Cited by 158Autonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyVideo Surveillance and Tracking MethodsTarget Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks

No Blind Spots: Full-Surround Multi-Object Tracking for Autonomous Vehicles Using Cameras and LiDARs

Rangesh, Akshay, Trivedi, Mohan Manubhai·2019·IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles

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Online multi-object tracking (MOT) is extremely important for high-level spatial reasoning and path planning for autonomous and highly-automated vehicles. In this paper, we present a modular framework for tracking multiple objects (vehicles), capable of accepting object proposals from different sensor modalities (vision and range) and a variable number of sensors, to produce continuous object tracks. This work is a generalization of the MDP framework for MOT proposed by Xiang et al., with some key extensions - First, we track objects across multiple cameras and across different sensor modalities. This is done by fusing object proposals across sensors accurately and efficiently. Second, the objects of interest (targets) are tracked directly in the real world. This is a departure from traditional techniques where objects are simply tracked in the image plane. Doing so allows the tracks to be readily used by an autonomous agent for navigation and related tasks. To verify the effectiveness of our approach, we test it on real world highway data collected from a heavily sensorized testbed capable of capturing full-surround information. We demonstrate that our framework is well-suited to track objects through entire maneuvers around the ego-vehicle, some of which take more than a few minutes to complete. We also leverage the modularity of our approach by comparing the effects of including/excluding different sensors, changing the total number of sensors, and the quality of object proposals on the final tracking result.

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Authors
Rangesh, A., & Trivedi, M. M.
Affiliations
University of California San Diego (US)
Venue
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles
Published
2019-12
Volume
4
Issue
4
Pages
588-599
ISSN
  • 2379-8858 (ISSN-L)
  • 2379-8904
OpenAlex
W2970938561
Cited by
158
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 37 · 2020: 26 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 5
FWCI
10.05
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
Keywords
multi-target tracking, autonomous vehicles, sensor fusion, object proposals, highway driving, vehicle tracking, sensor redundancy, real-world driving data

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