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4D automotive radar is indispensable for autonomous driving due to its low cost and robustness, yet its point cloud sparsity challenges 3D object detection. Existing 4D radar-camera fusion methods focus on complex fusion strategies, trading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Weiyi Xiong , Bing Zhu

3D object detection has achieved remarkable progress by taking point clouds as the only input. However, point clouds often suffer from incomplete geometric structures and the lack of semantic information, which makes detectors hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Hao Yang , Chen Shi , Yihong Chen , Liwei Wang

Although LiDAR sensors are crucial for autonomous systems due to providing precise depth information, they struggle with capturing fine object details, especially at a distance, due to sparse and non-uniform data. Recent advances introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tiago Cortinhal , Idriss Gouigah , Eren Erdal Aksoy

In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Felix Fent , Gerhard Rigoll

3D object detection with multi-sensors is essential for an accurate and reliable perception system of autonomous driving and robotics. Existing 3D detectors significantly improve the accuracy by adopting a two-stage paradigm which merely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xinli Xu , Shaocong Dong , Lihe Ding , Jie Wang , Tingfa Xu , Jianan Li

LiDAR point clouds have become the most common data source in autonomous driving. However, due to the sparsity of point clouds, accurate and reliable detection cannot be achieved in specific scenarios. Because of their complementarity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Xiaoyu Mo

When localizing and detecting 3D objects for autonomous driving scenes, obtaining information from multiple sensor (e.g. camera, LIDAR) typically increases the robustness of 3D detectors. However, the efficient and effective fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

In autonomous driving, 3D object detection based on multi-modal data has become an indispensable approach when facing complex environments around the vehicle. During multi-modal detection, LiDAR and camera are simultaneously applied for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Rui Wan , Tianyun Zhao , Wei Zhao

LIDAR point clouds and RGB-images are both extremely essential for 3D object detection. So many state-of-the-art 3D detection algorithms dedicate in fusing these two types of data effectively. However, their fusion methods based on Birds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Liang Xie , Chao Xiang , Zhengxu Yu , Guodong Xu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

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

Point cloud sequences are commonly used to accurately detect 3D objects in applications such as autonomous driving. Current top-performing multi-frame detectors mostly follow a Detect-and-Fuse framework, which extracts features from each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Yabin Zhang , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

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

3D vehicle detection based on multi-modal fusion is an important task of many applications such as autonomous driving. Although significant progress has been made, we still observe two aspects that need to be further improvement: First, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Zehan Zhang , Ming Zhang , Zhidong Liang , Xian Zhao , Ming Yang , Wenming Tan , ShiLiang Pu

Multi-modal methods based on camera and LiDAR sensors have garnered significant attention in the field of 3D detection. However, many prevalent works focus on single or partial stage fusion, leading to insufficient feature extraction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Zhiwei Ning , Zhaojiang Liu , Xuanang Gao , Yifan Zuo , Jie Yang , Yuming Fang , Wei Liu

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

SSF3D modified the semi-supervised 3D object detection (SS3DOD) framework, which designed specifically for point cloud data. Leveraging the characteristics of non-coincidence and weak correlation of target objects in point cloud, we adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Songbur Wong

Integrating frame-based RGB cameras with event streams offers a promising solution for robust object detection under challenging dynamic conditions. However, the inherent heterogeneity and data redundancy of these modalities often lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Wei Bao , Yuehan Wang , Tianhang Zhou , Siqi Li , Yue Gao

LiDAR-based sparse 3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous driving applications due to its computational efficiency advantages. Existing methods either use the features of a single central voxel as an object proxy, or treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Lin Liu , Ziying Song , Qiming Xia , Feiyang Jia , Caiyan Jia , Lei Yang , Hongyu Pan

LiDAR-camera fusion can enhance the performance of 3D object detection by utilizing complementary information between depth-aware LiDAR points and semantically rich images. Existing voxel-based methods face significant challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Ziying Song , Guoxin Zhang , Jun Xie , Lin Liu , Caiyan Jia , Shaoqing Xu , Zhepeng Wang

This work proposes a new method to accurately complete sparse LiDAR maps guided by RGB images. For autonomous vehicles and robotics the use of LiDAR is indispensable in order to achieve precise depth predictions. A multitude of applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool