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Integrating LiDAR and camera information in the bird's eye view (BEV) representation has demonstrated its effectiveness in 3D object detection. However, because of the fundamental disparity in geometric accuracy between these sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Guowen Zhang , Chenhang He , Liyi Chen , Lei Zhang

Infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) is essential for integrating thermal saliency with textural details to support downstream perception. However, most existing approaches suffer from "semantic blindness," leading to the erroneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaoyang Zhang , jinjiang Li , Guodong Fan , Yakun Ju , Linwei Fan , Jun Liu , Alex C. Kot

With the wide application of sparse ToF sensors in mobile devices, RGB image-guided sparse depth completion has attracted extensive attention recently, but still faces some problems. First, the fusion of multimodal information requires more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Dewang Hou , Yuanyuan Du , Kai Zhao , Yang Zhao

This paper presents DFR (Decompose, Fuse and Reconstruct), a novel framework that addresses the fundamental challenge of effectively utilizing multi-modal guidance in few-shot segmentation (FSS). While existing approaches primarily rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Shuai Chen , Fanman Meng , Xiwei Zhang , Haoran Wei , Chenhao Wu , Qingbo Wu , Hongliang Li

Real-time small object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery remains challenging due to limited feature representation and ineffective multi-scale fusion. Existing methods underutilize frequency information and rely on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yu Xia , Chang Liu , Tianqi Xiang , Zhigang Tu

Depth completion is a key task in autonomous driving, aiming to complete sparse LiDAR depth measurements into high-quality dense depth maps through image guidance. However, existing methods usually treat depth maps as an additional channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Kuang Zhu , Xingli Gan , Min Sun

Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoran Xiao , Xiaofei Yang , Shijian Lu , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang

In this paper, we investigate the problem of weakly supervised 3D vehicle detection. Conventional methods for 3D object detection need vast amounts of manually labelled 3D data as supervision signals. However, annotating large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yi Wei , Shang Su , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Road detection is a critically important task for self-driving cars. By employing LiDAR data, recent works have significantly improved the accuracy of road detection. Relying on LiDAR sensors limits the wide application of those methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Libo Sun , Haokui Zhang , Wei Yin

Current multispectral object detection methods often retain extraneous background or noise during feature fusion, limiting perceptual performance. To address this, we propose an innovative feature fusion framework based on cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jifeng Shen , Haibo Zhan , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Xiaohui Yuan , Jun Li , Wankou Yang

LiDAR-based 3D object detection and classification is crucial for autonomous driving. However, real-time inference from extremely sparse 3D data is a formidable challenge. To address this problem, a typical class of approaches transforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Zhetao Sun , Enhui Zheng , Tianhong Yan , Peng Liao

Industrial anomaly detection (IAD) increasingly benefits from integrating 2D and 3D data, but robust cross-modal fusion remains challenging. We propose a novel unsupervised framework, Multi-Modal Attention-Driven Fusion Restoration (MAFR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Usman Ali , Ali Zia , Abdul Rehman , Umer Ramzan , Zohaib Hassan , Talha Sattar , Jing Wang , Wei Xiang

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

In recent times, there has been a notable surge in multimodal approaches that decorates raw LiDAR point clouds with camera-derived features to improve object detection performance. However, we found that these methods still grapple with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sudip Dhakal , Dominic Carrillo , Deyuan Qu , Michael Nutt , Qing Yang , Song Fu

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

4D radar-camera sensing configuration has gained increasing importance in autonomous driving. However, existing 3D object detection methods that fuse 4D Radar and camera data confront several challenges. First, their absolute depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhongyu Xia , Yousen Tang , Yongtao Wang , Zhifeng Wang , Weijun Qin

Accurate 3D object detection from point clouds has become a crucial component in autonomous driving. However, the volumetric representations and the projection methods in previous works fail to establish the relationships between the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Qingdong He , Zhengning Wang , Hao Zeng , Yi Zeng , Yijun Liu

Radar is ubiquitous in autonomous driving systems due to its low cost and good adaptability to bad weather. Nevertheless, the radar detection performance is usually inferior because its point cloud is sparse and not accurate due to the poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yang Liu , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Reconstructing large-scale colored point clouds is an important task in robotics, supporting perception, navigation, and scene understanding. Despite advances in LiDAR inertial visual odometry (LIVO), its performance remains highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Lijie Wang , Lianjie Guo , Ziyi Xu , Qianhao Wang , Fei Gao , Xieyuanli Chen