Pose Estimation of Moving Vehicles Based on Heuristic Rules for Autonomous Driving.

Estimating the pose information on moving vehi-cles is one of the most fundamental functions of autonomous driving for detecting and tracking moving objects. The current methods are often based on the prior information of the point cloud distribution, however, the distribution in the actual scene changes dynamically, and is easy not to meet a priori. This paper proposes a 3D pose estimation method based on heuristic rules. In a single frame point cloud, the edge length and edge visibility are used to heuristically screen the candidate orientations established by the convex hull sampling method. On consecutive frame point clouds, tracking heuristics are employed to obtain smoother orientation estimation results. The experimental results on the KITTI dataset and the data from the actual scene of vehicles show that the proposed method reduces the average object-orientation error and improves the accuracy of estimation effectively.