Large Scale Autonomous Driving Scenarios Clustering with Self-supervised Feature Extraction

• Main Authors: Zhao, Jinxin, Fang, Jin, Ye, Zhixian, Zhang, Liangjun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.03.2021
• Subjects: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2103.16101

The clustering of autonomous driving scenario data can substantially benefit the autonomous driving validation and simulation systems by improving the simulation tests' completeness and fidelity. This article proposes a comprehensive data clustering framework for a large set of vehicle driving data. Existing algorithms utilize handcrafted features whose quality relies on the judgments of human experts. Additionally, the related feature compression methods are not scalable for a large data-set. Our approach thoroughly considers the traffic elements, including both in-traffic agent objects and map information. Meanwhile, we proposed a self-supervised deep learning approach for spatial and temporal feature extraction to avoid biased data representation. With the newly designed driving data clustering evaluation metrics based on data-augmentation, the accuracy assessment does not require a human-labeled data-set, which is subject to human bias. Via such unprejudiced evaluation metrics, we have shown our approach surpasses the existing methods that rely on handcrafted feature extractions.