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Accurate 3D bird's-eye view (BEV) object detection is essential for autonomous driving, and depends strongly on effective multimodal representations from complementary sensors such as cameras and LiDAR. Multimodal masked autoencoders have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma , Rajitha de Silva , Marc Hanheide , Thomas Bohné , Leonardo Guevara

Integrating LiDAR and camera inputs into a unified Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation is crucial for enhancing 3D perception capabilities of autonomous vehicles. However, existing methods suffer from spatial misalignment between LiDAR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiang Li , Zhangchi Hu , Xiao Xu , Bin Kong

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia

Witnessing the impressive achievements of pre-training techniques on large-scale data in the field of computer vision and natural language processing, we wonder whether this idea could be adapted in a grab-and-go spirit, and mitigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Penghao Wu , Li Chen , Hongyang Li , Xiaosong Jia , Junchi Yan , Yu Qiao

Novel view synthesis aims to generate new view images of a given view image collection. Recent attempts address this problem relying on 3D geometry priors (e.g., shapes, sizes, and positions) learned from multi-view images. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Zixiong Huang , Qi Chen , Libo Sun , Yifan Yang , Naizhou Wang , Mingkui Tan , Qi Wu

Integrating LiDAR and camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a crucial aspect of 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, existing methods are susceptible to the inaccurate calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ziying Song , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Lin Liu , Dongyang Xu , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Li Wang

Learning inter-image similarity is crucial for 3D medical images self-supervised pre-training, due to their sharing of numerous same semantic regions. However, the lack of the semantic prior in metrics and the semantic-independent variation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuting He , Guanyu Yang , Rongjun Ge , Yang Chen , Jean-Louis Coatrieux , Boyu Wang , Shuo Li

Learning Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation from surrounding-view cameras is of great importance for autonomous driving. In this work, we propose a Geometry-guided Kernel Transformer (GKT), a novel 2D-to-BEV representation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Shaoyu Chen , Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Wenming Meng , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu

Recent advances in 3D perception have shown impressive progress in understanding geometric structures of 3Dshapes and even scenes. Inspired by these advances in geometric understanding, we aim to imbue image-based perception with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Ji Hou , Saining Xie , Benjamin Graham , Angela Dai , Matthias Nießner

Existing deep learning-based approaches for monocular 3D object detection in autonomous driving often model the object as a rotated 3D cuboid while the object's geometric shape has been ignored. In this work, we propose an approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Zongdai Liu , Dingfu Zhou , Feixiang Lu , Jin Fang , Liangjun Zhang

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

Understanding 3D scenes from multi-view inputs has been proven to alleviate the view discrepancy issue in 3D visual grounding. However, existing methods normally neglect the view cues embedded in the text modality and fail to weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Zoey Guo , Yiwen Tang , Ray Zhang , Dong Wang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Xuelong Li

We tackle the task of synthesizing novel views of an object given a few input images and associated camera viewpoints. Our work is inspired by recent 'geometry-free' approaches where multi-view images are encoded as a (global) set-latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Naveen Venkat , Mayank Agarwal , Maneesh Singh , Shubham Tulsiani

Visual bird's eye view (BEV) perception, due to its excellent perceptual capabilities, is progressively replacing costly LiDAR-based perception systems, especially in the realm of urban intelligent driving. However, this type of perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lei He , Qiaoyi Wang , Honglin Sun , Qing Xu , Bolin Gao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

Predictive world models that simulate future observations under explicit camera control are fundamental to interactive AI. Despite rapid advances, current systems lack spatial persistence: they fail to maintain stable scene structures over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chendong Xiang , Jiajun Liu , Jintao Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zhengwei Fang , Shizun Wang , Zijun Wang , Yingtian Zou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

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…

Reconstructing dynamic 4D scenes is an important yet challenging task. While 3D foundation models like VGGT excel in static settings, they often struggle with dynamic sequences where motion causes significant geometric ambiguity. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Ying Zang , Yidong Han , Chaotao Ding , Yuanqi Hu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lingyun Sun , Tianrun Chen , Lanyun Zhu

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models often fail to generalize to unseen camera viewpoints, a limitation stemming from their difficulty in inferring robust 3D geometry from 2D images. We introduce GeoAware-VLA, a simple yet effective approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ali Abouzeid , Malak Mansour , Qinbo Sun , Zezhou Sun , Dezhen Song

While most recent autonomous driving system focuses on developing perception methods on ego-vehicle sensors, people tend to overlook an alternative approach to leverage intelligent roadside cameras to extend the perception ability beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Lei Yang , Kaicheng Yu , Tao Tang , Jun Li , Kun Yuan , Li Wang , Xinyu Zhang , Peng Chen

Constructing 3D representations of object geometry is critical for many robotics tasks, particularly manipulation problems. These representations must be built from potentially noisy partial observations. In this work, we focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Herbert Wright , Weiming Zhi , Martin Matak , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Tucker Hermans