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Multimodal camera-LiDAR fusion technology has found extensive application in 3D object detection, demonstrating encouraging performance. However, existing methods exhibit significant performance degradation in challenging scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sixian Liu , Chen Xu , Qiang Wang , Donghai Shi , Yiwen Li

As camera and LiDAR sensors capture complementary information used in autonomous driving, great efforts have been made to develop semantic segmentation algorithms through multi-modality data fusion. However, fusion-based approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Chaoda Zheng , Chao Zheng , Ruimao Zhang , Shenghui Cui , Zhen Li

LiDAR-camera fusion enhances 3D panoptic segmentation by leveraging camera images to complement sparse LiDAR scans, but it also introduces a critical failure mode. Under adverse conditions, degradation or failure of the camera sensor can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rohit Mohan , Florian Drews , Yakov Miron , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) grid is a typical representation of the perception of road components, e.g., drivable area, in autonomous driving. Most existing approaches rely on cameras only to perform segmentation in BEV space, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Shubhankar Borse , Senthil Yogamani , Marvin Klingner , Varun Ravi , Hong Cai , Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Fatih Porikli

Environmental perception systems are crucial for high-precision mapping and autonomous navigation, with LiDAR serving as a core sensor providing accurate 3D point cloud data. Efficiently processing unstructured point clouds while extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chuang Chen , Yi Lin , Bo Wang , Jing Hu , Xi Wu , Wenyi Ge

4D millimeter-wave (MMW) radar, which provides both height information and dense point cloud data over 3D MMW radar, has become increasingly popular in 3D object detection. In recent years, radar-vision fusion models have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Haocheng Zhao , Runwei Guan , Taoyu Wu , Ka Lok Man , Limin Yu , Yutao Yue

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While most prevalent methods progressively downscale the 3D point clouds and camera images and then fuse the high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

Reliable 3D object detection is fundamental to autonomous driving, and multimodal fusion algorithms using cameras and LiDAR remain a persistent challenge. Cameras provide dense visual cues but ill posed depth; LiDAR provides a precise 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Venkatraman Narayanan , Bala Sai , Rahul Ahuja , Pratik Likhar , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Cross-modal misalignments, such as spatial offsets, resolution discrepancies, and semantic deficiencies, frequently occur in visible-infrared object detection (VI-OD). To mitigate this, existing methods are typically adapted into an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dingkun Zhu , Haote Zhang , Lipeng Gu , Wuzhou Quan , Fu Lee Wang , Honghui Fan , Jiali Tang , Haoran Xie , Xiaoping Zhang , Mingqiang Wei

Recent advancements in 3D object detection have benefited from multi-modal information from the multi-view cameras and LiDAR sensors. However, the inherent disparities between the modalities pose substantial challenges. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juhan Cha , Minseok Joo , Jihwan Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Injae Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

The fusion of LiDAR and camera sensors has demonstrated significant effectiveness in achieving accurate detection for short-range tasks in autonomous driving. However, this fusion approach could face challenges when dealing with long-range…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Tanmoy Dam , Sanjay Bhargav Dharavath , Sameer Alam , Nimrod Lilith , Aniruddha Maiti , Supriyo Chakraborty , Mir Feroskhan

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is of tremendous significance in autonomous driving. In spite of good progress, accurate and reliable 3D detection is yet to be achieved due to the sparsity and irregularity of LiDAR point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Shengheng Deng , Zhihao Liang , Lin Sun , Kui Jia

Fusing LiDAR and image features in a homogeneous BEV domain has become popular for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, this paradigm is constrained by the excessive feature compression. While some works explore dense voxel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Xuzhong Hu , Zaipeng Duan , Pei An , Jun zhang , Jie Ma

Camera and radar sensors have significant advantages in cost, reliability, and maintenance compared to LiDAR. Existing fusion methods often fuse the outputs of single modalities at the result-level, called the late fusion strategy. This can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Youngseok Kim , Sanmin Kim , Jun Won Choi , Dongsuk Kum

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) grid is a common representation for the perception of road components, e.g., drivable area, in autonomous driving. Most existing approaches rely on cameras only to perform segmentation in BEV space, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shubhankar Borse , Marvin Klingner , Varun Ravi Kumar , Hong Cai , Abdulaziz Almuzairee , Senthil Yogamani , Fatih Porikli

Accurate 3D bird's-eye view (BEV) object detection is essential for autonomous driving, and depends strongly on effective multimodal representations from complementary sensors such as cameras and LiDAR. Multimodal masked autoencoders have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma , Rajitha de Silva , Marc Hanheide , Thomas Bohné , Leonardo Guevara

Camera and 3D LiDAR sensors have become indispensable devices in modern autonomous driving vehicles, where the camera provides the fine-grained texture, color information in 2D space and LiDAR captures more precise and farther-away distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lin Zhao , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Hongsheng Li , Wenbing Tao

3D object detection based on LiDAR-camera fusion is becoming an emerging research theme for autonomous driving. However, it has been surprisingly difficult to effectively fuse both modalities without information loss and interference. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guojun Wang , Bin Tian , Yachen Zhang , Long Chen , Dongpu Cao , Jian Wu

Recent LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection (3DOD) methods show promising results, but they often do not generalize well to target domains outside the source (or training) data distribution. To reduce such domain gaps and thus to make 3DOD…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Gyusam Chang , Wonseok Roh , Sujin Jang , Dongwook Lee , Daehyun Ji , Gyeongrok Oh , Jinsun Park , Jinkyu Kim , Sangpil Kim

Fusing data from cameras and LiDAR sensors is an essential technique to achieve robust 3D object detection. One key challenge in camera-LiDAR fusion involves mitigating the large domain gap between the two sensors in terms of coordinates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yecheol Kim , Konyul Park , Minwook Kim , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi