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Object detection and classification using aerial images is a challenging task as the information regarding targets are not abundant. Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) images can be used for Automatic Target Recognition(ATR) systems as it can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Sumanth Udupa , Aniruddh Sikdar , Suresh Sundaram

Multi-sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles is becoming more common to offer a more robust alternative for several perception tasks. This need arises from the unique contribution of each sensor in collecting data: camera-radar fusion offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruan Bispo , Tim Brophy , Reenu Mohandas , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

Correct radar data fusion depends on knowledge of the spatial transform between sensor pairs. Current methods for determining this transform operate by aligning identifiable features in different radar scans, or by relying on measurements…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Qilong Cheng , Emmett Wise , Jonathan Kelly

In the field of autonomous driving, 3D object detection is a very important perception module. Although the current SOTA algorithm combines Camera and Lidar sensors, limited by the high price of Lidar, the current mainstream landing schemes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Kai Lei , Zhan Chen , Shuman Jia , Xiaoteng Zhang

Radar perception models are trained with different inputs, from range-Doppler spectra to sparse point clouds. Dense spectra are assumed to outperform sparse point clouds, yet they can vary considerably across sensors and configurations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hamza Alsharif , Jing Gu , Pavol Jancura , Satish Ravindran , Gijs Dubbelman

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

Many hand-held or mixed reality devices are used with a single sensor for 3D reconstruction, although they often comprise multiple sensors. Multi-sensor depth fusion is able to substantially improve the robustness and accuracy of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Erik Sandström , Martin R. Oswald , Suryansh Kumar , Silvan Weder , Fisher Yu , Cristian Sminchisescu , Luc Van Gool

Due to the trending need of building autonomous robotic perception system, sensor fusion has attracted a lot of attention amongst researchers and engineers to make best use of cross-modality information. However, in order to build a robotic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Apoorv Singh

Visible images offer rich texture details, while infrared images emphasize salient targets. Fusing these complementary modalities enhances scene understanding, particularly for advanced vision tasks under challenging conditions. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Beining Xu , Junxian Li

4D mmWave radar provides weather-robust, velocity-aware measurements and is more cost-effective than LiDAR. However, radar-only 3D detection still trails LiDAR-based systems because radar point clouds are sparse, irregular, and often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yichun Xiao , Runwei Guan , Fangqiang Ding

In this paper, we propose SpotNet: a fast, single stage, image-centric but LiDAR anchored approach for long range 3D object detection. We demonstrate that our approach to LiDAR/image sensor fusion, combined with the joint learning of 2D and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Louis Foucard , Samar Khanna , Yi Shi , Chi-Kuei Liu , Quinn Z Shen , Thuyen Ngo , Zi-Xiang Xia

A 3D point cloud is often synthesized from depth measurements collected by sensors at different viewpoints. The acquired measurements are typically both coarse in precision and corrupted by noise. To improve quality, previous works denoise…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Xue Zhang , Gene Cheung , Jiahao Pang , Dong Tian

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and optical image registration is essential for remote sensing data fusion, with applications in military reconnaissance, environmental monitoring, and disaster management. However, challenges arise from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Wenfei Zhang , Ruipeng Zhao , Yongxiang Yao , Yi Wan , Peihao Wu , Jiayuan Li , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

Data collection has always been a major issue in the modeling and training of large deep learning networks, as no dataset can account for every slight deviation we might see in live usage. Collecting samples can be especially costly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Conor Flynn , Christopher Ebersole , Edmund Zelnio

LiDAR point clouds are widely used in autonomous driving and consist of large numbers of 3D points captured at high frequency to represent surrounding objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic signs. While this dense data enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Z. Rozsa , Á. Madaras , Q. Wei , X. Lu , M. Golarits , H. Yuan , T. Sziranyi , R. Hamzaoui

Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fan Wang , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Three-dimensional Object Detection from multi-view cameras and LiDAR is a crucial component for autonomous driving and smart transportation. However, in the process of basic feature extraction, perspective transformation, and feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhongyu Xia , Hansong Yang , Yongtao Wang

Autonomous perception requires high-quality environment sensing in the form of 3D bounding boxes of dynamic objects. The primary sensors used in automotive systems are light-based cameras and LiDARs. However, they are known to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Kshitiz Bansal , Keshav Rungta , Siyuan Zhu , Dinesh Bharadia

Cameras and LiDARs are both important sensors for autonomous driving, playing critical roles in 3D object detection. Camera-LiDAR Fusion has been a prevalent solution for robust and accurate driving perception. In contrast to the vast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ye Li , Hanjiang Hu , Zuxin Liu , Xiaohao Xu , Xiaonan Huang , Ding Zhao

Detecting objects efficiently from radar sensors has recently become a popular trend due to their robustness against adverse lighting and weather conditions compared with cameras. This paper presents an efficient object detection model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhiwei Lin , Weicheng Zheng , Yongtao Wang