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Scene flow estimation is an essential ingredient for a variety of real-world applications, especially for autonomous agents, such as self-driving cars and robots. While recent scene flow estimation approaches achieve a reasonable accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yushan Zhang , Bastian Wandt , Maria Magnusson , Michael Felsberg

Reliable 3D dynamic perception requires models that can anticipate motion beyond predefined categories, yet progress is hindered by the scarcity of dense, high-quality motion annotations. While self-supervision on unlabeled real data offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Chenhan Jiang , Patric Jensfelt

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Single RGB or LiDAR is the mainstream sensor for the challenging scene flow, which relies heavily on visual features to match motion features. Compared with single modality, existing methods adopt a fusion strategy to directly fuse the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Hanyu Zhou , Yi Chang , Zhiwei Shi , Luxin Yan

Scene flow estimation, which extracts point-wise motion between scenes, is becoming a crucial task in many computer vision tasks. However, all of the existing estimation methods utilize only the unidirectional features, restricting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Wencan Cheng , Jong Hwan Ko

The emerging 4D millimeter-wave radar, measuring the range, azimuth, elevation, and Doppler velocity of objects, is recognized for its cost-effectiveness and robustness in autonomous driving. Nevertheless, its point clouds exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yuzhi Wu , Li Xiao , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , XiangGen Xia

Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lingdong Kong , Xiang Xu , Jiawei Ren , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Wei Tsang Ooi , Ziwei Liu

Motion estimation is one of the core challenges in computer vision. With traditional dual-frame approaches, occlusions and out-of-view motions are a limiting factor, especially in the context of environmental perception for vehicles due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 René Schuster , Christian Unger , Didier Stricker

Reliable autonomous driving systems require accurate detection of traffic participants. To this end, multi-modal fusion has emerged as an effective strategy. In particular, 4D radar and LiDAR fusion methods based on multi-frame radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiangyuan Peng , Yu Wang , Miao Tang , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Automotive radar has shown promising developments in environment perception due to its cost-effectiveness and robustness in adverse weather conditions. However, the limited availability of annotated radar data poses a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jimmie Kwok , Holger Caesar , Andras Palffy

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

Scene flow estimation is a crucial component in the development of autonomous driving and 3D robotics, providing valuable information for environment perception and navigation. Despite the advantages of learning-based scene flow estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Rahul Ahuja , Chris Baker , Wilko Schwarting

It is a significant problem to predict the 2D LiDAR map at next moment for robotics navigation and path-planning. To tackle this problem, we resort to the motion flow between adjacent maps, as motion flow is a powerful tool to process and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yafei Song , Yonghong Tian , Gang Wang , Mingyang Li

4D millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has been widely adopted in autonomous driving and robot perception due to its low cost and all-weather robustness. However, point-cloud-based radar representations suffer from information loss due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Runwei Guan , Jianan Liu , Shaofeng Liang , Fangqiang Ding , Shanliang Yao , Xiaokai Bai , Daizong Liu , Tao Huang , Guoqiang Mao , Hui Xiong

This work proposes a mmWave radar's scene flow estimation framework supervised by data from a widespread visual-inertial (VI) sensor suite, allowing crowdsourced training data from smart vehicles. Current scene flow estimation methods for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kezhong Liu , Yiwen Zhou , Mozi Chen , Jianhua He , Jingao Xu , Zheng Yang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Shengkai Zhang

Scene flow, which provides the 3D motion field of the first frame from two consecutive point clouds, is vital for dynamic scene perception. However, contemporary scene flow methods face three major challenges. Firstly, they lack global flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Zhiyang Lu , Qinghan Chen , Zhimin Yuan , Ming Cheng

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

Indoor scene understanding remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, with direct implications for downstream tasks such as navigation and manipulation. Traditional approaches often rely on closed-set recognition or loop closure, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongming Chen , Yiyang Lin , Ziliang Li , Biyu Ye , Yuying Zhang , Ximin Lyu

Scene flow characterizes the 3D motion between two LiDAR scans captured by an autonomous vehicle at nearby timesteps. Prevalent methods consider scene flow as point-wise unconstrained flow vectors that can be learned by either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yancong Lin , Holger Caesar

We propose LiRaFusion to tackle LiDAR-radar fusion for 3D object detection to fill the performance gap of existing LiDAR-radar detectors. To improve the feature extraction capabilities from these two modalities, we design an early fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jingyu Song , Lingjun Zhao , Katherine A. Skinner