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FocalFormer3D : Focusing on Hard Instance for 3D Object Detection
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False negatives (FN) in 3D object detection, e.g., missing predictions of pedestrians, vehicles, or other obstacles, can lead to potentially dangerous situations in autonomous driving. While being fatal, this issue is understudied in many current 3D detection methods. In this work, we propose Hard Instance Probing (HIP), a general pipeline that identifies FN in a multi-stage manner and guides the models to focus on excavating difficult instances. For 3D object detection, we instantiate this method as FocalFormer3D, a simple yet effective detector that excels at excavating difficult objects and improving prediction recall. FocalFormer3D features a multi-stage query generation to discover hard objects and a box-level transformer decoder to efficiently distinguish objects from massive object candidates. Experimental results on the nuScenes and Waymo datasets validate the superior performance of FocalFormer3D. The advantage leads to strong performance on both detection and tracking, in both LiDAR and multi-modal settings. Notably, FocalFormer3D achieves a 70.5 mAP and 73.9 NDS on nuScenes detection benchmark, while the nuScenes tracking benchmark shows 72.1 AMOTA, both ranking 1st place on the nuScenes LiDAR leaderboard. Our code is available at https://github.com/NVlabs/FocalFormer3D.
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“In contrast, radarcamera fusion enhances motion detection by leveraging radar velocity information, with RCBEVDet++ [263] demonstrating greater stability in dynamic scenes, such as high-speed driving and urban intersections.”
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- Authors
- Chen, Y., Yu, Z., Chen, Y., Lan, S., Anandkumar, A., Jia, J., & Alvarez, J. M.
- Affiliations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Nvidia (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Caltech
- NVIDIA
- Venue
- 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2023-10-01
- Pages
- 8360-8371
- OpenAlex
- W4390872444
- Semantic Scholar
- ef80a308b548f582ac52419dffaa48f53db8a4f8
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 12.73
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- arxiv.org
- Locations
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) (submittedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design › 3D Shape Modeling and Analysis
- Keywords
- 3D object detection, false negative reduction, LiDAR, autonomous driving, object tracking, multimodal detection, nuScenes, Waymo
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