Summary of Uno: Unsupervised Occupancy Fields For Perception and Forecasting, by Ben Agro et al.
UnO: Unsupervised Occupancy Fields for Perception and Forecasting
by Ben Agro, Quinlan Sykora, Sergio Casas, Thomas Gilles, Raquel Urtasun
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG); 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 This paper presents an unsupervised approach for learning a continuous 4D (spatio-temporal) occupancy field using LiDAR data. The authors propose a lightweight learned renderer for point cloud forecasting and demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on Argoverse 2, nuScenes, and KITTI benchmarks. Additionally, the model is fine-tuned for BEV semantic occupancy forecasting, outperforming fully supervised state-of-the-art methods when labeled data is scarce. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps self-driving cars understand the world better by teaching them to predict where objects will be in the future. Instead of relying on expensive and limited annotations, the researchers use LiDAR data to learn a model that can adapt to new situations. The approach achieves state-of-the-art results in several tasks, including predicting what’s ahead on the road. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Supervised » Unsupervised
