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Main Authors: Long, Yunfei, Kumar, Abhinav, Liu, Xiaoming, Morris, Daniel
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09086
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author Long, Yunfei
Kumar, Abhinav
Liu, Xiaoming
Morris, Daniel
author_facet Long, Yunfei
Kumar, Abhinav
Liu, Xiaoming
Morris, Daniel
contents Radar hits reflect from points on both the boundary and internal to object outlines. This results in a complex distribution of radar hits that depends on factors including object category, size, and orientation. Current radar-camera fusion methods implicitly account for this with a black-box neural network. In this paper, we explicitly utilize a radar hit distribution model to assist fusion. First, we build a model to predict radar hit distributions conditioned on object properties obtained from a monocular detector. Second, we use the predicted distribution as a kernel to match actual measured radar points in the neighborhood of the monocular detections, generating matching scores at nearby positions. Finally, a fusion stage combines context with the kernel detector to refine the matching scores. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art radar-camera detection performance on nuScenes. Our source code is available at https://github.com/longyunf/riccardo.
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spellingShingle RICCARDO: Radar Hit Prediction and Convolution for Camera-Radar 3D Object Detection
Long, Yunfei
Kumar, Abhinav
Liu, Xiaoming
Morris, Daniel
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Radar hits reflect from points on both the boundary and internal to object outlines. This results in a complex distribution of radar hits that depends on factors including object category, size, and orientation. Current radar-camera fusion methods implicitly account for this with a black-box neural network. In this paper, we explicitly utilize a radar hit distribution model to assist fusion. First, we build a model to predict radar hit distributions conditioned on object properties obtained from a monocular detector. Second, we use the predicted distribution as a kernel to match actual measured radar points in the neighborhood of the monocular detections, generating matching scores at nearby positions. Finally, a fusion stage combines context with the kernel detector to refine the matching scores. Our method achieves the state-of-the-art radar-camera detection performance on nuScenes. Our source code is available at https://github.com/longyunf/riccardo.
title RICCARDO: Radar Hit Prediction and Convolution for Camera-Radar 3D Object Detection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09086