HiLO: High-Level Object Fusion for Autonomous Driving using Transformers

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Autori principali: Osterburg, Timo, Albers, Franz, Diehl, Christopher, Pushparaj, Rajesh, Bertram, Torsten
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Osterburg, Timo
Albers, Franz
Diehl, Christopher
Pushparaj, Rajesh
Bertram, Torsten
author_facet Osterburg, Timo
Albers, Franz
Diehl, Christopher
Pushparaj, Rajesh
Bertram, Torsten
contents The fusion of sensor data is essential for a robust perception of the environment in autonomous driving. Learning-based fusion approaches mainly use feature-level fusion to achieve high performance, but their complexity and hardware requirements limit their applicability in near-production vehicles. High-level fusion methods offer robustness with lower computational requirements. Traditional methods, such as the Kalman filter, dominate this area. This paper modifies the Adapted Kalman Filter (AKF) and proposes a novel transformer-based high-level object fusion method called HiLO. Experimental results demonstrate improvements of $25.9$ percentage points in $\textrm{F}_1$ score and $6.1$ percentage points in mean IoU. Evaluation on a new large-scale real-world dataset demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. Their generalizability is further validated by cross-domain evaluation between urban and highway scenarios. Code, data, and models are available at https://github.com/rst-tu-dortmund/HiLO .
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spellingShingle HiLO: High-Level Object Fusion for Autonomous Driving using Transformers
Osterburg, Timo
Albers, Franz
Diehl, Christopher
Pushparaj, Rajesh
Bertram, Torsten
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
The fusion of sensor data is essential for a robust perception of the environment in autonomous driving. Learning-based fusion approaches mainly use feature-level fusion to achieve high performance, but their complexity and hardware requirements limit their applicability in near-production vehicles. High-level fusion methods offer robustness with lower computational requirements. Traditional methods, such as the Kalman filter, dominate this area. This paper modifies the Adapted Kalman Filter (AKF) and proposes a novel transformer-based high-level object fusion method called HiLO. Experimental results demonstrate improvements of $25.9$ percentage points in $\textrm{F}_1$ score and $6.1$ percentage points in mean IoU. Evaluation on a new large-scale real-world dataset demonstrates the effectiveness of the proposed approaches. Their generalizability is further validated by cross-domain evaluation between urban and highway scenarios. Code, data, and models are available at https://github.com/rst-tu-dortmund/HiLO .
title HiLO: High-Level Object Fusion for Autonomous Driving using Transformers
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02554