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Fusing the camera and LiDAR information has become a de-facto standard for 3D object detection tasks. Current methods rely on point clouds from the LiDAR sensor as queries to leverage the feature from the image space. However, people…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Tingting Liang , Hongwei Xie , Kaicheng Yu , Zhongyu Xia , Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Tao Tang , Bing Wang , Zhi Tang

This paper presents a compact and accurate representation of 3D scenes that are observed by a LiDAR sensor and a monocular camera. The proposed method is based on the well-established Stixel model originally developed for stereo vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Florian Piewak , Peter Pinggera , Markus Enzweiler , David Pfeiffer , Marius Zöllner

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

As one of the automotive sensors that have emerged in recent years, 4D millimeter-wave radar has a higher resolution than conventional 3D radar and provides precise elevation measurements. But its point clouds are still sparse and noisy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Xin Jin

Segmenting objects in an environment is a crucial task for autonomous driving and robotics, as it enables a better understanding of the surroundings of each agent. Although camera sensors provide rich visual details, they are vulnerable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Huawei Sun , Bora Kunter Sahin , Georg Stettinger , Maximilian Bernhard , Matthias Schubert , Robert Wille

Camera and LiDAR sensor modalities provide complementary appearance and geometric information useful for detecting 3D objects for autonomous vehicle applications. However, current end-to-end fusion methods are challenging to train and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Anas Mahmoud , Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

State-of-the-art LiDAR-camera 3D object detectors usually focus on feature fusion. However, they neglect the factor of depth while designing the fusion strategy. In this work, we are the first to observe that different modalities play…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mingqian Ji , Jian Yang , Shanshan Zhang

Compared to images, videos better reflect real-world acquisition and possess valuable temporal cues. However, existing multi-sensor fusion research predominantly integrates complementary context from multiple images rather than videos due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Linfeng Tang , Yeda Wang , Meiqi Gong , Zizhuo Li , Yuxin Deng , Xunpeng Yi , Chunyu Li , Han Xu , Hao Zhang , Jiayi Ma

This paper introduces VLMFusionOcc3D, a robust multimodal framework for dense 3D semantic occupancy prediction in autonomous driving. Current voxel-based occupancy models often struggle with semantic ambiguity in sparse geometric grids and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 A. Enes Doruk , Hasan F. Ates

Accurate 3D object detection for autonomous driving requires complementary sensors. Cameras provide dense semantics but unreliable depth, while millimeter-wave radar offers precise range and velocity measurements with sparse geometry. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mayank Mayank , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Florian Geiß , Abhinav Valada

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

High-definition (HD) semantic mapping of complex intersections poses significant challenges for traditional vehicle-based approaches due to occlusions and limited perspectives. This paper introduces a novel camera-LiDAR fusion framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhongzhang Chen , Miao Fan , Shengtong Xu , Mengmeng Yang , Kun Jiang , Xiangzeng Liu , Haoyi Xiong

LiDAR-camera fusion methods have shown impressive performance in 3D object detection. Recent advanced multi-modal methods mainly perform global fusion, where image features and point cloud features are fused across the whole scene. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Xin Li , Tao Ma , Yuenan Hou , Botian Shi , Yuchen Yang , Youquan Liu , Xingjiao Wu , Qin Chen , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao , Liang He

Semantic segmentation of 3D meshes is an important problem for 3D scene understanding. In this paper we revisit the classic multiview representation of 3D meshes and study several techniques that make them effective for 3D semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Abhijit Kundu , Xiaoqi Yin , Alireza Fathi , David Ross , Brian Brewington , Thomas Funkhouser , Caroline Pantofaru

Multimodal semantic segmentation is a pivotal component of computer vision and typically surpasses unimodal methods by utilizing rich information set from various sources.Current models frequently adopt modality-specific frameworks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Bingyu Li , Da Zhang , Zhiyuan Zhao , Junyu Gao , Xuelong Li

LiDAR and camera are two critical sensors for multi-modal 3D semantic segmentation and are supposed to be fused efficiently and robustly to promise safety in various real-world scenarios. However, existing multi-modal methods face two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Feng Jiang , Chaoping Tu , Gang Zhang , Jun Li , Hanqing Huang , Junyu Lin , Di Feng , Jian Pu

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

Camera and LiDAR serve as informative sensors for accurate and robust autonomous driving systems. However, these sensors often exhibit heterogeneous natures, resulting in distributional modality gaps that present significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yiran Yang , Xu Gao , Tong Wang , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi , Xiao Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang

Infrared and visible image fusion has garnered considerable attention owing to the strong complementarity of these two modalities in complex, harsh environments. While deep learning-based fusion methods have made remarkable advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Guihui Li , Bowei Dong , Kaizhi Dong , Jiayi Li , Haiyong Zheng