Cited by 3,437Autonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyAdvanced Neural Network ApplicationsAdvanced Vision and Imaging

Scalability in Perception for Autonomous Driving: Waymo Open Dataset

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Sun, Pei, Kretzschmar, Henrik, Dotiwalla, Xerxes, Chouard, Aurelien, Patnaik, Vijaysai, Tsui, Paul, Guo, James, Zhou, Yin +15 more·2020·2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

The research community has increasing interest in autonomous driving research, despite the resource intensity of obtaining representative real world data. Existing self-driving datasets are limited in the scale and variation of the environments they capture, even though generalization within and between operating regions is crucial to the over-all viability of the technology. In an effort to help align the research community’s contributions with real-world self-driving problems, we introduce a new large scale, high quality, diverse dataset. Our new dataset consists of 1150 scenes that each span 20 seconds, consisting of well synchronized and calibrated high quality LiDAR and camera data captured across a range of urban and suburban geographies. It is 15x more diverse than the largest camera+LiDAR dataset available based on our proposed diversity metric. We exhaustively annotated this data with 2D (camera image) and 3D (LiDAR) bounding boxes, with consistent identifiers across frames. Finally, we provide strong baselines for 2D as well as 3D detection and tracking tasks. We further study the effects of dataset size and generalization across geographies on 3D detection methods. Find data, code and more up-to-date information at http://www.waymo.com/open.

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  • ObjectFolder 2.0 achieves efficient rendering of visual, auditory, and tactile modalities with high-quality virtual object data and implicit neural representation, supporting virtual-to-reality transfer learning.

    “ObjectFolder 2.0 [247], with its high-quality virtual object data and implicit neural representation technology, achieves efficient rendering of visual, auditory, and tactile modalities, supporting virtualto-reality transfer learning tasks.”
  • Widely used driving datasets such as KITTI, nuScenes, and Waymo support perception tasks under natural conditions but do not provide systematic control over degradation types and severity.

    “While widely used driving datasets such as KITTI [1], nuScenes [2], and Waymo [3] support perception tasks under natural conditions, they do not provide systematic control over degradation types and severity.”
  • The use of public databases such as PASCAL, MS-COCO, or autonomous driving simplifies the performance of experiments to compare sampling methods.

    “The use of public databases such as PASCAL [72], MS-COCO [73], or autonomous driving [74-76] simplifies the performance of experiments to compare sampling methods.”
  • Waymo's dataset is renowned for comprehensive and varied gathering of data from AVs and includes information from a range of weather and lighting circumstances, making it useful for research on inclement weather.

    “Waymo's dataset [56], which is renowned for its comprehensive and varied gathering of data from AVs and includes information from a range of weather and lighting circumstances, is a useful tool for research on inclement weather.”
  • The Waymo open dataset is a real (not simulated) dataset.

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Sun, P., Kretzschmar, H., Dotiwalla, X., Chouard, A., Patnaik, V., Tsui, P., Guo, J., Zhou, Y., Chai, Y., Caine, B., Vasudevan, V., Han, W., Ngiam, J., Zhao, H., Timofeev, A., Ettinger, S., Krivokon, M., Gao, A., Joshi, A., Zhang, Y., Shlens, J., Chen, Z., & Anguelov, D.
Affiliations
Google (United States) (US)
Venue
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2020-06
Pages
2443-2451
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3035172746
Cited by
3,437
References
23
Citations by year
2026: 480 · 2025: 731 · 2024: 764 · 2023: 625 · 2022: 418 · 2021: 295 · 2020: 119 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1
FWCI
299.11
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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Locations
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Vision and Imaging
Keywords
autonomous driving, Waymo Open Dataset, 3D object detection, 2D object detection, object tracking, data diversity, dataset size

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