Improving Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation by Task Decomposition

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Main Authors: Zhao, Tianhao, Chen, Yongcan, Wu, Yu, Liu, Tianyang, Du, Bo, Xiao, Peilun, Qiu, Shi, Yang, Hongda, Li, Guozhen, Yang, Yi, Lin, Yutian
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author Zhao, Tianhao
Chen, Yongcan
Wu, Yu
Liu, Tianyang
Du, Bo
Xiao, Peilun
Qiu, Shi
Yang, Hongda
Li, Guozhen
Yang, Yi
Lin, Yutian
author_facet Zhao, Tianhao
Chen, Yongcan
Wu, Yu
Liu, Tianyang
Du, Bo
Xiao, Peilun
Qiu, Shi
Yang, Hongda
Li, Guozhen
Yang, Yi
Lin, Yutian
contents Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the challenge arises when the RGB inputs and BEV targets from distinct perspectives, making the direct point-to-point predicting hard to optimize. In this paper, we decompose the original BEV segmentation task into two stages, namely BEV map reconstruction and RGB-BEV feature alignment. In the first stage, we train a BEV autoencoder to reconstruct the BEV segmentation maps given corrupted noisy latent representation, which urges the decoder to learn fundamental knowledge of typical BEV patterns. The second stage involves mapping RGB input images into the BEV latent space of the first stage, directly optimizing the correlations between the two views at the feature level. Our approach simplifies the complexity of combining perception and generation into distinct steps, equipping the model to handle intricate and challenging scenes effectively. Besides, we propose to transform the BEV segmentation map from the Cartesian to the polar coordinate system to establish the column-wise correspondence between RGB images and BEV maps. Moreover, our method requires neither multi-scale features nor camera intrinsic parameters for depth estimation and saves computational overhead. Extensive experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse show the effectiveness and efficiency of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/happytianhao/TaDe.
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spellingShingle Improving Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation by Task Decomposition
Zhao, Tianhao
Chen, Yongcan
Wu, Yu
Liu, Tianyang
Du, Bo
Xiao, Peilun
Qiu, Shi
Yang, Hongda
Li, Guozhen
Yang, Yi
Lin, Yutian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the challenge arises when the RGB inputs and BEV targets from distinct perspectives, making the direct point-to-point predicting hard to optimize. In this paper, we decompose the original BEV segmentation task into two stages, namely BEV map reconstruction and RGB-BEV feature alignment. In the first stage, we train a BEV autoencoder to reconstruct the BEV segmentation maps given corrupted noisy latent representation, which urges the decoder to learn fundamental knowledge of typical BEV patterns. The second stage involves mapping RGB input images into the BEV latent space of the first stage, directly optimizing the correlations between the two views at the feature level. Our approach simplifies the complexity of combining perception and generation into distinct steps, equipping the model to handle intricate and challenging scenes effectively. Besides, we propose to transform the BEV segmentation map from the Cartesian to the polar coordinate system to establish the column-wise correspondence between RGB images and BEV maps. Moreover, our method requires neither multi-scale features nor camera intrinsic parameters for depth estimation and saves computational overhead. Extensive experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse show the effectiveness and efficiency of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/happytianhao/TaDe.
title Improving Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation by Task Decomposition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01925