Enhancing 3D Object Detection in Autonomous Vehicles Based on Synthetic Virtual Environment Analysis

作     者：Li, Vladislav Siniosoglou, Ilias Karamitsou, Thomai Lytos, Anastasios Moscholios, Ioannis D. Goudos, Sotirios K. Banerjee, Jyoti S. Sarigiannidis, Panagiotis Argyriou, Vasileios 

作者机构：Kingston University Department of Networks and Digital Media Kingston upon Thames United Kingdom University of Western Macedonia Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Kozani Greece MetaMind Innovations P.C. R"&D Department Kozani Greece Sidroco Holdings Ltd. Nicosia Cyprus University of Peloponnese Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Tripoli Greece Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Physics Department Thessaloniki Greece Bengal Institute of Technology Kolkata India 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2024年

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主　　题：Virtual environments 

摘      要：Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) use natural images and videos as input to understand the real world by overlaying and inferring digital elements, facilitating proactive detection in an effort to assure safety. A crucial aspect of this process is real-time, accurate object recognition through automatic scene analysis. While traditional methods primarily concentrate on 2D object detection, exploring 3D object detection, which involves projecting 3D bounding boxes into the three-dimensional environment, holds significance and can be notably enhanced using the AR ecosystem. This study examines an AI model’s ability to deduce 3D bounding boxes in the context of real-time scene analysis while producing and evaluating the model’s performance and processing time, in the virtual domain, which is then applied to AVs. This work also employs a synthetic dataset that includes artificially generated images mimicking various environmental, lighting, and spatiotemporal states. This evaluation is oriented in handling images featuring objects in diverse weather conditions, captured with varying camera settings. These variations pose more challenging detection and recognition scenarios, which the outcomes of this work can help achieve competitive results under most of the tested conditions. © 2024, CC BY-NC-ND.