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Autonomous off-road navigation requires an accurate semantic understanding of the environment, often converted into a bird's-eye view (BEV) representation for various downstream tasks. While learning-based methods have shown success in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ohn Kim , Junwon Seo , Seongyong Ahn , Chong Hui Kim

In this paper, we propose the LiDAR Distillation to bridge the domain gap induced by different LiDAR beams for 3D object detection. In many real-world applications, the LiDAR points used by mass-produced robots and vehicles usually have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yi Wei , Zibu Wei , Yongming Rao , Jiaxin Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Building 3D perception systems for autonomous vehicles that do not rely on high-density LiDAR is a critical research problem because of the expense of LiDAR systems compared to cameras and other sensors. Recent research has developed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Adam W. Harley , Zhaoyuan Fang , Jie Li , Rares Ambrus , Katerina Fragkiadaki

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…

Recent advancements in camera-based 3D object detection have introduced cross-modal knowledge distillation to bridge the performance gap with LiDAR 3D detectors, leveraging the precise geometric information in LiDAR point clouds. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Sanmin Kim , Youngseok Kim , Sihwan Hwang , Hyeonjun Jeong , Dongsuk Kum

Accurate environment perception is essential for automated driving. When using monocular cameras, the distance estimation of elements in the environment poses a major challenge. Distances can be more easily estimated when the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lennart Reiher , Bastian Lampe , Lutz Eckstein

Recently, Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has gained increasing attention in multi-view 3D object detection, which has demonstrated promising applications in autonomous driving. Although multi-view camera systems can be deployed at low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Jianing Li , Ming Lu , Jiaming Liu , Yandong Guo , Li Du , Shanghang Zhang

A semantic map of the road scene, covering fundamental road elements, is an essential ingredient in autonomous driving systems. It provides important perception foundations for positioning and planning when rendered in the Bird's-Eye-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Siyu Li , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Jiaming Zhang , Jiacheng Lin , Zhifeng Teng , Zhiyong Li

Integrating LiDAR and Camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) has become an essential topic for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Existing methods mostly adopt an independent dual-branch framework to generate LiDAR and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hongxiang Cai , Zeyuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Ziyin Li , Wenbo Ding , Jiuhua Zhao

Semantic scene segmentation from a bird's-eye-view (BEV) perspective plays a crucial role in facilitating planning and decision-making for mobile robots. Although recent vision-only methods have demonstrated notable advancements in…

Semantic Scene Completion (SSC) constitutes a pivotal element in autonomous driving perception systems, tasked with inferring the 3D semantic occupancy of a scene from sensory data. To improve accuracy, prior research has implemented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Ruoyu Wang , Yukai Ma , Yi Yao , Sheng Tao , Haoang Li , Zongzhi Zhu , Yong Liu , Xingxing Zuo

Detecting 3D objects from multi-view images is a fundamental problem in 3D computer vision. Recently, significant breakthrough has been made in multi-view 3D detection tasks. However, the unprecedented detection performance of these vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Linfeng Zhang , Yukang Shi , Hung-Shuo Tai , Zhipeng Zhang , Yuan He , Ke Wang , Kaisheng Ma

Autonomous navigation requires scene understanding of the action-space to move or anticipate events. For planner agents moving on the ground plane, such as autonomous vehicles, this translates to scene understanding in the bird's-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Ozan Unal , Danda Paudel , Luc Van Gool

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

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianhao Zhao , Yongcan Chen , Yu Wu , Tianyang Liu , Bo Du , Peilun Xiao , Shi Qiu , Hongda Yang , Guozhen Li , Yi Yang , Yutian Lin

Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

Monocular 3D lane detection is challenging due to the difficulty in capturing depth information from single-camera images. A common strategy involves transforming front-view (FV) images into bird's-eye-view (BEV) space through inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dongxin Lyu , Han Huang , Cheng Tan , Zimu Li

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont