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We present an end-to-end method for object detection and trajectory prediction utilizing multi-view representations of LiDAR returns and camera images. In this work, we recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sudeep Fadadu , Shreyash Pandey , Darshan Hegde , Yi Shi , Fang-Chieh Chou , Nemanja Djuric , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation is crucial for the perception function in autonomous driving tasks. It is difficult to balance the accuracy, efficiency and range of BEV representation. The existing works are restricted to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Tong Qin , Jin Pan , Qiang Zhao , Chunjing Xu , Ming Yang

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

We present a novel bird's-eye-view (BEV) detector with perspective supervision, which converges faster and better suits modern image backbones. Existing state-of-the-art BEV detectors are often tied to certain depth pre-trained backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Chenyu Yang , Yuntao Chen , Hao Tian , Chenxin Tao , Xizhou Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Gao Huang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Lewei Lu , Jie Zhou , Jifeng Dai

Recent works in autonomous driving have widely adopted the bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic map as an intermediate representation of the world. Online prediction of these BEV maps involves non-trivial operations such as multi-camera data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Florent Bartoccioni , Éloi Zablocki , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord , Karteek Alahari

Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture…

In this paper, we propose M$^2$BEV, a unified framework that jointly performs 3D object detection and map segmentation in the Birds Eye View~(BEV) space with multi-camera image inputs. Unlike the majority of previous works which separately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Enze Xie , Zhiding Yu , Daquan Zhou , Jonah Philion , Anima Anandkumar , Sanja Fidler , Ping Luo , Jose M. Alvarez

To find the geolocation of a street-view image, cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) methods typically perform image retrieval on a database of georeferenced aerial images and determine the location from the visually most similar match. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Learning powerful representations in bird's-eye-view (BEV) for perception tasks is trending and drawing extensive attention both from industry and academia. Conventional approaches for most autonomous driving algorithms perform detection,…

Accurate prediction of communication link quality metrics is essential for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) systems, enabling smooth handovers, efficient beam management, and reliable low-latency communication. The increasing availability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Kimia Ehsani , Walid Saad

Autonomous driving technology has the potential to transform transportation, but its wide adoption depends on the development of interpretable and transparent decision-making systems. Scene captioning, which generates natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Felix Brandstaetter , Erik Schuetz , Katharina Winter , Fabian Flohr

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

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) maps have emerged as one of the most powerful representations for scene understanding due to their ability to provide rich spatial context while being easy to interpret and process. Such maps have found use in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikhil Gosala , Abhinav Valada

This paper proposes a novel framework for real-time localization and egomotion tracking of a vehicle in a reference map. The core idea is to map the semantic objects observed by the vehicle and register them to their corresponding objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jacqueline Ankenbauer , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

Autonomous driving requires an accurate representation of the environment. A strategy toward high accuracy is to fuse data from several sensors. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders can achieve this by mapping data from individual sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Thomas Monninger , Vandana Dokkadi , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab

Seeing only a tiny part of the whole is not knowing the full circumstance. Bird's-eye-view (BEV) perception, a process of obtaining allocentric maps from egocentric views, is restricted when using a narrow Field of View (FoV) alone. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhifeng Teng , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Kunyu Peng , Hao Shi , Simon Reiß , Ke Cao , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) maps provide a structured, top-down abstraction that is crucial for autonomous-driving perception. In this work, we employ Cross-View Transformers (CVT) for learning to map camera images to three BEV's channels - road,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Felipe Carlos dos Santos , Eric Aislan Antonelo , Gustavo Claudio Karl Couto

Accurate and reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous vehicles to use map information in higher-level tasks such as navigation or planning. In this paper, we present a novel approach to vehicle localization in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Markus Herb , Matthias Lemberger , Marcel M. Schmitt , Alexander Kurz , Tobias Weiherer , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. The considerable cost and relatively sparse data acquisition of LiDAR systems have led to the exploration of cost-effective alternatives, notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yucheng Mao , Ruowen Zhao , Tianbao Zhang , Hang Zhao