arXiv Computer Vision

MMUSV-Sim: A Maritime Simulation Platform for Multi-USV Cooperative Perception

arXiv Computer Vision
1d ago

Navigational Safety of Marine Surface Vehicles in Restricted Visibility: From Intelligent Vision to Vision-Centered Multi-Sensor Fusion

arXiv:2611.05818v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Marine surface vehicles (MSVs) have attracted considerable attention for their commercial, scientific, and military applications. Owing to their favora...

By Ryan Wen Liu, Fengchuan Song, Tianxiang Wang, Guobei Peng, Youngrong Kim, Xian Zhong, Hooi-Siang Kang, Maohan Liang, Junzhi Yu, Shanliang Yao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

SimBEV2X: A Large-Scale Dataset and Data Generation Tool for Multi-Task Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception

arXiv:2607. 23910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cooperative perception through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication can overcome the inherent physical limitations of individual autonomous vehicles, such as occlusions and limited sensor range.

By Goodarz Mehr, Sepideh Gohari, Montasir Abbas, Azim Eskandarian
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

ASVSim (AirSim for Surface Vehicles): A High-Fidelity Simulation Framework for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Research

arXiv:2506. 22174v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The transport industry has recently shown significant interest in unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), specifically for port and inland waterway transport.

By Bavo Lesy, Siemen Herremans, Robin Kerstens, Jan Steckel, Walter Daems, Siegfried Mercelis, Ali Anwar
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 25

M3GD: Multi-Modal Multi-View Geometric Diffusion for Camera--LiDAR Novel View Synthesis

M3GD introduces a multimodal representation that fuses pre‑trained 2D image and 3D LiDAR foundation models for robotic novel view synthesis, avoiding the need for a separate cross‑modal translator. By projecting LiDAR onto the image latent grid and injecting the resulting geometry‑aware packets via a lightweight residual adapter, the method enhances both RGB and depth synthesis on the GrandTour dataset compared to an image‑only baseline. Ablation studies confirm that pixel‑aligned LiDAR content drives the performance gains, and real‑world deployment on a ground robot demonstrates a tunable quality–cost trade‑off.

By Yang Zhou, Jiuhong Xiao, Shizhao Ye, Long Quang, Carlos Nieto-Granda, Giuseppe Loianno
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 19

TriSAR-3D and PaintFusion: A Novel Trimodal LiDAR-RGB-Thermal Dataset and Method for 3D Person Detection in Search and Rescue

TriSAR-3D is a new trimodal dataset combining high‑resolution LiDAR, RGB, and thermal imagery to capture people in varied indoor and outdoor poses, including lying and partially occluded positions. The authors propose PaintFusion, a lightweight trimodal 3D detection pipeline that fuses PointPainting evidence with an MLP, achieving 65.4 AP@50 and outperforming LiDAR‑only, RGB+LiDAR, and other trimodal baselines while running faster (51.6 ms per frame). Experiments show that removing lying instances from training drastically reduces detection performance, highlighting the importance of dataset diversity for robust 3D person detection in search and rescue scenarios.

By Markus Kramer, Jan Wachenfeld, Oskar von Stryk
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

MIC-BEV: Multi-Infrastructure Camera Bird's-Eye-View Transformer with Relation-Aware Fusion for 3D Object Detection

MIC-BEV is a Transformer-based bird's-eye-view perception framework designed for infrastructure-based multi-camera 3D object detection. It supports a variable number of heterogeneous cameras and employs a graph-enhanced fusion module to adaptively integrate multi-view image features by modeling geometric relationships between cameras and the BEV grid. The authors introduce the M2I synthetic dataset and evaluate MIC-BEV on both M2I and the real-world RoScenes dataset, demonstrating strong detection performance, improved robustness under challenging conditions, and practical feasibility for deployment.

By Yun Zhang, Zhaoliang Zheng, Johnson Liu, Zhiyu Huang, Zewei Zhou, Zonglin Meng, Tianhui Cai, Jiaqi Ma
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 28

FastBEVFusion: Simple Multi-Modal Fusion for 3D Object Detection at 50 FPS

FastBEVFusion is a lightweight fusion system for real‑time 3D object detection that combines LiDAR and camera data without depth estimation. It projects modality‑specific features into semi‑aligned BEV spaces and fuses them with a dynamic cross‑attention module, achieving over 50 FPS on the nuScenes dataset. The method also demonstrates strong robustness to calibration errors.

By Tom Sanitz, Emre G\"ulsoylu, Simone Frintrop, Christian Wilms