PaperReading

RAR-Net: Reinforced Axial Refinement Network for Monocular 3D Object Detection

August 2020

tl;dr: Use deep reinforcement learning to refine mono3D results.

Overall impression

The proposed RAR-Net is a plug-and-play refinement module and can be used with any mono3D pipeline. This paper comes from the same authors as FQNet. Instead of passively scoring densely generated 3D proposals, RAR-Net uses an DRL agent to actively refine the coarse prediction. Similarly, shift RCNN actively learns to regress the differene.

RAR-Net encodes the 3D results as a 2D rendering with color coding. The idea is very similar to that of FQNet which encodes the 2D projection of 3D bbox as a wireframe and directly rendered on top of the input patch. This is the “direct projection” baseline in RAR-Net. Instead, RAR-Net uses a parameter aware data enhancement. and encodes semantic meaning of the surfaces as well (each surface of the box is painted in a specific color).

The idea of training a DRL agent to do object detection or refinement is not new. It is very similar to the idea of Active Object Localization with Deep Reinforcement Learning ICCV 2015.

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