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 Machine Learning
Sep 22

On Learning Spatial Structure from Pre-Beamforming Per-Antenna Range-Doppler Radar Measurements

This study explores whether spatial structure can be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) radar measurements, bypassing traditional beamforming steps. Using a 6‑TX × 8‑RX automotive radar with a chirp‑sequence FMCW transmit scheme, the authors train a dual‑chirp shared‑weight encoder on raw RD tensors and evaluate spatial recoverability via bird’s‑eye‑view occupancy maps. Experiments across different transmit configurations (A‑only, B‑only, A+B) and receive apertures demonstrate that meaningful spatial structure is indeed recoverable through learned spatial mixing, without hand‑crafted signal‑processing stages.

By George Sebastian, Philipp Berthold, Bianca Forkel, Leon Pohl, Mirko Maehlisch