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Autonomous driving requires accurate and detailed Bird's Eye View (BEV) semantic segmentation for decision making, which is one of the most challenging tasks for high-level scene perception. Feature transformation from frontal view to BEV…

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Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is fundamental to fusing multi-modal perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. Traditional calibration methods require extensive data collection in controlled environments and cannot compensate…

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High-definition (HD) maps are essential for autonomous driving, yet multi-modal fusion often suffers from inconsistency between camera and LiDAR modalities, leading to performance degradation under low-light conditions, occlusions, or…

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We propose an end-to-end network that takes a single perspective RGB image of a complex road scene as input, to produce occlusion-reasoned layouts in perspective space as well as a parametric bird's-eye-view (BEV) space. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Buyu Liu , Bingbing Zhuang , Manmohan Chandraker

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

Semantic 2D maps are commonly used by humans and machines for navigation purposes, whether it's walking or driving. However, these maps have limitations: they lack detail, often contain inaccuracies, and are difficult to create and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Eduard Trulls , Marc Pollefeys , Jan Hosang , Simon Lynen

We explore Bird's-Eye View (BEV) generation, converting a BEV map into its corresponding multi-view street images. Valued for its unified spatial representation aiding multi-sensor fusion, BEV is pivotal for various autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaojie Xu , Tianshuo Xu , Fulong Ma , Yingcong Chen

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) semantic maps have become an essential component of automated driving pipelines due to the rich representation they provide for decision-making tasks. However, existing approaches for generating these maps still follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Nikhil Gosala , Kürsat Petek , Paulo L. J. Drews-Jr , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) semantic segmentation provides comprehensive environmental perception for autonomous driving but suffers multi-modal misalignment and sensor noise. We propose RESAR-BEV, a progressive refinement framework that advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhiwen Zeng , Yunfei Yin , Zheng Yuan , Argho Dey , Xianjian Bao

Autonomous driving without high-definition (HD) maps demands a higher level of active scene understanding. In this competition, the organizers provided the multi-perspective camera images and standard-definition (SD) maps to explore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Zhongyu Yang , Mai Liu , Jinluo Xie , Yueming Zhang , Chen Shen , Wei Shao , Jichao Jiao , Tengfei Xing , Runbo Hu , Pengfei Xu

Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations are tremendously useful for perception-related automated driving tasks. However, generating BEVs from surround-view fisheye camera images is challenging due to the strong distortions introduced by such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Ekta U. Samani , Feng Tao , Harshavardhan R. Dasari , Sihao Ding , Ashis G. Banerjee

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) images have been widely demonstrated to provide valuable prior information for navigation. Given the global information provided by such views, two key challenges remain: how to fully exploit this information and how…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yijin Wang , Yuru Tian , Xijie Huang , Weiqi Gai , Mo Zhu , Xin Zhou , Yuze Wu , Fei Gao

BEV perception is of great importance in the field of autonomous driving, serving as the cornerstone of planning, controlling, and motion prediction. The quality of the BEV feature highly affects the performance of BEV perception. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jiayu Zou , Zheng Zhu , Yun Ye , Xingang Wang

In target-driven navigation and autonomous exploration, reasonable prediction of unknown regions is crucial for efficient navigation and environment understanding. Existing methods mostly focus on single objects or geometric occupancy maps,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Jiaxuan He , Jiamei Ren , Chongshang Yan , Wenjie Song

Expressing images with Multi-Resolution (MR) features has been widely adopted in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we introduce the MR concept into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) semantic segmentation for autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Dooseop Choi , Jungyu Kang , Taeghyun An , Kyounghwan Ahn , KyoungWook Min

Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful representation learning systems that align visual observations with natural language concepts, offering new opportunities for semantic reasoning in safety-critical autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ross Greer , Maitrayee Keskar , Angel Martinez-Sanchez , Parthib Roy , Shashank Shriram , Mohan Trivedi

Online High-Definition (HD) map construction is pivotal for autonomous driving. While recent approaches leverage historical temporal fusion to improve performance, we identify a critical safety flaw in this paradigm: it is inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruikai Li , Xinrun Li , Mengwei Xie , Hao Shan , Shoumeng Qiu , Xinyuan Chang , Yizhe Fan , Feng Xiong , Han Jiang , Yilong Ren , Haiyang Yu , Mu Xu , Yang Long , Varun Ojha , Zhiyong Cui

Using synthesized images to boost the performance of perception models is a long-standing research challenge in computer vision. It becomes more eminent in visual-centric autonomous driving systems with multi-view cameras as some long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Kairui Yang , Enhui Ma , Jibin Peng , Qing Guo , Di Lin , Kaicheng Yu

Autonomous mobile robots deployed in urban environments must be context-aware, i.e., able to distinguish between different semantic entities, and robust to occlusions. Current approaches like semantic scene completion (SSC) require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Arthur Zhang , Rainier Heijne , Joydeep Biswas

Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception technology is crucial for autonomous driving, as it generates top-down 2D maps for environment perception, navigation, and decision-making. Nevertheless, the majority of current BEV map generation studies…

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