FishRoPE: Projective Rotary Position Embeddings for Omnidirectional Visual Perception

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Main Authors: Ahuja, Rahul, Jain, Mudit, Sudhakar, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai, Narayanan, Venkatraman, Likhar, Pratik, Kumar, Varun Ravi, Yogamani, Senthil
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author Ahuja, Rahul
Jain, Mudit
Sudhakar, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai
Narayanan, Venkatraman
Likhar, Pratik
Kumar, Varun Ravi
Yogamani, Senthil
author_facet Ahuja, Rahul
Jain, Mudit
Sudhakar, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai
Narayanan, Venkatraman
Likhar, Pratik
Kumar, Varun Ravi
Yogamani, Senthil
contents Vision foundation models (VFMs) and Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation have advanced visual perception substantially, yet their internal spatial representations assume the rectilinear geometry of pinhole cameras. Fisheye cameras, widely deployed on production autonomous vehicles for their surround-view coverage, exhibit severe radial distortion that renders these representations geometrically inconsistent. At the same time, the scarcity of large-scale fisheye annotations makes retraining foundation models from scratch impractical. We present \ours, a lightweight framework that adapts frozen VFMs to fisheye geometry through two components: a frozen DINOv2 backbone with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) that transfers rich self-supervised features to fisheye without task-specific pretraining, and Fisheye Rotary Position Embedding (FishRoPE), which reparameterizes the attention mechanism in the spherical coordinates of the fisheye projection so that both self-attention and cross-attention operate on angular separation rather than pixel distance. FishRoPE is architecture-agnostic, introduces negligible computational overhead, and naturally reduces to the standard formulation under pinhole geometry. We evaluate \ours on WoodScape 2D detection (54.3 mAP) and SynWoodScapes BEV segmentation (65.1 mIoU), where it achieves state-of-the-art results on both benchmarks.
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spellingShingle FishRoPE: Projective Rotary Position Embeddings for Omnidirectional Visual Perception
Ahuja, Rahul
Jain, Mudit
Sudhakar, Bala Murali Manoghar Sai
Narayanan, Venkatraman
Likhar, Pratik
Kumar, Varun Ravi
Yogamani, Senthil
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Vision foundation models (VFMs) and Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation have advanced visual perception substantially, yet their internal spatial representations assume the rectilinear geometry of pinhole cameras. Fisheye cameras, widely deployed on production autonomous vehicles for their surround-view coverage, exhibit severe radial distortion that renders these representations geometrically inconsistent. At the same time, the scarcity of large-scale fisheye annotations makes retraining foundation models from scratch impractical. We present \ours, a lightweight framework that adapts frozen VFMs to fisheye geometry through two components: a frozen DINOv2 backbone with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) that transfers rich self-supervised features to fisheye without task-specific pretraining, and Fisheye Rotary Position Embedding (FishRoPE), which reparameterizes the attention mechanism in the spherical coordinates of the fisheye projection so that both self-attention and cross-attention operate on angular separation rather than pixel distance. FishRoPE is architecture-agnostic, introduces negligible computational overhead, and naturally reduces to the standard formulation under pinhole geometry. We evaluate \ours on WoodScape 2D detection (54.3 mAP) and SynWoodScapes BEV segmentation (65.1 mIoU), where it achieves state-of-the-art results on both benchmarks.
title FishRoPE: Projective Rotary Position Embeddings for Omnidirectional Visual Perception
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10391