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Accurate 3D object detection for autonomous driving requires complementary sensors. Cameras provide dense semantics but unreliable depth, while millimeter-wave radar offers precise range and velocity measurements with sparse geometry. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mayank Mayank , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Florian Geiß , Abhinav Valada

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While prevalent multi-modal methods simply decorate raw lidar point clouds with camera features and feed them directly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yingwei Li , Adams Wei Yu , Tianjian Meng , Ben Caine , Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Junyang Shen , Bo Wu , Yifeng Lu , Denny Zhou , Quoc V. Le , Alan Yuille , Mingxing Tan

Object detection in camera images, using deep learning has been proven successfully in recent years. Rising detection rates and computationally efficient network structures are pushing this technique towards application in production…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Maximilian Geisslinger , Markus Weber , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

In advanced paradigms of autonomous driving, learning Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation from surrounding views is crucial for multi-task framework. However, existing methods based on depth estimation or camera-driven attention are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Hongxiang Jiang , Wenming Meng , Hongmei Zhu , Qian Zhang , Jihao Yin

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

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

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

Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Felix Nobis , Ehsan Shafiei , Phillip Karle , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Nowadays, an increasing number of works fuse LiDAR and RGB data in the bird's-eye view (BEV) space for 3D object detection in autonomous driving systems. However, existing methods suffer from over-reliance on the LiDAR branch, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Kang Luo , Xin Chen , Yangyi Xiao , Hesheng Wang

The state of the art in 3D object detection using sensor fusion heavily relies on calibration quality, which is difficult to maintain in large scale deployment outside a lab environment. We present the first calibration-free approach for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Michael Fürst , Rahul Jakkamsetty , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for accurate 3D object detection in self-driving systems. Camera and LiDAR are the most commonly used sensors, and usually, their fusion happens at the early or late stages of 3D detectors with the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Javed Ahmad , Alessio Del Bue

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

We propose Radar-Camera fusion transformer (RaCFormer) to boost the accuracy of 3D object detection by the following insight. The Radar-Camera fusion in outdoor 3D scene perception is capped by the image-to-BEV transformation--if the depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaomeng Chu , Jiajun Deng , Guoliang You , Yifan Duan , Houqiang Li , Yanyong Zhang

Until now, of highest relevance for remote sensing data processing and analysis have been techniques for pixel level image fusion. So, This paper attempts to undertake the study of Feature-Level based image fusion. For this purpose, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Firouz Abdullah Al-Wassai , N. V. Kalyankar , Ali A. Al-Zaky

In recent years 3D object detection from LiDAR point clouds has made great progress thanks to the development of deep learning technologies. Although voxel or point based methods are popular in 3D object detection, they usually involve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Pan Zhao , Tingming Bai , Lingxuan Wang , Xijun Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang

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

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

Multispectral image pairs can provide the combined information, making object detection applications more reliable and robust in the open world. To fully exploit the different modalities, we present a simple yet effective cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Fang Qingyun , Han Dapeng , Wang Zhaokui

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