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Multimodal sensor fusion methods for 3D object detection have been revolutionizing the autonomous driving research field. Nevertheless, most of these methods heavily rely on dense LiDAR data and accurately calibrated sensors which is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Maciej K. Wozniak , Viktor Karefjards , Marko Thiel , Patric Jensfelt

We present PointFusion, a generic 3D object detection method that leverages both image and 3D point cloud information. Unlike existing methods that either use multi-stage pipelines or hold sensor and dataset-specific assumptions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Danfei Xu , Dragomir Anguelov , Ashesh Jain

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

Sensing the medical scenario can ensure the safety during the surgical operations. So, in this regard, a monitor platform which can obtain the accurate location information of the surgery room is desperately needed. Compared to 2D camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Ke Wang , Han Song , Jiahui Zhang , Xinran Zhang , Hongen Liao

Recently, sparse 3D convolutions have changed 3D object detection. Performing on par with the voting-based approaches, 3D CNNs are memory-efficient and scale to large scenes better. However, there is still room for improvement. With a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Danila Rukhovich , Anna Vorontsova , Anton Konushin

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

DETR-based methods, which use multi-layer transformer decoders to refine object queries iteratively, have shown promising performance in 3D indoor object detection. However, the scene point features in the transformer decoder remain fixed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Chuxin Wang , Wenfei Yang , Xiang Liu , Tianzhu Zhang

Three-dimensional (3D) object recognition is crucial for intelligent autonomous agents such as autonomous vehicles and robots alike to operate effectively in unstructured environments. Most state-of-art approaches rely on relatively dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Prajval Kumar Murali , Cong Wang , Ravinder Dahiya , Mohsen Kaboli

3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving. As an emerging sensor, 4D imaging radar offers advantages as low cost, long-range detection, and accurate velocity measurement, making it highly suitable for object detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Feature learning for 3D object detection from point clouds is very challenging due to the irregularity of 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we propose Pointformer, a Transformer backbone designed for 3D point clouds to learn features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuran Pan , Zhuofan Xia , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Radar perception models are trained with different inputs, from range-Doppler spectra to sparse point clouds. Dense spectra are assumed to outperform sparse point clouds, yet they can vary considerably across sensors and configurations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Hamza Alsharif , Jing Gu , Pavol Jancura , Satish Ravindran , Gijs Dubbelman

As a core step in structure-from-motion and SLAM, robust feature detection and description under challenging scenarios such as significant viewpoint changes remain unresolved despite their ubiquity. While recent works have identified the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Gonglin Chen , Tianwen Fu , Haiwei Chen , Wenbin Teng , Hanyuan Xiao , Yajie Zhao

Despite notable advancements in the field of computer vision, the precise detection of tiny objects continues to pose a significant challenge, largely owing to the minuscule pixel representation allocated to these objects in imagery data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hou-I Liu , Yu-Wen Tseng , Kai-Cheng Chang , Pin-Jyun Wang , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Inspired by recent advances in vision transformers for object detection, we propose Li3DeTr, an end-to-end LiDAR based 3D Detection Transformer for autonomous driving, that inputs LiDAR point clouds and regresses 3D bounding boxes. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Gopi Krishna Erabati , Helder Araujo

Point cloud obtained from 3D scanning is often sparse, noisy, and irregular. To cope with these issues, recent studies have been separately conducted to densify, denoise, and complete inaccurate point cloud. In this paper, we advocate that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Jaesung Choe , Byeongin Joung , Francois Rameau , Jaesik Park , In So Kweon

3D single object tracking is a key task in 3D computer vision. However, the sparsity of point clouds makes it difficult to compute the similarity and locate the object, posing big challenges to the 3D tracker. Previous works tried to solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yubo Cui , Jiayao Shan , Zuoxu Gu , Zhiheng Li , Zheng Fang

Sensor fusion is crucial for an accurate and robust perception system on autonomous vehicles. Most existing datasets and perception solutions focus on fusing cameras and LiDAR. However, the collaboration between camera and radar is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Yizhou Wang , Jen-Hao Cheng , Jui-Te Huang , Sheng-Yao Kuan , Qiqian Fu , Chiming Ni , Shengyu Hao , Gaoang Wang , Guanbin Xing , Hui Liu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

This study introduces a method for efficiently detecting objects within 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach adopts a unique feature-centric voting mechanism to construct convolutional layers that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tianyi Lyu , Dian Gu , Peiyuan Chen , Yaoting Jiang , Zhenhong Zhang , Huadong Pang , Li Zhou , Yiping Dong

Recent research has shown the effectiveness of mmWave radar sensing for object detection in low visibility environments, which makes it an ideal technique in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we introduce Radar to Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yue Sun , Honggang Zhang , Zhuoming Huang , Benyuan Liu

Region-based object detection infers object regions for one or more categories in an image. Due to the recent advances in deep learning and region proposal methods, object detectors based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Seung-Hwan Bae