Analyzing Infrastructure LiDAR Placement with Realistic LiDAR Simulation Library

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Hauptverfasser: Cai, Xinyu, Jiang, Wentao, Xu, Runsheng, Zhao, Wenquan, Ma, Jiaqi, Liu, Si, Li, Yikang
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author Cai, Xinyu
Jiang, Wentao
Xu, Runsheng
Zhao, Wenquan
Ma, Jiaqi
Liu, Si
Li, Yikang
author_facet Cai, Xinyu
Jiang, Wentao
Xu, Runsheng
Zhao, Wenquan
Ma, Jiaqi
Liu, Si
Li, Yikang
contents Recently, Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X) cooperative perception has attracted increasing attention. Infrastructure sensors play a critical role in this research field; however, how to find the optimal placement of infrastructure sensors is rarely studied. In this paper, we investigate the problem of infrastructure sensor placement and propose a pipeline that can efficiently and effectively find optimal installation positions for infrastructure sensors in a realistic simulated environment. To better simulate and evaluate LiDAR placement, we establish a Realistic LiDAR Simulation library that can simulate the unique characteristics of different popular LiDARs and produce high-fidelity LiDAR point clouds in the CARLA simulator. Through simulating point cloud data in different LiDAR placements, we can evaluate the perception accuracy of these placements using multiple detection models. Then, we analyze the correlation between the point cloud distribution and perception accuracy by calculating the density and uniformity of regions of interest. Experiments show that when using the same number and type of LiDAR, the placement scheme optimized by our proposed method improves the average precision by 15%, compared with the conventional placement scheme in the standard lane scene. We also analyze the correlation between perception performance in the region of interest and LiDAR point cloud distribution and validate that density and uniformity can be indicators of performance. Both the RLS Library and related code will be released at https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/PCSim.
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spellingShingle Analyzing Infrastructure LiDAR Placement with Realistic LiDAR Simulation Library
Cai, Xinyu
Jiang, Wentao
Xu, Runsheng
Zhao, Wenquan
Ma, Jiaqi
Liu, Si
Li, Yikang
Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Recently, Vehicle-to-Everything(V2X) cooperative perception has attracted increasing attention. Infrastructure sensors play a critical role in this research field; however, how to find the optimal placement of infrastructure sensors is rarely studied. In this paper, we investigate the problem of infrastructure sensor placement and propose a pipeline that can efficiently and effectively find optimal installation positions for infrastructure sensors in a realistic simulated environment. To better simulate and evaluate LiDAR placement, we establish a Realistic LiDAR Simulation library that can simulate the unique characteristics of different popular LiDARs and produce high-fidelity LiDAR point clouds in the CARLA simulator. Through simulating point cloud data in different LiDAR placements, we can evaluate the perception accuracy of these placements using multiple detection models. Then, we analyze the correlation between the point cloud distribution and perception accuracy by calculating the density and uniformity of regions of interest. Experiments show that when using the same number and type of LiDAR, the placement scheme optimized by our proposed method improves the average precision by 15%, compared with the conventional placement scheme in the standard lane scene. We also analyze the correlation between perception performance in the region of interest and LiDAR point cloud distribution and validate that density and uniformity can be indicators of performance. Both the RLS Library and related code will be released at https://github.com/PJLab-ADG/PCSim.
title Analyzing Infrastructure LiDAR Placement with Realistic LiDAR Simulation Library
topic Robotics
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15975