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Learning object-level, structured representations is widely regarded as a key to better generalization in vision and underpins the design of next-generation Pre-trained Vision Models (PVMs). Mainstream Object-Centric Learning (OCL) methods…

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As part of human core knowledge, the representation of objects is the building block of mental representation that supports high-level concepts and symbolic reasoning. While humans develop the ability of perceiving objects situated in 3D…

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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

Recent vision-only perception models for autonomous driving achieved promising results by encoding multi-view image features into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) space. A critical step and the main bottleneck of these methods is transforming image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiayu Yang , Enze Xie , Miaomiao Liu , Jose M. Alvarez

This technical report presents our solution, "occTransformer" for the 3D occupancy prediction track in the autonomous driving challenge at CVPR 2023. Our method builds upon the strong baseline BEVFormer and improves its performance through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Jian Liu , Sipeng Zhang , Chuixin Kong , Wenyuan Zhang , Yuhang Wu , Yikang Ding , Borun Xu , Ruibo Ming , Donglai Wei , Xianming Liu

Depth estimation is a cornerstone of perception in autonomous driving and robotic systems. The considerable cost and relatively sparse data acquisition of LiDAR systems have led to the exploration of cost-effective alternatives, notably,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yucheng Mao , Ruowen Zhao , Tianbao Zhang , Hang Zhao

Multi-view image generation in autonomous driving demands consistent 3D scene understanding across camera views. Most existing methods treat this problem as a 2D image set generation task, lacking explicit 3D modeling. However, we argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Zeming Chen , Hang Zhao

A semantic map of the road scene, covering fundamental road elements, is an essential ingredient in autonomous driving systems. It provides important perception foundations for positioning and planning when rendered in the Bird's-Eye-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Siyu Li , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Jiaming Zhang , Jiacheng Lin , Zhifeng Teng , Zhiyong Li

3D occupancy, an advanced perception technology for driving scenarios, represents the entire scene without distinguishing between foreground and background by quantifying the physical space into a grid map. The widely adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jinke Li , Xiao He , Chonghua Zhou , Xiaoqiang Cheng , Yang Wen , Dan Zhang

Predictive models have been at the core of many robotic systems, from quadrotors to walking robots. However, it has been challenging to develop and apply such models to practical robotic manipulation due to high-dimensional sensory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Lucas Manuelli , Yunzhu Li , Pete Florence , Russ Tedrake

Learning compositional representation is a key aspect of object-centric learning as it enables flexible systematic generalization and supports complex visual reasoning. However, most of the existing approaches rely on auto-encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Whie Jung , Jaehoon Yoo , Sungjin Ahn , Seunghoon Hong

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) is critical to connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) as it can provide unified and precise representation of vehicular surroundings. However, quality of the raw sensing data may degrade in occluded or distant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jiawei Hou , Peng Yang , Xiangxiang Dai , Mingliu Liu , Conghao Zhou

3D environment recognition is essential for autonomous driving systems, as autonomous vehicles require a comprehensive understanding of surrounding scenes. Recently, the predominant approach to define this real-life problem is through 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Huizhou Chen , Jiangyi Wang , Yuxin Li , Na Zhao , Jun Cheng , Xulei Yang

Recently, perception task based on Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representation has drawn more and more attention, and BEV representation is promising as the foundation for next-generation Autonomous Vehicle (AV) perception. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yangguang Li , Bin Huang , Zeren Chen , Yufeng Cui , Feng Liang , Mingzhu Shen , Fenggang Liu , Enze Xie , Lu Sheng , Wanli Ouyang , Jing Shao

Recent self-supervised learning (SSL) models trained on human-like egocentric visual inputs substantially underperform on image recognition tasks compared to humans. These models train on raw, uniform visual inputs collected from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Timothy Schaumlöffel , Arthur Aubret , Gemma Roig , Jochen Triesch

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

3D object detection in autonomous driving aims to reason "what" and "where" the objects of interest present in a 3D world. Following the conventional wisdom of previous 2D object detection, existing methods often adopt the canonical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yanqin Jiang , Li Zhang , Zhenwei Miao , Xiatian Zhu , Jin Gao , Weiming Hu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We propose a framework to continuously learn object-centric representations for visual learning and understanding. Existing object-centric representations either rely on supervisions that individualize objects in the scene, or perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chuanyu Pan , Yanchao Yang , Kaichun Mo , Yueqi Duan , Leonidas Guibas

Autonomous driving technology has the potential to transform transportation, but its wide adoption depends on the development of interpretable and transparent decision-making systems. Scene captioning, which generates natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Felix Brandstaetter , Erik Schuetz , Katharina Winter , Fabian Flohr

The goal of object-centric representation learning is to decompose visual scenes into a structured representation that isolates the entities. Recent successes have shown that object-centric representation learning can be scaled to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Aniket Didolkar , Andrii Zadaianchuk , Anirudh Goyal , Mike Mozer , Yoshua Bengio , Georg Martius , Maximilian Seitzer