A Safety-Adapted Loss for Pedestrian Detection in Autonomous Driving

Maria Lyssenko,Piyush Pimplikar,Maarten Bieshaar,Farzad Nozarian,Rudolph Triebel,Maria Lyssenko,Piyush Pimplikar,Maarten Bieshaar,Farzad Nozarian,Rudolph Triebel

In safety-critical domains like autonomous driving (AD), errors by the object detector may endanger pedestrians and other vulnerable road users (VRU). As raw evaluation metrics are not an adequate safety indicator, recent works leverage domain knowledge to identify safety-relevant VRU, and to back-annotate the criticality of the interaction to the object detector. However, those approaches do not ...