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GLENet: Boosting 3D Object Detectors with Generative Label Uncertainty Estimation

6 Jul 2022arXiv:2207.02466archive 2025-07-28

Yifan Zhang, Qijian Zhang, Zhiyu Zhu, Junhui Hou, Yixuan Yuan

The inherent ambiguity in ground-truth annotations of 3D bounding boxes, caused by occlusions, signal missing, or manual annotation errors, can confuse deep 3D object detectors during training, thus deteriorating detection accuracy. However, existing methods overlook such issues to some extent and treat the labels as deterministic. In this paper, we formulate the label uncertainty problem as the diversity of potentially plausible bounding boxes of objects. Then, we propose GLENet, a generative framework adapted from conditional variational autoencoders, to model the one-to-many relationship between a typical 3D object and its potential ground-truth bounding boxes with latent variables. The label uncertainty generated by GLENet is a plug-and-play module and can be conveniently integrated into existing deep 3D detectors to build probabilistic detectors and supervise the learning of the localization uncertainty. Besides, we propose an uncertainty-aware quality estimator architecture in probabilistic detectors to guide the training of the IoU-branch with predicted localization uncertainty. We incorporate the proposed methods into various popular base 3D detectors and demonstrate significant and consistent performance gains on both KITTI and Waymo benchmark datasets. Especially, the proposed GLENet-VR outperforms all published LiDAR-based approaches by a large margin and achieves the top rank among single-modal methods on the challenging KITTI test set. The source code and pre-trained models are publicly available at \url{https://github.com/Eaphan/GLENet}.

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3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Easy GLENet-VR AP 91.67% #2 of 26 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Hard GLENet-VR AP 78.43% #3 of 25 Archive leaderboard report

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