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Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

Point cloud completion aims to recover the complete 3D shape of an object from partial observations. While approaches relying on synthetic shape priors achieved promising results in this domain, their applicability and generalizability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Başak Melis Öcal , Maxim Tatarchenko , Sezer Karaoglu , Theo Gevers

3D LiDAR scene completion from point clouds is a fundamental component of perception systems in autonomous vehicles. Previous methods have predominantly employed diffusion models for high-fidelity reconstruction. However, their multi-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Wenzhe He , Xiaojun Chen , Ruiqi Wang , Ruihui Li , Huilong Pi , Jiapeng Zhang , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

LiDAR-based 3D point cloud recognition has benefited various applications. Without specially considering the LiDAR point distribution, most current methods suffer from information disconnection and limited receptive field, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Xin Lai , Yukang Chen , Fanbin Lu , Jianhui Liu , Jiaya Jia

Multi-sensor fusion using LiDAR and RGB cameras significantly enhances 3D object detection task. However, conventional LiDAR sensors perform dense, stateless scans, ignoring the strong temporal continuity in real-world scenes. This leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sara Shoouri , Morteza Tavakoli Taba , Hun-Seok Kim

In recent years, much progress has been made in LiDAR-based 3D object detection mainly due to advances in detector architecture designs and availability of large-scale LiDAR datasets. Existing 3D object detectors tend to perform well on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Eduardo R. Corral-Soto , Alaap Grandhi , Yannis Y. He , Mrigank Rochan , Bingbing Liu

When localizing and detecting 3D objects for autonomous driving scenes, obtaining information from multiple sensor (e.g. camera, LIDAR) typically increases the robustness of 3D detectors. However, the efficient and effective fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

Dynamic Novel View Synthesis aims to generate photorealistic views of moving subjects from arbitrary viewpoints. This task is particularly challenging when relying on monocular video, where disentangling structure from motion is ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Michal Nazarczuk , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Gregory Slabaugh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

4D radar measurements offer an affordable and weather-robust solution for 3D perception. However, the inherent sparsity and noise of radar point clouds present significant challenges for accurate 3D object detection, underscoring the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokai Bai , Jiahao Cheng , Songkai Wang , Yixuan Luo , Lianqing Zheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

Lidar point cloud distortion from moving object is an important problem in autonomous driving, and recently becomes even more demanding with the emerging of newer lidars, which feature back-and-forth scanning patterns. Accurately estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen Yang , Zheng Gong , Baifu Huang , Xiaoping Hong

LiDAR-produced point clouds are the major source for most state-of-the-art 3D object detectors. Yet, small, distant, and incomplete objects with sparse or few points are often hard to detect. We present Sparse2Dense, a new framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Tianyu Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Zhengzhe Liu , Chi-Wing Fu

Diffusion models have been applied to 3D LiDAR scene completion due to their strong training stability and high completion quality. However, the slow sampling speed limits the practical application of diffusion-based scene completion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shengyuan Zhang , An Zhao , Ling Yang , Zejian Li , Chenye Meng , Haoran Xu , Tianrun Chen , AnYang Wei , Perry Pengyun GU , Lingyun Sun

LiDAR point clouds are widely used in autonomous driving and consist of large numbers of 3D points captured at high frequency to represent surrounding objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic signs. While this dense data enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Z. Rozsa , Á. Madaras , Q. Wei , X. Lu , M. Golarits , H. Yuan , T. Sziranyi , R. Hamzaoui

Modern autonomous vehicles rely heavily on mechanical LiDARs for perception. Current perception methods generally require 360{\deg} point clouds, collected sequentially as the LiDAR scans the azimuth and acquires consecutive wedge-shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mazen Abdelfattah , Kaiwen Yuan , Z. Jane Wang , Rabab Ward

This paper presents a new approach to 3D object detection that leverages the properties of the data obtained by a LiDAR sensor. State-of-the-art detectors use neural network architectures based on assumptions valid for camera images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Guus Engels , Nerea Aranjuelo , Ignacio Arganda-Carreras , Marcos Nieto , Oihana Otaegui

This paper presents a novel framework for robust 3D object detection from point clouds via cross-modal hallucination. Our proposed approach is agnostic to either hallucination direction between LiDAR and 4D radar. We introduce multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Jianning Deng , Gabriel Chan , Hantao Zhong , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

In this paper, we propose the LiDAR Distillation to bridge the domain gap induced by different LiDAR beams for 3D object detection. In many real-world applications, the LiDAR points used by mass-produced robots and vehicles usually have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yi Wei , Zibu Wei , Yongming Rao , Jiaxin Li , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Denoising diffusion models show remarkable performances in generative tasks, and their potential applications in perception tasks are gaining interest. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework named DiffRef3D which adopts the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Se-Ho Kim , Inyong Koo , Inyoung Lee , Byeongjun Park , Changick Kim

Semi-supervised object detection is crucial for 3D scene understanding, efficiently addressing the limitation of acquiring large-scale 3D bounding box annotations. Existing methods typically employ a teacher-student framework with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Cheng-Ju Ho , Chen-Hsuan Tai , Yen-Yu Lin , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yi-Hsuan Tsai

Camera and LiDAR serve as informative sensors for accurate and robust autonomous driving systems. However, these sensors often exhibit heterogeneous natures, resulting in distributional modality gaps that present significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yiran Yang , Xu Gao , Tong Wang , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi , Xiao Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang