsive potential to the current state, in case of blocking configuration, a local minimum. When the PGDA reaches the global minimum, a new potential field will be constructed with only one minimum that matches the final destination of the robot, the global minimum. Finally, to determine the achievable trajectory, a second iteration is performed by the PGDA.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126875058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficient L-shape fitting for vehicle detection using laser scanners","authors":"Xiao Zhang, Wenda Xu, Chiyu Dong, J. Dolan","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995698","url":null,"abstract":"The detection of surrounding vehicles is an essential task in autonomous driving, which has been drawing enormous attention recently. When using laser scanners, L-Shape fitting is a key step for model-based vehicle detection and tracking, which requires thorough investigation and comprehensive research. In this paper, we formulate the L-Shape fitting as an optimization problem. An efficient search based method is then proposed to find the optimal solution. Our method does not rely on laser scan sequence information and therefore supports convenient data fusion from multiple laser scanners; it is efficient and involves very few parameters for tuning; the approach is also flexible to suit various fitting demands with different fitting criteria. On-road experiments with production-grade laser scanners have demonstrated the effectiveness and robustness of our approach.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133695289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Road-SLAM : Road marking based SLAM with lane-level accuracy","authors":"Jinyong Jeong, Younggun Cho, Ayoung Kim","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995958","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose the Road-SLAM algorithm, which robustly exploits road markings obtained from camera images. Road markings are well categorized and informative but susceptible to visual aliasing for global localization. To enable loop-closures using road marking matching, our method defines a feature consisting of road markings and surrounding lanes as a sub-map. The proposed method uses random forest method to improve the accuracy of matching using a sub-map containing road information. The random forest classifies road markings into six classes and only incorporates informative classes to avoid ambiguity. The proposed method is validated by comparing the SLAM result with RTK-Global Positioning System (GPS) data. Accurate loop detection improves global accuracy by compensating for cumulative errors in odometry sensors. This method achieved an average global accuracy of 1.098 m over 4.7 km of path length, while running at real-time performance.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133343633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziran Wang, Guoyuan Wu, Peng Hao, K. Boriboonsomsin, M. Barth
{"title":"Developing a platoon-wide Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system","authors":"Ziran Wang, Guoyuan Wu, Peng Hao, K. Boriboonsomsin, M. Barth","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995884","url":null,"abstract":"Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technology has become increasingly popular. As an example, Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) systems are of high interest, allowing CAVs to communicate and cooperate with each other to form platoons, where one vehicle follows another with a predefined spacing or time gap. Although numerous studies have been conducted on CACC systems, very few have examined the protocols from the perspective of environmental sustainability, not to mention from a platoon-wide consideration. In this study, we propose a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication based Eco-CACC system, aiming to minimize the platoon-wide energy consumption and pollutant emissions at different stages of the CACC operation. A full spectrum of environmentally-friendly CACC maneuvers are explored and the associated protocols are developed, including sequence determination, gap closing and opening, platoon cruising with gap regulation, and platoon joining and splitting. Simulation studies of different scenarios are conducted using MATLAB/Simulink. Compared to an existing CACC system, the proposed one can achieve additional 2% energy savings and additional 17% pollutant emissions reductions during the platoon joining scenario.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129111750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuangshuang Han, Feiyue Wang, Yingchun Wang, Dongpu Cao, Li Li
{"title":"Parallel vehicles based on the ACP theory: Safe trips via self-driving","authors":"Shuangshuang Han, Feiyue Wang, Yingchun Wang, Dongpu Cao, Li Li","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995693","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of intelligent technologies, self-driving vehicles are considered as a promising solution against accident, traffic congestion and pollution problems. Intelligent vehicle techniques have been the research focus all over the world. However, full self-driving vehicles are still far away from its realization and extensive application due to safety requirements and cost considerations. As a novel breakthrough, PArallel VEhicles (PAVE) incorporate the ACP theory, which facilitates real-time interaction and optimization of the actual self-driving vehicles and the artificial ones. As a result, PAVE can maintain intelligent control of the actual self-driving vehicles and achieve the global optimization via software-defined self-driving vehicles, intelligent infrastructure construction, and parallel control center. Besides, PAVE can effectively reduce the cost of high-precision equipments on the actual self-driving vehicles via remote processing and intelligent road(side) infrastructure, and also achieve improved safety and reliability via remote control, guidance and planning.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125456603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GM-PHD filter for multiple extended object tracking based on the multiplicative error shape model and network flow labeling","authors":"Florian Teich, Shishan Yang, M. Baum","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995691","url":null,"abstract":"In this work, we propose a novel implementation of the Probability Density Hypotheses (PHD) filter for tracking an unknown number of extended objects. For this purpose, we first show how a recently developed Kalman filter-based method for elliptic shape tracking can be embedded into the Gaussian Mixture PHD (GM-PHD) filter framework. Second, we propose a track labeling method based on a Minimum-Cost flow (MCF) formulation, which is inspired by tracking-by-detection algorithms from computer vision. In conjunction with the GM-PHD filter and using a dynamic-programming approach to solve the network flow problem, the overall method is able to achieve a consistent and efficient tracking of multiple extended objects. The benefits of the developed method are illustrated by means of simulated scenarios.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128115660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A machine learning based biased-sampling approach for planning safe trajectories in complex, dynamic traffic-scenarios","authors":"Amit Chaulwar, M. Botsch, W. Utschick","doi":"10.1109/IVS.2017.7995735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2017.7995735","url":null,"abstract":"Many variants of the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) algorithm use biased-sampling strategies for solving computationally intensive tasks. One of such tasks is the planning of safe trajectories with the simultaneous intervention in both the longitudinal and the lateral dynamics of the vehicle in complex traffic-scenarios with multiple static and dynamic objects. A recently proposed hybrid statistical learning approach uses a 3D convolutional neural network (3D-ConvNet) to predict suitable longitudinal acceleration profiles in combination with an RRT variant called the Augmented CL-RRT algorithm. This algorithm is not effective in complex traffic-scenarios, i.e., traffic scenarios with more than 4 dynamic objects, because of the lack of flexibility and biasing in the longitudinal and the lateral dynamics intervention, respectively. Therefore, an extension to the Augmented CL-RRT algorithm is introduced to improve the longitudinal dynamics intervention with actuator and stable profile constraints and named as the Augmented CL-RRT+ algorithm. A biased-sampling strategy is also proposed based on the predicted longitudinal acceleration and steering wheel angle profiles provided by a trained 3D-ConvNet. Simulations are performed to compare different trajectory planning algorithms based on efficiency and safety. The results show vast improvements in terms of the efficiency without harming the safety.","PeriodicalId":143367,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121595514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}