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PIXOR: Real-time 3D Object Detection from Point Clouds

17 Feb 2019CVPR 2018 6arXiv:1902.06326archive 2025-07-28

Bin Yang, Wenjie Luo, Raquel Urtasun

We address the problem of real-time 3D object detection from point clouds in the context of autonomous driving. Computation speed is critical as detection is a necessary component for safety. Existing approaches are, however, expensive in computation due to high dimensionality of point clouds. We utilize the 3D data more efficiently by representing the scene from the Bird's Eye View (BEV), and propose PIXOR, a proposal-free, single-stage detector that outputs oriented 3D object estimates decoded from pixel-wise neural network predictions. The input representation, network architecture, and model optimization are especially designed to balance high accuracy and real-time efficiency. We validate PIXOR on two datasets: the KITTI BEV object detection benchmark, and a large-scale 3D vehicle detection benchmark. In both datasets we show that the proposed detector surpasses other state-of-the-art methods notably in terms of Average Precision (AP), while still runs at >28 FPS.

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3D Object DetectionAutonomous DrivingBirds Eye View Object DetectionModel OptimizationObjectObject Detectionobject-detectionvehicle detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Easy PIXOR AP 81.7% #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Hard PIXOR AP 72.95 #8 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Moderate PIXOR AP 77.05% #9 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Moderate val PIXOR AP 80.75 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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