Camera based distance to detected object including cars and pedestrians

Autonomous Vehicles DRIVE AGX Xavier DRIVE AGX Xavier General
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Please provide the following info:
Hardware Platform: [Example: DRIVE AGX Xavier™ Developer Kit]
Software Version: [Example: DRIVE Software 10]
Host Machine Version: [native Ubuntu 18.04]
SDK Manager Version: [1.4.0.7363]

Website https://developer.nvidia.com/drive/drive-perception mentions the following

The NVIDIA DRIVE™ Perception pipeline for obstacle perception consists of interacting algorithmic modules built around NVIDIA DRIVE™ Networks DNNs, along with DNN post-processing. Capabilities include:

Camera-based:
*** Obstacle detection and classification, including cars and pedestrians, as well as distance to object detection (based on DriveNet DNN)**

  • Drivable free-space detection (based on OpenRoadNet DNN)
  • Camera image clarity detection and classification (based on ClearSightNet DNN)
  • Semantic motion segmentation (SMS) for detection of both static and dynamic objects

Also, there is a blog -DRIVE Labs: Detecting the Distance | NVIDIA Blog
which mentions about “distance-to-object detection using data from a single camera”

Can you please let me know the sample code where this is implemented?

Drivenet has object dwObjectCamera which has below attribute. However, value is always 0.

// Kinematics
/// Radial distance (in meter) from host car to object
float32_t distance_m;

Thanks & Regards,
Hitesh

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Hi @hitesh.pandya1,

The distance information can be enabled via hasObjectDepth but there are some issues.
You need to wait for the next DRIVE Software release. The detail is in below topic.

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OK, Thanks for the reply. Please let us know the release schedule.

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For DRIVE Software 11 schedule, please contact with your nvidia representive.
Sorry for any inconvenience!

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Hello @VickNV,

Are these issues solved? If not… Do you have a date for the DRIVE Software release?

Thanks!

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Hi @daniel.yustegalvez ,

Please contact with your nvidia rep for the schedule question. Sorry for any inconvenience.