InterFuserDVS: Event-Enhanced Sensor Fusion for Safe RL-Based Decision Making
This work addresses the need for robust perception in high-dynamic-range and high-speed driving scenarios, offering an incremental improvement over existing sensor fusion methods.
The paper extends the InterFuser model by integrating Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) to improve sensor fusion for autonomous driving, achieving a Driving Score of 77.2 and 100% Route Completion on CARLA benchmarks.
Autonomous driving systems rely heavily on robust sensor fusion to perceive complex envi- ronments. Traditional setups using RGB cameras and LiDAR often struggle in high-dynamic- range scenes or high-speed scenarios due to motion blur and latency. Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS), or event cameras, offer a paradigm shift by capturing asynchronous brightness changes with microsecond temporal resolution and high dynamic range. In this paper, we propose an extended architecture of the state-of-the-art InterFuser model, integrating DVS as an additional modality to enhance perception reliability. We introduce a novel token-based fusion strategy that incorporates accumulated event frames into the transformer-based backbone of InterFuser. Our method leverages the complementary nature of RGB, LiDAR, and DVS data. We evaluate our approach on the Car Learning to Act (CARLA) Leaderboard benchmarks, demonstrating that the inclusion of DVS improves the robustness of the driving agent, achieving a competitive Driving Score of 77.2 and a superior Route Completion of 100%. The results indicate that event-based vision is a promising direction for improving safety and performance in adverse lighting and dynamic conditions.