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CNN for Very Fast Ground Segmentation in Velodyne LiDAR Data

VEĽAS Martin, ŠPANĚL Michal, HRADIŠ Michal and HEROUT Adam. CNN for Very Fast Ground Segmentation in Velodyne LiDAR Data. In: IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions. Torres Vedras: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018, pp. 97-103. ISBN 978-1-5386-5221-3. Available from: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8374167
Czech title
Využití konvolučních sítí pro velmi rychlou segmentaci země v datech LiDARu Velodyne
Type
conference paper
Language
english
Authors
URL
Keywords

convolutional neural networks, ground segmentation, Velodyne, LiDAR

Abstract

This paper presents a novel method for ground segmentation in Velodyne point clouds. We propose an encoding of sparse 3D data from the Velodyne sensor suitable for training a convolutional neural network (CNN). This general purpose approach is used for segmentation of the sparse point cloud into ground and non-ground points. The LiDAR data are represented as a multi-channel 2D signal where the horizontal axis corresponds to the rotation angle and the vertical axis represents channels - laser beams. Multiple topologies of relatively shallow CNNs (i.e. 3-5 convolutional layers) are trained and evaluated, using a manually annotated dataset we prepared. The results show significant improvement of performance over the state-of-the-art method by Zhang et al. in terms of speed and also minor improvements in terms of accuracy.

Published
2018
Pages
97-103
Proceedings
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions
Conference
IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions ICARSC, Torres Vedras, PT
ISBN
978-1-5386-5221-3
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Place
Torres Vedras, PT
DOI
UT WoS
000435384800018
EID Scopus
BibTeX
@INPROCEEDINGS{FITPUB11346,
   author = "Martin Ve\'{l}as and Michal \v{S}pan\v{e}l and Michal Hradi\v{s} and Adam Herout",
   title = "CNN for Very Fast Ground Segmentation in Velodyne LiDAR Data",
   pages = "97--103",
   booktitle = "IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions",
   year = 2018,
   location = "Torres Vedras, PT",
   publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers",
   ISBN = "978-1-5386-5221-3",
   doi = "10.1109/ICARSC.2018.8374167",
   language = "english",
   url = "https://www.fit.vut.cz/research/publication/11346"
}
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