Monocular 3D Object Detection Using Depth Fusion

Abstract

Abstract It is an important task to estimate a 3D bounding box from monocular images for autonomous driving. However, the monocular pictures do not have distance information, so it is difficult to acquire accurate results. For the sake of solving the trouble of low accuracy of the monocular image in 3D target detection because of lacking distance information, an improved monocular three-dimensional target detection algorithm based on GUPNet and neural network was proposed to promote the precision of target detection. First, based on the geometric method proposed by GUPNet, the depth, and uncertainty are obtained by direct regression using a neural network. According to the difference in the accuracy of the two methods, a parameter α was introduced, and their depth scores are obtained from the uncertainty. According to the depth score and parameter α , the depth obtained by the two methods is fused to get the final depth. Test results prove that the proposed algorithm promotes average detection precision of KITTI data set in simple, medium, and difficult cases.