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Anomaly Detection in Radar Data

Ulm University

For autonomous driving, radar is an important sensor type. On the one hand, radar offers a direct measurement of the radial velocity of targets in the environment. On the other hand, in literature, radar sensors are known for their robustness against several kinds of adverse weather conditions. However, on the downside, radar is susceptible to ghost targets or clutter which can be caused by several different causes, e.g., reflective surfaces in the environment but also by intelligent and modern attacks. Ghost targets, for instance, can result in erroneous object detections. To this end, it is desirable to identify anomalous targets as early as possible in radar data to ensure safety and security of the sensor data.

 

In this work, we present an approach based on PointNets to detect anomalous radar targets. Modifying the PointNet-architecture driven by our task, we developed a novel grouping variant that contributes to a multi-form grouping module. Our method is evaluated on a real-world dataset in urban scenarios and shows promising results for the detection of anomalous radar targets.

Corresponding Publication:
T. Griebel, D. Authaler, M. Horn, M. Henning, M. Buchholz and K. Dietmayer, “Anomaly Detection in Radar Data Using PointNets,” 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), 2021, pp. 2667-2673.
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC48978.2021.9564730
arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09401