MapDistill: Boosting Efficient Camera-based HD Map Construction via Camera-LiDAR Fusion Model Distillation

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Hauptverfasser: Hao, Xiaoshuai, Li, Ruikai, Zhang, Hui, Li, Dingzhe, Yin, Rong, Jung, Sangil, Park, Seung-In, Yoo, ByungIn, Zhao, Haimei, Zhang, Jing
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author Hao, Xiaoshuai
Li, Ruikai
Zhang, Hui
Li, Dingzhe
Yin, Rong
Jung, Sangil
Park, Seung-In
Yoo, ByungIn
Zhao, Haimei
Zhang, Jing
author_facet Hao, Xiaoshuai
Li, Ruikai
Zhang, Hui
Li, Dingzhe
Yin, Rong
Jung, Sangil
Park, Seung-In
Yoo, ByungIn
Zhao, Haimei
Zhang, Jing
contents Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an important and challenging task in autonomous driving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in cost-effective multi-view camera-based methods without relying on other sensors like LiDAR. However, these methods suffer from a lack of explicit depth information, necessitating the use of large models to achieve satisfactory performance. To address this, we employ the Knowledge Distillation (KD) idea for efficient HD map construction for the first time and introduce a novel KD-based approach called MapDistill to transfer knowledge from a high-performance camera-LiDAR fusion model to a lightweight camera-only model. Specifically, we adopt the teacher-student architecture, i.e., a camera-LiDAR fusion model as the teacher and a lightweight camera model as the student, and devise a dual BEV transform module to facilitate cross-modal knowledge distillation while maintaining cost-effective camera-only deployment. Additionally, we present a comprehensive distillation scheme encompassing cross-modal relation distillation, dual-level feature distillation, and map head distillation. This approach alleviates knowledge transfer challenges between modalities, enabling the student model to learn improved feature representations for HD map construction. Experimental results on the challenging nuScenes dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of MapDistill, surpassing existing competitors by over 7.7 mAP or 4.5X speedup.
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spellingShingle MapDistill: Boosting Efficient Camera-based HD Map Construction via Camera-LiDAR Fusion Model Distillation
Hao, Xiaoshuai
Li, Ruikai
Zhang, Hui
Li, Dingzhe
Yin, Rong
Jung, Sangil
Park, Seung-In
Yoo, ByungIn
Zhao, Haimei
Zhang, Jing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an important and challenging task in autonomous driving. Recently, there has been a growing interest in cost-effective multi-view camera-based methods without relying on other sensors like LiDAR. However, these methods suffer from a lack of explicit depth information, necessitating the use of large models to achieve satisfactory performance. To address this, we employ the Knowledge Distillation (KD) idea for efficient HD map construction for the first time and introduce a novel KD-based approach called MapDistill to transfer knowledge from a high-performance camera-LiDAR fusion model to a lightweight camera-only model. Specifically, we adopt the teacher-student architecture, i.e., a camera-LiDAR fusion model as the teacher and a lightweight camera model as the student, and devise a dual BEV transform module to facilitate cross-modal knowledge distillation while maintaining cost-effective camera-only deployment. Additionally, we present a comprehensive distillation scheme encompassing cross-modal relation distillation, dual-level feature distillation, and map head distillation. This approach alleviates knowledge transfer challenges between modalities, enabling the student model to learn improved feature representations for HD map construction. Experimental results on the challenging nuScenes dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of MapDistill, surpassing existing competitors by over 7.7 mAP or 4.5X speedup.
title MapDistill: Boosting Efficient Camera-based HD Map Construction via Camera-LiDAR Fusion Model Distillation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11682