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Robust semantic perception for autonomous vehicles relies on effectively combining multiple sensors with complementary strengths and weaknesses. State-of-the-art sensor fusion approaches to semantic perception often treat sensor data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tim Broedermannn , Christos Sakaridis , Luigi Piccinelli , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving, with cameras and LiDAR being the most commonly used sensors. However, existing methods perform sensor fusion in a single view by projecting features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rohit Mohan , Daniele Cattaneo , Florian Drews , Abhinav Valada

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for an accurate and reliable autonomous driving system. Recent approaches are based on point-level fusion: augmenting the LiDAR point cloud with camera features. However, the camera-to-LiDAR projection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Zhijian Liu , Haotian Tang , Alexander Amini , Xinyu Yang , Huizi Mao , Daniela Rus , Song Han

As camera and LiDAR sensors capture complementary information used in autonomous driving, great efforts have been made to develop semantic segmentation algorithms through multi-modality data fusion. However, fusion-based approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Chaoda Zheng , Chao Zheng , Ruimao Zhang , Shenghui Cui , Zhen Li

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Multi-modality image fusion and segmentation play a vital role in autonomous driving and robotic operation. Early efforts focus on boosting the performance for only one task, \emph{e.g.,} fusion or segmentation, making it hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Jinyuan Liu , Zhu Liu , Guanyao Wu , Long Ma , Risheng Liu , Wei Zhong , Zhongxuan Luo , Xin Fan

Multi-modality image fusion enhances scene perception by combining complementary information. Unified models aim to share parameters across modalities for multi-modality image fusion, but large modality differences often cause gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Xilai Li , Xiaosong Li , Weijun Jiang

Multi-modal systems enhance performance in autonomous driving but face inefficiencies due to indiscriminate processing within each modality. Additionally, the independent feature learning of each modality lacks interaction, which results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Guoliang You , Xiaomeng Chu , Yifan Duan , Xingchen Li , Sha Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

This paper presents Neural Mesh Fusion (NMF), an efficient approach for joint optimization of polygon mesh from multi-view image observations and unsupervised 3D planar-surface parsing of the scene. In contrast to implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Farhad G. Zanjani , Hong Cai , Yinhao Zhu , Leyla Mirvakhabova , Fatih Porikli

In this paper, we propose a similarity-aware fusion network (SAFNet) to adaptively fuse 2D images and 3D point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation. Existing fusion-based methods achieve remarkable performances by integrating information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Linqing Zhao , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Multimodal medical image fusion plays an instrumental role in several areas of medical image processing, particularly in disease recognition and tumor detection. Traditional fusion methods tend to process each modality independently before…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Lin Liu , Xinxin Fan , Chulong Zhang , Jingjing Dai , Yaoqin Xie , Xiaokun Liang

Multi-sensor fusion perception (MSFP) is a key technology for embodied AI, which can serve a variety of downstream tasks (e.g., 3D object detection and semantic segmentation) and application scenarios (e.g., autonomous driving and swarm…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shulan Ruan , Rongwei Wang , Xuchen Shen , Huijie Liu , Baihui Xiao , Jun Shi , Kun Zhang , Zhenya Huang , Yu Liu , Enhong Chen , You He

The perception of autonomous vehicles has to be efficient, robust, and cost-effective. However, cameras are not robust against severe weather conditions, lidar sensors are expensive, and the performance of radar-based perception is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Felix Fent , Andras Palffy , Holger Caesar

Environmental perception systems are crucial for high-precision mapping and autonomous navigation, with LiDAR serving as a core sensor providing accurate 3D point cloud data. Efficiently processing unstructured point clouds while extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chuang Chen , Yi Lin , Bo Wang , Jing Hu , Xi Wu , Wenyi Ge

Cross-modality fusing complementary information of multispectral remote sensing image pairs can improve the perception ability of detection algorithms, making them more robust and reliable for a wider range of applications, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Qingyun Fang , Zhaokui Wang

Point clouds and images could provide complementary information when representing 3D objects. Fusing the two kinds of data usually helps to improve the detection results. However, it is challenging to fuse the two data modalities, due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xun Tan , Xingyu Chen , Guowei Zhang , Jishiyu Ding , Xuguang Lan

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Weiguang Zhao , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Few-shot 3D point cloud segmentation (FS-PCS) aims at generalizing models to segment novel categories with minimal annotated support samples. While existing FS-PCS methods have shown promise, they primarily focus on unimodal point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhaochong An , Guolei Sun , Yun Liu , Runjia Li , Min Wu , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ender Konukoglu , Serge Belongie

Emotion recognition plays a vital role in enhancing human-computer interaction. In this study, we tackle the MER-SEMI challenge of the MER2025 competition by proposing a novel multimodal emotion recognition framework. To address the issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Juewen Hu , Yexin Li , Jiulin Li , Shuo Chen , Pring Wong

Multi-sensor fusion (MSF) is widely used in autonomous vehicles (AVs) for perception, particularly for 3D object detection with camera and LiDAR sensors. The purpose of fusion is to capitalize on the advantages of each modality while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhiyuan Cheng , Hongjun Choi , James Liang , Shiwei Feng , Guanhong Tao , Dongfang Liu , Michael Zuzak , Xiangyu Zhang