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4D millimeter-wave (MMW) radar, which provides both height information and dense point cloud data over 3D MMW radar, has become increasingly popular in 3D object detection. In recent years, radar-vision fusion models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Haocheng Zhao , Runwei Guan , Taoyu Wu , Ka Lok Man , Limin Yu , Yutao Yue

Bird's eye view (BEV) representation has emerged as a dominant solution for describing 3D space in autonomous driving scenarios. However, objects in the BEV representation typically exhibit small sizes, and the associated point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Junbo Yin , Jianbing Shen , Runnan Chen , Wei Li , Ruigang Yang , Pascal Frossard , Wenguan Wang

The multi-modal perception methods are thriving in the autonomous driving field due to their better usage of complementary data from different sensors. Such methods depend on calibration and synchronization between sensors to get accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Zhihang Song , Lihui Peng , Jianming Hu , Danya Yao , Yi Zhang

Accurate 3D object detection is essential for automated vehicles to navigate safely in complex real-world environments. Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations, which project multi-sensor data into a top-down spatial format, have emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Sanjay Kumar , Tim Brophy , Eoin Martino Grua , Ganesh Sistu , Valentina Donzella , Ciaran Eising

Camera-LiDAR fusion is widely used in autonomous driving to enable accurate 3D object detection. However, bird's-eye view (BEV) fusion detectors can degrade significantly under domain shift and sensor failures, limiting reliability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Trung Tien Dong , Dev Thakkar , Arman Sargolzaei , Xiaomin Lin

The bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation allows robust learning of multiple tasks for autonomous driving including road layout estimation and 3D object detection. However, contemporary methods for unified road layout estimation and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Curie Kim , Ue-Hwan Kim

3D object detection using LiDAR data is an indispensable component for autonomous driving systems. Yet, only a few LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods leverage segmentation information to further guide the detection process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Hamidreza Fazlali , Yixuan Xu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

Recent 3D object detectors typically utilize multi-sensor data and unify multi-modal features in the shared bird's-eye view (BEV) representation space. However, our empirical findings indicate that previous methods have limitations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jiahui Fu , Chen Gao , Zitian Wang , Lirong Yang , Xiaofei Wang , Beipeng Mu , Si Liu

Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

This paper investigates the advantages of using Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation in 360-degree visual place recognition (VPR). We propose a novel network architecture that utilizes the BEV representation in feature extraction, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuecheng Xu , Yanmei Jiao , Sha Lu , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

We propose DeepFusion, a modular multi-modal architecture to fuse lidars, cameras and radars in different combinations for 3D object detection. Specialized feature extractors take advantage of each modality and can be exchanged easily,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Florian Drews , Di Feng , Florian Faion , Lars Rosenbaum , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser

Multimodal aspect-based sentiment analysis(MABSA) seeks to identify aspect terms within paired image-text data and determine their fine grained sentiment polarities, representing a fundamental task for improving the effectiveness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xiaoqiang He

In autonomous driving, 3D object detection is essential for accurate perception and reliable decision-making. However, object motion and ego-motion often induce cross-frame spatiotemporal inconsistencies in BEV-based detectors, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Wenxuan Li , Qin Zou , Shoubing Chen , Chi Chen , Yingyi Yang , Shoubing Chen , Qingxiang Meng

Radars and cameras belong to the most frequently used sensors for advanced driver assistance systems and automated driving research. However, there has been surprisingly little research on radar-camera fusion with neural networks. One of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Lukas Stäcker , Shashank Mishra , Philipp Heidenreich , Jason Rambach , Didier Stricker

Camera-radar fusion offers a robust and low-cost alternative to Camera-lidar fusion for the 3D object detection task in real-time under adverse weather and lighting conditions. However, currently, in the literature, it is possible to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruan Bispo , Dane Mitrev , Letizia Mariotti , Clément Botty , Denver Humphrey , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

Accurate depth estimation is fundamental to 3D perception in autonomous driving, supporting tasks such as detection, tracking, and motion planning. However, monocular camera-based 3D detection suffers from depth ambiguity and reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

The fusion of multimodal sensor data streams such as camera images and lidar point clouds plays an important role in the operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robust perception across a range of adverse weather and lighting conditions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shounak Sural , Nishad Sahu , Ragunathan Rajkumar

In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, the sensor portfolio including multi-modality and single-modality is diverse and complex. Since the multi-modal methods have system complexity while the accuracy of single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shengchao Zhou , Weizhou Liu , Chen Hu , Shuchang Zhou , Chao Ma

3D perception in LiDAR point clouds is crucial for a self-driving vehicle to properly act in 3D environment. However, manually labeling point clouds is hard and costly. There has been a growing interest in self-supervised pre-training of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Mu Cai , Chenxu Luo , Yong Jae Lee , Xiaodong Yang

In the field of image clustering, the widely used contrastive learning networks improve clustering performance by maximizing the similarity between positive pairs and the dissimilarity of negative pairs of the inputs. Extant contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Cheng Wang , Shuisheng Zhou , Fengjiao Peng , Jin Sheng , Feng Ye , Yinli Dong