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Place recognition is a key module for long-term SLAM systems. Current LiDAR-based place recognition methods usually use representations of point clouds such as unordered points or range images. These methods achieve high recall rates of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Yongzhi Fan , Beinan Yu , Siyuan Cao , Huiliang Shen

Multimodal sensor fusion methods for 3D object detection have been revolutionizing the autonomous driving research field. Nevertheless, most of these methods heavily rely on dense LiDAR data and accurately calibrated sensors which is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Maciej K. Wozniak , Viktor Karefjards , Marko Thiel , Patric Jensfelt

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

Reliable dynamic object detection in cluttered environments remains a critical challenge for autonomous navigation. Purely geometric LiDAR pipelines that rely on clustering and heuristic filtering can miss dynamic obstacles when they move…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Juan Rached , Yixuan Jia , Kota Kondo , Jonathan P. How

LiDAR-based 3D object detection and classification is crucial for autonomous driving. However, real-time inference from extremely sparse 3D data is a formidable challenge. To address this problem, a typical class of approaches transforms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Yongxin Shao , Aihong Tan , Zhetao Sun , Enhui Zheng , Tianhong Yan , Peng Liao

BEV perception is of great importance in the field of autonomous driving, serving as the cornerstone of planning, controlling, and motion prediction. The quality of the BEV feature highly affects the performance of BEV perception. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jiayu Zou , Zheng Zhu , Yun Ye , Xingang Wang

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

This paper presents a new approach to boost a single-modality (LiDAR) 3D object detector by teaching it to simulate features and responses that follow a multi-modality (LiDAR-image) detector. The approach needs LiDAR-image data only when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Wu Zheng , Mingxuan Hong , Li Jiang , Chi-Wing Fu

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

With the attention gained by camera-only 3D object detection in autonomous driving, methods based on Bird-Eye-View (BEV) representation especially derived from the forward view transformation paradigm, i.e., lift-splat-shoot (LSS), have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Weijie Ma , Jingwei Jiang , Yang Yang , Zehui Chen , Hao Chen

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

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

Multi-modality fusion is proven an effective method for 3d perception for autonomous driving. However, most current multi-modality fusion pipelines for LiDAR semantic segmentation have complicated fusion mechanisms. Point painting is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Zichao Dong , Bowen Pang , Xufeng Huang , Hang Ji , Xin Zhan , Junbo Chen

LiDAR is crucial for robust 3D scene perception in autonomous driving. LiDAR perception has the largest body of literature after camera perception. However, multi-task learning across tasks like detection, segmentation, and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sambit Mohapatra , Senthil Yogamani , Varun Ravi Kumar , Stefan Milz , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mäder

Camera-based 3D object detection and tracking are central to autonomous driving, yet precise 3D object localization remains fundamentally constrained by depth ambiguity when no expensive, depth-rich online LiDAR is available at inference.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Markus Käppeler , Özgün Çiçek , Yakov Miron , Abhinav Valada

Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Felix Nobis , Ehsan Shafiei , Phillip Karle , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Camera-based bird-eye-view (BEV) perception paradigm has made significant progress in the autonomous driving field. Under such a paradigm, accurate BEV representation construction relies on reliable depth estimation for multi-camera images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Lechao Cheng , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

Existing LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods for autonomous driving scenarios mainly adopt the training-from-scratch paradigm. Unfortunately, this paradigm heavily relies on large-scale labeled data, whose collection can be expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Shengxiang Qi , Nan Dong , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Accurate depth estimation is fundamental to 3D perception in autonomous driving, supporting tasks such as detection, tracking, and motion planning. However, monocular camera-based 3D detection suffers from depth ambiguity and reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle