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Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception systems based on multi-sensor feature fusion have become a fundamental cornerstone for end-to-end autonomous driving. However, existing multi-modal BEV methods commonly suffer from limited input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Qi Xiang , Kunsong Shi , Zhigui Lin , Lei He

Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

Pedestrian Detection is the most critical module of an Autonomous Driving system. Although a camera is commonly used for this purpose, its quality degrades severely in low-light night time driving scenarios. On the other hand, the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Kinjal Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Sudip Das , Ujjwal Bhattacharya , Senthil Yogamani

RGB-T road scene semantic segmentation enhances visual scene understanding in complex environments characterized by inadequate illumination or occlusion by fusing information from RGB and thermal images. Nevertheless, existing RGB-T…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Hanshuo Qiu , Jie Jiang , Ruoli Yang , Lixin Zhan , Jizhao Liu

Infrastructure-based perception plays a crucial role in intelligent transportation systems, offering global situational awareness and enabling cooperative autonomy. However, existing camera-based detection models often underperform in such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yun Zhang , Zhaoliang Zheng , Johnson Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Zewei Zhou , Zonglin Meng , Tianhui Cai , Jiaqi Ma

The emerging 4D millimeter-wave radar, measuring the range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity of objects, is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and robustness in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, its point clouds exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuzhi Wu , Li Xiao , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , XiangGen Xia

Deploying depth estimation networks in the real world requires high-level robustness against various adverse conditions to ensure safe and reliable autonomy. For this purpose, many autonomous vehicles employ multi-modal sensor systems,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ukcheol Shin , Kyunghyun Lee , Jean Oh

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is used to generate fusion images with comprehensive features of both images, which is beneficial for downstream vision tasks. However, current methods rarely consider the illumination condition in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Qiao Yang , Yu Zhang , Zijing Zhao , Jian Zhang , Shunli Zhang

LiDAR-camera fusion methods have shown impressive performance in 3D object detection. Recent advanced multi-modal methods mainly perform global fusion, where image features and point cloud features are fused across the whole scene. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xin Li , Tao Ma , Yuenan Hou , Botian Shi , Yuchen Yang , Youquan Liu , Xingjiao Wu , Qin Chen , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao , Liang He

Accurate and robust 3D object detection is a critical component in autonomous vehicles and robotics. While recent radar-camera fusion methods have made significant progress by fusing information in the bird's-eye view (BEV) representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Jisong Kim , Minjae Seong , Jun Won Choi

In this paper, we present an Assertion-based Multi-View Fusion network (AMVNet) for LiDAR semantic segmentation which aggregates the semantic features of individual projection-based networks using late fusion. Given class scores from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Venice Erin Liong , Thi Ngoc Tho Nguyen , Sergi Widjaja , Dhananjai Sharma , Zhuang Jie Chong

While LiDAR sensors have been successfully applied to 3D object detection, the affordability of radar and camera sensors has led to a growing interest in fusing radars and cameras for 3D object detection. However, previous radar-camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Jisong Kim , Minjae Seong , Geonho Bang , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

We present the first cross-modality distillation framework specifically tailored for single-panoramic-camera Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) segmentation. Our approach leverages a novel LiDAR image representation fused from range, intensity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Wenke E , Yixin Sun , Jiaxu Liu , Hubert P. H. Shum , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous driving and robots to understand their surroundings accurately and robustly. A multitude of methods exist within this domain, including point-based, range-image-based,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rong Li , ShiJie Li , Xieyuanli Chen , Teli Ma , Juergen Gall , Junwei Liang

This paper introduces a novel deep learning-based multimodal fusion architecture aimed at enhancing the perception capabilities of autonomous navigation robots in complex environments. By utilizing innovative feature extraction modules,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Delun Lai , Yeyubei Zhang , Yunchong Liu , Chaojie Li , Huadong Mo

This study aims to improve the performance and generalization capability of end-to-end autonomous driving with scene understanding leveraging deep learning and multimodal sensor fusion techniques. The designed end-to-end deep neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Zhiyu Huang , Chen Lv , Yang Xing , Jingda Wu

Point cloud registration is a task to estimate the rigid transformation between two unaligned scans, which plays an important role in many computer vision applications. Previous learning-based works commonly focus on supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Mingzhi Yuan , Kexue Fu , Zhihao Li , Yucong Meng , Manning Wang

This study aims to address the problem of incomplete information in unimodal images for semantic segmentation and object detection tasks. Existing multimodal fusion methods suffer from limited capability in discriminative modeling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuchan Jie , Yushen Xu , Xiaosong Li , Huafeng Li , Haishu Tan , Feiping Nie

It has been well recognized that fusing the complementary information from depth-aware LiDAR point clouds and semantic-rich stereo images would benefit 3D object detection. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to explore the inherently unnatural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Hanqi Zhu , Jiajun Deng , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Qiuyu Mao , Houqiang Li , Yanyong Zhang