arXiv AI

Lightweight LiDAR-Based Cone Detection Framework Using Random Forest for Formula Student Driverless

The paper introduces a lightweight LiDAR-only perception pipeline for Formula Student Driverless vehicles that runs entirely on CPU. It combines ground removal, IMU-based motion compensation, DBSCAN clustering, and a Random Forest classifier, reducing the feature set from 12 to 7 while maintaining high accuracy. On a dataset of 2,371 labeled clusters, the system achieves an F1-score of 98.33% with an end-to-end runtime of 3.13 ms.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Eyes All Around: Design and Analysis of 360-Degree LiDAR Perception Using Equivariant Feature Learning in Unstructured Traffic

arXiv:2606. 07626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Perception in dense, unstructured urban traffic remains a major challenge for autonomous driving because of the wide variety of road users, frequent occlusions, irregular motion patterns, and the lack of standardized road layouts.

By Pranav Darshan, Raghuveer Narayanan Rajesh, M Uttara Kumari
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

Provisioning Robust and Efficient LiDAR Perception for Autonomous Driving

The paper presents a method for creating LiDAR-based 3D object detectors that remain accurate under point‑cloud corruptions while meeting strict latency and memory constraints. It achieves robustness by generating corrupted samples that mimic extreme weather and training detectors to focus on hard samples, guided by perturbation sensitivity estimated from an ensemble of seven heterogeneous detectors. Efficiency is improved by narrowing the network and using offline neighborhood‑density measurements to reduce the number of points processed at each sampling stage, resulting in significant gains in AP under corruption and reductions in inference latency and GPU memory usage across multiple datasets and detector architectures.

By Tingxu Han, Zijie Shen, An Guo, Lyuke Wang, Chunrong Fang, Zhenyu Chen, Wei Song
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 25

MLPerf Automotive

MLPerf Automotive is the first standardized public performance benchmark for evaluating machine learning systems used in automotive AI acceleration. Developed by MLCommons, it addresses the unique constraints of automotive workloads—such as sensor suites, safety, and real‑time processing—that existing benchmarks cannot handle. The benchmark covers perception tasks (2D/3D object detection, semantic segmentation), end‑to‑end driving, and infotainment, and includes curated models, methodology, and reference implementations available on GitHub.

By Radoyeh Shojaei, Predrag Djurdjevic, Mostafa El-Khamy, James Goel, Kasper Mecklenburg, P{\i}nar Muyan-\"Oz\c{c}elik, John Owens, Tom St. John, Jinho Suh, Arjun Suresh
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 22

AutoExpert: Automating 3D LiDAR Annotation from Expert-Crafted Guidelines

AutoExpert proposes a new benchmark for automating 3D LiDAR annotation using expert‑crafted guidelines, redefining evaluation protocols and re‑annotating nuScenes and PandaSet datasets. The pipeline combines 2D detection and segmentation in RGB images, lifts these detections into 3D with known sensor poses, and generates 3D cuboids, improving 3D detection mAP from 12.1 to 25.4 on the AutoExpert‑nuScenes benchmark.

By Yechi Ma, Wei Hua, Shu Kong
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

RVLoss: Runoff Vote Loss for Self-Supervised LiDAR Scene Flow Estimation

RVLoss introduces a runoff vote mechanism for self‑supervised LiDAR scene flow estimation, addressing motion rigidity by grouping nearest‑neighbor derived motions into dominant flow candidates and selecting the most consistent one through a two‑stage voting process. This approach generates cluster‑wise rigid flows and free‑form flows as pseudo‑labels, enabling seamless integration into existing feedforward architectures. Experiments on the Argoverse2 2026 Challenge demonstrate that models trained with RVLoss outperform baseline self‑supervised methods by 20% and maintain consistent gains across four additional datasets.