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UniTR: A Unified and Efficient Multi-Modal Transformer for Bird's-Eye-View Representation

15 Aug 2023ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2308.07732archive 2025-07-28

Haiyang Wang, Hao Tang, Shaoshuai Shi, Aoxue Li, Zhenguo Li, Bernt Schiele, LiWei Wang

Jointly processing information from multiple sensors is crucial to achieving accurate and robust perception for reliable autonomous driving systems. However, current 3D perception research follows a modality-specific paradigm, leading to additional computation overheads and inefficient collaboration between different sensor data. In this paper, we present an efficient multi-modal backbone for outdoor 3D perception named UniTR, which processes a variety of modalities with unified modeling and shared parameters. Unlike previous works, UniTR introduces a modality-agnostic transformer encoder to handle these view-discrepant sensor data for parallel modal-wise representation learning and automatic cross-modal interaction without additional fusion steps. More importantly, to make full use of these complementary sensor types, we present a novel multi-modal integration strategy by both considering semantic-abundant 2D perspective and geometry-aware 3D sparse neighborhood relations. UniTR is also a fundamentally task-agnostic backbone that naturally supports different 3D perception tasks. It sets a new state-of-the-art performance on the nuScenes benchmark, achieving +1.1 NDS higher for 3D object detection and +12.0 higher mIoU for BEV map segmentation with lower inference latency. Code will be available at https://github.com/Haiyang-W/UniTR .

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3D Object DetectionAutonomous DrivingObject DetectionRepresentation Learningobject-detection

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR NDS 0.75 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mAAE 0.13 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mAOE 0.26 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mAP 0.71 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mASE 0.23 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mATE 0.24 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report
3D Object Detection nuScenes UniTR mAVE 0.24 #13 of 372 Archive leaderboard report

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