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Bird's Eye View (BEV) representations are tremendously useful for perception-related automated driving tasks. However, generating BEVs from surround-view fisheye camera images is challenging due to the strong distortions introduced by such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Ekta U. Samani , Feng Tao , Harshavardhan R. Dasari , Sihao Ding , Ashis G. Banerjee

Navigation is a fundamental capability in embodied AI, representing the intelligence required to perceive and interact within physical environments following language instructions. Despite significant progress in large Vision-Language…

Detecting diverse objects within complex indoor 3D point clouds presents significant challenges for robotic perception, particularly with varied object shapes, clutter, and the co-existence of static and dynamic elements where traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

Bird's eye view (BEV) perception is becoming increasingly important in the field of autonomous driving. It uses multi-view camera data to learn a transformer model that directly projects the perception of the road environment onto the BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Rui Song , Runsheng Xu , Andreas Festag , Jiaqi Ma , Alois Knoll

In the field of autonomous driving, Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perception has attracted increasing attention in the community since it provides more comprehensive information compared with pinhole front-view images and panoramas. Traditional BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiale Wei , Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , Jie Hu , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Integrating LiDAR and Camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) has become an essential topic for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Existing methods mostly adopt an independent dual-branch framework to generate LiDAR and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Hongxiang Cai , Zeyuan Zhang , Zhenyu Zhou , Ziyin Li , Wenbo Ding , Jiuhua Zhao

Navigation instruction generation, which requires embodied agents to describe the navigation routes, has been of great interest in robotics and human-computer interaction. Existing studies directly map the sequence of 2D perspective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Sheng Fan , Rui Liu , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Bird's-eye-view (BEV) semantic segmentation is becoming crucial in autonomous driving systems. It realizes ego-vehicle surrounding environment perception by projecting 2D multi-view images into 3D world space. Recently, BEV segmentation has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Jian Sun , Yuqi Dai , Chi-Man Vong , Qing Xu , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Lei He , Keqiang Li

This paper investigates the advantages of using Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation in 360-degree visual place recognition (VPR). We propose a novel network architecture that utilizes the BEV representation in feature extraction, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Xuecheng Xu , Yanmei Jiao , Sha Lu , Xiaqing Ding , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

Top-down Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps are a popular representation for ground robot navigation due to their richness and flexibility for downstream tasks. While recent methods have shown promise for predicting BEV maps from First-Person View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Cherie Ho , Jiaye Zou , Omar Alama , Sai Mitheran Jagadesh Kumar , Benjamin Chiang , Taneesh Gupta , Chen Wang , Nikhil Keetha , Katia Sycara , Sebastian Scherer

Beam prediction is critical for reducing beam-training overhead in millimeter-wave (mmWave) systems, especially in high-mobility vehicular scenarios. This paper presents a BEV-Fusion based framework that unifies camera, LiDAR, radar, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Jiaming Zeng , Cunhua Pan , Haoyang Weng , Ruijing Liu , Hong Ren , Jiangzhou Wang

3D visual perception tasks, including 3D detection and map segmentation based on multi-camera images, are essential for autonomous driving systems. In this work, we present a new framework termed BEVFormer, which learns unified BEV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Zhiqi Li , Wenhai Wang , Hongyang Li , Enze Xie , Chonghao Sima , Tong Lu , Qiao Yu , Jifeng Dai

Monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) is a critical problem in robotics and autonomous driving. Traditional methods solve this problem based on filtering or optimization. While being fully interpretable, they rely on manual interference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zexi Chen , Haozhe Du , Xuecheng Xu , Rong Xiong , Yiyi Liao , Yue Wang

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

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) features are popular intermediate scene representations shared by the 3D backbone and the detector head in LiDAR-based object detectors. However, little research has been done to investigate how to incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Haitao Yang , Zaiwei Zhang , Xiangru Huang , Min Bai , Chen Song , Bo Sun , Li Erran Li , Qixing Huang

Ground-to-aerial image synthesis focuses on generating realistic aerial images from corresponding ground street view images while maintaining consistent content layout, simulating a top-down view. The significant viewpoint difference leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Junyan Ye , Jun He , Weijia Li , Zhutao Lv , Yi Lin , Jinhua Yu , Haote Yang , Conghui He

Recent vision-only perception models for autonomous driving achieved promising results by encoding multi-view image features into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) space. A critical step and the main bottleneck of these methods is transforming image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jiayu Yang , Enze Xie , Miaomiao Liu , Jose M. Alvarez

Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) perception has become a foundational paradigm in autonomous driving, enabling unified spatial representations that support robust multi-sensor fusion and multi-agent collaboration. As autonomous vehicles transition…

Spatial understanding of the semantics of the surroundings is a key capability needed by autonomous cars to enable safe driving decisions. Recently, purely vision-based solutions have gained increasing research interest. In particular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Christian Witte , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss , Marvin Raaijmakers

Predicting the trajectory of an ego vehicle is a critical component of autonomous driving systems. Current state-of-the-art methods typically rely on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and sequential models to process front-view images for future…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Sushil Sharma , Aryan Singh , Ganesh Sistu , Mark Halton , Ciarán Eising