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Modular Sensor Fusion for Semantic Segmentation

Blum, Hermann
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Gawel, Abel
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Siegwart, Roland
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January 7, 2019
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Sensor fusion is a fundamental process in robotic systems as it extends the perceptual range and increases robustness in real-world operations. Current multi-sensor deep learning based semantic segmentation approaches do not provide robustness to under-performing classes in one modality, or require a specific architecture with access to the full aligned multi-sensor training data. In this work, we analyze statistical fusion approaches for semantic segmentation that overcome these drawbacks while keeping a competitive performance. The studied approaches are modular by construction, allowing to have different training sets per modality and only a much smaller subset is needed to calibrate the statistical models. We evaluate a range of statistical fusion approaches and report their performance against state-of-the-art baselines on both realworld and simulated data. In our experiments, the approach improves performance in IoU over the best single modality segmentation results by up to 5%. We make all implementations and configurations publicly available.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1109/IROS.2018.8593786
Author(s)
Blum, Hermann
Gawel, Abel
Siegwart, Roland
Cadena, Cesar
Date Issued

2019-01-07

Published in
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Start page

3670

End page

3677

Subjects

Semantics

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Image segmentation

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Robot sensing systems

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Training

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Fuses

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Computer architecture

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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OTHER

EPFL units
NCCR-ROBOTICS  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Madrid, Spain

October 1-5, 2018

Available on Infoscience
October 31, 2019
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/162582
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