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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

Combining multiple sensors enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and enhance its robustness to external disturbance, crucial to robotic navigation. This paper proposes the FusionPortable benchmark, a complete…

Camera and radar sensors have significant advantages in cost, reliability, and maintenance compared to LiDAR. Existing fusion methods often fuse the outputs of single modalities at the result-level, called the late fusion strategy. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Youngseok Kim , Sanmin Kim , Jun Won Choi , Dongsuk Kum

Sensor fusion is crucial for a performant and robust Perception system in autonomous vehicles, but sensor staleness, where data from different sensors arrives with varying delays, poses significant challenges. Temporal misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Meng Fan , Yifan Zuo , Patrick Blaes , Harley Montgomery , Subhasis Das

Multimodal sensor fusion has demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over unimodal approaches in 3D object detection for autonomous vehicles. Typically, existing methods transform multimodal data from independent sensors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Markus Essl , Marta Moscati , Mubashir Noman , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Usman Naseem , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

In this work, we present an uncertainty-based method for sensor fusion with camera and radar data. The outputs of two neural networks, one processing camera and the other one radar data, are combined in an uncertainty aware manner. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Kamil Kowol , Matthias Rottmann , Stefan Bracke , Hanno Gottschalk

Fusing the camera and LiDAR information has become a de-facto standard for 3D object detection tasks. Current methods rely on point clouds from the LiDAR sensor as queries to leverage the feature from the image space. However, people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tingting Liang , Hongwei Xie , Kaicheng Yu , Zhongyu Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Tao Tang , Bing Wang , Zhi Tang

In this paper, we present an extension to LaserNet, an efficient and state-of-the-art LiDAR based 3D object detector. We propose a method for fusing image data with the LiDAR data and show that this sensor fusion method improves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Gregory P. Meyer , Jake Charland , Darshan Hegde , Ankit Laddha , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

LiDAR and Radar are two complementary sensing approaches in that LiDAR specializes in capturing an object's 3D shape while Radar provides longer detection ranges as well as velocity hints. Though seemingly natural, how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yingjie Wang , Jiajun Deng , Yao Li , Jinshui Hu , Cong Liu , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Wanli Ouyang , Yanyong Zhang

Reliable obstacle detection and classification in rough and unstructured terrain such as agricultural fields or orchards remains a challenging problem. These environments involve large variations in both geometry and appearance, challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mikkel Kragh , James Underwood

LiDAR-camera fusion is one of the core processes for the perception system of current automated driving systems. The typical sensor fusion process includes a list of coordinate transformation operations following system calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dan Shen , Zhengming Zhang , Renran Tian , Yaobin Chen , Rini Sherony

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Event cameras, inspired by biological vision, are asynchronous sensors that detect changes in brightness, offering notable advantages in environments characterized by high-speed motion, low lighting, or wide dynamic range. These distinctive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiaqiang Zhang , Xianjia Yu , Ha Sier , Haizhou Zhang , Tomi Westerlund

Most autonomous vehicles are equipped with LiDAR sensors and stereo cameras. The former is very accurate but generates sparse data, whereas the latter is dense, has rich texture and color information but difficult to extract robust 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Farzin Negahbani , Onur Berk Töre , Fatma Güney , Baris Akgun

Estimating and understanding the surroundings of the vehicle precisely forms the basic and crucial step for the autonomous vehicle. The perception system plays a significant role in providing an accurate interpretation of a vehicle's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Sreenivasa Hikkal Venugopala

In this paper, we propose an accurate and robust perception module for Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) for drivable space extraction. Perception is crucial in autonomous driving, where many deep learning-based methods, while accurate on benchmark…

Besides standard cameras, autonomous vehicles typically include multiple additional sensors, such as lidars and radars, which help acquire richer information for perceiving the content of the driving scene. While several recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Tim Broedermann , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

In robotic navigation, maintaining precise pose estimation and navigation in complex and dynamic environments is crucial. However, environmental challenges such as smoke, tunnels, and adverse weather can significantly degrade the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Chenglong Qian , Yang Xu , Xiufang Shi , Jiming Chen , Liang Li

4D radar has received significant attention in autonomous driving thanks to its robustness under adverse weathers. Due to the sparse points and noisy measurements of the 4D radar, most of the research finish the 3D object detection task by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Hanzhi Zhong , Zhiyu Xiang , Ruoyu Xu , Jingyun Fu , Peng Xu , Shaohong Wang , Zhihao Yang , Tianyu Pu , Eryun Liu

Large driving datasets are a key component in the current development and safeguarding of automated driving functions. Various methods can be used to collect such driving data records. In addition to the use of sensor equipped research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Geller , Amarin Kloeker , Lutz Eckstein