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SODA10M: A Large-Scale 2D Self/Semi-Supervised Object Detection Dataset for Autonomous Driving
Jianhua Han · Xiwen Liang · Hang Xu · Kai Chen · Lanqing Hong · Jiageng Mao · Chaoqiang Ye · Wei Zhang · Zhenguo Li · Xiaodan Liang · Chunjing XU

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Aiming at facilitating a real-world, ever-evolving and scalable autonomous driving system, we present a large-scale dataset for standardizing the evaluation of different self-supervised and semi-supervised approaches by learning from raw data, which is the first and largest dataset to date. Existing autonomous driving systems heavily rely on `perfect' visual perception models (i.e., detection) trained using extensive annotated data to ensure safety. However, it is unrealistic to elaborately label instances of all scenarios and circumstances (i.e., night, extreme weather, cities) when deploying a robust autonomous driving system. Motivated by recent advances of self-supervised and semi-supervised learning, a promising direction is to learn a robust detection model by collaboratively exploiting large-scale unlabeled data and few labeled data. Existing datasets (i.e., BDD100K, Waymo) either provide only a small amount of data or covers limited domains with full annotation, hindering the exploration of large-scale pre-trained models. Here, we release a Large-Scale 2D Self/semi-supervised Object Detection dataset for Autonomous driving, named as SODA10M, containing 10 million unlabeled images and 20K images labeled with 6 representative object categories. To improve diversity, the images are collected within 27833 driving hours under different weather conditions, periods and location scenes of 32 different cities. We provide extensive experiments and deep analyses of existing popular self-supervised and semi-supervised approaches, and some interesting findings in autonomous driving scope. Experiments show that SODA10M can serve as a promising pre-training dataset for different self-supervised learning methods, which gives superior performance when finetuning with different downstream tasks (i.e., detection, semantic/instance segmentation) in autonomous driving domain. This dataset has been used to hold the ICCV2021 SSLAD challenge. More information can refer to https://soda-2d.github.io.

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Jianhua Han (Huawei Technologies Ltd.)
Xiwen Liang (SUN YAT-SEN UNIVERSITY)
Hang Xu (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)
Kai Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Lanqing Hong (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab)
Jiageng Mao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chaoqiang Ye (Huawei Technologies Ltd.)
Wei Zhang (Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Inc.)
Zhenguo Li (Noah's Ark Lab, Huawei Tech Investment Co Ltd)
Xiaodan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
Chunjing XU (Huawei Technologies)

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