Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI. / Radar imaging This information is used to extract only the part of the radar spectrum that corresponds to the object to be classified, which is fed to the neural network (NN). Moreover, it boosts the two-wheeler and pedestrian test accuracy with an absolute increase of 77%65%=12% and 87.4%80.4%=7%, respectively. Here, we focus on the classification task and not on the association problem itself, i.e.the assignment of different reflections to one object. A novel Range-Azimuth-Doppler based multi-class object detection deep learning model that achieves state-of-the-art performance in the object detection task from radar data is proposed and extensively evaluated against the well-known image-based object detection counterparts. Fully connected (FC): number of neurons. Vol. Then, the ROI is converted to dB, clipped to the dynamic range of the sensor, and finally scaled to [0,1]. Deep learning (DL) has recently attracted increasing interest to improve object type classification for automotive radar.In addition to high accuracy, it is crucial for decision making in autonomous vehicles to evaluate the reliability of the predictions; however, decisions of DL networks are non-transparent. As a side effect, many surfaces act like mirrors at . output severely over-confident predictions, leading downstream decision-making Here, we chose to run an evolutionary algorithm, . 4 (a) and (c)), we can make the following observations. A millimeter-wave radar classification method based on deep learning is proposed, which uses the ability of convolutional neural networks (CNN) method to automatically extract feature data, so as to replace most of the complex processes of traditional radar signal processing chain. The different versions of the original document can be found in: Volume 2019, 2019DOI: 10.1109/radar.2019.8835775Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license. Unfortunately, DL classifiers are characterized as black-box systems which light-weight deep learning approach on reflection level radar data. networks through neuroevolution,, I.Y. Kim and O.L. DeWeck, Adaptive weighted-sum method for bi-objective They can also be used to evaluate the automatic emergency braking function. Scene understanding for automated driving requires accurate detection and classification of objects and other traffic participants. In this article, we exploit Automotive radar has shown great potential as a sensor for driver assistance systems due to its robustness to weather and light conditions, but reliable classification of object types in real time has proved to be very challenging. classifier architecture search, in, R.Q. Charles, H.Su, M.Kaichun, and L.J. Guibas, Pointnet: Deep We also evaluate DeepHybrid against a classifier implementing the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) vote, , in order to establish a baseline with respect to machine learning methods. For each object, a sparse region of interest (ROI) is extracted from the range-Doppler spectrum, which is used as input to the NN classifier. The proposed method can be used for example Audio Supervision. This paper copes with the clustering of all these reflections into appropriate groups in order to exploit the advantages of multidimensional object size estimation and object classification. For each reflection, the azimuth angle is computed using an angle estimation algorithm. This robustness is achieved by a substantially larger wavelength compared to light-based sensors such as cameras or lidars. distance should be used for measurement-to-track association, in, T.Elsken, J.H. Metzen, and F.Hutter, Neural architecture search: A Thus, we achieve a similar data distribution in the 3 sets. input to a neural network (NN) that classifies different types of stationary The proposed approach automatically captures the intricate properties of the radar returns in order to minimize false alarms and fuse information from both the time-frequency and range domains. ensembles,, IEEE Transactions on This paper proposes a multi-input classifier based on convolutional neural network (CNN) to reduce the amount of computation and improve the classification performance using the frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. 4 (c), achieves 61.4% mean test accuracy, with a significant variance of 10%. We consider 8 different types of parked cars, moving pedestrian dummies, moving bicycle dummies, and several metallic objects that lie on the ground and are small enough to be run over, see Fig. The range-azimuth information on the radar reflection level is used to extract a sparse region of interest from the range-Doppler spectrum. The capability of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) combined with three types of data augmentation operations in SAR target recognition is investigated, showing that it is a practical approach for target recognition in challenging conditions of target translation, random speckle noise, and missing pose. We propose to apply deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) directly to regions-of-interest (ROI) in the radar spectrum and thereby achieve an accurate classification of different objects in a scene. radar cross-section, and improves the classification performance compared to models using only spectra. The objects are grouped in 4 classes, namely car, pedestrian, two-wheeler, and overridable. signal corruptions, regardless of the correctness of the predictions. The ROI is centered around the maximum peak of the associated reflections and clipped to 3232 bins, which usually includes all associated patches. [Online]. The focus of this article is to learn deep radar spectra classifiers which offer robust real-time uncertainty estimates using label smoothing during training. This enables the classification of moving and stationary objects. 5) by attaching the reflection branch to it, see Fig. classification of road users, in, R.Prophet, M.Hoffmann, M.Vossiek, C.Sturm, A.Ossowska, Deep learning (DL) has recently attracted increasing interest to improve object type classification for automotive radar. 5 (b) shows the Pareto front of mean accuracy vs. number of MACs, where the architecture marked with the red dot is the same as in Fig. In conclusion, the RCS input yields an absolute improvement of 5.7% in test performance at a cost of only about 2% more parameters. features. 0 share Object type classification for automotive radar has greatly improved with recent deep learning (DL) solutions, however these developments have mostly focused on the classification accuracy. Compared to these related works, our method is characterized by the following aspects: This article exploits radar-specific know-how to define soft labels which encourage the classifiers to learn to output high-quality calibrated uncertainty estimates, thereby partially resolving the problem of over-confidence. To overcome this imbalance, the loss function is weighted during training with class weights that are inversely proportional to the class occurrence in the training set. Our results demonstrate that Deep Learning methods can greatly augment the classification capabilities of automotive radar sensors. 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). high-performant methods with convolutional neural networks. We find that deep radar classifiers maintain high-confidences for ambiguous, difficult samples, e.g. the gap between low-performant methods of handcrafted features and An novel object type classification method for automotive applications which uses deep learning with radar reflections, which fills the gap between low-performant methods of handcrafted features and high-performsant methods with convolutional neural networks. Deploying the NAS algorithm yields a NN with similar accuracy, but with 7 times less parameters, depicted within the found by NAS box in (c). Our results demonstrate that Deep Learning methods can greatly augment the classification capabilities of automotive radar sensors. Reliable object classification using automotive radar sensors has proved to be challenging. This paper presents an novel object type classification method for automotive proposed network outperforms existing methods of handcrafted or learned Object type classification for automotive radar has greatly improved with recent deep learning (DL) solutions, however these developments have mostly focused on the classification accuracy. target classification, in, K.Patel, K.Rambach, T.Visentin, D.Rusev, M.Pfeiffer, and B.Yang, Deep range-azimuth information on the radar reflection level is used to extract a In the following we describe the measurement acquisition process and the data preprocessing. The confusion matrices of DeepHybrid introduced in III-B and the spectrum branch model presented in III-A2 are shown in Fig. The approach accomplishes the detection of the changed and unchanged areas by, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). 1) We combine signal processing techniques with DL algorithms. Our investigations show how simple radar knowledge can easily be combined with complex data-driven learning algorithms to yield safe automotive radar perception. 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. An ablation study analyzes the impact of the proposed global context Typically, camera, lidar, and radar sensors are used in automotive applications to gather information about the surrounding environment. P.Cunningham and S.J. Delany, k-nearest neighbour classifiers,, DeepReflecs: Deep Learning for Automotive Object Classification with Label This manual process optimized only for the mean validation accuracy, and there was no constraint on the number of parameters this NN can have. The range-azimuth information on the radar reflection level is used to extract a sparse region of interest from the range-Doppler spectrum. The RCS input is processed by two convolutional layers with a 11, kernel, each followed by a rectified linear unit (ReLU) function. models using only spectra. participants accurately. We present a hybrid model (DeepHybrid) that receives both radar spectra and reflection attributes as inputs, e.g. However, this process can be time consuming, especially when the NN should be applied to a novel domain (e.g.new dataset for which there is no or little prior experience on which type of NN could work). The IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, This paper presents a novel change detection approach for synthetic aperture radar images based on deep learning. We propose to apply deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) directly to regions-of-interest (ROI) in the radar spectrum and thereby achieve an accurate classification of different objects in a scene. The proposed After that, we attach to the automatically-found CNN a sequence of layers that process reflection-level input information (reflection branch), obtaining thus the hybrid model we propose. Before employing DL solutions in 5 (a) and (b) show only the tradeoffs between 2 objectives. Experiments on a real-world dataset demonstrate the ability to distinguish relevant objects from different viewpoints. This paper presents an novel object type classification method for automotive applications which uses deep learning with radar reflections. 5 (a), the mean validation accuracy and the number of parameters were computed. We propose a method that combines N.Scheiner, N.Appenrodt, J.Dickmann, and B.Sick, Radar-based road user In contrast to these works, data-driven DL approaches learn a rich representation in an end-to-end training, such that no additional feature extraction is necessary. The figure depicts 2 of the detected targets in the field-of-view, By clicking accept or continuing to use the site, you agree to the terms outlined in our, Deep Learning-based Object Classification on Automotive Radar Spectra. In, the range-Doppler spectrum is computed for multiple cycles, and a combination of a CNN and Long-Short-Term-Memory (LSTM) neural network is used for a 2-class classification problem. We identify deep learning challenges that are specific to radar classification and introduce a set of novel mechanisms that lead to significant improvements in object classification performance compared to simpler classifiers. (or is it just me), Smithsonian Privacy Therefore, the observed micro-Doppler effect is limited compared to a longitudinally moving pedestrian, which makes it harder to classify the laterally moving dummies correctly [7]. Related approaches for object classification can be grouped based on the type of radar input data used. The paper illustrates that neural architecture search (NAS) algorithms can be used to automatically search for such a NN for radar data. Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence,Germany. Experiments show that this improves the classification performance compared to This work designs, train and evaluates three different networks and analyzes the effects of different nuances in processing complex-valued 3D range-beam-doppler tensors outputted by an automotive radar to solve the task of automotive traffic scene classification using a deep learning approach on low-level radar data. This is used as input to a neural network (NN) that classifies different types of stationary and moving objects. The splitting strategy ensures that the proportions of traffic scenarios are approximately the same in each set. 5) NAS is used to automatically find a high-performing and resource-efficient NN. Fig. The obtained measurements are then processed and prepared for the DL algorithm. 2019, 110 URL https://www.scipedia.com/public/Visentin_et_al_2019a, Collection of open conferences in research transport, http://publica.fraunhofer.de/documents/N-589549.html, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=8835775, http://xplorestaging.ieee.org/ielx7/8819608/8835488/08835775.pdf?arnumber=8835775, https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2974922121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/radar.2019.8835775. Manually finding a resource-efficient and high-performing NN can be very time consuming. 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. [16] and [17] for a related modulation. automotive radar sensor, in, H.Rohling, S.Heuel, and H.Ritter, Pedestrian detection procedure 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring). Here we propose a novel concept for radar-based classification, which utilizes the power of modern Deep Learning methods to learn favorable data representations and thereby replaces large parts of the traditional radar signal processing chain. Unfortunately, there do not exist other DL baselines on radar spectra for this dataset. This work demonstrates a possible solution: 1) A data preprocessing stage extracts sparse regions of interest (ROIs) from the radar spectra based on the detected and associated radar reflections. prerequisite is the accurate quantification of the classifiers' reliability. Illustration of the complete range-azimuth spectrum of the scene and extracted example regions-of-interest (ROI) on the right of the figure. real-time uncertainty estimates using label smoothing during training. parti Annotating automotive radar data is a difficult task. To improve classification accuracy, a hybrid DL model (DeepHybrid) is proposed, which processes radar reflection attributes and spectra jointly. A deep neural network approach that parses wireless signals in the WiFi frequencies to estimate 2D poses through walls despite never trained on such scenarios, and shows that it is almost as accurate as the vision-based system used to train it. Automotive radar has shown great potential as a sensor for driver assistance systems due to its robustness to weather and light conditions, but reliable classification of object types in real time has proved to be very challenging. D.P. Kingma and J.Ba, Adam: A method for stochastic optimization, 2017. Illustration of the complete range-azimuth spectrum of the scene and extracted example regions-of-interest (ROI) on the right of the figure. We propose to apply deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) directly to regions-of-interest (ROI) in the radar spectrum and thereby achieve an accurate classification of different objects in a scene. network exploits the specific characteristics of radar reflection data: It Therefore, the NN marked with the red dot is not optimal w.r.t.the number of MACs. Automated Neural Network Architecture Search, Radar-based Road User Classification and Novelty Detection with 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). In this way, the NN has to classify the objects only, and does not have to learn the radar detection as well. Therefore, comparing the manually-found NN with the NAS results is like comparing it to a lot of baselines at once. View 3 excerpts, cites methods and background. Note that the red dot is not located exactly on the Pareto front. In experiments with real data the We build a hybrid model on top of the automatically-found NN (red dot in Fig. radar, in, Y.LeCun, Y.Bengio, and G.Hinton, Deep learning,, O.Schumann, M.Hahn, J.Dickmann, and C.Wohler, Semantic segmentation on applications which uses deep learning with radar reflections. The RCS is computed by taking the signal strength of the detected reflection and correcting it by the range-dependent dampening and the two-way antenna gain in the azimuth direction. We propose to apply deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) directly to regions-of-interest (ROI) in the radar spectrum and thereby achieve an accurate classification of different objects in a scene. This results in a reflection list, where each reflection has several attributes, including the range r, relative radial velocity v, azimuth angle , and radar cross-section (RCS). The reflection branch was attached to this NN, obtaining the DeepHybrid model. small objects measured at large distances, under domain shift and signal corruptions, regardless of the correctness of the predictions. to improve automatic emergency braking or collision avoidance systems. available in classification datasets. 2015 16th International Radar Symposium (IRS). Scene understanding for automated driving requires accurate detection and classification of objects and other traffic participants. A confusion matrix shows both the per class accuracies (e.g.how well the model predicts a car sample as a car) and the confusions (e.g.how often the model says a car sample is a pedestrian). Manually finding a high-performing NN architecture that is also resource-efficient w.r.t.an embedded device is tedious, especially for a new type of dataset. Experiments on a real-world dataset demonstrate the ability to distinguish relevant objects from different viewpoints. This letter presents a novel radar based, single-frame, multi-class detection method for moving road users (pedestrian, cyclist, car), which utilizes low-level radar cube data and demonstrates that the method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both target- and object-wise. Here we propose a novel concept for radar-based classification, which utilizes the power of modern Deep Learning methods to learn favorable data representations and thereby replaces large parts of the traditional radar signal processing chain. Convolutional long short-term memory networks for doppler-radar based / Automotive engineering 3. sparse region of interest from the range-Doppler spectrum. This letter presents a novel radar based, single-frame, multi-class detection method for moving road users (pedestrian, cyclist, car), which utilizes low-level radar cube data and demonstrates that the method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods both target- and object-wise. Fig. for Object Classification, Automated Ground Truth Estimation of Vulnerable Road Users in Automotive On the other hand, if there is a small object that can be run over, e.g.a can of coke, the ego-vehicle should classify it correctly and just ignore it. The numbers in round parentheses denote the output shape of the layer. However, a long integration time is needed to generate the occupancy grid. focused on the classification accuracy. Deep Learning-based Object Classification on Automotive Radar Spectra (2019) | Kanil Patel | 42 Citations Scene understanding for automated driving requires accurate detection and classification of objects and other traffic participants. Moreover, hardware metrics can be included in the search, e.g.the amount of memory or the number of operations, allowing architectures to be searched and optimized w.r.t.hardware considerations. Deep learning that deep radar classifiers maintain high-confidences for ambiguous, difficult It uses a chirp sequence-like modulation, with the difference that not all chirps are equal. survey,, E.Real, A.Aggarwal, Y.Huang, and Q.V. Le, Aging evolution for image How to best combine radar signal processing and DL methods to classify objects is still an open question. Reliable object classification using automotive radar The trained models are evaluated on the test set and the confusion matrices are computed. optimization: Pareto front generation,, K.Deb, A.Pratap, S.Agarwal, and T.Meyarivan, A fast and elitist This type of input can be interpreted as point cloud data [28], therefore the design of this branch is inspired by [28]. The following mutations to an architecture are allowed during the search: adding or removing convolutional (Conv) layers, adding or removing max-pooling layers, and changing the kernel size, stride, or the number of filters of a Conv layer. The mean test accuracy is computed by averaging the values on the confusion matrix main diagonal. Object type classification for automotive radar has greatly improved with recent deep learning (DL) solutions, however these developments have mostly focused on the classification accuracy. In addition to high accuracy, it is crucial for decision making in autonomous vehicles to evaluate the reliability of the predictions; however, decisions of DL networks are non-transparent. We report validation performance, since the validation set is used to guide the design process of the NN. Current DL research has investigated how uncertainties of predictions can be . The proposed approach automatically captures the intricate properties of the radar returns in order to minimize false alarms and fuse information from both the time-frequency and range domains. This study demonstrates the potential of radar-based object recognition using deep learning methods and shows the importance of semantic representation of the environment in enabling autonomous driving. M.Kronauge and H.Rohling, New chirp sequence radar waveform,. Such a model has 900 parameters. We record real measurements on a test track, where the ego-vehicle with a front-mounted radar sensor approaches various objects, each one multiple times, and brakes just before it hits the object. II-D), the object tracks are labeled with the corresponding class. sensors has proved to be challenging. Up to now, it is not clear how to best combine classical radar signal processing approaches with Deep Learning (DL) algorithms. 2) A neural network (NN) uses the ROIs as input for classification. The authors of [6, 7] take the radar spectrum into account to compute additional features for the classification, and [8] uses feature extractors known from vision to apply them on the radar spectrum. The metallic objects are a coke can, corner reflectors, and different metal sections that are short enough to fit between the wheels. Future investigations will be extended by considering more complex real world datasets and including other reflection attributes in the NNs input. Patent, 2018. Automated vehicles need to detect and classify objects and traffic participants accurately. Mentioning: 3 - Radar sensors are an important part of driver assistance systems and intelligent vehicles due to their robustness against all kinds of adverse conditions, e.g., fog, snow, rain, or even direct sunlight. Additionally, it is complicated to include moving targets in such a grid. The plot shows that NAS finds architectures with almost one order of magnitude less MACs and similar performance to the manually-designed NN. We call this model DeepHybrid. 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring). classifier architecture search, in, K.O. Stanley, J.Clune, J.Lehman, and R.Miikkulainen, Designing neural Automotive radar has shown great potential as a sensor for driver assistance systems due to its robustness to weather and light conditions, but reliable classification of object types in real time has proved to be very challenging. We use a combination of the non-dominant sorting genetic algorithm II. A hybrid model (DeepHybrid) is presented that receives both radar spectra and reflection attributes as inputs, e.g. The approach, named SSD, discretizes the output space of bounding boxes into a set of default boxes over different aspect ratios and scales per feature map location, which makes SSD easy to train and straightforward to integrate into systems that require a detection component. The measurement scenarios should cover typical road traffic situations, as described by Euro NCAP, for more details see [18, 19]. 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