arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

4D Radar Perception Algorithms for Autonomous Driving: A Review

The review surveys 4D millimeter‑wave radar perception algorithms for autonomous driving, covering signal processing, object detection, semantic segmentation, motion estimation, occupancy prediction, and dynamic scene reconstruction. It organizes the field by perception tasks, discusses radar fundamentals, data representations, and quality‑enhancement methods, and compares radar‑only learning, multimodal fusion, and cross‑modal supervision. The paper also summarizes datasets, annotations, evaluation protocols, and outlines common challenges and future research directions.

By Xumin Wu, Jun Zhou, Jilin Mei, Chen Min, Yu Hu