Summary of Toward Physics-aware Deep Learning Architectures For Lidar Intensity Simulation, by Vivek Anand et al.
Toward Physics-Aware Deep Learning Architectures for LiDAR Intensity Simulation
by Vivek Anand, Bharat Lohani, Gaurav Pandey, Rakesh Mishra
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
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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 method aims to improve LiDAR intensity simulation in autonomous vehicles (AVs) by incorporating physics-based modalities within a deep learning framework. The addition of LiDAR incidence angle as a separate input to deep neural networks significantly enhances results. A comparative study between U-NET and Pix2Pix architectures, using SemanticKITTI and VoxelScape datasets, reveals that both benefit from incidence angle input. Pix2Pix outperforms U-NET, especially when incorporating incidence angle. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Researchers are working on making self-driving cars better by improving how they see the world. They’re using a special kind of sensor called LiDAR to understand their surroundings. One important part of this is simulating the intensity of the light that bounces back from objects, like how bright or dim it is. This helps self-driving cars make good decisions. The new method proposed in this paper makes this simulation more accurate by using physical laws and deep learning techniques together. It also shows that including the angle at which the light hits an object helps a lot. This can help self-driving cars navigate better. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning
