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BEVDepth: Acquisition of Reliable Depth for Multi-view 3D Object Detection

21 Jun 2022arXiv:2206.10092archive 2025-07-28

Yinhao Li, Zheng Ge, Guanyi Yu, Jinrong Yang, Zengran Wang, Yukang Shi, Jianjian Sun, Zeming Li

In this research, we propose a new 3D object detector with a trustworthy depth estimation, dubbed BEVDepth, for camera-based Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) 3D object detection. Our work is based on a key observation -- depth estimation in recent approaches is surprisingly inadequate given the fact that depth is essential to camera 3D detection. Our BEVDepth resolves this by leveraging explicit depth supervision. A camera-awareness depth estimation module is also introduced to facilitate the depth predicting capability. Besides, we design a novel Depth Refinement Module to counter the side effects carried by imprecise feature unprojection. Aided by customized Efficient Voxel Pooling and multi-frame mechanism, BEVDepth achieves the new state-of-the-art 60.9% NDS on the challenging nuScenes test set while maintaining high efficiency. For the first time, the NDS score of a camera model reaches 60%.

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3D Object DetectionDepth EstimationObject DetectionRobust Camera Only 3D Object Detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVDepth AP|R40(easy) 75.7 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVDepth AP|R40(hard) 63.7 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVDepth AP|R40(moderate) 63.6 #4 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection Rope3D BEVDepth AP@0.7 42.56 #4 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes Camera Only BEVDepth-pure Future Frame false #13 of 19 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes Camera Only BEVDepth-pure NDS 60.9 #13 of 19 Archive leaderboard report

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