CARD: A Multi-Modal Automotive Dataset for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Road Topography

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Autori principali: Elazab, Gasser, Neuhaus, Frank, Koß, Tilman, Splietker, Malte, Date, Aditya, Unterreiner, Michael, Jansen, Maximilian, Hellwich, Olaf
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author Elazab, Gasser
Neuhaus, Frank
Koß, Tilman
Splietker, Malte
Date, Aditya
Unterreiner, Michael
Jansen, Maximilian
Hellwich, Olaf
author_facet Elazab, Gasser
Neuhaus, Frank
Koß, Tilman
Splietker, Malte
Date, Aditya
Unterreiner, Michael
Jansen, Maximilian
Hellwich, Olaf
contents Autonomous driving must operate across diverse surfaces to enable safe mobility. However, most driving datasets are captured on well-paved flat roads. Moreover, recent driving datasets primarily provide sparse LiDAR ground truth for images, which is insufficient for assessing fine-grained geometry in depth estimation and completion. To address these gaps, we introduce CARD, a multi-modal driving dataset that delivers quasi-dense 3D ground truth across continuous sequences rich in speed bumps, potholes, irregular surfaces and off-road segments. Our sensor suite includes synchronized global-shutter stereo cameras, front and rear LiDARs, 6-DoF poses from LiDAR-inertial odometry, per-wheel motion traces, and full calibration. Notably, our multi-LiDAR fusion yields ~500K valid depth pixels per frame, about 6.5x more than KITTI Depth Completion and 10x more on average than other public driving datasets. The dataset spans ~110 km and 4.7 hours across Germany and Italy. In addition, CARD provides 2D bounding boxes targeting road-topography irregularities, enabling accurate benchmarking for both geometry and perception tasks. Furthermore, we establish a standardized evaluation protocol for road surface irregularities on CARD and benchmark state-of-the-art depth estimation models to provide strong baselines. The CARD dataset is hosted on https://huggingface.co/CARD-Data.
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spellingShingle CARD: A Multi-Modal Automotive Dataset for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Road Topography
Elazab, Gasser
Neuhaus, Frank
Koß, Tilman
Splietker, Malte
Date, Aditya
Unterreiner, Michael
Jansen, Maximilian
Hellwich, Olaf
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Autonomous driving must operate across diverse surfaces to enable safe mobility. However, most driving datasets are captured on well-paved flat roads. Moreover, recent driving datasets primarily provide sparse LiDAR ground truth for images, which is insufficient for assessing fine-grained geometry in depth estimation and completion. To address these gaps, we introduce CARD, a multi-modal driving dataset that delivers quasi-dense 3D ground truth across continuous sequences rich in speed bumps, potholes, irregular surfaces and off-road segments. Our sensor suite includes synchronized global-shutter stereo cameras, front and rear LiDARs, 6-DoF poses from LiDAR-inertial odometry, per-wheel motion traces, and full calibration. Notably, our multi-LiDAR fusion yields ~500K valid depth pixels per frame, about 6.5x more than KITTI Depth Completion and 10x more on average than other public driving datasets. The dataset spans ~110 km and 4.7 hours across Germany and Italy. In addition, CARD provides 2D bounding boxes targeting road-topography irregularities, enabling accurate benchmarking for both geometry and perception tasks. Furthermore, we establish a standardized evaluation protocol for road surface irregularities on CARD and benchmark state-of-the-art depth estimation models to provide strong baselines. The CARD dataset is hosted on https://huggingface.co/CARD-Data.
title CARD: A Multi-Modal Automotive Dataset for Dense 3D Reconstruction in Challenging Road Topography
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05014