CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation
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| author | Zhao, Lingjun Song, Jingyu Skinner, Katherine A. |
| author_facet | Zhao, Lingjun Song, Jingyu Skinner, Katherine A. |
| contents | In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still, LiDAR is relatively high cost, which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles. Alternatively, camera and radar are commonly deployed on vehicles already on the road today, but performance of Camera-Radar (CR) fusion falls behind LC fusion. In this work, we propose Camera-Radar Knowledge Distillation (CRKD) to bridge the performance gap between LC and CR detectors with a novel cross-modality KD framework. We use the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation as the shared feature space to enable effective knowledge distillation. To accommodate the unique cross-modality KD path, we propose four distillation losses to help the student learn crucial features from the teacher model. We present extensive evaluations on the nuScenes dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CRKD framework. The project page for CRKD is https://song-jingyu.github.io/CRKD. |
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| spellingShingle | CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation Zhao, Lingjun Song, Jingyu Skinner, Katherine A. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still, LiDAR is relatively high cost, which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles. Alternatively, camera and radar are commonly deployed on vehicles already on the road today, but performance of Camera-Radar (CR) fusion falls behind LC fusion. In this work, we propose Camera-Radar Knowledge Distillation (CRKD) to bridge the performance gap between LC and CR detectors with a novel cross-modality KD framework. We use the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation as the shared feature space to enable effective knowledge distillation. To accommodate the unique cross-modality KD path, we propose four distillation losses to help the student learn crucial features from the teacher model. We present extensive evaluations on the nuScenes dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CRKD framework. The project page for CRKD is https://song-jingyu.github.io/CRKD. |
| title | CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19104 |