CaRLi-V: Camera-RADAR-LiDAR Point-Wise 3D Velocity Estimation

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Autores principales: Guo, Landson, Aguilar, Andres M. Diaz, Talbot, William, Tuna, Turcan, Hutter, Marco, Cadena, Cesar
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Publicado: 2025
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author Guo, Landson
Aguilar, Andres M. Diaz
Talbot, William
Tuna, Turcan
Hutter, Marco
Cadena, Cesar
author_facet Guo, Landson
Aguilar, Andres M. Diaz
Talbot, William
Tuna, Turcan
Hutter, Marco
Cadena, Cesar
contents Accurate point-wise velocity estimation in 3D is crucial for robot interaction with non-rigid dynamic agents, enabling robust performance in path planning, collision avoidance, and object manipulation in dynamic environments. To this end, this paper proposes a novel RADAR, LiDAR, and camera fusion pipeline for point-wise 3D velocity estimation named CaRLi-V. This pipeline leverages raw RADAR measurements to create a novel RADAR representation, the velocity cube, which densely encodes RADAR radial velocities. By combining the velocity cube for radial velocity extraction, optical flow for tangential velocity estimation, and LiDAR for point-wise range measurements through a closed-form solution, our approach can produce 3D velocity estimates for a dense array of points. Developed as an open-source ROS2 package, CaRLi-V has been field-tested on a custom dataset and achieves low velocity error metrics relative to ground truth while outperforming state-of-the-art scene flow methods.
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spellingShingle CaRLi-V: Camera-RADAR-LiDAR Point-Wise 3D Velocity Estimation
Guo, Landson
Aguilar, Andres M. Diaz
Talbot, William
Tuna, Turcan
Hutter, Marco
Cadena, Cesar
Robotics
Accurate point-wise velocity estimation in 3D is crucial for robot interaction with non-rigid dynamic agents, enabling robust performance in path planning, collision avoidance, and object manipulation in dynamic environments. To this end, this paper proposes a novel RADAR, LiDAR, and camera fusion pipeline for point-wise 3D velocity estimation named CaRLi-V. This pipeline leverages raw RADAR measurements to create a novel RADAR representation, the velocity cube, which densely encodes RADAR radial velocities. By combining the velocity cube for radial velocity extraction, optical flow for tangential velocity estimation, and LiDAR for point-wise range measurements through a closed-form solution, our approach can produce 3D velocity estimates for a dense array of points. Developed as an open-source ROS2 package, CaRLi-V has been field-tested on a custom dataset and achieves low velocity error metrics relative to ground truth while outperforming state-of-the-art scene flow methods.
title CaRLi-V: Camera-RADAR-LiDAR Point-Wise 3D Velocity Estimation
topic Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01383