| ▲ | ra7 3 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> The only thing LIDAR can do sense depth This is absolutely false. LiDAR is used heavily in object detection. There’s plenty of literature on this. Here’s a few from Waymo: https://waymo.com/research/streaming-object-detection-for-3-... https://waymo.com/research/lef-late-to-early-temporal-fusion... https://waymo.com/research/3d-human-keypoints-estimation-fro... In fact, LiDAR is a key component for detecting pedestrian keypoints and pose estimation. See https://waymo.com/blog/2022/02/utilizing-key-point-and-pose-... Here’s an actual example of LiDAR picking up people in the dark well before cameras: https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/s/U8eq8BEaGA Not to mention they’re also highly critical for simulation. > It can't read road signs. It can't read road lines. Also false. Here’s Waymo’s 5th-gen LiDAR raw point clouds that can even read a logo on a semi truck: https://youtube.com/watch?v=COgEQuqTAug&t=11600s It seems you’re misinformed about how this sensor is used. The point clouds (plus camera and radar data) are all fed to the models for detection. That makes their detectors much more robust in different lighting and weather conditions than cameras alone. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Rover222 3 days ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I think "sensing depth" and "object detection" are the same things in this debate though | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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