The HCI Benchmark Suite: Stereo and Flow Ground Truth with Uncertainties for Urban Autonomous Driving

Daniel Kondermann, Rahul Nair, Katrin Honauer, Karsten Krispin, Jonas Andrulis, Alexander Brock, Burkhard Güssefeld, Mohsen Rahimimoghaddam, Sabine Hofmann, Claus Brenner, Bernd Jähne

Abstract: Recent advances in autonomous driving require more and more highly realistic reference data, even for difficult situations such as low light and bad weather. We present a new stereo and optical flow dataset to complement existing benchmarks. It was specifically designed to be representative for urban autonomous driving, including realistic, systematically varied radiometric and geometric challenges which were previously unavailable. The accuracy of the ground truth is evaluated based on Monte Carlo simulations yielding full, per-pixel distributions. Interquartile ranges are used as uncertainty measure to create binary masks for arbitrary accuracy thresholds and show that we achieved uncertainties better than those reported for comparable outdoor benchmarks. Binary masks for all dynamically moving regions are supplied with estimated stereo and flow values. An initial public benchmark dataset of 55 manually selected sequences between 19 and 100 frames long are made available in a dedicated website featuring interactive tools for database search, visualization, comparison and benchmarking.