R$^3$D: Regional-guided Residual Radar Diffusion

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Main Authors: Li, Hao, Liu, Xinqi, Jin, Yaoqing
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author Li, Hao
Liu, Xinqi
Jin, Yaoqing
author_facet Li, Hao
Liu, Xinqi
Jin, Yaoqing
contents Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either incur high learning complexity by modeling full LiDAR distributions or fail to prioritize critical structures due to uniform regional processing. To address these issues, we propose R3D, a regional-guided residual radar diffusion framework that integrates residual diffusion modeling-focusing on the concentrated LiDAR-radar residual encoding complementary high-frequency details to reduce learning difficulty-and sigma-adaptive regional guidance-leveraging radar-specific signal properties to generate attention maps and applying lightweight guidance only in low-noise stages to avoid gradient imbalance while refining key regions. Extensive experiments on the ColoRadar dataset demonstrate that R3D outperforms state-of-the-art methods, providing a practical solution for radar perception enhancement. Our anonymous code and pretrained models are released here: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/r3d-F836
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spellingShingle R$^3$D: Regional-guided Residual Radar Diffusion
Li, Hao
Liu, Xinqi
Jin, Yaoqing
Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either incur high learning complexity by modeling full LiDAR distributions or fail to prioritize critical structures due to uniform regional processing. To address these issues, we propose R3D, a regional-guided residual radar diffusion framework that integrates residual diffusion modeling-focusing on the concentrated LiDAR-radar residual encoding complementary high-frequency details to reduce learning difficulty-and sigma-adaptive regional guidance-leveraging radar-specific signal properties to generate attention maps and applying lightweight guidance only in low-noise stages to avoid gradient imbalance while refining key regions. Extensive experiments on the ColoRadar dataset demonstrate that R3D outperforms state-of-the-art methods, providing a practical solution for radar perception enhancement. Our anonymous code and pretrained models are released here: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/r3d-F836
title R$^3$D: Regional-guided Residual Radar Diffusion
topic Image and Video Processing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06465