Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving

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Autores principales: Wang, Jiahao, Sun, Bo, Bai, Yijing, Casser, Vincent, Peng, Songyou, Zhu, Zehao, Shih, Meng-Li, Masotto, Xander, Su, Shih-Yang, Parvate, Kanaad V, Ge, Tiancheng, Bieske, Linn, Anguelov, Dragomir, Tan, Mingxing, Jiang, Chiyu Max
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author Wang, Jiahao
Sun, Bo
Bai, Yijing
Casser, Vincent
Peng, Songyou
Zhu, Zehao
Shih, Meng-Li
Masotto, Xander
Su, Shih-Yang
Parvate, Kanaad V
Ge, Tiancheng
Bieske, Linn
Anguelov, Dragomir
Tan, Mingxing
Jiang, Chiyu Max
author_facet Wang, Jiahao
Sun, Bo
Bai, Yijing
Casser, Vincent
Peng, Songyou
Zhu, Zehao
Shih, Meng-Li
Masotto, Xander
Su, Shih-Yang
Parvate, Kanaad V
Ge, Tiancheng
Bieske, Linn
Anguelov, Dragomir
Tan, Mingxing
Jiang, Chiyu Max
contents Robust training and validation of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require massive, diverse datasets. Proprietary data collected by Autonomous Vehicle (AV) fleets, while high-fidelity, are limited in scale, diversity of sensor configurations, as well as geographic and long-tail-behavioral coverage. In contrast, in-the-wild data from sources like dashcams offers immense scale and diversity, capturing critical long-tail scenarios and novel environments. However, this unstructured, in-the-wild video data is incompatible with ADS expecting structured, multi-modal sensor inputs for validation and training. To bridge this data gap, we propose Sensor2Sensor, a novel generative modeling paradigm that translates in-the-wild monocular dashcam videos into a high-fidelity, multi-modal sensor suite (AV logs) comprising multi-view camera images and LiDAR point clouds. A core challenge is the lack of paired training data. We address this by converting real AV logs into dashcam-style videos via 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) reconstruction and novel-view rendering. Sensor2Sensor then utilizes a diffusion architecture to perform the generative conversion. We perform comprehensive quantitative evaluations on the fidelity and realism of the generated sensor data. We demonstrate Sensor2Sensor's practical utility by converting challenging in-the-wild internet and dashcam footage into realistic, multi-modal data formats, further unlocking vast external data sources for AV development.
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spellingShingle Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving
Wang, Jiahao
Sun, Bo
Bai, Yijing
Casser, Vincent
Peng, Songyou
Zhu, Zehao
Shih, Meng-Li
Masotto, Xander
Su, Shih-Yang
Parvate, Kanaad V
Ge, Tiancheng
Bieske, Linn
Anguelov, Dragomir
Tan, Mingxing
Jiang, Chiyu Max
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robust training and validation of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require massive, diverse datasets. Proprietary data collected by Autonomous Vehicle (AV) fleets, while high-fidelity, are limited in scale, diversity of sensor configurations, as well as geographic and long-tail-behavioral coverage. In contrast, in-the-wild data from sources like dashcams offers immense scale and diversity, capturing critical long-tail scenarios and novel environments. However, this unstructured, in-the-wild video data is incompatible with ADS expecting structured, multi-modal sensor inputs for validation and training. To bridge this data gap, we propose Sensor2Sensor, a novel generative modeling paradigm that translates in-the-wild monocular dashcam videos into a high-fidelity, multi-modal sensor suite (AV logs) comprising multi-view camera images and LiDAR point clouds. A core challenge is the lack of paired training data. We address this by converting real AV logs into dashcam-style videos via 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) reconstruction and novel-view rendering. Sensor2Sensor then utilizes a diffusion architecture to perform the generative conversion. We perform comprehensive quantitative evaluations on the fidelity and realism of the generated sensor data. We demonstrate Sensor2Sensor's practical utility by converting challenging in-the-wild internet and dashcam footage into realistic, multi-modal data formats, further unlocking vast external data sources for AV development.
title Sensor2Sensor: Cross-Embodiment Sensor Conversion for Autonomous Driving
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22809