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Recent years have witnessed huge successes in 3D object detection to recognize common objects for autonomous driving (e.g., vehicles and pedestrians). However, most methods rely heavily on a large amount of well-labeled training data. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Jiawei Liu , Xingping Dong , Sanyuan Zhao , Jianbing Shen

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

We present a novel method for efficiently producing semi-dense matches across images. Previous detector-free matcher LoFTR has shown remarkable matching capability in handling large-viewpoint change and texture-poor scenarios but suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yifan Wang , Xingyi He , Sida Peng , Dongli Tan , Xiaowei Zhou

Recent Transformer-based 3D object detectors learn point cloud features either from point- or voxel-based representations. However, the former requires time-consuming sampling while the latter introduces quantization errors. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Honghui Yang , Wenxiao Wang , Minghao Chen , Binbin Lin , Tong He , Hua Chen , Xiaofei He , Wanli Ouyang

The emerging 4D millimeter-wave radar, measuring the range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity of objects, is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and robustness in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, its point clouds exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuzhi Wu , Li Xiao , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , XiangGen Xia

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

We propose DiffusionDet, a new framework that formulates object detection as a denoising diffusion process from noisy boxes to object boxes. During the training stage, object boxes diffuse from ground-truth boxes to random distribution, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shoufa Chen , Peize Sun , Yibing Song , Ping Luo

Current state-of-the-art (SOTA) 3D object detection methods often require a large amount of 3D bounding box annotations for training. However, collecting such large-scale densely-supervised datasets is notoriously costly. To reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenqiang Gao , Chuandong Liu , Jun Shu , Fangcen Liu , Jiang Liu , Luyu Yang , Xinbo Gao , Deyu Meng

Recent advances in foundation models have opened up new possibilities for enhancing 3D perception. In particular, DepthAnything offers dense and reliable geometric priors from monocular RGB images, which can complement sparse LiDAR data in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yujian Mo , Yan Wu , Junqiao Zhao , Jijun Wang , Yinghao Hu , Jun Yan

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

Recently 3D object detection from surround-view images has made notable advancements with its low deployment cost. However, most works have primarily focused on close perception range while leaving long-range detection less explored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiaohui Jiang , Shuailin Li , Yingfei Liu , Shihao Wang , Fan Jia , Tiancai Wang , Lijin Han , Xiangyu Zhang

Advanced video analytic systems, including scene classification and object detection, have seen widespread success in various domains such as smart cities and autonomous transportation. With an ever-growing number of powerful client…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ran Xu , Chen-lin Zhang , Pengcheng Wang , Jayoung Lee , Subrata Mitra , Somali Chaterji , Yin Li , Saurabh Bagchi

Detection and tracking of dynamic objects is a key feature for autonomous behavior in a continuously changing environment. With the increasing popularity and capability of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) efficient algorithms have to be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jan Razlaw , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role. Most of the previous works mainly adopted multiple level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zuyao Chen , Qianqian Xu , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Image-based 3D object detection aims to identify and localize objects in 3D space using only RGB images, eliminating the need for expensive depth sensors required by point cloud-based methods. Existing image-based approaches face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Lei Yao , Lap-Pui Chau

A key challenge for autonomous vehicles is to navigate in unseen dynamic environments. Separating moving objects from static ones is essential for navigation, pose estimation, and understanding how other traffic participants are likely to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Ignacio Vizzo , Lucas Nunes , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Transferring existing image-based detectors to the video is non-trivial since the quality of frames is always deteriorated by part occlusion, rare pose, and motion blur. Previous approaches exploit to propagate and aggregate features across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Zhengkai Jiang , Yu Liu , Ceyuan Yang , Jihao Liu , Peng Gao , Qian Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet high-precision scans incur substantial storage and transmission overhead. Existing methods typically convert unordered points into hierarchical octree or voxel structures for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

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

Comprehending the environment and accurately detecting objects in 3D space are essential for advancing autonomous vehicle technologies. Integrating Camera and LIDAR data has emerged as an effective approach for achieving high accuracy in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Marcelo Eduardo Pederiva , José Mario De Martino , Alessandro Zimmer