Cited by 14,897Advanced Vision and ImagingAutonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite

Geiger, A., Lenz, P., Urtasun, R.·2012·2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Abstract

Today, visual recognition systems are still rarely employed in robotics applications. Perhaps one of the main reasons for this is the lack of demanding benchmarks that mimic such scenarios. In this paper, we take advantage of our autonomous driving platform to develop novel challenging benchmarks for the tasks of stereo, optical flow, visual odometry/SLAM and 3D object detection. Our recording platform is equipped with four high resolution video cameras, a Velodyne laser scanner and a state-of-the-art localization system. Our benchmarks comprise 389 stereo and optical flow image pairs, stereo visual odometry sequences of 39.2 km length, and more than 200k 3D object annotations captured in cluttered scenarios (up to 15 cars and 30 pedestrians are visible per image). Results from state-of-the-art algorithms reveal that methods ranking high on established datasets such as Middlebury perform below average when being moved outside the laboratory to the real world. Our goal is to reduce this bias by providing challenging benchmarks with novel difficulties to the computer vision community. Our benchmarks are available online at: www.cvlibs.net/datasets/kitti.

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  • Weng and Kitani presented a similar 3D MOT benchmark on KITTI.

    “Weng and Kitani [77] presented a similar 3D MOT benchmark on KITTI [32].”

    From nuScenes: A Multimodal Dataset for Autonomous Driving (2020) · cites this paper as [32]

  • State-of-the-art algorithms are currently being evaluated on the KITTI dataset and nuScenes dataset as they offer labeled 3D scenes.

    “State-of-the-art algorithms are currently being evaluated on the KITTI dataset [177] and nuScenes dataset [178] as they offer labeled 3D scenes.”
  • The nuScenes dataset is the most recent urban driving dataset with lidar and image sensors.

    “The nuScenes dataset is the most recent urban driving dataset with lidar and image sensors [178].”
  • This has driven a shift from explicit to implicit fusion, where network design inherently captures modality relationships, enhancing deep semantic extraction.

    “This has driven a shift from explicit to implicit fusion [37], where network design inherently captures modality relationships, enhancing deep semantic extraction.”
  • Multimodal fusion combines sources such as vision, language, depth, LiDAR, and speech to enhance scene semantic understanding.

    “It combines various sources of information, such as vision, language, depth data, lidar, and speech, to enhance the capability of scene semantic understanding [35,36,37].”

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Authors
Geiger, A., Lenz, P., & Urtasun, R.
Affiliations
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
Venue
2012 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2012-06
Pages
3354-3361
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2150066425
Cited by
14,897
References
49
Citations by year
2026: 1055 · 2025: 1765 · 2024: 2047 · 2023: 1921 · 2022: 1669 · 2021: 1726 · 2020: 1320 · 2019: 1174 · 2018: 765 · 2017: 524 · 2016: 345 · 2015: 269 · 2014: 157 · 2013: 133 · 2012: 23
FWCI
132.22
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Keywords
autonomous driving, benchmark dataset, stereo vision, optical flow, visual odometry, SLAM, 3D object detection, cluttered scenes, real-world evaluation, KITTI dataset

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