LaserFlow: Efficient and Probabilistic Object Detection and Motion Forecasting
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Abstract (arXiv)
In this work, we present LaserFlow, an efficient method for 3D object detection and motion forecasting from LiDAR. Unlike the previous work, our approach utilizes the native range view representation of the LiDAR, which enables our method to operate at the full range of the sensor in real-time without voxelization or compression of the data. We propose a new multi-sweep fusion architecture, which extracts and merges temporal features directly from the range images. Furthermore, we propose a novel technique for learning a probability distribution over future trajectories inspired by curriculum learning. We evaluate LaserFlow on two autonomous driving datasets and demonstrate competitive results when compared to the existing state-of-the-art methods.
Key facts. Cited by 22 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 12 Mar 2020.
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- 2024Joint Perception and Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Surveycited by 7
- 2021Raising context awareness in motion forecastingcited by 6
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- 2023LeTFuser: Light-weight End-to-end Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving with Multi-Task Learningcited by 1
- 2024Real-time Stereo-based 3D Object Detection for Streaming Perceptioncited by 1
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- 2026Towards Collaborative Joint Perception and Prediction: Framework, Baseline Evaluation, and Deployment Perspectivescited by 0
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- 2024Joint Perception and Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Survey18 Dec 2024
- 2024Real-time Stereo-based 3D Object Detection for Streaming Perception16 Oct 2024
- 2024What Matters in Range View 3D Object Detection23 Jul 2024
- 2024DeTra: A Unified Model for Object Detection and Trajectory Forecasting6 Jun 2024
- 2024MaskFuser: Masked Fusion of Joint Multi-Modal Tokenization for End-to-End Autonomous Driving13 May 2024
- 2024M2DA: Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer Incorporating Driver Attention for Autonomous Driving19 Mar 2024
- 2023LeTFuser: Light-weight End-to-end Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving with Multi-Task Learning19 Oct 2023
- 2023Efficient Transformer-based 3D Object Detection with Dynamic Token Halting9 Mar 2023
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- 20223D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey19 Jun 2022
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- 2022Sequential Point Clouds: A Survey20 Apr 2022
- 2022Trajectory Forecasting from Detection with Uncertainty-Aware Motion Encoding3 Feb 2022
- 2021Self-supervised Point Cloud Prediction Using 3D Spatio-temporal Convolutional Networks28 Sep 2021
- 2021Raising context awareness in motion forecasting16 Sep 2021
- 2021MVFuseNet: Improving End-to-End Object Detection and Motion Forecasting through Multi-View Fusion of LiDAR Data21 Apr 2021
- 2021Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Driving19 Apr 2021
- 2021Investigating the Effect of Sensor Modalities in Multi-Sensor Detection-Prediction Models9 Jan 2021
- 2022TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Drivingcited by 477
- 2021Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Drivingcited by 372
- 2024M2DA: Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer Incorporating Driver Attention for Autonomous Drivingcited by 7
- 2024MaskFuser: Masked Fusion of Joint Multi-Modal Tokenization for End-to-End Autonomous Drivingcited by 3
- 2022Exploring Contextual Representation and Multi-Modality for End-to-End Autonomous Drivingcited by 1
- 2023LeTFuser: Light-weight End-to-end Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving with Multi-Task Learningcited by 1
- 2024MaskFuser: Masked Fusion of Joint Multi-Modal Tokenization for End-to-End Autonomous Driving13 May 2024
- 2024M2DA: Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer Incorporating Driver Attention for Autonomous Driving19 Mar 2024
- 2023LeTFuser: Light-weight End-to-end Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving with Multi-Task Learning19 Oct 2023
- 2022Exploring Contextual Representation and Multi-Modality for End-to-End Autonomous Driving13 Oct 2022
- 2022TransFuser: Imitation with Transformer-Based Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving31 May 2022
- 2021Multi-Modal Fusion Transformer for End-to-End Autonomous Driving19 Apr 2021
- 20223D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Surveycited by 132
- 2021MVFuseNet: Improving End-to-End Object Detection and Motion Forecasting through Multi-View Fusion of LiDAR Datacited by 18
- 2024DeTra: A Unified Model for Object Detection and Trajectory Forecastingcited by 15
- 2022Trajectory Forecasting from Detection with Uncertainty-Aware Motion Encodingcited by 8
- 2024Joint Perception and Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Surveycited by 7
- 2021Raising context awareness in motion forecastingcited by 6
- 2022Sequential Point Clouds: A Surveycited by 5
- 2021Investigating the Effect of Sensor Modalities in Multi-Sensor Detection-Prediction Modelscited by 3
- 2023Efficient Transformer-based 3D Object Detection with Dynamic Token Haltingcited by 3
- 2024Real-time Stereo-based 3D Object Detection for Streaming Perceptioncited by 1
- 2025To New Beginnings: A Survey of Unified Perception in Autonomous Vehicle Softwarecited by 1
- 2024What Matters in Range View 3D Object Detectioncited by 0
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- 2025To New Beginnings: A Survey of Unified Perception in Autonomous Vehicle Software28 Aug 2025
- 2025PDM-SSD: Single-Stage Three-Dimensional Object Detector With Point Dilation10 Feb 2025
- 2024Joint Perception and Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Survey18 Dec 2024
- 2024Real-time Stereo-based 3D Object Detection for Streaming Perception16 Oct 2024
- 2024What Matters in Range View 3D Object Detection23 Jul 2024
- 2024DeTra: A Unified Model for Object Detection and Trajectory Forecasting6 Jun 2024
- 2023Efficient Transformer-based 3D Object Detection with Dynamic Token Halting9 Mar 2023
- 20223D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey19 Jun 2022
- 2022Sequential Point Clouds: A Survey20 Apr 2022
- 2022Trajectory Forecasting from Detection with Uncertainty-Aware Motion Encoding3 Feb 2022
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