The Impact of Frame-Dropping on Performance and Energy Consumption for Multi-Object Tracking

04/17/2023
by   Matti Henning, et al.
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The safety of automated vehicles (AVs) relies on the representation of their environment. Consequently, state-of-the-art AVs employ potent sensor systems to achieve the best possible environment representation at all times. Although these high-performing systems achieve impressive results, they induce significant requirements for the processing capabilities of an AV's computational hardware components and their energy consumption. To enable a dynamic adaptation of such perception systems based on the situational perception requirements, we introduce a model-agnostic method for the scalable employment of single-frame object detection models using frame-dropping in tracking-by-detection systems. We evaluate our approach on the KITTI 3D Tracking Benchmark, showing that significant energy savings can be achieved at acceptable performance degradation, reaching up to 28 energy consumption at a performance decline of 6.6

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