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Main Authors: Choi, Hwan-Soo, Jeong, Jongoh, Cho, Young Hoo, Yoon, Kuk-Jin, Kim, Jong-Hwan
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Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02126
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author Choi, Hwan-Soo
Jeong, Jongoh
Cho, Young Hoo
Yoon, Kuk-Jin
Kim, Jong-Hwan
author_facet Choi, Hwan-Soo
Jeong, Jongoh
Cho, Young Hoo
Yoon, Kuk-Jin
Kim, Jong-Hwan
contents Sensor fusion approaches for intelligent self-driving agents remain key to driving scene understanding given visual global contexts acquired from input sensors. Specifically, for the local waypoint prediction task, single-modality networks are still limited by strong dependency on the sensitivity of the input sensor, and thus recent works therefore promote the use of multiple sensors in fusion in feature level in practice. While it is well known that multiple data modalities encourage mutual contextual exchange, it requires global 3D scene understanding in real-time with minimal computation upon deployment to practical driving scenarios, thereby placing greater significance on the training strategy given a limited number of practically usable sensors. In this light, we exploit carefully selected auxiliary tasks that are highly correlated with the target task of interest (e.g., traffic light recognition and semantic segmentation) by fusing auxiliary task features and also using auxiliary heads for waypoint prediction based on imitation learning. Our RGB-LIDAR-based multi-task feature fusion network, coined Cognitive TransFuser, augments and exceeds the baseline network by a significant margin for safer and more complete road navigation in the CARLA simulator. We validate the proposed network on the Town05 Short and Town05 Long Benchmark through extensive experiments, achieving up to 44.2 FPS real-time inference time.
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spellingShingle Cognitive TransFuser: Semantics-guided Transformer-based Sensor Fusion for Improved Waypoint Prediction
Choi, Hwan-Soo
Jeong, Jongoh
Cho, Young Hoo
Yoon, Kuk-Jin
Kim, Jong-Hwan
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Sensor fusion approaches for intelligent self-driving agents remain key to driving scene understanding given visual global contexts acquired from input sensors. Specifically, for the local waypoint prediction task, single-modality networks are still limited by strong dependency on the sensitivity of the input sensor, and thus recent works therefore promote the use of multiple sensors in fusion in feature level in practice. While it is well known that multiple data modalities encourage mutual contextual exchange, it requires global 3D scene understanding in real-time with minimal computation upon deployment to practical driving scenarios, thereby placing greater significance on the training strategy given a limited number of practically usable sensors. In this light, we exploit carefully selected auxiliary tasks that are highly correlated with the target task of interest (e.g., traffic light recognition and semantic segmentation) by fusing auxiliary task features and also using auxiliary heads for waypoint prediction based on imitation learning. Our RGB-LIDAR-based multi-task feature fusion network, coined Cognitive TransFuser, augments and exceeds the baseline network by a significant margin for safer and more complete road navigation in the CARLA simulator. We validate the proposed network on the Town05 Short and Town05 Long Benchmark through extensive experiments, achieving up to 44.2 FPS real-time inference time.
title Cognitive TransFuser: Semantics-guided Transformer-based Sensor Fusion for Improved Waypoint Prediction
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02126