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In this paper, we present BEVerse, a unified framework for 3D perception and prediction based on multi-camera systems. Unlike existing studies focusing on the improvement of single-task approaches, BEVerse features in producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yunpeng Zhang , Zheng Zhu , Wenzhao Zheng , Junjie Huang , Guan Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

The comprehensive representation and understanding of the driving environment is crucial to improve the safety and reliability of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we present a new approach to establish an environment model containing a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Nico Engel , Stefan Hoermann , Philipp Henzler , Klaus Dietmayer

A comprehensive understanding of 3D scenes is essential for autonomous vehicles (AVs), and among various perception tasks, occupancy estimation plays a central role by providing a general representation of drivable and occupied space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Ruihan Liu , Xiaoyi Wu , Xijun Chen , Liang Hu , Yunjiang Lou

Environment prediction frameworks are critical for the safe navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dynamic settings. LiDAR-generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's-eye view for the scene representation, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Bernard Lange , Masha Itkina , Jiachen Li , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Semantic occupancy prediction aims to infer dense geometry and semantics of surroundings for an autonomous agent to operate safely in the 3D environment. Existing occupancy prediction methods are almost entirely trained on human-annotated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhiyu Tan , Zichao Dong , Cheng Zhang , Weikun Zhang , Hang Ji , Hao Li

This report presents our Le3DE2E_Occ solution for 4D Occupancy Forecasting in Argoverse Challenges at CVPR 2023 Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD). Our solution consists of a strong LiDAR-based Bird's Eye View (BEV) encoder with temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pengfei Zheng , Kanokphan Lertniphonphan , Feng Chen , Siwei Chen , Bingchuan Sun , Jun Xie , Zhepeng Wang

Accurate prediction of 3D semantic occupancy from 2D visual images is vital in enabling autonomous agents to comprehend their surroundings for planning and navigation. State-of-the-art methods typically employ fully supervised approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Duc-Hai Pham , Duc-Dung Nguyen , Anh Pham , Tuan Ho , Phong Nguyen , Khoi Nguyen , Rang Nguyen

Spatial understanding of the semantics of the surroundings is a key capability needed by autonomous cars to enable safe driving decisions. Recently, purely vision-based solutions have gained increasing research interest. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marvin Raaijmakers

Semantic occupancy has emerged as a powerful representation in world models for its ability to capture rich spatial semantics. However, most existing occupancy world models rely on static and fixed embeddings or grids, which inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chenxu Dang , Haiyan Liu , Jason Bao , Pei An , Xinyue Tang , PanAn , Jie Ma , Bingchuan Sun , Yan Wang

Self-supervised feature learning enables perception systems to benefit from the vast raw data recorded by vehicle fleets worldwide. While video-level self-supervised learning approaches have shown strong generalizability on classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Christopher Lang , Alexander Braun , Lars Schillingmann , Karsten Haug , Abhinav Valada

Occupancy and 3D object detection are characterized as two standard tasks in modern autonomous driving system. In order to deploy them on a series of edge chips with better precision and time-consuming trade-off, contemporary approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Zichen Yu , Changyong Shu

3D occupancy perception technology aims to observe and understand dense 3D environments for autonomous vehicles. Owing to its comprehensive perception capability, this technology is emerging as a trend in autonomous driving perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Huaiyuan Xu , Junliang Chen , Shiyu Meng , Yi Wang , Lap-Pui Chau

Accurate identification of important objects in the scene is a prerequisite for safe and high-quality decision making and motion planning of intelligent agents (e.g., autonomous vehicles) that navigate in complex and dynamic environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Jiachen Li , Haiming Gang , Hengbo Ma , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Chiho Choi

Understanding and forecasting the scene evolutions deeply affect the exploration and decision of embodied agents. While traditional methods simulate scene evolutions through trajectory prediction of potential instances, current works use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Zhang Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Wei Cui , Shuai Shi , Yijie Guo , Gang Han , Wen Zhao , Jingkai Sun , Jiahang Cao , Jiaxu Wang , Hao Cheng , Xiaozhu Ju , Zhengping Che , Renjing Xu , Jian Tang

Unsupervised Domain Adaptive Object Detection (UDA-OD) uses unlabelled data to improve the reliability of robotic vision systems in open-world environments. Previous approaches to UDA-OD based on self-training have been effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nicolas Harvey Chapman , Feras Dayoub , Will Browne , Christopher Lehnert

Understanding road scenes in a geometrically consistent, scene-centric representation is crucial for planning and mapping. We present GOLD-BEV, a framework that learns dense bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic environment maps-including dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Joshua Niemeijer , Alaa Eddine Ben Zekri , Reza Bahmanyar , Philipp M. Schmälzle , Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh , Franz Kurz

In this paper, we study the problem of unsupervised object detection from 3D point clouds in self-driving scenes. We present a simple yet effective method that exploits (i) point clustering in near-range areas where the point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Lunjun Zhang , Anqi Joyce Yang , Yuwen Xiong , Sergio Casas , Bin Yang , Mengye Ren , Raquel Urtasun

Bird's eye view (BEV) representation is a new perception formulation for autonomous driving, which is based on spatial fusion. Further, temporal fusion is also introduced in BEV representation and gains great success. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zequn Qin , Jingyu Chen , Chao Chen , Xiaozhi Chen , Xi Li

There has been significant progress made in the field of autonomous vehicles. Object detection and tracking are the primary tasks for any autonomous vehicle. The task of object detection in autonomous vehicles relies on a variety of sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Gaurav Raut , Advait Patole

We tackle the long-term prediction of scene evolution in a complex downtown scenario for automated driving based on Lidar grid fusion and recurrent neural networks (RNNs). A bird's eye view of the scene, including occupancy and velocity, is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Marcel Schreiber , Stefan Hoermann , Klaus Dietmayer