In plain words: From ordinary camera video, it estimates each vehicle's full 3D box and keeps its identity over time, matching by depth order and using predicted motion to re-find cars hidden behind others. On Argoverse, it tracked 3D vehicles within 30 meters better than laser-based systems.
Abstract
Vehicle 3D extents and trajectories are critical cues for predicting the future location of vehicles and planning future agent ego-motion based on those predictions. In this paper, we propose a novel online framework for 3D vehicle detection and tracking from monocular videos. The framework can not only associate detections of vehicles in motion over time, but also estimate their complete 3D bounding box information from a sequence of 2D images captured on a moving platform. Our method leverages 3D box depth-ordering matching for robust instance association and utilizes 3D trajectory prediction for re-identification of occluded vehicles. We also design a motion learning module based on an LSTM for more accurate long-term motion extrapolation. Our experiments on simulation, KITTI, and Argoverse datasets show that our 3D tracking pipeline offers robust data association and tracking. On Argoverse, our image-based method is significantly better for tracking 3D vehicles within 30 meters than the LiDAR-centric baseline methods.
Hou-Ning Hu, Qi-Zhi Cai, Dequan Wang, Ji Lin, Min Sun, Philipp Krähenbühl, Trevor Darrell, Fisher Yu
arXiv:1811.10742 · cs.CV · submitted Nov 26, 2018 · updated Sep 12, 2019
abstract · pdf · html · 18 pages, 12 figures. Add supplementary material. Accepted by ICCV 2019. Website: https://eborboihuc.github.io/Mono-3DT Code: https://github.com/ucbdrive/3d-vehicle-tracking Video: https://youtu.be/EJAtOCKI31g