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A Multimodality Fusion Deep Neural Network and Safety Test Strategy for Intelligent Vehicles


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Multimodality fusion based on deep neural networks (DNN) is a significant method for intelligent vehicles. The special characteristics of DNN lead to the issue of AI safe...Show More

Abstract:

Multimodality fusion based on deep neural networks (DNN) is a significant method for intelligent vehicles. The special characteristics of DNN lead to the issue of AI safety and safety test. In this paper, we firstly propose a multimodality fusion framework called Integrated Multimodality Fusion Deep Neural Network (IMF-DNN), which can flexibly accomplish both object detection and end-to-end driving policy for prediction of steering angle and speed. Then, we propose a DNN safety test strategy, which systematically analyzes DNN's robustness and generalization ability in large amounts of diverse driving environment conditions. The test in this paper is based on our IMF-DNN model and the strategy can be widely used for other DNNs. Finally, the experiment analysis is performed on KITTI for object detection and the dateset DBNet for end-to-end tasks. The results show the superior accuracy of the proposed IMF-DNN model and the test strategy's potential ability to improve the robustness and generalization of autonomous vehicle deep learning model. Code is available at https://github.com/ennisnie/IMF-DNN.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles ( Volume: 6, Issue: 2, June 2021)
Page(s): 310 - 322
Date of Publication: 28 September 2020

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