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3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving has been making remarkable strides in recent years. Among the state-of-the-art methodologies, encoding point clouds into a bird's eye view (BEV) has been demonstrated to be both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yantao Lu , Xuetao Hao , Yilan Li , Weiheng Chai , Shiqi Sun , Senem Velipasalar

3D object detection in Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) space has recently emerged as a prevalent approach in the field of autonomous driving. Despite the demonstrated improvements in accuracy and velocity estimation compared to perspective view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuxin Li , Qiang Han , Mengying Yu , Yuxin Jiang , Chaikiat Yeo , Yiheng Li , Zihang Huang , Nini Liu , Hsuanhan Chen , Xiaojun Wu

Centerline graphs, crucial for path planning in autonomous driving, are traditionally learned using deterministic methods. However, these methods often lack spatial reasoning and struggle with occluded or invisible centerlines. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zijie Wang , Weiming Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Hongxing Liu , Yaowei Wang , Guanbin Li

Accurate motion understanding of the dynamic objects within the scene in bird's-eye-view (BEV) is critical to ensure a reliable obstacle avoidance system and smooth path planning for autonomous vehicles. However, this task has received…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Hiep Truong Cong , Ajay Kumar Sigatapu , Arindam Das , Yashwanth Sharma , Venkatesh Satagopan , Ganesh Sistu , Ciaran Eising

A robust awareness of how dynamic scenes evolve is essential for Autonomous Driving systems, as they must accurately detect, track, and predict the behaviour of surrounding obstacles. Traditional perception pipelines that rely on modular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Miguel Antunes-García , Santiago Montiel-Marín , Fabio Sánchez-García , Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno , Rafael Barea , Luis M. Bergasa

Detection of moving objects is a very important task in autonomous driving systems. After the perception phase, motion planning is typically performed in Bird's Eye View (BEV) space. This would require projection of objects detected on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Hazem Rashed , Mariam Essam , Maha Mohamed , Ahmad El Sallab , Senthil Yogamani

Constructing online High-Definition (HD) maps is crucial for the static environment perception of autonomous driving systems (ADS). Existing solutions typically attempt to detect vectorized HD map elements with unified models; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Dapeng Zhang , Dayu Chen , Peng Zhi , Yinda Chen , Zhenlong Yuan , Chenyang Li , Sunjing , Rui Zhou , Qingguo Zhou

Recently, 3D object detection has attracted significant attention and achieved continuous improvement in real road scenarios. The environmental information is collected from a single sensor or multi-sensor fusion to detect interested…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hongwei Liu , Jian Yang , Jianfeng Zhang , Dongheng Shao , Jielong Guo , Shaobo Li , Xuan Tang , Xian Wei

Semantic grids can be useful representations of the scene around an autonomous system. By having information about the layout of the space around itself, a robot can leverage this type of representation for crucial tasks such as navigation…

Predicting and constructing road geometric information (e.g., lane lines, road markers) is a crucial task for safe autonomous driving, while such static map elements can be repeatedly occluded by various dynamic objects on the road. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nayeon Kim , Hongje Seong , Daehyun Ji , Sujin Jang

This article introduces BEVPlace++, a novel, fast, and robust LiDAR global localization method for unmanned ground vehicles. It uses lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Bird's Eye View (BEV) image-like representations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Si-Yuan Cao , Xiaorui Li , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Zhu Yu , Xieyuanli Chen

We present an end-to-end method for object detection and trajectory prediction utilizing multi-view representations of LiDAR returns and camera images. In this work, we recognize the strengths and weaknesses of different view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Sudeep Fadadu , Shreyash Pandey , Darshan Hegde , Yi Shi , Fang-Chieh Chou , Nemanja Djuric , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

We propose a motion forecasting model called BANet, which means Boundary-Aware Network, and it is a variant of LaneGCN. We believe that it is not enough to use only the lane centerline as input to obtain the embedding features of the vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Chen Zhang , Honglin Sun , Chen Chen , Yandong Guo

We present BEVCon, a simple yet effective contrastive learning framework designed to improve Bird's Eye View (BEV) perception in autonomous driving. BEV perception offers a top-down-view representation of the surrounding environment, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ziyang Leng , Jiawei Yang , Zhicheng Ren , Bolei Zhou

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

Robust lane detection is essential for advanced driver assistance and autonomous driving, yet models trained on public datasets such as CULane often fail to generalise across different camera viewpoints. This paper addresses the challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Flora Lian , Dinh Quang Huynh , Hector Penades , J. Stephany Berrio Perez , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall

The development of online high-definition maps is significant since they provide real-time, accurate, and updatable geographic information for location-based applications, such as autonomous driving and intelligent transportation, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mingchao Jiang , Yin Cheng , Linghai Liu

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is an essential part of a safe and robust end-to-end autonomous driving (AD) pipeline. Onboard camera-based approaches suffer from limited depth perception and degraded accuracy due to occlusion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kanak Mazumder , Fabian B. Flohr

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

In autonomous driving, high-definition (HD) maps and semantic maps in bird's-eye view (BEV) are essential for accurate localization, planning, and decision-making. This paper introduces an enhanced End-to-End model named MapFM for online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Leonid Ivanov , Vasily Yuryev , Dmitry Yudin