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Multimodal sensor fusion has demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over unimodal approaches in 3D object detection for autonomous vehicles. Typically, existing methods transform multimodal data from independent sensors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Markus Essl , Marta Moscati , Mubashir Noman , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Usman Naseem , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

The ability to interpret and comprehend a 3D scene is essential for many vision and robotics systems. In numerous applications, this involves 3D object detection, i.e.~identifying the location and dimensions of objects belonging to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Olivier Moliner , Viktor Larsson , Kalle Åström

Fusing data from cameras and LiDAR sensors is an essential technique to achieve robust 3D object detection. One key challenge in camera-LiDAR fusion involves mitigating the large domain gap between the two sensors in terms of coordinates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yecheol Kim , Konyul Park , Minwook Kim , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Sparse algorithms offer great flexibility for multi-view temporal perception tasks. In this paper, we present an enhanced version of Sparse4D, in which we improve the temporal fusion module by implementing a recursive form of multi-frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xuewu Lin , Tianwei Lin , Zixiang Pei , Lichao Huang , Zhizhong Su

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

Self-supervised monocular depth prediction provides a cost-effective solution to obtain the 3D location of each pixel. However, the existing approaches usually lead to unsatisfactory accuracy, which is critical for autonomous robots. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Ziyue Feng , Longlong Jing , Peng Yin , Yingli Tian , Bing Li

Besides standard cameras, autonomous vehicles typically include multiple additional sensors, such as lidars and radars, which help acquire richer information for perceiving the content of the driving scene. While several recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Tim Broedermann , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

3D object detectors usually rely on hand-crafted proxies, e.g., anchors or centers, and translate well-studied 2D frameworks to 3D. Thus, sparse voxel features need to be densified and processed by dense prediction heads, which inevitably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Yukang Chen , Jianhui Liu , Xiangyu Zhang , Xiaojuan Qi , Jiaya Jia

Multimodal 3D object detection has garnered considerable interest in autonomous driving. However, multimodal detectors suffer from dimension mismatches that derive from fusing 3D points with 2D pixels coarsely, which leads to sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Guoxin Zhang , Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Zhonghong Ou

Reliable 3D object perception is essential in autonomous driving. Owing to its sensing capabilities in all weather conditions, 4D radar has recently received much attention. However, compared to LiDAR, 4D radar provides much sparser point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sheng Yang , Tong Zhan , Shichen Qiao , Jicheng Gong , Qing Yang , Jian Wang , Yanfeng Lu

Sensor fusion is an essential topic in many perception systems, such as autonomous driving and robotics. Existing multi-modal 3D detection models usually involve customized designs depending on the sensor combinations or setups. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xuanyao Chen , Tianyuan Zhang , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

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

Multimodal 3D object detectors leverage the strengths of both geometry-aware LiDAR point clouds and semantically rich RGB images to enhance detection performance. However, the inherent heterogeneity between these modalities, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Zhuoqun Su , Huimin Lu , Shuaifeng Jiao , Junhao Xiao , Yaonan Wang , Xieyuanli Chen

Camera and LiDAR sensor modalities provide complementary appearance and geometric information useful for detecting 3D objects for autonomous vehicle applications. However, current end-to-end fusion methods are challenging to train and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

LiDAR-camera fusion enhances 3D panoptic segmentation by leveraging camera images to complement sparse LiDAR scans, but it also introduces a critical failure mode. Under adverse conditions, degradation or failure of the camera sensor can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rohit Mohan , Florian Drews , Yakov Miron , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

Detection and tracking of moving objects is an essential component in environmental perception for autonomous driving. In the flourishing field of multi-view 3D camera-based detectors, different transformer-based pipelines are designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yining Shi , Jingyan Shen , Yifan Sun , Yunlong Wang , Jiaxin Li , Shiqi Sun , Kun Jiang , Diange Yang

In automotive sensor fusion systems, smart sensors and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) modules are commonly utilized. Sensor data from these systems are typically available only as processed object lists rather than raw sensor data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Xiangzhong Liu , Jiajie Zhang , Hao Shen

LIDAR point clouds and RGB-images are both extremely essential for 3D object detection. So many state-of-the-art 3D detection algorithms dedicate in fusing these two types of data effectively. However, their fusion methods based on Birds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Liang Xie , Chao Xiang , Zhengxu Yu , Guodong Xu , Zheng Yang , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He

In the perception task of autonomous driving, multi-modal methods have become a trend due to the complementary characteristics of LiDAR point clouds and image data. However, the performance of multi-modal methods is usually limited by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Binglu Ren , Jianqin Yin