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BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-based Roadside 3D Object Detection

15 Mar 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2303.08498archive 2025-07-28

Lei Yang, Kaicheng Yu, Tao Tang, Jun Li, Kun Yuan, Li Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Peng Chen

While most recent autonomous driving system focuses on developing perception methods on ego-vehicle sensors, people tend to overlook an alternative approach to leverage intelligent roadside cameras to extend the perception ability beyond the visual range. We discover that the state-of-the-art vision-centric bird's eye view detection methods have inferior performances on roadside cameras. This is because these methods mainly focus on recovering the depth regarding the camera center, where the depth difference between the car and the ground quickly shrinks while the distance increases. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective approach, dubbed BEVHeight, to address this issue. In essence, instead of predicting the pixel-wise depth, we regress the height to the ground to achieve a distance-agnostic formulation to ease the optimization process of camera-only perception methods. On popular 3D detection benchmarks of roadside cameras, our method surpasses all previous vision-centric methods by a significant margin. The code is available at {\url{https://github.com/ADLab-AutoDrive/BEVHeight}}.

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3D Object DetectionAutonomous DrivingObject Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVHeight AP|R40(easy) 77.8 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVHeight AP|R40(hard) 65.9 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection DAIR-V2X-I BEVHeight AP|R40(moderate) 65.8 #3 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection Rope3D BEVHeight AP@0.7 45.73 #3 of 8 Archive leaderboard report

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