The camera is the cheapest and computationally real-time option for detecting or segmenting the environment for an autonomous vehicle, but it does not provide the depth information and is undoubtedly not reliable during the night, bad weather, and tunnel flash outs. The risk of an accident gets higher for autonomous cars when driven by a camera in such situations. The industry has been relying on LiDAR for the past decade to solve this problem and focus on depth information of the environment, but LiDAR also has its shortcoming. The industry methods commonly use projections methods to create a projection image and run detection and localization network for inference, but LiDAR sees obscurants in bad weather and is sensitive enough to detect snow, making it difficult for robustness in projection based methods. We propose a novel pointwise and Instance segmentation deep learning architecture for the point clouds focused on self-driving application. The model is only dependent on LiDAR data making it light invariant and overcoming the shortcoming of the camera in the perception stack. The pipeline takes advantage of both global and local/edge features of points in points clouds to generate high-level feature. We also propose Pointer-Capsnet which is an extension of CapsNet for small 3D point clouds.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:wpi.edu/oai:digitalcommons.wpi.edu:etd-theses-2289 |
| Date | 11 April 2019 |
| Creators | Gujar, Sanket |
| Contributors | Michael Gennert, Advisor, Berk Calli, Reader, Jacob Whitehill |
| Publisher | Digital WPI |
| Source Sets | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Masters Theses (All Theses, All Years) |
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