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Safety and reliability are crucial for the public acceptance of autonomous driving. To ensure accurate and reliable environmental perception, intelligent vehicles must exhibit accuracy and robustness in various environments. Millimeter-wave…

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Radar is ubiquitous in autonomous driving systems due to its low cost and good adaptability to bad weather. Nevertheless, the radar detection performance is usually inferior because its point cloud is sparse and not accurate due to the poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yang Liu , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Depth estimation in videos is essential for visual perception in real-world applications. However, existing methods either rely on simple frame-by-frame monocular models, leading to temporal inconsistencies and inaccuracies, or use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Luigi Piccinelli , Thiemo Wandel , Christos Sakaridis , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Due to the rapid development of panorama cameras, the task of estimating panorama depth has attracted significant attention from the computer vision community, especially in applications such as robot sensing and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

There are two critical sensors for 3D perception in autonomous driving, the camera and the LiDAR. The camera provides rich semantic information such as color, texture, and the LiDAR reflects the 3D shape and locations of surrounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Kaicheng Yu , Tang Tao , Hongwei Xie , Zhiwei Lin , Zhongwei Wu , Zhongyu Xia , Tingting Liang , Haiyang Sun , Jiong Deng , Dayang Hao , Yongtao Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Bing Wang

In this paper we present a novel radar-camera sensor fusion framework for accurate object detection and distance estimation in autonomous driving scenarios. The proposed architecture uses a middle-fusion approach to fuse the radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Ramin Nabati , Hairong Qi

Mobile robots require accurate and robust depth measurements to understand and interact with the environment. While existing sensing modalities address this problem to some extent, recent research on monocular depth estimation has leveraged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Tim Kazik , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

We propose Radar-Camera fusion transformer (RaCFormer) to boost the accuracy of 3D object detection by the following insight. The Radar-Camera fusion in outdoor 3D scene perception is capped by the image-to-BEV transformation--if the depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xiaomeng Chu , Jiajun Deng , Guoliang You , Yifan Duan , Houqiang Li , Yanyong Zhang

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Depth images have a wide range of applications, such as 3D reconstruction, autonomous driving, augmented reality, robot navigation, and scene understanding. Commodity-grade depth cameras are hard to sense depth for bright, glossy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Kailai Sun , Zhou Yang , Qianchuan Zhao

The increasing use of 360 images across various domains has emphasized the need for robust depth estimation techniques tailored for omnidirectional images. However, obtaining large-scale labeled datasets for 360 depth estimation remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Dongki Jung , Jaehoon Choi , Yonghan Lee , Dinesh Manocha

Depth information is useful for many applications. Active depth sensors are appealing because they obtain dense and accurate depth maps. However, due to issues that range from power constraints to multi-sensor interference, these sensors…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 James Noraky , Vivienne Sze

Depth estimation is an important step in many computer vision problems such as 3D reconstruction, novel view synthesis, and computational photography. Most existing work focuses on depth estimation from single frames. When applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Numair Khan , Eric Penner , Douglas Lanman , Lei Xiao

Monocular depth estimation (MDE) has been widely adopted in the perception systems of autonomous vehicles and mobile robots. However, existing approaches often struggle to maintain temporal consistency in depth estimation across consecutive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Leezy Han , Seunggyu Kim , Dongseok Shim , Hyeonbeom Lee

Autonomous vehicles demand high accuracy and robustness of perception algorithms. To develop efficient and scalable perception algorithms, the maximum information should be extracted from the available sensor data. In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Sebastian Huch , Florian Sauerbeck , Johannes Betz

This paper presents a novel monocular depth estimation method, named ECFNet, for estimating high-quality monocular depth with clear edges and valid overall structure from a single RGB image. We make a thorough inquiry about the key factor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Pengzhi Li , Yikang Ding , Haohan Wang , Chengshuai Tang , Zhiheng Li

Recently, transformer networks have outperformed traditional deep neural networks in natural language processing and show a large potential in many computer vision tasks compared to convolutional backbones. In the original transformer,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

Video depth estimation is crucial in various applications, such as scene reconstruction and augmented reality. In contrast to the naive method of estimating depths from images, a more sophisticated approach uses temporal information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Elena Kosheleva , Sunil Jaiswal , Faranak Shamsafar , Noshaba Cheema , Klaus Illgner-Fehns , Philipp Slusallek

Depth estimation is essential for various important real-world applications such as autonomous driving. However, it suffers from severe performance degradation in high-velocity scenario since traditional cameras can only capture blurred…

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