Achieving excellent generalization on perceiving real traffic scenarios with diversity is the long-term goal for building robust autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we propose to discover potential shortness of certain perception module by analyzing its worst-scenario performance. However, with the benchmark datasets growing huge and tremendous, exhaustive searching for the worst perception scenario (WPS) seems to be time consuming and unnecessary. To address, we present an automatic searching scheme empowered by reinforcement learning. In this case, worst scenario mining is formulated as a discrete search problem. A single layer recurrent neural network with LSTM neurons is employed to predict WPS according to the searching reward, which is optimized by a vanilla policy gradient method. Moreover, to deal with the imbalanced distribution of real traffic scenarios, a KNN-like retrieval is utilized for searching the closest scenario samples. Effective yet efficient, the proposed method has been validated by finding the most challenging scenarios for various vehicle detectors on KITTI, BDD100k and our own benchmark set EVB. Further experiments reveal that detection networks with structural similarity share the similar WPS.
Worst Perception Scenario Search for Autonomous Driving
2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) ; 1702-1707
2020-10-19
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Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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