Accurate 3D to 2D Object Distance Estimation from the Mapped Point Cloud Data

Abstract

Distance estimation is one of the oldest and most challenging tasks in computer vision using only a monocular camera. This can be challenging owing to the presence of occlusions, noise, and variations in the lighting, texture, and shape of objects. Additionally, the motion of the camera and objects in the scene can affect the accuracy of the distance estimation. Various techniques have been proposed to overcome these challenges, including stereo matching, structured light, depth from focus, depth from defocus, depth from motion, and time of flight. The addition of information from a high-resolution 3D view of the surroundings simplifies the distance calculation. This paper describes a novel distance estimation method that operates with converted point cloud data. The proposed method is a reliable map-based bird’s eye view (BEV) that calculates the distance to the detected objects. Using the help of the Euler-region proposal network (E-RPN) model, a LiDAR-to-image-based method for metric distance estimation with 3D bounding box projections onto the image was proposed. We demonstrate that despite the general difficulty of the BEV representation in understanding features related to the height coordinate, it is possible to extract all parameters characterizing the bounding boxes of the objects, including their height and elevation. Finally, we applied the triangulation method to calculate the accurate distance to the objects and statistically proved that our methodology is one of the best in terms of accuracy and robustness.

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