Distant Vehicle Detection Using Radar and Vision
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For autonomous vehicles to be able to operate successfully they need to be aware of other vehicles with sufficient time to make safe, stable plans. Given the possible closing speeds between two vehicles, this necessitates the ability to accurately detect distant vehicles. Many current image-based object detectors using convolutional neural networks exhibit excellent performance on existing datasets such as KITTI. However, the performance of these networks falls when detecting small (distant) objects. We demonstrate that incorporating radar data can boost performance in these difficult situations. We also introduce an efficient automated method for training data generation using cameras of different focal lengths.
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- 2021Exploring Adversarial Robustness of Multi-Sensor Perception Systems in Self Driving17 Jan 2021
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- 2021Radar-Camera Pixel Depth Association for Depth Completioncited by 49
- 2022Bridging the View Disparity Between Radar and Camera Features for Multi-modal Fusion 3D Object Detectioncited by 46
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- 2021MmWave Radar and Vision Fusion for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving: A Reviewcited by 22
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- 2025Ultra-High-Frequency Harmony: mmWave Radar and Event Camera Orchestrate Accurate Drone Landing20 Feb 2025
- 2024A Resource Efficient Fusion Network for Object Detection in Bird's-Eye View using Camera and Raw Radar Data20 Nov 2024
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- 2023Cross-Dataset Experimental Study of Radar-Camera Fusion in Bird's-Eye View27 Sep 2023
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