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Bird's Eye View (BEV) map prediction is essential for downstream autonomous driving tasks like trajectory prediction. In the past, this was accomplished through the use of a sophisticated sensor configuration that captured a surround view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Daniel Busch , Ido Freeman , Richard Meyes , Tobias Meisen

We propose an end-to-end network that takes a single perspective RGB image of a complex road scene as input, to produce occlusion-reasoned layouts in perspective space as well as a parametric bird's-eye-view (BEV) space. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Buyu Liu , Bingbing Zhuang , Manmohan Chandraker

Visual bird's eye view (BEV) perception, due to its excellent perceptual capabilities, is progressively replacing costly LiDAR-based perception systems, especially in the realm of urban intelligent driving. However, this type of perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lei He , Qiaoyi Wang , Honglin Sun , Qing Xu , Bolin Gao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into autonomous driving has attracted growing interest for their strong reasoning and semantic understanding abilities, which are essential for handling complex decision-making and long-tail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Thomas Monninger , Shaoyuan Xie , Qi Alfred Chen , Sihao Ding

Bird's eye view (BEV) semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in spatial sensing for autonomous driving. Although recent literature has made significant progress on BEV map understanding, they are all based on single-agent camera-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Runsheng Xu , Zhengzhong Tu , Hao Xiang , Wei Shao , Bolei Zhou , Jiaqi Ma

Autonomous driving requires accurate reasoning of the location of objects from raw sensor data. Recent end-to-end learning methods go from raw sensor data to a trajectory output via Bird's Eye View(BEV) segmentation as an interpretable…

Learning powerful representations in bird's-eye-view (BEV) for perception tasks is trending and drawing extensive attention both from industry and academia. Conventional approaches for most autonomous driving algorithms perform detection,…

Birds' Eye View (BEV) semantic segmentation is an indispensable perception task in end-to-end autonomous driving systems. Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning for BEV tasks, as pivotal for real-world applications, underperform due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Siyu Li , Fei Teng , Yihong Cao , Kailun Yang , Zhiyong Li , Yaonan Wang

Birds-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is critical for autonomous driving for its powerful spatial representation ability. It is challenging to estimate the BEV semantic maps from monocular images due to the spatial gap, since it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shi Gong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Jingdong Wang , Errui Ding , Yu Zhou , Xiang Bai

Talk2BEV is a large vision-language model (LVLM) interface for bird's-eye view (BEV) maps in autonomous driving contexts. While existing perception systems for autonomous driving scenarios have largely focused on a pre-defined (closed) set…

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a mainstream paradigm for multi-view 3D object detection, demonstrating impressive perceptual capabilities. However, existing methods overlook the geometric quality of BEV representation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jinqing Zhang , Yanan Zhang , Yunlong Qi , Zehua Fu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Detection of moving objects is a very important task in autonomous driving systems. After the perception phase, motion planning is typically performed in Bird's Eye View (BEV) space. This would require projection of objects detected on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hazem Rashed , Mariam Essam , Maha Mohamed , Ahmad El Sallab , Senthil Yogamani

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) is a powerful and widely adopted representation for road scenes that captures surrounding objects and their spatial locations, along with overall context in the scene. In this work, we focus on bird's eye semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Mong H. Ng , Kaahan Radia , Jianfei Chen , Dequan Wang , Ionel Gog , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Autonomous navigation requires scene understanding of the action-space to move or anticipate events. For planner agents moving on the ground plane, such as autonomous vehicles, this translates to scene understanding in the bird's-eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Ozan Unal , Danda Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Accurate environment perception is essential for automated driving. When using monocular cameras, the distance estimation of elements in the environment poses a major challenge. Distances can be more easily estimated when the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lennart Reiher , Bastian Lampe , Lutz Eckstein

Bird's-eye view (BEV) maps are an important geometrically structured representation widely used in robotics, in particular self-driving vehicles and terrestrial robots. Existing algorithms either require depth information for the geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Gianluca Monaci , Leonid Antsfeld , Boris Chidlovskii , Christian Wolf

3D visual perception tasks, including 3D detection and map segmentation based on multi-camera images, are essential for autonomous driving systems. In this work, we present a new framework termed BEVFormer, which learns unified BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhiqi Li , Wenhai Wang , Hongyang Li , Enze Xie , Chonghao Sima , Tong Lu , Qiao Yu , Jifeng Dai

We present BEVCon, a simple yet effective contrastive learning framework designed to improve Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception in autonomous driving. BEV perception offers a top-down-view representation of the surrounding environment, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ziyang Leng , Jiawei Yang , Zhicheng Ren , Bolei Zhou

Vector maps are essential in autonomous driving for tasks like localization and planning, yet their creation and maintenance are notably costly. While recent advances in online vector map generation for autonomous vehicles are promising,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Narayanan Elavathur Ranganatha , Hengyuan Zhang , Shashank Venkatramani , Jing-Yan Liao , Henrik I. Christensen

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation is crucial for the perception function in autonomous driving tasks. It is difficult to balance the accuracy, efficiency and range of BEV representation. The existing works are restricted to a limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Tong Qin , Jin Pan , Qiang Zhao , Chunjing Xu , Ming Yang