Sequential Forecasting of 100,000 Points

03/18/2020
by   Xinshuo Weng, et al.
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Predicting the future is a crucial first step to effective control, since systems that can predict the future can select plans that lead to desired outcomes. In this work, we study the problem of future prediction at the level of 3D scenes, represented by point clouds captured by a LiDAR sensor, i.e., directly learning to forecast the evolution of >100,000 points that comprise a complete scene. We term this Scene Point Cloud Sequence Forecasting (SPCSF). By directly predicting the densest-possible 3D representation of the future, the output contains richer information than other representations such as future object trajectories. We design a method, SPCSFNet, evaluate it on the KITTI and nuScenes datasets, and find that it demonstrates excellent performance on the SPCSF task. To show that SPCSF can benefit downstream tasks such as object trajectory forecasting, we present a new object trajectory forecasting pipeline leveraging SPCSFNet. Specifically, instead of forecasting at the object level as in conventional trajectory forecasting, we propose to forecast at the sensor level and then apply detection and tracking on the predicted sensor data. As a result, our new pipeline can remove the need of object trajectory labels and enable large-scale training with unlabeled sensor data. Surprisingly, we found our new pipeline based on SPCSFNet was able to outperform the conventional pipeline using state-of-the-art trajectory forecasting methods, all of which require future object trajectory labels. Finally, we propose a new evaluation procedure and two new metrics to measure the end-to-end performance of the trajectory forecasting pipeline. Our code will be made publicly available at https://github.com/xinshuoweng/SPCSF.

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