arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

If It Moves, Radar Knows: A Physics-Aware Radar Transformer for Class-Agnostic Moving-Object Detection

The paper introduces the Physics-Aware Radar Transformer (PART), a radar-only detector that predicts moving-object existence, surface points, and ground-plane velocity using Doppler-aware query initialization and physics-guided cross-attention. PART achieves high class-agnostic performance on the nuScenes dataset, excelling in rare categories and adverse conditions such as night, rain, and occlusion. The model is lightweight, with only 1.1 million parameters, and its code and pretrained weights will be released publicly.

By Yinghao Sun, Shuguang Li, Jinliang Shao, Tieshan Li
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

A Systematic Evaluation of Infrastructure-Based Radar System for Highway Traffic Monitoring

The paper evaluates infrastructure‑based radar for highway traffic monitoring using the newly introduced DRaT dataset, which pairs radar data with drone‑derived ground truth. It reports that radar achieves 78 % precision and 57 % recall for vehicle detection, tracks vehicles with an IDF1 score of 0.699, and estimates space‑mean speed with less than 4 % error while underestimating density and volume by about 23 %. The study also highlights deployment considerations and releases the dataset for reproducible research.

By Tianheng Zhu, Woei-chyi Chang, Alamss Riaz, Sogand Hasanzadeh, Yiheng Feng
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
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Stereo 4D Radar for 3D Object Detection: Integrating Geometric Alignment and Absolute Velocity Estimation

The paper presents a stereo 4D Radar framework for 3D object detection that uses geometric disparity between left and right radars to estimate absolute velocity and fuse complementary features. It addresses clutter, ghost reflections, and sparse data issues inherent in raw 4D Radar signals. Experiments on an in‑house dataset show significant gains, improving AP 3D by 8.82 points and AP BEV by 9.0 points over mono‑radar baselines.

By Seung-Hyun Song, Dong-Hee Paek, Woong-Chan Byun, Seung-Hyun Kong