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Birds-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is critical for autonomous driving for its powerful spatial representation ability. It is challenging to estimate the BEV semantic maps from monocular images due to the spatial gap, since it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Shi Gong , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Jingdong Wang , Errui Ding , Yu Zhou , Xiang Bai

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

The choice of representation plays a key role in self-driving. Bird's eye view (BEV) representations have shown remarkable performance in recent years. In this paper, we propose to learn object-centric representations in BEV to distill a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shadi Hamdan , Fatma Güney

Generating a detailed near-field perceptual model of the environment is an important and challenging problem in both self-driving vehicles and autonomous mobile robotics. A Bird Eye View (BEV) map, providing a panoptic representation, is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Pramit Dutta , Ganesh Sistu , Senthil Yogamani , Edgar Galván , John McDonald

Autonomous vehicle perception systems have traditionally relied on costly LiDAR sensors to generate precise environmental representations. In this paper, we propose a camera-only perception framework that produces Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anupkumar Bochare

Learning powerful representations in bird's-eye-view (BEV) for perception tasks is trending and drawing extensive attention both from industry and academia. Conventional approaches for most autonomous driving algorithms perform detection,…

We present a novel bird's-eye-view (BEV) detector with perspective supervision, which converges faster and better suits modern image backbones. Existing state-of-the-art BEV detectors are often tied to certain depth pre-trained backbones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Chenyu Yang , Yuntao Chen , Hao Tian , Chenxin Tao , Xizhou Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Gao Huang , Hongyang Li , Yu Qiao , Lewei Lu , Jie Zhou , Jifeng Dai

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) grid is a typical representation of the perception of road components, e.g., drivable area, in autonomous driving. Most existing approaches rely on cameras only to perform segmentation in BEV space, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shubhankar Borse , Senthil Yogamani , Marvin Klingner , Varun Ravi , Hong Cai , Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Fatih Porikli

Despite tremendous advancements in bird's-eye view (BEV) perception, existing models fall short in generating realistic and coherent semantic map layouts, and they fail to account for uncertainties arising from partial sensor information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Xiyue Zhu , Vlas Zyrianov , Zhijian Liu , Shenlong Wang

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) grid is a common representation for the perception of road components, e.g., drivable area, in autonomous driving. Most existing approaches rely on cameras only to perform segmentation in BEV space, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shubhankar Borse , Marvin Klingner , Varun Ravi Kumar , Hong Cai , Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Senthil Yogamani , Fatih Porikli

Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture…

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

Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

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

Awareness of the road scene is an essential component for both autonomous vehicles and Advances Driver Assistance Systems and is gaining importance both for the academia and car companies. This paper presents a way to learn a semantic-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Andrea Palazzi , Guido Borghi , Davide Abati , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

Semantic segmentation is an effective way to perform scene understanding. Recently, segmentation in 3D Bird's Eye View (BEV) space has become popular as its directly used by drive policy. However, there is limited work on BEV segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Senthil Yogamani , David Unger , Venkatraman Narayanan , Varun Ravi Kumar

Semantic Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps offer a rich representation with strong occlusion reasoning for various decision making tasks in autonomous driving. However, most BEV mapping approaches employ a fully supervised learning paradigm that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Nikhil Gosala , Kürsat Petek , B Ravi Kiran , Senthil Yogamani , Paulo Drews-Jr , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

We explore Bird's-Eye View (BEV) generation, converting a BEV map into its corresponding multi-view street images. Valued for its unified spatial representation aiding multi-sensor fusion, BEV is pivotal for various autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaojie Xu , Tianshuo Xu , Fulong Ma , Yingcong Chen

Estimating a semantically segmented bird's-eye-view (BEV) map from a single image has become a popular technique for autonomous control and navigation. However, they show an increase in localization error with distance from the camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Avishkar Saha , Oscar Mendez , Chris Russell , Richard Bowden

Recent works in autonomous driving have widely adopted the bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic map as an intermediate representation of the world. Online prediction of these BEV maps involves non-trivial operations such as multi-camera data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Florent Bartoccioni , Éloi Zablocki , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Matthieu Cord , Karteek Alahari