We present structured domain randomization (SDR), a variant of domain randomization (DR) that takes into account the structure and context of the scene. In contrast to DR, which places objects and distractors randomly according to a uniform probability distribution, SDR places objects and distractors randomly according to probability distributions that arise from the specific problem at hand. In this manner, SDR-generated imagery enables the neural network to take the context around an object into consideration during detection. We demonstrate the power of SDR for the problem of 2D bounding box car detection, achieving competitive results on real data after training only on synthetic data. On the KITTI easy, moderate, and hard tasks, we show that SDR outperforms other approaches to generating synthetic data (VKITTI, Sim 200k, or DR), as well as real data collected in a different domain (BDD100K). Moreover, synthetic SDR data combined with real KITTI data outperforms real KITTI data alone.
@article{arxiv.1810.10093,
title = {Structured Domain Randomization: Bridging the Reality Gap by Context-Aware Synthetic Data},
author = {Aayush Prakash and Shaad Boochoon and Mark Brophy and David Acuna and Eric Cameracci and Gavriel State and Omer Shapira and Stan Birchfield},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10093},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
ICRA 2019; for video, see https://youtu.be/1WdjWJYx9AY