3D road user detection is an essential task for autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, and it plays a key role, for instance, in obstacle avoidance and route planning tasks. Existing solutions for detection require expensive GPU units to run in real-time. This paper presents a light algorithm that runs in real-time without a GPU. The algorithm combines a classical point cloud proposal generator approach with a modern deep learning technique to achieve a small computational requirement and comparable accuracy to the state-of-the-art. Typical downsides of this approach, such as many out-of-distribution proposals and loss of location information, are examined, and solutions are proposed. We have evaluated the performance of the method with the KITTI dataset and with our own annotated dataset collected with a compact mobile robot platform equipped with a low-resolution LiDAR (16-channel). Our approach reaches a real-time inference on a standard CPU, unlike other solutions in the literature. Furthermore, we achieve superior speed on a GPU, which indicates that our method has a high degree of parallelism. Our method enables low-cost mobile robots to detect road users in real-time. ; Peer reviewed


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    Title :

    Out-of-distribution- and location-aware PointNets for real-time 3D road user detection without a GPU



    Publication date :

    2024-03-21


    Remarks:

    001137743700002


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Classification :

    DDC:    629



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