A Safety-Adapted Loss for Pedestrian Detection in Automated Driving
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| author | Lyssenko, Maria Pimplikar, Piyush Bieshaar, Maarten Nozarian, Farzad Triebel, Rudolph |
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| contents | In safety-critical domains like automated driving (AD), errors by the object detector may endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (VRU). As common evaluation metrics are not an adequate safety indicator, recent works employ approaches to identify safety-critical VRU and back-annotate the risk to the object detector. However, those approaches do not consider the safety factor in the deep neural network (DNN) training process. Thus, state-of-the-art DNN penalizes all misdetections equally irrespective of their criticality. Subsequently, to mitigate the occurrence of critical failure cases, i.e., false negatives, a safety-aware training strategy might be required to enhance the detection performance for critical pedestrians. In this paper, we propose a novel safety-aware loss variation that leverages the estimated per-pedestrian criticality scores during training. We exploit the reachability set-based time-to-collision (TTC-RSB) metric from the motion domain along with distance information to account for the worst-case threat quantifying the criticality. Our evaluation results using RetinaNet and FCOS on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that training the models with our safety-aware loss function mitigates the misdetection of critical pedestrians without sacrificing performance for the general case, i.e., pedestrians outside the safety-critical zone. |
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| spellingShingle | A Safety-Adapted Loss for Pedestrian Detection in Automated Driving Lyssenko, Maria Pimplikar, Piyush Bieshaar, Maarten Nozarian, Farzad Triebel, Rudolph Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition In safety-critical domains like automated driving (AD), errors by the object detector may endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (VRU). As common evaluation metrics are not an adequate safety indicator, recent works employ approaches to identify safety-critical VRU and back-annotate the risk to the object detector. However, those approaches do not consider the safety factor in the deep neural network (DNN) training process. Thus, state-of-the-art DNN penalizes all misdetections equally irrespective of their criticality. Subsequently, to mitigate the occurrence of critical failure cases, i.e., false negatives, a safety-aware training strategy might be required to enhance the detection performance for critical pedestrians. In this paper, we propose a novel safety-aware loss variation that leverages the estimated per-pedestrian criticality scores during training. We exploit the reachability set-based time-to-collision (TTC-RSB) metric from the motion domain along with distance information to account for the worst-case threat quantifying the criticality. Our evaluation results using RetinaNet and FCOS on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that training the models with our safety-aware loss function mitigates the misdetection of critical pedestrians without sacrificing performance for the general case, i.e., pedestrians outside the safety-critical zone. |
| title | A Safety-Adapted Loss for Pedestrian Detection in Automated Driving |
| topic | Machine Learning Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02986 |