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LiDAR representation learning has emerged as a promising approach to reducing reliance on costly and labor-intensive human annotations. While existing methods primarily focus on spatial alignment between LiDAR and camera sensors, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Hui Shuai , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

Despite radar's popularity in the automotive industry, for fusion-based 3D object detection, most existing works focus on LiDAR and camera fusion. In this paper, we propose TransCAR, a Transformer-based Camera-And-Radar fusion solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Su Pang , Daniel Morris , Hayder Radha

Accurately localizing 3D objects like pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles is essential in Autonomous Driving. To ensure high detection performance, Autonomous Vehicles complement RGB cameras with LiDAR sensors, but effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Carlo Sgaravatti , Riccardo Pieroni , Matteo Corno , Sergio M. Savaresi , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Kaicheng Yang , Jiankang Deng , Xiang An , Jiawei Li , Ziyong Feng , Jia Guo , Jing Yang , Tongliang Liu

Even though many existing 3D object detection algorithms rely mostly on camera and LiDAR, camera and LiDAR are prone to be affected by harsh weather and lighting conditions. On the other hand, radar is resistant to such conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Seungjun Lee

Point cloud data plays an essential role in robotics and self-driving applications. Yet, annotating point cloud data is time-consuming and nontrivial while they enable learning discriminative 3D representations that empower downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Srikanth Malla , Yi-Ting Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address the problem of camera and radar sensor fusion for 3D object detection in autonomous vehicle perception systems. Our approach builds on recent advances in deep learning and leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Daniel Dworak , Mateusz Komorkiewicz , Paweł Skruch , Jerzy Baranowski

Accurate camera-to-lidar calibration is a requirement for sensor data fusion in many 3D perception tasks. In this paper, we present SceneCalib, a novel method for simultaneous self-calibration of extrinsic and intrinsic parameters in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Ayon Sen , Gang Pan , Anton Mitrokhin , Ashraful Islam

Lidars and cameras play essential roles in autonomous driving, offering complementary information for 3D detection. The state-of-the-art fusion methods integrate them at the feature level, but they mostly rely on the learned soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still, LiDAR is relatively high cost, which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Lingjun Zhao , Jingyu Song , Katherine A. Skinner

Thanks to the complementary nature of millimeter wave radar and camera, deep learning-based radar-camera 3D object detection methods may reliably produce accurate detections even in low-visibility conditions. This makes them preferable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Irfan Tito Kurniawan , Bambang Riyanto Trilaksono

The ability to accurately detect and localize objects is recognized as being the most important for the perception of self-driving cars. From 2D to 3D object detection, the most difficult is to determine the distance from the ego-vehicle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Nguyen Anh Minh Mai , Pierre Duthon , Louahdi Khoudour , Alain Crouzil , Sergio A. Velastin

Robust 3D object detection is critical for safe autonomous driving. Camera and radar sensors are synergistic as they capture complementary information and work well under different environmental conditions. Fusing camera and radar data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Henrik Kretzschmar , Joshua Manela , Sean Rafferty , Nicholas Armstrong-Crews , Tiffany Chen , Dragomir Anguelov

LIDAR and RADAR are two commonly used sensors in autonomous driving systems. The extrinsic calibration between the two is crucial for effective sensor fusion. The challenge arises due to the low accuracy and sparse information in RADAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

This work aims to adapt large-scale pre-trained vision-language models, such as contrastive language-image pretraining (CLIP), to enhance the performance of object reidentification (Re-ID) across various supervision settings. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Jiachen Li , Xiaojin Gong

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

In the field of 3D object detection tasks, fusing heterogeneous features from LiDAR and camera sensors into a unified Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is a widely adopted paradigm. However, existing methods often suffer from imprecise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ziying Song , Hongyu Pan , Feiyang Jia , Yongchang Zhang , Lin Liu , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Peiliang Wu , Caiyan Jia , Zheng Zhang , Yadan Luo

Contrastive language-audio pretraining (CLAP) has achieved notable success in learning semantically rich audio representations and is widely adopted for various audio-related tasks. However, current CLAP models face several key limitations.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Xinhao Mei , Gael Le Lan , Haohe Liu , Zhaoheng Ni , Varun Nagaraja , Yang Liu , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

Autonomous vehicles and robots often struggle with reliable visual perception at night due to the low illumination and motion blur caused by the long exposure time of RGB cameras. Existing methods address this challenge by sequentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Ling Wang , Chen Wu , Lin Wang

We propose DeepFusion, a modular multi-modal architecture to fuse lidars, cameras and radars in different combinations for 3D object detection. Specialized feature extractors take advantage of each modality and can be exchanged easily,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Florian Drews , Di Feng , Florian Faion , Lars Rosenbaum , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser