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Accurately localizing 3D objects like pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles is essential in Autonomous Driving. To ensure high detection performance, Autonomous Vehicles complement RGB cameras with LiDAR sensors, but effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Carlo Sgaravatti , Riccardo Pieroni , Matteo Corno , Sergio M. Savaresi , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi

Previous works have shown that face recognition with high accurate 3D data is more reliable and insensitive to pose and illumination variations. Recently, low-cost and portable 3D acquisition techniques like ToF(Time of Flight) and DoE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Yang Tan , Hongxin Lin , Zelin Xiao , Shengyong Ding , Hongyang Chao

Stereo-LiDAR fusion is a promising task in that we can utilize two different types of 3D perceptions for practical usage -- dense 3D information (stereo cameras) and highly-accurate sparse point clouds (LiDAR). However, due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jaesung Choe , Kyungdon Joo , Tooba Imtiaz , In So Kweon

This paper presents a novel framework for robust 3D object detection from point clouds via cross-modal hallucination. Our proposed approach is agnostic to either hallucination direction between LiDAR and 4D radar. We introduce multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jianning Deng , Gabriel Chan , Hantao Zhong , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ajinkya Khoche , Qingwen Zhang , Laura Pereira Sanchez , Aron Asefaw , Sina Sharif Mansouri , Patric Jensfelt

We propose LiRaFusion to tackle LiDAR-radar fusion for 3D object detection to fill the performance gap of existing LiDAR-radar detectors. To improve the feature extraction capabilities from these two modalities, we design an early fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jingyu Song , Lingjun Zhao , Katherine A. Skinner

Fusing 3D LiDAR features with 2D camera features is a promising technique for enhancing the accuracy of 3D detection, thanks to their complementary physical properties. While most of the existing methods focus on directly fusing camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Lemeng Wu , Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Yunyang Xiong , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Qiang Liu , Vikas Chandra

We present PointFusion, a generic 3D object detection method that leverages both image and 3D point cloud information. Unlike existing methods that either use multi-stage pipelines or hold sensor and dataset-specific assumptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Danfei Xu , Dragomir Anguelov , Ashesh Jain

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

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhen-Qi Chen , Yuan-Fu Yang

Collaborative 3D object detection, with its improved interaction advantage among multiple agents, has been widely explored in autonomous driving. However, existing collaborative 3D object detectors in a fully supervised paradigm heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yushan Han , Hui Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Yidong Li

Multi-modal depth estimation is one of the key challenges for endowing autonomous machines with robust robotic perception capabilities. There have been outstanding advances in the development of uni-modal depth estimation techniques based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Johan S. Obando-Ceron , Victor Romero-Cano , Sildomar Monteiro

Novel view synthesis via Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) or 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) typically necessitates dense observations with hundreds of input images to circumvent artifacts. We introduce Deceptive-NeRF/3DGS to enhance sparse-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xinhang Liu , Jiaben Chen , Shiu-hong Kao , Yu-Wing Tai , Chi-Keung Tang

LiDAR point clouds are widely used in autonomous driving and consist of large numbers of 3D points captured at high frequency to represent surrounding objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic signs. While this dense data enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Z. Rozsa , Á. Madaras , Q. Wei , X. Lu , M. Golarits , H. Yuan , T. Sziranyi , R. Hamzaoui

Modern optical flow methods make use of salient scene feature points detected and matched within the scene as a basis for sparse-to-dense optical flow estimation. Current feature detectors however either give sparse, non uniform point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Felix Stephenson , Toby Breckon , Ioannis Katramados

Multi-modality image fusion aims at fusing modality-specific (complementarity) and modality-shared (correlation) information from multiple source images. To tackle the problem of the neglect of inter-feature relationships, high-frequency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoli Zhang , Liying Wang , Libo Zhao , Xiongfei Li , Siwei Ma

3D object detection using point cloud (PC) data is essential for perception pipelines of autonomous driving, where efficient encoding is key to meeting stringent resource and latency requirements. PointPillars, a widely adopted bird's-eye…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Minjae Lee , Seongmin Park , Hyungmin Kim , Minyong Yoon , Janghwan Lee , Jun Won Choi , Nam Sung Kim , Mingu Kang , Jungwook Choi

LiDAR-based 3D point cloud recognition has been proven beneficial in various applications. However, the sparsity and varying density pose a significant challenge in capturing intricate details of objects, particularly for medium-range and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zaipeng Duan , Xuzhong Hu , Pei An , Jie Ma

Novel view synthesis has evolved rapidly, advancing from Neural Radiance Fields to 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which offers real-time rendering and rapid training without compromising visual fidelity. However, 3DGS relies heavily on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Manuel Hofer , Markus Steinberger , Thomas Köhler

3D object detection with surround-view images is an essential task for autonomous driving. In this work, we propose DETR4D, a Transformer-based framework that explores sparse attention and direct feature query for 3D object detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Zhipeng Luo , Changqing Zhou , Gongjie Zhang , Shijian Lu