An Adaptive Group of Density Outlier Removal Filter: Snow Particle Removal from LiDAR Data

Abstract

Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) is an important technology integrated into self-driving cars to enhance the reliability of these systems. Even with some advantages over cameras, it is still limited under extreme weather conditions such as heavy rain, fog, or snow. Traditional methods such as Radius Outlier Removal (ROR) and Statistical Outlier Removal (SOR) are limited in their ability to detect snow points in LiDAR point clouds. This paper proposes an Adaptive Group of Density Outlier Removal (AGDOR) filter that can remove snow particles more effectively in raw LiDAR point clouds, with verification on the Winter Adverse Driving Dataset (WADS). In our proposed method, an intensity threshold combined with a proposed outlier removal filter was employed. Outstanding performance was obtained, with higher accuracy up to 96% and processing speed of 0.51 s per frame in our result. In particular, our filter outperforms the state-of-the-art filter by achieving a 16.32% higher Precision at the same accuracy. However, our method archive is lower in recall than the state-of-the-art method. This clearly indicates that AGDOR retains a significant amount of object points from LiDAR. The results suggest that our filter would be useful for snow removal under harsh weathers for autonomous driving systems.

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