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Understanding road geometry is a critical component of the autonomous vehicle (AV) stack. While high-definition (HD) maps can readily provide such information, they suffer from high labeling and maintenance costs. Accordingly, many recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Xunjiang Gu , Guanyu Song , Igor Gilitschenski , Marco Pavone , Boris Ivanovic

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) maps provide a structured, top-down abstraction that is crucial for autonomous-driving perception. In this work, we employ Cross-View Transformers (CVT) for learning to map camera images to three BEV's channels - road,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Felipe Carlos dos Santos , Eric Aislan Antonelo , Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto

Bird's eye view (BEV) semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in spatial sensing for autonomous driving. Although recent literature has made significant progress on BEV map understanding, they are all based on single-agent camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Hao Xiang , Wei Shao , Bolei Zhou , Jiaqi Ma

Modern methods for vision-centric autonomous driving perception widely adopt the bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation to describe a 3D scene. Despite its better efficiency than voxel representation, it has difficulty describing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuanhui Huang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yunpeng Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

In the field of autonomous driving and mobile robotics, there has been a significant shift in the methods used to create Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations. This shift is characterised by using transformers and learning to fuse…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mehdi Hosseinzadeh , Ian Reid

Semantic scene segmentation from a bird's-eye-view (BEV) perspective plays a crucial role in facilitating planning and decision-making for mobile robots. Although recent vision-only methods have demonstrated notable advancements in…

Bird's Eye View (BEV) semantic maps have recently garnered a lot of attention as a useful representation of the environment to tackle assisted and autonomous driving tasks. However, most of the existing work focuses on the fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo , Leonardo Taccari , Aurel Pjetri , Francesco Sambo , Samuele Salti

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

Building 3D perception systems for autonomous vehicles that do not rely on high-density LiDAR is a critical research problem because of the expense of LiDAR systems compared to cameras and other sensors. Recent research has developed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam W. Harley , Zhaoyuan Fang , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Katerina Fragkiadaki

Vision-based 3D Detection task is fundamental task for the perception of an autonomous driving system, which has peaked interest amongst many researchers and autonomous driving engineers. However achieving a rather good 3D BEV (Bird's Eye…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Apoorv Singh , Varun Bankiti

Seeing only a tiny part of the whole is not knowing the full circumstance. Bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception, a process of obtaining allocentric maps from egocentric views, is restricted when using a narrow Field of View (FoV) alone. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhifeng Teng , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kunyu Peng , Hao Shi , Simon Reiß , Ke Cao , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Autonomous vehicles (AV) require that neural networks used for perception be robust to different viewpoints if they are to be deployed across many types of vehicles without the repeated cost of data collection and labeling for each. AV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Jonah Philion , Wenzheng Chen , Or Litany , Zan Gojcic , Jungseock Joo , Ramesh Raskar , Sanja Fidler , Jose M. Alvarez

Semantic Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps offer a rich representation with strong occlusion reasoning for various decision making tasks in autonomous driving. However, most BEV mapping approaches employ a fully supervised learning paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Nikhil Gosala , Kürsat Petek , B Ravi Kiran , Senthil Yogamani , Paulo Drews-Jr , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Online scene perception and topology reasoning are critical for autonomous vehicles to understand their driving environments, particularly for mapless driving systems that endeavor to reduce reliance on costly High-Definition (HD) maps.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Muleilan Pei , Jiayao Shan , Peiliang Li , Jieqi Shi , Jing Huo , Yang Gao , Shaojie Shen

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

Autonomous driving requires a structured understanding of the surrounding road network to navigate. One of the most common and useful representation of such an understanding is done in the form of BEV lane graphs. In this work, we use the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Camera-based bird-eye-view (BEV) perception paradigm has made significant progress in the autonomous driving field. Under such a paradigm, accurate BEV representation construction relies on reliable depth estimation for multi-camera images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Lechao Cheng , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) maps have emerged as one of the most powerful representations for scene understanding due to their ability to provide rich spatial context while being easy to interpret and process. Such maps have found use in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikhil Gosala , Abhinav Valada

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation is crucial for the perception function in autonomous driving tasks. It is difficult to balance the accuracy, efficiency and range of BEV representation. The existing works are restricted to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Tong Qin , Jin Pan , Qiang Zhao , Chunjing Xu , Ming Yang

Vision-language navigation (VLN), which entails an agent to navigate 3D environments following human instructions, has shown great advances. However, current agents are built upon panoramic observations, which hinders their ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Rui Liu , Xiaohan Wang , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang