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RadarGen: Automotive Radar Point Cloud Generation from Cameras

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arXiv:2512. 17897v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery.

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