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HyperDet: 3D Object Detection with Hyper 4D Radar Point Clouds

Robotics 2026-02-17 v2 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Machine Learning

Abstract

4D mmWave radar provides weather-robust, velocity-aware measurements and is more cost-effective than LiDAR. However, radar-only 3D detection still trails LiDAR-based systems because radar point clouds are sparse, irregular, and often corrupted by multipath noise, yielding weak and unstable geometry. We present HyperDet, a detector-agnostic radar-only 3D detection framework that constructs a task-aware hyper 4D radar point cloud for standard LiDAR-oriented detectors. HyperDet aggregates returns from multiple surround-view 4D radars over consecutive frames to improve coverage and density, then applies geometry-aware cross-sensor consensus validation with a lightweight self-consistency check outside overlap regions to suppress inconsistent returns. It further integrates a foreground-focused diffusion module with training-time mixed radar-LiDAR supervision to densify object structures while lifting radar attributes (e.g., Doppler, RCS); the model is distilled into a consistency model for single-step inference. On MAN TruckScenes, HyperDet consistently improves over raw radar inputs with VoxelNeXt and CenterPoint, partially narrowing the radar-LiDAR gap. These results show that input-level refinement enables radar to better leverage LiDAR-oriented detectors without architectural modifications.

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@article{arxiv.2602.11554,
  title  = {HyperDet: 3D Object Detection with Hyper 4D Radar Point Clouds},
  author = {Yichun Xiao and Runwei Guan and Fangqiang Ding},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.11554},
  year   = {2026}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures, 6 tables

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