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SE-SSD: Self-Ensembling Single-Stage Object Detector From Point Cloud

20 Apr 2021CVPR 2021 1arXiv:2104.09804archive 2025-07-28

Wu Zheng, Weiliang Tang, Li Jiang, Chi-Wing Fu

We present Self-Ensembling Single-Stage object Detector (SE-SSD) for accurate and efficient 3D object detection in outdoor point clouds. Our key focus is on exploiting both soft and hard targets with our formulated constraints to jointly optimize the model, without introducing extra computation in the inference. Specifically, SE-SSD contains a pair of teacher and student SSDs, in which we design an effective IoU-based matching strategy to filter soft targets from the teacher and formulate a consistency loss to align student predictions with them. Also, to maximize the distilled knowledge for ensembling the teacher, we design a new augmentation scheme to produce shape-aware augmented samples to train the student, aiming to encourage it to infer complete object shapes. Lastly, to better exploit hard targets, we design an ODIoU loss to supervise the student with constraints on the predicted box centers and orientations. Our SE-SSD attains top performance compared with all prior published works. Also, it attains top precisions for car detection in the KITTI benchmark (ranked 1st and 2nd on the BEV and 3D leaderboards, respectively) with an ultra-high inference speed. The code is available at https://github.com/Vegeta2020/SE-SSD.

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3D Object DetectionBirds Eye View Object DetectionObjectObject Detectionobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Easy SE-SSD AP 91.49% #3 of 26 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection KITTI Cars Hard SE-SSD AP 77.15% #5 of 25 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Easy SE-SSD AP 95.68% #1 of 9 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Hard SE-SSD AP 86.72% #2 of 8 Archive leaderboard report
Birds Eye View Object Detection KITTI Cars Moderate SE-SSD AP 91.84% #1 of 9 Archive leaderboard report

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