Cost-Aware Evaluation and Model Scaling for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection

Xiaofang Wang,Kris M. Kitani,Xiaofang Wang,Kris M. Kitani

Considerable research effort has been devoted to LiDAR-based 3D object detection and empirical performance has been significantly improved. While progress has been en-couraging, we observe an overlooked issue: it is not yet common practice to compare different 3D detectors under the same cost, e.g., inference latency. This makes it difficult to quantify the true performance gain brought by recentl...