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LiDAR is an important method for autonomous driving systems to sense the environment. The point clouds obtained by LiDAR typically exhibit sparse and irregular distribution, thus posing great challenges to the detection of 3D objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Tai Wang , Xinge Zhu , Dahua Lin

4D radar measurements offer an affordable and weather-robust solution for 3D perception. However, the inherent sparsity and noise of radar point clouds present significant challenges for accurate 3D object detection, underscoring the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokai Bai , Jiahao Cheng , Songkai Wang , Yixuan Luo , Lianqing Zheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

Reliable autonomous driving systems require accurate detection of traffic participants. To this end, multi-modal fusion has emerged as an effective strategy. In particular, 4D radar and LiDAR fusion methods based on multi-frame radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiangyuan Peng , Yu Wang , Miao Tang , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Visual-LiDAR odometry is a critical component for autonomous system localization, yet achieving high accuracy and strong robustness remains a challenge. Traditional approaches commonly struggle with sensor misalignment, fail to fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Mengmeng Liu , Michael Ying Yang , Jiuming Liu , Yunpeng Zhang , Jiangtao Li , Sander Oude Elberink , George Vosselman , Hao Cheng

3D object detection in point clouds is a core component for modern robotics and autonomous driving systems. A key challenge in 3D object detection comes from the inherent sparse nature of point occupancy within the 3D scene. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Pei Sun , Mingxing Tan , Weiyue Wang , Chenxi Liu , Fei Xia , Zhaoqi Leng , Dragomir Anguelov

Accurate 3D object detection for autonomous driving requires complementary sensors. Cameras provide dense semantics but unreliable depth, while millimeter-wave radar offers precise range and velocity measurements with sparse geometry. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mayank Mayank , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Florian Geiß , Abhinav Valada

Recent advances in point cloud object detection have increasingly adopted Transformer-based and State Space Models (SSMs) to capture long-range dependencies. However, these serialized frameworks strictly maintain the consistency of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qifeng Liu , Dawei Zhao , Yabo Dong , Linzhi Shang , Liang Xiao , Juan Wang , Kunkong Zhao , Dongming Lu , Qi Zhu

The integration of point and voxel representations is becoming more common in LiDAR-based 3D object detection. However, this combination often struggles with capturing semantic information effectively. Moreover, relying solely on point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yidi Li , Jiahao Wen , Bin Ren , Wenhao Li , Zhenhuan Xu , Hao Guo , Hong Liu , Nicu Sebe

The emerging 4D millimeter-wave radar, measuring the range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity of objects, is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and robustness in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, its point clouds exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuzhi Wu , Li Xiao , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , XiangGen Xia

3D pedestrian detection is a challenging task in automated driving because pedestrians are relatively small, frequently occluded and easily confused with narrow vertical objects. LiDAR and camera are two commonly used sensor modalities for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Juncong Fei , Wenbo Chen , Philipp Heidenreich , Sascha Wirges , Christoph Stiller

The rise of autonomous vehicles has significantly increased the demand for robust 3D object detection systems. While cameras and LiDAR sensors each offer unique advantages--cameras provide rich texture information and LiDAR offers precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Zitian Wang , Zehao Huang , Yulu Gao , Naiyan Wang , Si Liu

Lidar-based sensing drives current autonomous vehicles. Despite rapid progress, current Lidar sensors still lag two decades behind traditional color cameras in terms of resolution and cost. For autonomous driving, this means that large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Tianwei Yin , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

Accurate 3D object detection from point clouds has become a crucial component in autonomous driving. However, the volumetric representations and the projection methods in previous works fail to establish the relationships between the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Qingdong He , Zhengning Wang , Hao Zeng , Yi Zeng , Yijun Liu

LiDAR point clouds can effectively depict the motion and posture of objects in three-dimensional space. Many studies accomplish the 3D object detection by voxelizing point clouds. However, in autonomous driving scenarios, the sparsity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Binrui Wang , Tianhong Yan , Zhetao Sun , Yiyang Zhang , Jiaxin Liu

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

Many LiDAR-based methods for detecting large objects, single-class object detection, or under easy situations were claimed to perform quite well. However, their performances of detecting small objects or under hard situations did not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chia-Hung Wang , Hsueh-Wei Chen , Li-Chen Fu

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Object detection has been extensively utilized in autonomous systems in recent years, encompassing both 2D and 3D object detection. Recent research in this field has primarily centered around multimodal approaches for addressing this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Wendong Zhang

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving, with cameras and LiDAR being the most commonly used sensors. However, existing methods perform sensor fusion in a single view by projecting features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rohit Mohan , Daniele Cattaneo , Florian Drews , Abhinav Valada

3D object detection and dense depth estimation are one of the most vital tasks in autonomous driving. Multiple sensor modalities can jointly attribute towards better robot perception, and to that end, we introduce a method for jointly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Shubham Shrivastava