Vision-based Uneven BEV Representation Learning with Polar Rasterization and Surface EstimationDownload PDF

Published: 10 Sept 2022, Last Modified: 17 Sept 2023CoRL 2022 PosterReaders: Everyone
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Keywords: Polar Rasterization, Surface Estimation, BEV Segmentation
TL;DR: We propose PolarBEV for vision-based uneven BEV representation learning.
Abstract: In this work, we propose PolarBEV for vision-based uneven BEV representation learning. To adapt to the foreshortening effect of camera imaging, we rasterize the BEV space both angularly and radially, and introduce polar embedding decomposition to model the associations among polar grids. Polar grids are rearranged to an array-like regular representation for efficient processing. Besides, to determine the 2D-to-3D correspondence, we iteratively update the BEV surface based on a hypothetical plane, and adopt height-based feature transformation. PolarBEV keeps real-time inference speed on a single 2080Ti GPU, and outperforms other methods for both BEV semantic segmentation and BEV instance segmentation. Thorough ablations are presented to validate the design. The code will be released for facilitating further research.
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Website: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.01878.pdf
Code: https://github.com/SuperZ-Liu/PolarBEV
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