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Road surface conditions, especially geometry profiles, enormously affect driving performance of autonomous vehicles. Vision-based online road reconstruction promisingly captures road information in advance. Existing solutions like monocular…

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This paper introduces the Budding Ensemble Architecture (BEA), a novel reduced ensemble architecture for anchor-based object detection models. Object detection models are crucial in vision-based tasks, particularly in autonomous systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Syed Sha Qutub , Neslihan Kose , Rafael Rosales , Michael Paulitsch , Korbinian Hagn , Florian Geissler , Yang Peng , Gereon Hinz , Alois Knoll

Accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving is critical yet challenging due to occlusions, varying object sizes, and complex urban environments. This paper introduces the KAN-RCBEVDepth method, an innovative approach aimed at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Zhihao Lai , Chuanhao Liu , Shihui Sheng , Zhiqiang Zhang

This paper investigates the advantages of using Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation in 360-degree visual place recognition (VPR). We propose a novel network architecture that utilizes the BEV representation in feature extraction, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuecheng Xu , Yanmei Jiao , Sha Lu , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Place recognition is an important task within autonomous navigation, involving the re-identification of previously visited locations from an initial traverse. Unlike visual place recognition (VPR), LiDAR place recognition (LPR) is tolerant…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Therese Joseph , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

In advanced paradigms of autonomous driving, learning Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation from surrounding views is crucial for multi-task framework. However, existing methods based on depth estimation or camera-driven attention are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Hongxiang Jiang , Wenming Meng , Hongmei Zhu , Qian Zhang , Jihao Yin

Learning the dense bird's eye view (BEV) motion flow in a self-supervised manner is an emerging research for robotics and autonomous driving. Current self-supervised methods mainly rely on point correspondences between point clouds, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Shaoheng Fang , Zuhong Liu , Mingyu Wang , Chenxin Xu , Yiqi Zhong , Siheng Chen

The Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation is a critical factor that directly impacts the 3D object detection performance, but the traditional BEV grid representation induces quadratic computational cost as the spatial resolution grows. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhili Chen , Shuangjie Xu , Maosheng Ye , Zian Qian , Xiaoyi Zou , Dit-Yan Yeung , Qifeng Chen

This work introduces a new preprocessing step for object detection applicable to UAV bird's eye view imagery, which we call Adaptive Resizing. By design, it helps alleviate the challenges coming with the vast variances in objects' scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Martin Messmer , Benjamin Kiefer , Andreas Zell

Moving Object Detection (MOD) is a crucial task for the Autonomous Driving pipeline. MOD is usually handled via 2-stream convolutional architectures that incorporates both appearance and motion cues, without considering the inter-relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Eslam Mohamed , Ahmad El-Sallab

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) semantic segmentation provides comprehensive environmental perception for autonomous driving but suffers multi-modal misalignment and sensor noise. We propose RESAR-BEV, a progressive refinement framework that advances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zhiwen Zeng , Yunfei Yin , Zheng Yuan , Argho Dey , Xianjian Bao

Point cloud data from 3D LiDAR sensors are one of the most crucial sensor modalities for versatile safety-critical applications such as self-driving vehicles. Since the annotations of point cloud data is an expensive and time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Khaled Saleh , Ahmed Abobakr , Mohammed Attia , Julie Iskander , Darius Nahavandi , Mohammed Hossny

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

Learning Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation from surrounding-view cameras is of great importance for autonomous driving. In this work, we propose a Geometry-guided Kernel Transformer (GKT), a novel 2D-to-BEV representation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Shaoyu Chen , Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Wenming Meng , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu

Birds-Eye-View (BEV) segmentation aims to establish a spatial mapping from the perspective view to the top view and estimate the semantic maps from monocular images. Recent studies have encountered difficulties in view transformation due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Jiawei Zhao , Qixing Jiang , Xuede Li , Junfeng Luo

The increasing integration of sensors in autonomous maritime navigation has led to large-scale multimodal datasets, raising challenges in achieving efficient real-time perception. In such systems, object detection and trajectory perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Grigorios Papanikolaou , Ioannis Kontopoulos , Giannis Spiliopoulos , Dimitris Zissis , Konstantinos Tserpes

Modern methods for vision-centric autonomous driving perception widely adopt the bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation to describe a 3D scene. Despite its better efficiency than voxel representation, it has difficulty describing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Yuanhui Huang , Wenzhao Zheng , Yunpeng Zhang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Monocular Visual Odometry (MVO) provides a cost-effective, real-time positioning solution for autonomous vehicles. However, MVO systems face the common issue of lacking inherent scale information from monocular cameras. Traditional methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yufei Wei , Sha Lu , Wangtao Lu , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Prediction, decision-making, and motion planning are essential for autonomous driving. In most contemporary works, they are considered as individual modules or combined into a multi-task learning paradigm with a shared backbone but separate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Pengqin Wang , Meixin Zhu , Hongliang Lu , Hui Zhong , Xianda Chen , Shaojie Shen , Xuesong Wang , Yinhai Wang

In the field of 3D object detection tasks, fusing heterogeneous features from LiDAR and camera sensors into a unified Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is a widely adopted paradigm. However, existing methods often suffer from imprecise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Feiyang Jia , Yongchang Zhang , Lin Liu , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Peiliang Wu , Caiyan Jia , Zheng Zhang , Yadan Luo