arXiv:2609.21522v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent pre-trained foundation models provide rich multi-modal priors for downstream 3D vision tasks. However, the effectiveness of these representation...
By Hang Cheng, Yan Chen, Mingyu Fan, Long Zeng
arXiv:2607. 10762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal distillation from Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) to LiDAR backbones has recently emerged as a self-supervised pretraining strategy that reduces reliance on dense point-wise annotation for 3D scene understanding.
By Sutharsan Mahendran, Darshana Priyasad, Kaushik Roy, Tharindu Fernando, Sridha Sridharan, Clinton Fookes, Peyman Moghadam
arXiv:2610.01286v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent depth foundation models like Depth Anything 3 (DA3) achieve remarkable multi-view depth estimation but assume static 3D scenes, limiting their a...
By Xinhao Xiang, Weiyang Li, Zhijie Zheng, Abhijeet Rastogi, Jiawei Zhang
Cross-modal place recognition (CMPR) aims to identify the same location across heterogeneous sensing modalities, such as vision and LiDAR. Existing methods commonly bridge the modality gap using complex alignment modules, multi-stage training, or full fine-tuning of pretrained backbones.
arXiv:2608.18734v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: 4D understanding and reasoning is a fundamental capability for embodied AI agents operating in dynamic physical environments. However, existing vis...
By Kumal Hewagamage, Isuranga Senavirathne, Sasika Amarasinghe, Hasitha Gallella, Dulanga Weerakoon, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Ranga Rodrigo
arXiv:2608.29285v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language Models align point clouds with image and text embeddings, enabling zero-shot recognition, retrieval, and open-vocabulary understanding...
By M\'arcus Lobo, Vitor Matias, Jeov\'a Farias, Moacir Ponti
arXiv:2608.24093v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Self-supervised representation learning for 4D point cloud videos is challenging because annotations are costly and reconstruction-based pretraining...
By Jheng-Ling Lee, Shang-Tse Chen
arXiv:2605. 00271v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event cameras provide several unique advantages over standard frame-based sensors, including high temporal resolution, low latency, and robustness to extreme lighting.
By Vincenzo Polizzi, David B. Lindell, Jonathan Kelly
arXiv:2606. 20189v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) for camera-to-LiDAR knowledge distillation offers a promising solution to the scarcity of annotated data needed to represent the immense geometric and kinematic diversity of real-world autonomous driving (AD).
By Maciej Wozniak, Jesper Ericsson, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Truls Nyberg, Thomas Gustafsson, Patric Jensfelt, Olov Andersson
arXiv:2606. 20189v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Leveraging Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) for camera-to-LiDAR knowledge distillation offers a promising solution to the scarcity of annotated data needed to represent the immense geometric and kinematic diversity of real-world autonomous driving (AD).
By Maciej Wozniak, Jesper Ericsson, Hariprasath Govindarajan, Truls Nyberg, Thomas Gustafsson, Patric Jensfelt, Olov Andersson
World models enable agents to perform forward rollout and planning without real-world interaction. However, their application in open-world embodied intelligence remains limited by the high cost of action annotations and the heterogeneity of action spaces across platforms.
The paper introduces LiDAR‑SAM2, a framework that converts the 2D video foundation model SAM2 into a scalable source of supervision for 4D LiDAR data. By projecting SAM2 video masks into multi‑view LiDAR space and aggregating them temporally, the method automatically generates temporally coherent LiDAR labels without human annotation. Experiments on SemanticKITTI show that these automatically produced semantic and panoptic labels achieve quality close to full human annotation, enabling models trained on them to approach the performance of fully supervised systems.
By Jihun Kim, Hyun-Kurl Jang, Hyemin Yang, Jinnyeong Yang, Hyeokjun Kweon, Kuk-Jin Yoon