arXiv AI
Jul 1

Real-Time Source-Free Object Detection

arXiv:2606. 31834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world detectors for autonomous driving, surveillance, and robotics must handle domain-shifts under strict latency and memory constraints, yet existing source-free object detection (SFOD) methods rely on heavyweight architectures that prioritize accuracy alone.

By Sairam VCR, Varun Gopal, Poornima Jain, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Muhammad Haris Khan
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 5

OpenBox: Annotate Any Bounding Boxes in 3D

OpenBox is a two‑stage automatic annotation pipeline that uses a 2D vision foundation model to associate 2D image cues with 3D point clouds. It then classifies instances by rigidity and motion state to generate adaptive bounding boxes using class‑specific size statistics, eliminating the need for self‑training. Experiments on Waymo Open Dataset, Lyft Level 5 Perception, and nuScenes show improved accuracy and efficiency over existing baselines.

By In-Jae Lee, Mungyeom Kim, Kwonyoung Ryu, Pierre Musacchio, Jaesik Park
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

FedCKA: Representation-Guided Layer Personalization for Federated 3D Perception Across Driving Domains

FedCKA introduces a Centered Kernel Alignment (CKA)-based method for federated 3D perception that dynamically balances personalization and globalization. By computing layer-wise feature similarities between local client models and a global consensus model, FedCKA generates client‑specific aggregation masks to selectively share representation‑consistent layers. Experiments on a unified multi‑domain nuScenes benchmark demonstrate that FedCKA surpasses established federated baselines, improving average NDS by 7 percentage points.

By Jolle Verhoog, Ali Burak \"Unal, Holger Caesar
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 9

HENet++: Hybrid Encoding and Multi-task Learning for 3D Perception and End-to-end Autonomous Driving

HENet++ is a unified framework that combines a hybrid image encoding strategy—using a large encoder for short‑term frames and a lightweight encoder for long‑term temporal context—to balance accuracy and efficiency in 3D perception for autonomous driving. It jointly extracts dense background and sparse foreground features, enabling task‑specific representations that reduce cumulative errors and enrich downstream prediction and planning modules. The approach supports diverse 3D feature extraction pipelines, multi‑modal inputs (camera and radar), and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on nuScenes and NAVSIM benchmarks, including the lowest collision rate on nuScenes planning.

By Zhongyu Xia, Zhiwei Lin, Yongtao Wang, Ming-Hsuan Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Rethinking Pre-Training and Augmentation for Zero-Shot Cross-City Object Detection

The paper proposes a modular training pipeline for zero‑shot cross‑city object detection that combines a multi‑dataset pre‑training strategy with class‑agnostic objectness distillation and a domain‑resilient augmentation stream featuring a Grayworld transformation. Applied to the RF‑DETR detector, the approach reduces cross‑city distribution gaps while using only 16 GB GPU memory, achieving a 24.29‑point mAP improvement and 1st place on the AI City Challenge Track 6 leaderboard. The authors provide code and data at the referenced GitHub repository.

By Long Hoang Pham, Quoc Pham-Nam Ho, Huy-Hung Nguyen, Duong Nguyen-Ngoc Tran, Ngoc Doan-Minh Huynh, Cu Quoc Le, Hoang-Khang Nguyen, Hyung-Min Jeon, Chi Dai Tran, Son Hong Phan, Duong Khac Vu, Trinh Le Ba Khanh, Jae Wook Jeon