DeepHybrid: Deep Learning on Automotive Radar Spectra and Reflections for Object Classification

Autor: Cozma, Adriana-Eliza, Morgan, Lisa, Stolz, Martin, Stoeckel, David, Rambach, Kilian
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2021
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC48978.2021.9564526
Popis: Automated vehicles need to detect and classify objects and traffic participants accurately. Reliable object classification using automotive radar sensors has proved to be challenging. We propose a method that combines classical radar signal processing and Deep Learning algorithms. The range-azimuth information on the radar reflection level is used to extract a sparse region of interest from the range-Doppler spectrum. This is used as input to a neural network (NN) that classifies different types of stationary and moving objects. We present a hybrid model (DeepHybrid) that receives both radar spectra and reflection attributes as inputs, e.g. radar cross-section. Experiments show that this improves the classification performance compared to models using only spectra. Moreover, a neural architecture search (NAS) algorithm is applied to find a resource-efficient and high-performing NN. NAS yields an almost one order of magnitude smaller NN than the manually-designed one while preserving the accuracy. The proposed method can be used for example to improve automatic emergency braking or collision avoidance systems.
Databáze: arXiv