arXiv Computer Vision

Geometry-Grounded Unified 3D Perception for Autonomous Driving

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

GS-Net: Heterogeneous Vehicle Data Reuse via Generalizable Plug-and-Play 3DGS Module

GS‑Net is a lightweight plug‑and‑play module that expands sparse Structure‑from‑Motion point clouds into dense Gaussian primitives, enabling cross‑sensor view synthesis for autonomous driving. It learns a generalizable initialization for 3D Gaussian Splatting, improving rendering quality for both interpolated and extrapolated camera viewpoints. The authors introduce CARLA‑NVS, a benchmark with 12 uniformly spaced cameras, and show that GS‑Net outperforms standard 3DGS by 2.08 dB PSNR on interpolated views and 1.86 dB on extrapolated views while being 50× faster to initialize.

By Yichen Zhang, Zihan Wang, Jiali Han, Peilin Li, Jiaxun Zhang, Jianqiang Wang, Lei He, Keqiang Li
arXiv AI
Jul 7

MetricAnything: Scaling Metric Depth Pretraining with Noisy Heterogeneous Sources

arXiv:2601. 22054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy cross-source 3D data.

By Baorui Ma, Jiahui Yang, Donglin Di, Xuancheng Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Hao Li, Yan Xie, Wei Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 24

3D-Aware VLMs with Implicit and Explicit Geometries

arXiv:2607. 21595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite rapid progress, most existing vision-language models (VLMs) built from 2D visual inputs often struggle when handling various 3D tasks that require fine-grained spatial understanding and reasoning.

By Wenhao Li, Xueying Jiang, Quanhao Qian, Deli Zhao, Ran Xu, Shijian Lu, Gongjie Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 24

HilDA: Hierarchical Distillation with Diffusion for Advancing Self-Supervised LiDAR Pre-training

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 AI
Jun 19

HilDA: Hierarchical Distillation with Diffusion for Advancing Self-Supervised LiDAR Pre-trainin

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
arXiv AI
Aug 18

RISE: Roadside Infrastructure Sequence Understanding across 3D Tracking and Structured Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 16480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present RISE (Roadside Infrastructure Sequence Understanding and Evaluation), a framework spanning metric 3D tracking and structured vision-language reasoning in roadside sequences.

By Yanbo Jiang, Haotian Zheng, Jiahao Wang, Hanxiao Ren, Yitao Xu, Yining Xing, Zehong Ke, Hao Cheng, Yiqian Tu, Jinhao Li, Zhiyuan Xuan, Fang Zhang, Jianqiang Wang