The bird's eye view benchmark consists of 7481 training images and 7518 test images as well as the corresponding point clouds, comprising a total of 80.256 labeled objects. For evaluation, we compute precision-recall curves. To rank the methods we compute average precision. We require that all methods use the same parameter set for all test pairs. Our development kit provides details about the data format as well as MATLAB / C++ utility functions for reading and writing the label files.
We thank David Stutz and Bo Li for developing the 3D object detection benchmark.
We evaluate bird's eye view detection performance using the PASCAL criteria also used for 2D object detection. Far objects are thus filtered based on their bounding box height in the image plane. As only objects also appearing on the image plane are labeled, objects in don't car areas do not count as false positives. We note that the evaluation does not take care of ignoring detections that are not visible on the image plane — these detections might give rise to false positives. For cars we require a bounding box overlap of 70% in bird's eye view, while for pedestrians and cyclists we require an overlap of 50%. Difficulties are defined as follows:
Hard: Min. bounding box height: 25 Px, Max. occlusion level: Difficult to see, Max. truncation: 50 %
All methods are ranked based on the moderately difficult results.
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Additional information used by the methods
Stereo: Method uses left and right (stereo) images
When using this dataset in your research, we will be happy if you cite us:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Geiger2012CVPR,
author = {Andreas Geiger and Philip Lenz and Raquel Urtasun},
title = {Are we ready for Autonomous Driving? The KITTI Vision Benchmark Suite}, booktitle = {Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
year = {2012}
}
Stereo: Method uses left and right (stereo) images
Flow: Method uses optical flow (2 temporally adjacent images)
Multiview: Method uses more than 2 temporally adjacent images
Laser Points: Method uses point clouds from Velodyne laser scanner
Additional training data: Use of additional data sources for training (see details)