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Promising complementarity exists between the texture features of color images and the geometric information of LiDAR point clouds. However, there still present many challenges for efficient and robust feature fusion in the field of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Jinxing Wu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

Open-vocabulary 3D object detection has gained significant interest due to its critical applications in autonomous driving and embodied AI. Existing detection methods, whether offline or online, typically rely on dense point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuqing Lan , Chenyang Zhu , Zhirui Gao , Jiazhao Zhang , Yihan Cao , Renjiao Yi , Yijie Wang , Kai Xu

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Most autonomous vehicles are equipped with LiDAR sensors and stereo cameras. The former is very accurate but generates sparse data, whereas the latter is dense, has rich texture and color information but difficult to extract robust 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Farzin Negahbani , Onur Berk Töre , Fatma Güney , Baris Akgun

Compared to images, videos better reflect real-world acquisition and possess valuable temporal cues. However, existing multi-sensor fusion research predominantly integrates complementary context from multiple images rather than videos due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Linfeng Tang , Yeda Wang , Meiqi Gong , Zizhuo Li , Yuxin Deng , Xunpeng Yi , Chunyu Li , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Jiayi Ma

Recent advancements in 3D scene understanding have made significant strides in enabling interaction with scenes using open-vocabulary queries, particularly for VR/AR and robotic applications. Nevertheless, existing methods are hindered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dianyi Yang , Xihan Wang , Yu Gao , Shiyang Liu , Bohan Ren , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang

4D automotive radar is indispensable for autonomous driving due to its low cost and robustness, yet its point cloud sparsity challenges 3D object detection. Existing 4D radar-camera fusion methods focus on complex fusion strategies, trading…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Weiyi Xiong , Bing Zhu

Three-dimensional (3D) object recognition is crucial for intelligent autonomous agents such as autonomous vehicles and robots alike to operate effectively in unstructured environments. Most state-of-art approaches rely on relatively dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Prajval Kumar Murali , Cong Wang , Ravinder Dahiya , Mohsen Kaboli

Multi-modal 3D object detection is important for reliable perception in robotics and autonomous driving. However, its effectiveness remains limited under adverse weather conditions due to weather-induced distortions and misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhijian He , Feifei Liu , Yuwei Li , Zhanpeng Luo , Jintao Cheng , Xieyuanli Chen , Xiaoyu Tang

3D scene reconstruction under unposed sparse viewpoints is a highly challenging yet practically important problem, especially in outdoor scenes due to complex lighting and scale variation. With extremely limited input views, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Guanzhi Ding , Yu Hu , Hao Wang

Exploring robust and efficient association methods has always been an important issue in multiple-object tracking (MOT). Although existing tracking methods have achieved impressive performance, congestion and frequent occlusions still pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Zelin Liu , Xinggang Wang , Cheng Wang , Wenyu Liu , Xiang Bai

Monocular 3D object tracking aims to estimate temporally consistent 3D object poses across video frames, enabling autonomous agents to reason about scene dynamics. However, existing state-of-the-art approaches are fully supervised and rely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Nikhil Gosala , B. Ravi Kiran , Senthil Yogamani , Abhinav Valada

Place recognition plays a crucial role in the fields of robotics and computer vision, finding applications in areas such as autonomous driving, mapping, and localization. Place recognition identifies a place using query sensor data and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Sijie Wang , Qiyu Kang , Rui She , Kai Zhao , Yang Song , Wee Peng Tay

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for improving the performance and robustness of end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Existing methods predominantly adopt either attention-based flatten fusion or bird's eye view fusion through geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Shuai Liu , Quanmin Liang , Zefeng Li , Boyang Li , Kai Huang

Object detection in Remote Sensing Images (RSI) is a critical task for numerous applications in Earth Observation (EO). Differing from object detection in natural images, object detection in remote sensing images faces challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Bissmella Bahaduri , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraou

Tracking a target of interest in both sparse and crowded environments is a challenging problem, not yet successfully addressed in the literature. In this paper, we propose a new long-term visual tracking algorithm, learning discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Nathanael L. Baisa , Deepayan Bhowmik , Andrew Wallace

Sparse-view 3D reconstruction is essential for applications in which dense image acquisition is impractical, such as robotics, augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR), and autonomous systems. In these settings, minimal image overlap prevents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Tanveer Younis , Zhanglin Cheng

3D single object tracking is a key task in 3D computer vision. However, the sparsity of point clouds makes it difficult to compute the similarity and locate the object, posing big challenges to the 3D tracker. Previous works tried to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yubo Cui , Jiayao Shan , Zuoxu Gu , Zhiheng Li , Zheng Fang

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

Accurate detection of obstacles in 3D is an essential task for autonomous driving and intelligent transportation. In this work, we propose a general multimodal fusion framework FusionPainting to fuse the 2D RGB image and 3D point clouds at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Shaoqing Xu , Dingfu Zhou , Jin Fang , Junbo Yin , Zhou Bin , Liangjun Zhang