Object Detection on Radar Imagery for Autonomous Driving Using Deep Neural Networks

This paper presents a solution to the current challenges of the imaging radar to respond the demands of autonomy for detection and classification of targets in radar imagery, which traditionally has been considered as clutter. The proposed object detection method is defined in a new way, as opposed to the traditional object detection methods in the radar related contexts. The current paper presents the first application of this novel approach, based on deep neural networks for object detection, on outdoor radar images, as well as indoor images taken in controlled environment. Object detection was performed using two detectors, Faster R-CNN and SSD and the evaluation proved that this method can be successfully used on radar imagery for autonomous applications.