Evaluating the Generalization of 3D Detectors with Hybrid Point Clouds

With the development of LiDAR technologies and deep learning algorithms, tremendous methods have been proposed for 3D detection in intelligent transportation. However, the generalization of 3D detectors under different environments is not fully evaluated due to the lack of diverse testing datasets. Two of the main obstacles in building testing benchmark of point clouds are the huge cost of the annotation of point clouds and the low flexibility in data collection. In this paper, we propose to use hybrid point clouds to evaluate the generalization of multiple 3D detectors when they are transferred from real data to hybrid data. Compared with evaluating 3D detectors with real point clouds dataset, our approach is much more flexible and demands less human labor.