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Monocular 3D object detection is an essential component in autonomous driving while challenging to solve, especially for those occluded samples which are only partially visible. Most detectors consider each 3D object as an independent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Yongjian Chen , Lei Tai , Kai Sun , Mingyang Li

3D object detection from monocular images is an ill-posed problem due to the projective entanglement of depth and scale. To overcome this ambiguity, we present a novel self-supervised method for textured 3D shape reconstruction and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Deniz Beker , Hiroharu Kato , Mihai Adrian Morariu , Takahiro Ando , Toru Matsuoka , Wadim Kehl , Adrien Gaidon

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

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

Monocular 3D object detection task aims to predict the 3D bounding boxes of objects based on monocular RGB images. Since the location recovery in 3D space is quite difficult on account of absence of depth information, this paper proposes a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yingjie Cai , Buyu Li , Zeyu Jiao , Hongsheng Li , Xingyu Zeng , Xiaogang Wang

While 2D object detection has improved significantly over the past, real world applications of computer vision often require an understanding of the 3D layout of a scene. Many recent approaches to 3D detection use LiDAR point clouds for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Jihao Andreas Lin , Jakob Brünker , Daniel Fährmann

LiDAR-based 3D detection in point cloud is essential in the perception system of autonomous driving. In this paper, we present LiDAR R-CNN, a second stage detector that can generally improve any existing 3D detector. To fulfill the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zhichao Li , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang

It is laborious to manually label point cloud data for training high-quality 3D object detectors. This work proposes a weakly supervised approach for 3D object detection, only requiring a small set of weakly annotated scenes, associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Qinghao Meng , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Traffic volume data collection is a crucial aspect of transportation engineering and urban planning, as it provides vital insights into traffic patterns, congestion, and infrastructure efficiency. Traditional manual methods of traffic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Linlin Zhang , Xiang Yu , Armstrong Aboah , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

We present an improved version of PointRCNN for 3D object detection, in which a multi-branch backbone network is adopted to handle the non-uniform density of point clouds. An uncertainty-based sampling policy is proposed to deal with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Jie Li , Yu Hu

Lidar based 3D object detection and classification tasks are essential for automated driving(AD). A Lidar sensor can provide the 3D point coud data reconstruction of the surrounding environment. But the detection in 3D point cloud still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xuanyu YIN , Yoko SASAKI , Weimin WANG , Kentaro SHIMIZU

Understanding the world in 3D is a critical component of urban autonomous driving. Generally, the combination of expensive LiDAR sensors and stereo RGB imaging has been paramount for successful 3D object detection algorithms, whereas…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Garrick Brazil , Xiaoming Liu

This paper presents a new approach to boost a single-modality (LiDAR) 3D object detector by teaching it to simulate features and responses that follow a multi-modality (LiDAR-image) detector. The approach needs LiDAR-image data only when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Wu Zheng , Mingxuan Hong , Li Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu

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

As an inherently ill-posed problem, depth estimation from single images is the most challenging part of monocular 3D object detection (M3OD). Many existing methods rely on preconceived assumptions to bridge the missing spatial information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Zhuoling Li , Zhan Qu , Yang Zhou , Jianzhuang Liu , Haoqian Wang , Lihui Jiang

3D object detection based on point clouds has become more and more popular. Some methods propose localizing 3D objects directly from raw point clouds to avoid information loss. However, these methods come with complex structures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Guodong Xu , Wenxiao Wang , Zili Liu , Liang Xie , Zheng Yang , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

In this paper, we propose enhancing monocular depth estimation by adding 3D points as depth guidance. Unlike existing depth completion methods, our approach performs well on extremely sparse and unevenly distributed point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Lam Huynh , Phong Nguyen-Ha , Jiri Matas , Esa Rahtu , Janne Heikkila

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

The task of detecting 3D objects in traffic scenes has a pivotal role in many real-world applications. However, the performance of 3D object detection is lower than that of 2D object detection due to the lack of powerful 3D feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xuesong Li , Jose Guivant , Ngaiming Kwok , Yongzhi Xu , Ruowei Li , Hongkun Wu

While expensive LiDAR and stereo camera rigs have enabled the development of successful 3D object detection methods, monocular RGB-only approaches lag much behind. This work advances the state of the art by introducing MoVi-3D, a novel,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Andrea Simonelli , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Elisa Ricci , Peter Kontschieder