Summary of Letsmap: Unsupervised Representation Learning For Semantic Bev Mapping, by Nikhil Gosala et al.
LetsMap: Unsupervised Representation Learning for Semantic BEV Mapping
by Nikhil Gosala, Kürsat Petek, B Ravi Kiran, Senthil Yogamani, Paulo Drews-Jr, Wolfram Burgard, Abhinav Valada
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed unsupervised representation learning approach generates semantic Bird’s Eye View (BEV) maps from monocular frontal view (FV) images in a label-efficient manner. The network is pre-trained to independently reason about scene geometry and semantics using two disjoint neural pathways, then finetuned for BEV mapping with only 1% of labels. The method uses spatial and temporal consistency of FV images to learn scene geometry and a novel temporal masked autoencoder formulation to encode the scene representation. It achieves state-of-the-art performance on KITTI-360 and nuScenes datasets while reducing labeled data requirements. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps create better maps for self-driving cars by learning without human supervision. Instead of using lots of labeled map data, it uses the patterns found in video images to learn about scene geometry and what’s happening in the scene. The network is then fine-tuned for creating bird’s eye view maps with just a small amount of labeled training data. This makes it easier and more efficient to create these important maps. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Autoencoder » Representation learning » Semantics » Unsupervised
