Curb detection provides road boundary information and is important to road detection.However,curb detection is challenging due to the problems such as various curb shapes,colour,discontinuity.In this work,a novel lear...Curb detection provides road boundary information and is important to road detection.However,curb detection is challenging due to the problems such as various curb shapes,colour,discontinuity.In this work,a novel learning-based method for curb detection is proposed using Lidar point clouds,considering that Lidars are not sensitive to illumination and are relatively stable to weather conditions.A deep neural network,named EdgeNet,is constructed and trained,which handles point clouds in an end-to-end way.After EdgeNet is properly trained,curb points are then segmented in the neural network output.In order to train,a curb point annotation algorithm is also designed to generate training dataset.The curb detection method works well with different road scenarios including intersections.The experimental results validate the effectiveness and robustness of this curb detection method.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.51875331)。
文摘Curb detection provides road boundary information and is important to road detection.However,curb detection is challenging due to the problems such as various curb shapes,colour,discontinuity.In this work,a novel learning-based method for curb detection is proposed using Lidar point clouds,considering that Lidars are not sensitive to illumination and are relatively stable to weather conditions.A deep neural network,named EdgeNet,is constructed and trained,which handles point clouds in an end-to-end way.After EdgeNet is properly trained,curb points are then segmented in the neural network output.In order to train,a curb point annotation algorithm is also designed to generate training dataset.The curb detection method works well with different road scenarios including intersections.The experimental results validate the effectiveness and robustness of this curb detection method.
