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BAEFormer: Bi-Directional and Early Interaction Transformers for Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation

1 Jan 2023CVPR 2023 1archive 2025-07-28

Cong Pan, Yonghao He, Junran Peng, Qian Zhang, Wei Sui, Zhaoxiang Zhang

Bird's Eye View (BEV) semantic segmentation is a critical task in autonomous driving. However, existing Transformer-based methods confront difficulties in transforming Perspective View (PV) to BEV due to their unidirectional and posterior interaction mechanisms. To address this issue, we propose a novel Bi-directional and Early Interaction Transformers framework named BAEFormer, consisting of (i) an early-interaction PV-BEV pipeline and (ii) a bi-directional cross-attention mechanism. Moreover, we find that the image feature maps' resolution in the cross-attention module has a limited effect on the final performance. Under this critical observation, we propose to enlarge the size of input images and downsample the multi-view image features for cross-interaction, further improving the accuracy while keeping the amount of computation controllable. Our proposed method for BEV semantic segmentation achieves state-of-the-art performance in real-time inference speed on the nuScenes dataset, i.e., 38.9 mIoU at 45 FPS on a single A100 GPU.

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Autonomous DrivingBird's-Eye View Semantic SegmentationSegmentationSemantic Segmentation

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Bird's-Eye View Semantic Segmentation nuScenes BAEFormer IoU veh - 224x480 - No vis filter - 100x100 at 0.5 36 #6 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Bird's-Eye View Semantic Segmentation nuScenes BAEFormer IoU veh - 224x480 - Vis filter. - 100x100 at 0.5 38.9 #6 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Bird's-Eye View Semantic Segmentation nuScenes BAEFormer IoU veh - 448x800 - No vis filter - 100x100 at 0.5 37.8 #6 of 17 Archive leaderboard report
Bird's-Eye View Semantic Segmentation nuScenes BAEFormer IoU veh - 448x800 - Vis filter. - 100x100 at 0.5 41.0 #6 of 17 Archive leaderboard report

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Concatenated Skip ConnectionSPEEDSoftmax

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