PaperReading

Monocular 3D Object Detection: An Extrinsic Parameter Free Approach

August 2021

tl;dr: Regresses the extrinsics and uses feature transfer to compensate.

Overall impression

This approach correctly addresses one drawbacks from existing mono3D dataset which assumes a fixed extrinsics. This is not true in industry applications due to potholed and uneven roads. The paper introduces a method to relax the constraint of assuming a fixed extrinsics.

Personally I am not super confident about the approach to regress extrinsics with horizon and vanishing point. This may work on highways but in crowded urban scenario this may fail miserably.

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