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Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representations are the dominant paradigm for 3D perception in autonomous driving, providing a unified spatial canvas where detection and segmentation features are geometrically registered to the same physical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ahmet İnanç , Özgür Erkent

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is fundamental to fusing multi-modal perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. Traditional calibration methods require extensive data collection in controlled environments and cannot compensate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Weiduo Yuan , Jerry Li , Justin Yue , Divyank Shah , Konstantinos Karydis , Hang Qiu

Map construction task plays a vital role in providing precise and comprehensive static environmental information essential for autonomous driving systems. Primary sensors include cameras and LiDAR, with configurations varying between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xiaoshuai Hao , Yunfeng Diao , Mengchuan Wei , Yifan Yang , Peng Hao , Rong Yin , Hui Zhang , Weiming Li , Shu Zhao , Yu Liu

Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) is an important task for autonomous driving. Though this task has attracted a large amount of research efforts, it is still challenging to flexibly cope with arbitrary (single or multiple)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Lang Peng , Zhirong Chen , Zhangjie Fu , Pengpeng Liang , Erkang Cheng

Semantic scene segmentation from a bird's-eye-view (BEV) perspective plays a crucial role in facilitating planning and decision-making for mobile robots. Although recent vision-only methods have demonstrated notable advancements in…

Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianhao Zhao , Yongcan Chen , Yu Wu , Tianyang Liu , Bo Du , Peilun Xiao , Shi Qiu , Hongda Yang , Guozhen Li , Yi Yang , Yutian Lin

We present BEVCon, a simple yet effective contrastive learning framework designed to improve Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception in autonomous driving. BEV perception offers a top-down-view representation of the surrounding environment, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ziyang Leng , Jiawei Yang , Zhicheng Ren , Bolei Zhou

Beam prediction is critical for reducing beam-training overhead in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, especially in high-mobility vehicular scenarios. This paper presents a BEV-Fusion based framework that unifies camera, LiDAR, radar, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Jiaming Zeng , Cunhua Pan , Haoyang Weng , Ruijing Liu , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

Cross-modal Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) aims to exploit the complementarity of 2D-3D data to overcome the lack of annotation in a new domain. However, UDA methods rely on access to the target domain during training, meaning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Miaoyu Li , Yachao Zhang , Xu MA , Yanyun Qu , Yun Fu

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perception has become a foundational paradigm in autonomous driving, enabling unified spatial representations that support robust multi-sensor fusion and multi-agent collaboration. As autonomous vehicles transition…

The bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation allows robust learning of multiple tasks for autonomous driving including road layout estimation and 3D object detection. However, contemporary methods for unified road layout estimation and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Curie Kim , Ue-Hwan Kim

Bird's eye view (BEV) representation is a new perception formulation for autonomous driving, which is based on spatial fusion. Further, temporal fusion is also introduced in BEV representation and gains great success. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zequn Qin , Jingyu Chen , Chao Chen , Xiaozhi Chen , Xi Li

Accurate motion understanding of the dynamic objects within the scene in bird's-eye-view (BEV) is critical to ensure a reliable obstacle avoidance system and smooth path planning for autonomous vehicles. However, this task has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hiep Truong Cong , Ajay Kumar Sigatapu , Arindam Das , Yashwanth Sharma , Venkatesh Satagopan , Ganesh Sistu , Ciaran Eising

LiDAR and camera are two essential sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. LiDAR provides accurate and reliable 3D geometry information while the camera provides rich texture with color. Despite the increasing popularity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Qi Jiang , Hao Sun , Xi Zhang

Spatial understanding of the semantics of the surroundings is a key capability needed by autonomous cars to enable safe driving decisions. Recently, purely vision-based solutions have gained increasing research interest. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marvin Raaijmakers

Bird's eye view (BEV) semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in spatial sensing for autonomous driving. Although recent literature has made significant progress on BEV map understanding, they are all based on single-agent camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Hao Xiang , Wei Shao , Bolei Zhou , Jiaqi Ma

Camera-radar fusion offers a robust and cost-effective alternative to LiDAR-based autonomous driving systems by combining complementary sensing capabilities: cameras provide rich semantic cues but unreliable depth, while radar delivers…

This paper investigates the advantages of using Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation in 360-degree visual place recognition (VPR). We propose a novel network architecture that utilizes the BEV representation in feature extraction, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuecheng Xu , Yanmei Jiao , Sha Lu , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

This paper aims at achieving fine-grained building attribute segmentation in a cross-view scenario, i.e., using satellite and street-view image pairs. The main challenge lies in overcoming the significant perspective differences between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Junyan Ye , Qiyan Luo , Jinhua Yu , Huaping Zhong , Zhimeng Zheng , Conghui He , Weijia Li

This paper introduces BEV-VLM, a novel approach for trajectory planning in autonomous driving that leverages Vision-Language Models (VLMs) with Bird's-Eye View (BEV) feature maps as visual input. Unlike conventional trajectory planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Guancheng Chen , Sheng Yang , Tong Zhan , Jian Wang