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The awareness about moving objects in the surroundings of a self-driving vehicle is essential for safe and reliable autonomous navigation. The interpretation of LiDAR and camera data achieves exceptional results but typically requires to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Matthias Zeller , Vardeep S. Sandhu , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Accurate 3D object detection is vital for automated driving. While lidar sensors are well suited for this task, they are expensive and have limitations in adverse weather conditions. 3+1D imaging radar sensors offer a cost-effective, robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Stefan Schütte , Richard Altendorfer , Ganesh Adam , Torsten Bertram

The perception of autonomous vehicles has to be efficient, robust, and cost-effective. However, cameras are not robust against severe weather conditions, lidar sensors are expensive, and the performance of radar-based perception is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Felix Fent , Andras Palffy , Holger Caesar

Current efficient LiDAR-based detection frameworks are lacking in exploiting object relations, which naturally present in both spatial and temporal manners. To this end, we introduce a simple, efficient, and effective two-stage detector,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yu-Huan Wu , Da Zhang , Le Zhang , Xin Zhan , Dengxin Dai , Yun Liu , Ming-Ming Cheng

In this paper, we present a Transformer-based architecture for 3D radar object detection that uses a novel Transformer Decoder as the prediction head to directly regress 3D bounding boxes and class scores from radar feature representations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Changxu Zhang , Zhaoze Wang , Tai Fei , Christopher Grimm , Yi Jin , Claas Tebruegge , Ernst Warsitz , Markus Gardill

Sensor fusion is a crucial augmentation technique for improving the accuracy and reliability of perception systems for automated vehicles under diverse driving conditions. However, adverse weather and low-light conditions remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Can Cui , Yunsheng Ma , Juanwu Lu , Ziran Wang

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

Radar has stronger adaptability in adverse scenarios for autonomous driving environmental perception compared to widely adopted cameras and LiDARs. Compared with commonly used 3D radars, the latest 4D radars have precise vertical resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Xinyu Zhang , Li Wang , Jian Chen , Cheng Fang , Lei Yang , Ziying Song , Guangqi Yang , Yichen Wang , Xiaofei Zhang , Jun Li , Zhiwei Li , Qingshan Yang , Zhenlin Zhang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Hao Li , Xinqi Liu , Yaoqing Jin

Robust perception is a vital component for ensuring safe autonomous and assisted driving. Automotive radar (77 to 81 GHz), which offers weather-resilient sensing, provides a complementary capability to the vision- or LiDAR-based autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jen-Hao Cheng , Sheng-Yao Kuan , Hugo Latapie , Gaowen Liu , Jenq-Neng Hwang

Recent advances in automotive four-dimensional (4D) Radar have enabled access to raw 4D Radar Tensor (4DRT), offering richer spatial and Doppler information than conventional point clouds. While most existing methods rely on heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Seung-Hyun Song , Dong-Hee Paek , Minh-Quan Dao , Ezio Malis , Seung-Hyun Kong

Automotive radar sensors provide valuable information for advanced driving assistance systems (ADAS). Radars can reliably estimate the distance to an object and the relative velocity, regardless of weather and light conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Colin Decourt , Rufin VanRullen , Didier Salle , Thomas Oberlin

The rapid evolution of deep learning and its integration with autonomous driving systems have led to substantial advancements in 3D perception using multimodal sensors. Notably, radar sensors show greater robustness compared to cameras and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Miao Zhang , Sherif Abdulatif , Benedikt Loesch , Marco Altmann , Marius Schwarz , Bin Yang

Distributed radar sensors enable robust human activity recognition. However, scaling the number of coordinated nodes introduces challenges in feature extraction from large datasets, and transparent data fusion. We propose an end-to-end…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-07 Mina Shahbazifar , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Matthias Hollick , Arash Asadi , Vahid Jamali

Millimeter-wave radar offers a promising sensing modality for autonomous systems thanks to its robustness in adverse conditions and low cost. However, its utility is significantly limited by the sparsity and low resolution of radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruijie Zhang , Bixin Zeng , Shengpeng Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Richard Altendorfer , Torsten Bertram

In the realm of modern autonomous driving, the perception system is indispensable for accurately assessing the state of the surrounding environment, thereby enabling informed prediction and planning. The key step to this system is related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Ziying Song , Lin Liu , Feiyang Jia , Yadan Luo , Guoxin Zhang , Lei Yang , Li Wang , Caiyan Jia

Unlike RGB cameras that use visible light bands (384$\sim$769 THz) and Lidars that use infrared bands (361$\sim$331 THz), Radars use relatively longer wavelength radio bands (77$\sim$81 GHz), resulting in robust measurements in adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Dong-Hee Paek , Seung-Hyun Kong , Kevin Tirta Wijaya

The perception of moving objects is crucial for autonomous robots performing collision avoidance in dynamic environments. LiDARs and cameras tremendously enhance scene interpretation but do not provide direct motion information and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Matthias Zeller , Vardeep S. Sandhu , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong