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Radars and cameras belong to the most frequently used sensors for advanced driver assistance systems and automated driving research. However, there has been surprisingly little research on radar-camera fusion with neural networks. One of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Lukas Stäcker , Shashank Mishra , Philipp Heidenreich , Jason Rambach , Didier Stricker

High-definition (HD) maps are essential in testing autonomous driving systems (ADSs). HD maps essentially determine the potential diversity of the testing scenarios. However, the current HD maps suffer from two main limitations: lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yun Tang , Yuan Zhou , Kairui Yang , Ziyuan Zhong , Baishakhi Ray , Yang Liu , Ping Zhang , Junbo Chen

High-definition maps (HD maps) are a key component of most modern self-driving systems due to their valuable semantic and geometric information. Unfortunately, building HD maps has proven hard to scale due to their cost as well as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sergio Casas , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) maps have emerged as one of the most powerful representations for scene understanding due to their ability to provide rich spatial context while being easy to interpret and process. Such maps have found use in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Nikhil Gosala , Abhinav Valada

Autonomous driving systems benefit from high-definition (HD) maps that provide critical information about road infrastructure. The online construction of HD maps offers a scalable approach to generate local maps from on-board sensors.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongyu Lyu , Thomas Monninger , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

Bird's Eye View (BEV) semantic maps have recently garnered a lot of attention as a useful representation of the environment to tackle assisted and autonomous driving tasks. However, most of the existing work focuses on the fully supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo , Leonardo Taccari , Aurel Pjetri , Francesco Sambo , Samuele Salti

High-definition (HD) maps are crucial to autonomous driving, providing structured representations of road elements to support navigation and planning. However, existing query-based methods often employ random query initialization and depend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Bo Lang , Nirav Savaliya , Zhihao Zheng , Jinglun Feng , Zheng-Hang Yeh , Mooi Choo Chuah

We present WidthFormer, a novel transformer-based module to compute Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representations from multi-view cameras for real-time autonomous-driving applications. WidthFormer is computationally efficient, robust and does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Chenhongyi Yang , Tianwei Lin , Lichao Huang , Elliot J. Crowley

Currently, high-definition (HD) map construction leans towards a lightweight online generation tendency, which aims to preserve timely and reliable road scene information. However, map elements contain strong shape priors. Subtle and sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaolu Liu , Song Wang , Wentong Li , Ruizi Yang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Learning Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation from surrounding-view cameras is of great importance for autonomous driving. In this work, we propose a Geometry-guided Kernel Transformer (GKT), a novel 2D-to-BEV representation learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Shaoyu Chen , Tianheng Cheng , Xinggang Wang , Wenming Meng , Qian Zhang , Wenyu Liu

Integrating LiDAR and Camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) has become an essential topic for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Existing methods mostly adopt an independent dual-branch framework to generate LiDAR and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hongxiang Cai , Zeyuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Ziyin Li , Wenbo Ding , Jiuhua Zhao

The perception of transparent objects for grasp and manipulation remains a major challenge, because existing robotic grasp methods which heavily rely on depth maps are not suitable for transparent objects due to their unique visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yifan Zhou , Wanli Peng , Zhongyu Yang , He Liu , Yi Sun

Autonomous driving requires 3D maps that provide accurate and up-to-date information about semantic landmarks. Due to the wider availability and lower cost of cameras compared with laser scanners, vision-based mapping solutions, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Clayton Souza Leite , Yu Xiao

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

Autonomous driving requires accurate scene understanding, including road geometry, traffic agents, and their semantic relationships. In online HD map generation scenarios, raster-based representations are well-suited to vision models but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhigang Sun , Yiru Wang , Anqing Jiang , Shuo Wang , Yu Gao , Yuwen Heng , Shouyi Zhang , An He , Hao Jiang , Jinhao Chai , Zichong Gu , Wang Jijun , Shichen Tang , Lavdim Halilaj , Juergen Luettin , Hao Sun

Safe autonomous agents and mobile robots need fast real time 3D perception, especially for vulnerable road users (VRUs) such as pedestrians. We introduce a new bird's eye view (BEV) encoding, which maps the full 3D LiDAR point cloud into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Mohammad Khoshkdahan , Alexey Vinel

Multi-modal 3D object detection with bird's eye view (BEV) has achieved desired advances on benchmarks. Nonetheless, the accuracy may drop significantly in the real world due to data corruption such as sensor configurations for LiDAR and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Rui Ding , Zhaonian Kuang , Yuzhe Ji , Meng Yang , Xinhu Zheng , Gang Hua

High-definition (HD) maps provide environmental information for autonomous driving systems and are essential for safe planning. While existing methods with single-frame input achieve impressive performance for online vectorized HD map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Jingyu Song , Xudong Chen , Liupei Lu , Jie Li , Katherine A. Skinner

Along with the rapid growth of autonomous vehicles (AVs), more and more demands are required for environment perception technology. Among others, HD mapping has become one of the more prominent roles in helping the vehicle realize essential…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Benny Wijaya , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Tuopu Wen , Yunlong Wang , Xuewei Tang , Zheng Fu , Taohua Zhou , Diange Yang

The Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation is a critical factor that directly impacts the 3D object detection performance, but the traditional BEV grid representation induces quadratic computational cost as the spatial resolution grows. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Zhili Chen , Shuangjie Xu , Maosheng Ye , Zian Qian , Xiaoyi Zou , Dit-Yan Yeung , Qifeng Chen