Towards Efficient Roadside LiDAR Deployment: A Fast Surrogate Metric Based on Entropy-Guided Visibility
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| author | Jiang, Yuze Javanmardi, Ehsan Tsukada, Manabu Esaki, Hiroshi |
| author_facet | Jiang, Yuze Javanmardi, Ehsan Tsukada, Manabu Esaki, Hiroshi |
| contents | The deployment of roadside LiDAR sensors plays a crucial role in the development of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). However, the high cost of LiDAR sensors necessitates efficient placement strategies to maximize detection performance. Traditional roadside LiDAR deployment methods rely on expert insight, making them time-consuming. Automating this process, however, demands extensive computation, as it requires not only visibility evaluation but also assessing detection performance across different LiDAR placements. To address this challenge, we propose a fast surrogate metric, the Entropy-Guided Visibility Score (EGVS), based on information gain to evaluate object detection performance in roadside LiDAR configurations. EGVS leverages Traffic Probabilistic Occupancy Grids (TPOG) to prioritize critical areas and employs entropy-based calculations to quantify the information captured by LiDAR beams. This eliminates the need for direct detection performance evaluation, which typically requires extensive labeling and computational resources. By integrating EGVS into the optimization process, we significantly accelerate the search for optimal LiDAR configurations. Experimental results using the AWSIM simulator demonstrate that EGVS strongly correlates with Average Precision (AP) scores and effectively predicts object detection performance. This approach offers a computationally efficient solution for roadside LiDAR deployment, facilitating scalable smart infrastructure development. |
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| spellingShingle | Towards Efficient Roadside LiDAR Deployment: A Fast Surrogate Metric Based on Entropy-Guided Visibility Jiang, Yuze Javanmardi, Ehsan Tsukada, Manabu Esaki, Hiroshi Robotics The deployment of roadside LiDAR sensors plays a crucial role in the development of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS). However, the high cost of LiDAR sensors necessitates efficient placement strategies to maximize detection performance. Traditional roadside LiDAR deployment methods rely on expert insight, making them time-consuming. Automating this process, however, demands extensive computation, as it requires not only visibility evaluation but also assessing detection performance across different LiDAR placements. To address this challenge, we propose a fast surrogate metric, the Entropy-Guided Visibility Score (EGVS), based on information gain to evaluate object detection performance in roadside LiDAR configurations. EGVS leverages Traffic Probabilistic Occupancy Grids (TPOG) to prioritize critical areas and employs entropy-based calculations to quantify the information captured by LiDAR beams. This eliminates the need for direct detection performance evaluation, which typically requires extensive labeling and computational resources. By integrating EGVS into the optimization process, we significantly accelerate the search for optimal LiDAR configurations. Experimental results using the AWSIM simulator demonstrate that EGVS strongly correlates with Average Precision (AP) scores and effectively predicts object detection performance. This approach offers a computationally efficient solution for roadside LiDAR deployment, facilitating scalable smart infrastructure development. |
| title | Towards Efficient Roadside LiDAR Deployment: A Fast Surrogate Metric Based on Entropy-Guided Visibility |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06772 |