Fast Radar Motion Estimation with a Learnt Focus of Attention using Weak Supervision
Roberto Aldera, Daniele De Martini, Matthew Gadd, Paul Newman
Abstract
This paper is about fast motion estimation with scanning radar. We use weak supervision to train a focus of attention policy which actively down-samples the measurement stream before data association steps are undertaken. At training, we avoid laborious manual labelling by exploiting short-term sensor coherence from multiple poses in the presence of an external ego-motion estimator (for example, wheel odometry). In this way, we generate copious annotated measurements which can be used for training a learning algorithm in a weakly-supervised fashion. We demonstrate the validity of the approach in the context of a Radar Odometry (RO) task, pre-filtering raw data with a popular image segmentation network trained as presented. We evaluate our system against 26 km of data collected in Central Oxford and show consistent motion estimation with greatly reduced radar processing times (by a factor of 2.36).
BibTeX
@inproceedings{icra2019_fastradarmotione,
title = {Fast Radar Motion Estimation with a Learnt Focus of Attention using Weak Supervision},
author = {Roberto Aldera and Daniele De Martini and Matthew Gadd and Paul Newman},
booktitle = {ICRA 2019},
year = {2019}
}