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Aerial LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection And Tracking For Traffic Monitoring
Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
  • Baya Cherif
  • Hakim Ghazzai
  • Ahmad Alsharoa, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Hichem Besbes
  • Yehia Massoud
Abstract

The proliferation of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology in the automotive industry has quickly promoted its use in many emerging areas in smart cities and internet-of-things. Compared to other sensors, like cameras and radars, LiDAR provides up to 64 scanning channels, vertical and horizontal field of view, high precision, high detection range, and great performance under poor weather conditions. In this paper, we propose a novel aerial traffic monitoring solution based on Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology. By equipping unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a LiDAR sensor, we generate 3D point cloud data that can be used for object detection and tracking. Due to the unavailability of LiDAR data from the sky, we propose to use a 3D simulator. Then, we implement Point Voxel-RCNN (PV-RCNN) to perform road user detection (e.g., vehicles and pedestrians). Subsequently, we implement an Unscented Kalman filter, which takes a 3D detected object as input and uses its information to predict the state of the 3D box before the next LiDAR scan gets loaded. Finally, we update the measurement by using the new observation of the point cloud and correct the previous prediction's belief. The simulation results illustrate the performance gain (around 8 %) achieved by our solution compared to other 3D point cloud solutions.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • deep learning,
  • detection,
  • LiDAR,
  • tracking,
  • Traffic monitoring,
  • UAV
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-166545109-3
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2023 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Publication Date
01 Jan 2023
Citation Information
Baya Cherif, Hakim Ghazzai, Ahmad Alsharoa, Hichem Besbes, et al.. "Aerial LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection And Tracking For Traffic Monitoring" Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2023) ISSN: 0271-4310
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ahmad-alsharoa/54/