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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

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

Modern autonomous driving perception systems utilize complementary multi-modal sensors, such as LiDAR and cameras. Although sensor fusion architectures enhance performance in challenging environments, they still suffer significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Konyul Park , Yecheol Kim , Daehun Kim , Jun Won Choi

LiDAR datasets for autonomous driving exhibit biases in properties such as point cloud density, range, and object dimensions. As a result, object detection networks trained and evaluated in different environments often experience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Deepti Hegde , Suhas Lohit , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Michael J. Jones , Vishal M. Patel

Reliable 3D object perception is essential in autonomous driving. Owing to its sensing capabilities in all weather conditions, 4D radar has recently received much attention. However, compared to LiDAR, 4D radar provides much sparser point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sheng Yang , Tong Zhan , Shichen Qiao , Jicheng Gong , Qing Yang , Jian Wang , Yanfeng Lu

3D object detection is crucial for autonomous driving, leveraging both LiDAR point clouds for precise depth information and camera images for rich semantic information. Therefore, the multi-modal methods that combine both modalities offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Kaidong Li , Tianxiao Zhang , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Guanghui Wang

3D detection is a critical task that enables machines to identify and locate objects in three-dimensional space. It has a broad range of applications in several fields, including autonomous driving, robotics and augmented reality. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aakash Kumar , Chen Chen , Ajmal Mian , Neils Lobo , Mubarak Shah

In autonomous driving, 3D object detection based on multi-modal data has become an indispensable approach when facing complex environments around the vehicle. During multi-modal detection, LiDAR and camera are simultaneously applied for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Rui Wan , Tianyun Zhao , Wei Zhao

Multi-modal 3D object detection has received growing attention as the information from different sensors like LiDAR and cameras are complementary. Most fusion methods for 3D detection rely on an accurate alignment and calibration between 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Zhe Liu , Xiaoqing Ye , Zhikang Zou , Xinwei He , Xiao Tan , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang , Xiang Bai

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

Currently prevalent multimodal 3D detection methods are built upon LiDAR-based detectors that usually use dense Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) feature maps. However, the cost of such BEV feature maps is quadratic to the detection range, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yingyan Li , Lue Fan , Yang Liu , Zehao Huang , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

The fusion of multimodal sensor data streams such as camera images and lidar point clouds plays an important role in the operation of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Robust perception across a range of adverse weather and lighting conditions is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Shounak Sural , Nishad Sahu , Ragunathan Rajkumar

Multimodal sensor fusion has demonstrated remarkable performance improvements over unimodal approaches in 3D object detection for autonomous vehicles. Typically, existing methods transform multimodal data from independent sensors, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Markus Essl , Marta Moscati , Mubashir Noman , Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer , Usman Naseem , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

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

Multi-view radar-camera fused 3D object detection provides a farther detection range and more helpful features for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather. The current radar-camera fusion methods deliver kinds of designs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zizhang Wu , Guilian Chen , Yuanzhu Gan , Lei Wang , Jian Pu

3D object detection models that exploit both LiDAR and camera sensor features are top performers in large-scale autonomous driving benchmarks. A transformer is a popular network architecture used for this task, in which so-called object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mathijs R. van Geerenstein , Felicia Ruppel , Klaus Dietmayer , Dariu M. Gavrila

3D object detection using LiDAR data is an indispensable component for autonomous driving systems. Yet, only a few LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods leverage segmentation information to further guide the detection process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Hamidreza Fazlali , Yixuan Xu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

In LiDAR-based 3D detection, history point clouds contain rich temporal information helpful for future prediction. In the same way, history detections should contribute to future detections. In this paper, we propose a detection enhancement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xirui Li , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Chao Ma

In this work, we present PoIFusion, a conceptually simple yet effective multi-modal 3D object detection framework to fuse the information of RGB images and LiDAR point clouds at the points of interest (PoIs). Different from the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiajun Deng , Sha Zhang , Feras Dayoub , Wanli Ouyang , Yanyong Zhang , Ian Reid