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With the increasing reliance of self-driving and similar robotic systems on robust 3D vision, the processing of LiDAR scans with deep convolutional neural networks has become a trend in academia and industry alike. Prior attempts on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ran Cheng , Christopher Agia , Yuan Ren , Xinhai Li , Liu Bingbing

3D semantic occupancy prediction is essential for achieving safe, reliable autonomous driving and robotic navigation. Compared to camera-only perception systems, multi-modal pipelines, especially LiDAR-camera fusion methods, can produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Lingjun Zhao , Sizhe Wei , James Hays , Lu Gan

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) has emerged as a pivotal approach for jointly learning scene geometry and semantics, enabling downstream applications such as navigation in mobile robotics. The recent generalization to Panoptic Scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Markus Gross , Aya Fahmy , Danit Niwattananan , Dominik Muhle , Rui Song , Daniel Cremers , Henri Meeß

Recent advances in sparse voxel representations have significantly improved the quality of 3D content generation, enabling high-resolution modeling with fine-grained geometry. However, existing frameworks suffer from severe computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yiwen Chen , Zhihao Li , Yikai Wang , Hu Zhang , Qin Li , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin

In autonomous driving, Vision Language Models (VLMs) excel at high-level reasoning , whereas semantic occupancy provides fine-grained details. Despite significant progress in individual fields, there is still no method that can effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chenxu Dang , Jie Wang , Guang Li , Zhiwen Hou , Zihan You , Hangjun Ye , Jie Ma , Long Chen , Yan Wang

Visual Odometry (VO) plays a pivotal role in autonomous systems, with a principal challenge being the lack of depth information in camera images. This paper introduces OCC-VO, a novel framework that capitalizes on recent advances in deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Heng Li , Yifan Duan , Xinran Zhang , Haiyi Liu , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

We introduce a framework for learning latent representations of 4D objects which are descriptive, faithfully capturing object geometry and appearance; compressive, aiding in downstream efficiency; and accessible, requiring minimal input,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Anagh Malik , Dorian Chan , Xiaoming Zhao , David B. Lindell , Oncel Tuzel , Jen-Hao Rick Chang

Camera-based 3D Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) is a critical task in autonomous driving systems, assessing voxel-level geometry and semantics for holistic scene perception. While existing voxel-based and plane-based SSC methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhiwen Yang , Yuxin Peng

LiDAR-based sparse 3D object detection plays a crucial role in autonomous driving applications due to its computational efficiency advantages. Existing methods either use the features of a single central voxel as an object proxy, or treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Lin Liu , Ziying Song , Qiming Xia , Feiyang Jia , Caiyan Jia , Lei Yang , Hongyu Pan

We present DocFormer -- a multi-modal transformer based architecture for the task of Visual Document Understanding (VDU). VDU is a challenging problem which aims to understand documents in their varied formats (forms, receipts etc.) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Srikar Appalaraju , Bhavan Jasani , Bhargava Urala Kota , Yusheng Xie , R. Manmatha

3D visual perception tasks, including 3D detection and map segmentation based on multi-camera images, are essential for autonomous driving systems. In this work, we present a new framework termed BEVFormer, which learns unified BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhiqi Li , Wenhai Wang , Hongyang Li , Enze Xie , Chonghao Sima , Tong Lu , Qiao Yu , Jifeng Dai

We present SCube, a novel method for reconstructing large-scale 3D scenes (geometry, appearance, and semantics) from a sparse set of posed images. Our method encodes reconstructed scenes using a novel representation VoxSplat, which is a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xuanchi Ren , Yifan Lu , Hanxue Liang , Zhangjie Wu , Huan Ling , Mike Chen , Sanja Fidler , Francis Williams , Jiahui Huang

Vision-centric occupancy networks, which represent the surrounding environment with uniform voxels with semantics, have become a new trend for safe driving of camera-only autonomous driving perception systems, as they are able to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yining Shi , Jiusi Li , Kun Jiang , Ke Wang , Yunlong Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang

We introduce Spatial Group Convolution (SGC) for accelerating the computation of 3D dense prediction tasks. SGC is orthogonal to group convolution, which works on spatial dimensions rather than feature channel dimension. It divides input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Jiahui Zhang , Hao Zhao , Anbang Yao , Yurong Chen , Li Zhang , Hongen Liao

3D scene understanding is fundamental for embodied AI and robotics, supporting reliable perception for interaction and navigation. Recent approaches achieve zero-shot, open-vocabulary 3D semantic mapping by assigning embedding vectors to 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohamad Amin Mirzaei , Pantea Amoie , Ali Ekhterachian , Matin Mirzababaei , Babak Khalaj

Recent Transformer-based 3D object detectors learn point cloud features either from point- or voxel-based representations. However, the former requires time-consuming sampling while the latter introduces quantization errors. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Honghui Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Binbin Lin , Tong He , Hua Chen , Xiaofei He , Wanli Ouyang

3D Gaussian Splatting has recently gained traction for its efficient training and real-time rendering. While its vanilla representation is mainly designed for view synthesis, recent works extended it to scene understanding with language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Siyun Liang , Sen Wang , Kunyi Li , Michael Niemeyer , Stefano Gasperini , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Semantic segmentation based on sparse annotation has advanced in recent years. It labels only part of each object in the image, leaving the remainder unlabeled. Most of the existing approaches are time-consuming and often necessitate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Hui Su , Yue Ye , Wei Hua , Lechao Cheng , Mingli Song

We present XCube (abbreviated as $\mathcal{X}^3$), a novel generative model for high-resolution sparse 3D voxel grids with arbitrary attributes. Our model can generate millions of voxels with a finest effective resolution of up to $1024^3$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Xuanchi Ren , Jiahui Huang , Xiaohui Zeng , Ken Museth , Sanja Fidler , Francis Williams

We introduce ShelfGaussian, an open-vocabulary multi-modal Gaussian-based 3D scene understanding framework supervised by off-the-shelf vision foundation models (VFMs). Gaussian-based methods have demonstrated superior performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Lingjun Zhao , Yandong Luo , James Hays , Lu Gan