Cited by 9,913Autonomous Vehicle Technology and SafetyAdvanced Vision and ImagingRobotics and Sensor-Based Localization

Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset

Geiger, A, Lenz, P, Stiller, C, Urtasun, R·2013·The International Journal of Robotics Research

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We present a novel dataset captured from a VW station wagon for use in mobile robotics and autonomous driving research. In total, we recorded 6 hours of traffic scenarios at 10–100 Hz using a variety of sensor modalities such as high-resolution color and grayscale stereo cameras, a Velodyne 3D laser scanner and a high-precision GPS/IMU inertial navigation system. The scenarios are diverse, capturing real-world traffic situations, and range from freeways over rural areas to inner-city scenes with many static and dynamic objects. Our data is calibrated, synchronized and timestamped, and we provide the rectified and raw image sequences. Our dataset also contains object labels in the form of 3D tracklets, and we provide online benchmarks for stereo, optical flow, object detection and other tasks. This paper describes our recording platform, the data format and the utilities that we provide.

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  • Fisheye cameras have strong radial distortion that cannot be corrected without disadvantages, including reduced field-of-view and resampling distortion artifacts at the periphery.

    “Fisheye cameras have a strong radial distortion that cannot be corrected without disadvantages, including reduced field-of-view and resampling distortion artifacts at the periphery [1].”
  • The proposed approach can, in principle, be applied to any fisheye projection model of choice.

    “The proposed approach can, in principle, be applied to any fisheye projection model of choice explained in [1].”
  • Segmentation with ENet achieves an IoU of 51.4 on the WoodScape dataset.

    “| Segmentation | ENet [41] | IoU | 51.4 |”
  • 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.”
  • Unfavorable weather conditions such as fog, intense rain, snow, and dust reduce the effectiveness of camera systems, and accuracy and dependability issues still exist despite advanced image processing.

    “While camera systems are crucial for applications involving driverless vehicles, unfavorable weather conditions such as fog, intense rain, snow, and dust reduce their effectiveness.Although sophisticated techniques for image processing try to solve these problems, accuracy and dependability issues still exist, which presents significant obstacles to the advancement of autonomous driving [51].”

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Authors
Geiger, A., Lenz, P., Stiller, C., & Urtasun, R.
Affiliations
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)
  • Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (US)
Venue
The International Journal of Robotics Research
Published
2013-08-23
Volume
32
Issue
11
Pages
1231-1237
ISSN
  • 0278-3649 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3176
OpenAlex
W2115579991
Cited by
9,913
References
13
Citations by year
2026: 810 · 2025: 1281 · 2024: 1350 · 2023: 1268 · 2022: 1116 · 2021: 1148 · 2020: 951 · 2019: 808 · 2018: 471 · 2017: 283 · 2016: 184 · 2015: 163 · 2014: 72 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 2
FWCI
219.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • The International Journal of Robotics Research (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Automotive Engineering › Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Vision and Imaging
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Aerospace Engineering › Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization
Keywords
KITTI dataset, autonomous driving, mobile robotics, traffic scenarios, stereo vision, 3D laser scanning, sensor synchronization, object detection, optical flow, benchmarking

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