The interest in developing and deploying fully autonomous vehicles on our public roads has come to a full swing. Driverless capabilities, widely spread in modern vehi cles through advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), require highly reliable perception features to navigate the environment, being light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sen sors a key instrument in detecting the distance and speed of nearby obstacles and in providing high-resolution 3D rep resentations of the surroundings in real-time. However, and despite being assumed as a game-changer in the autonomous driving paradigm, LiDAR sensors can be very sensitive to adverse weather conditions, which can severely affect the vehicle’s perception system behavior. Aiming at improving the LiDAR operation in challenging weather conditions, which contributes to achieving higher driving automation levels defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), this article proposes a weather denoising method called Dynamic light-Intensity Outlier Removal (DIOR). DIOR combines two approaches of the state-of-the-art, the dynamic radius outlier removal (DROR) and the low-intensity outlier removal (LIOR) algorithms, supported by an embedded reconfigurable hardware platform. By resorting to field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technology, DIOR can outperform state-of-the-art outlier removal solutions, achieving better accuracy and performance while guaranteeing the real-time requirements. ; This work was supported by the Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) within the Research and Development Units Project Scope under Grant UIDB/00319/2020.
DIOR: a hardware-assisted weather denoising solution for LiDAR Point Clouds
2022-01-01
doi:10.1109/JSEN.2021.3133873
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Electronic Resource
English
inovação e infraestruturas , Noise reduction , ADAS , Science & Technology , Weather denoising , Meteorology , Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica , Laser radar , Indústria , Autonomous vehicles , Three-dimensional displays , Heuristic algorithms , Point cloud filtering , Eletrónica e Informática , LiDAR , Point cloud compression , FPGA , Sensors
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