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).
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).
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.
arXiv:2409.11018v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The LiDAR 3D object detector that balances accuracy and speed is crucial for achieving real-time perception in autonomous driving. However, many ex...
DXPR is a depth‑based cross‑modal place recognition framework that matches monocular camera queries to a LiDAR map using a single vision foundation model backbone. By converting both modalities into a unified depth image representation, DXPR learns modality‑invariant global descriptors without modality‑specific encoders. A geometry‑aware overlap miner refines pairwise metric learning by computing pixel‑level overlap scores, and extensive tests on KITTI and Boreas show strong performance across seasons, weather, and day/night conditions, outperforming prior CMPR baselines.
arXiv:2609.10322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transferring the rich priors of large 2D foundation models to sparse 3D LiDAR remains challenging, as training native 3D foundation models at comparabl...
arXiv:2609.15228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unsupervised registration of large-scale LiDAR point clouds remains challenging due to the geometric ambiguity inherent in outdoor scenes, which degrad...
arXiv:2608.13147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Camera-based autonomous driving perception requires a shared representation that preserves metric 3D structure across synchronized multi-camera str...
arXiv:2609.23541v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal 3D object detection is fundamental to robust perception in autonomous driving because it integrates complementary information from LiDAR and...
Learning-based global point cloud registration has achieved remarkable progress, yet its reliance on geometric representations makes existing methods sensitive to variations in point density, scan pattern, viewpoint, and sensor characteristics. We propose CVSD-Reg, a robust global LiDAR registration framework that distills visual semantic priors from a vision foundation model into LiDAR representations.
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.
arXiv:2603. 28963v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Simulation with realistic traffic agents is essential for validating autonomous driving systems.
Scene coordinate regression (SCR) achieves strong performance in outdoor LiDAR localization, but it usually requires scene-specific training that can take days, limiting practical deployment. Recent w...