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Multi-View 3D Object Detection Network for Autonomous Driving

Mar 2019

tl;dr: sensor fusion framework to take in lidar point cloud and RGB images as input and predict oriented 3D bboxes. The 3D point cloud is encoded to a multi-view (birds eye view and front view) representation.

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The paper is one of the pioneering work to integrate RGB and lidar point cloud data. It sets a good baseline in the task of 3D proposal geenration, 3D detection and 3D localization. Its performance is surpassed by AVOD, F-pointnet, edgeconv, point RCNN etc.

MV3D uses point cloud for 3D proposal generation and uses sensor fusion to refine 3D bbox. AVOD uses fused feature map for proposal generation.

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