Instance stixels: Segmenting and grouping stixels into objects

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Abstract

State-of-the-art stixel methods fuse dense stereo and semantic class information, e.g. from a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), into a compact representation of driveable space, obstacles, and background. However, they do not explicitly differentiate instances within the same class. We investigate several ways to augment single-frame stixels with instance information, which can similarly be extracted by a CNN from the color input. As a result, our novel Instance Stixels method efficiently computes stixels that do account for boundaries of individual objects, and represents individual instances as grouped stixels that express connectivity. Experiments on Cityscapes demonstrate that including instance information into the stixel computation itself, rather than as a post-processing step, increases Instance AP performance with approximately the same number of stixels. Qualitative results confirm that segmentation improves, especially for overlapping objects of the same class. Additional tests with ground truth instead of CNN output show that the approach has potential for even larger gains. Our Instance Stixels software is made freely available for non-commercial research purposes.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings IEEE Symposium Intelligent Vehicles (IV 2019, Paris)
Place of PublicationPiscataway, NJ, USA
PublisherIEEE
Pages2542-2549
ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-0560-4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventIEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2019 - Paris, France
Duration: 9 Jun 201912 Jun 2019

Conference

ConferenceIEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2019
Abbreviated titleIV 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period9/06/1912/06/19

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