# RopeBEV: A Multi-Camera Roadside Perception Network in Bird's-Eye-View

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11706 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.11706/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 39 of its 45 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 18 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 39)

- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [BEVFormer: Learning Bird's-Eye-View Representation from Multi-Camera Images via Spatiotemporal Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17270/) (2022)
- [Lift, Splat, Shoot: Encoding Images From Arbitrary Camera Rigs by Implicitly Unprojecting to 3D](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.05711/) (2020)
- [BEVDet: High-performance Multi-camera 3D Object Detection in Bird-Eye-View](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.11790/) (2021)
- [DETR3D: 3D Object Detection from Multi-view Images via 3D-to-2D Queries](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.06922/) (2021)
- [BEVDepth: Acquisition of Reliable Depth for Multi-view 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.10092/) (2022)
- [PETR: Position Embedding Transformation for Multi-View 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.05625/) (2022)
- [PETRv2: A Unified Framework for 3D Perception from Multi-Camera Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.01256/) (2022)
- [BEVDet4D: Exploit Temporal Cues in Multi-camera 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.17054/) (2022)
- [V2X-ViT: Vehicle-to-Everything Cooperative Perception with Vision Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.10638/) (2022)
- [Exploring Object-Centric Temporal Modeling for Efficient Multi-View 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11926/) (2023)
- [BEVFormer v2: Adapting Modern Image Backbones to Bird's-Eye-View Recognition via Perspective Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.10439/) (2022)
- [OccFormer: Dual-path Transformer for Vision-based 3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.05316/) (2023)
- [DAIR-V2X: A Large-Scale Dataset for Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.05575/) (2022)
- [Where2comm: Communication-Efficient Collaborative Perception via Spatial Confidence Maps](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.12836/) (2022)
- [Embracing Single Stride 3D Object Detector with Sparse Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.06375/) (2021)
- [Time Will Tell: New Outlooks and A Baseline for Temporal Multi-View 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02443/) (2022)
- [ImVoxelNet: Image to Voxels Projection for Monocular and Multi-View General-Purpose 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.01178/) (2021)
- [SparseBEV: High-Performance Sparse 3D Object Detection from Multi-Camera Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.09244/) (2023)
- [Robust Collaborative 3D Object Detection in Presence of Pose Errors](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.07214/) (2022)
- [BEVSegFormer: Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation From Arbitrary Camera Rigs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.04050/) (2022)
- [V2X-Seq: A Large-Scale Sequential Dataset for Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperative Perception and Forecasting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.05938/) (2023)
- [Sparse4D v2: Recurrent Temporal Fusion with Sparse Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14018/) (2023)
- [Rope3D: TheRoadside Perception Dataset for Autonomous Driving and Monocular 3D Object Detection Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.13608/) (2022)
- [BEVHeight: A Robust Framework for Vision-based Roadside 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.08498/) (2023)
- [Multi-View Fusion of Sensor Data for Improved Perception and Prediction in Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.11901/) (2020)
- [Fast-BEV: A Fast and Strong Bird's-Eye View Perception Baseline](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12511/) (2023)
- [DID-M3D: Decoupling Instance Depth for Monocular 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.08531/) (2022)
- [X-Align: Cross-Modal Cross-View Alignment for Bird's-Eye-View Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.06778/) (2022)
- [RCooper: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Roadside Cooperative Perception](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.10145/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Sat2RealCity: Geometry-Aware and Appearance-Controllable 3D Urban Generation from Satellite Imagery](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.11470/) (2025)
- [MIC-BEV: Multi-Infrastructure Camera Bird's-Eye-View Transformer with Relation-Aware Fusion for 3D Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.24688/) (2025)
- [You Only Gaussian Once: Controllable 3D Gaussian Splatting for Ultra-Densely Sampled Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.21400/) (2026)
- [Progressive Bird's Eye View Perception for Safety-Critical Autonomous Driving: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.07560/) (2025)
- [STAR: A Spatial-Topology Aware Routing Framework for Generalizable 3D Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2608.11699/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Multi-camera perception methods in Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) have gained wide application in autonomous driving. However, due to the differences between roadside and vehicle-side scenarios, there currently lacks a multi-camera BEV solution in roadside. This paper systematically analyzes the key challenges in multi-camera BEV perception for roadside scenarios compared to vehicle-side. These challenges include the diversity in camera poses, the uncertainty in Camera numbers, the sparsity in perception regions, and the ambiguity in orientation angles. In response, we introduce RopeBEV, the first dense multi-camera BEV approach. RopeBEV introduces BEV augmentation to address the training balance issues caused by diverse camera poses. By incorporating CamMask and ROIMask (Region of Interest Mask), it supports variable camera numbers and sparse perception, respectively. Finally, camera rotation embedding is utilized to resolve orientation ambiguity. Our method ranks 1st on the real-world highway dataset RoScenes and demonstrates its practical value on a private urban dataset that covers more than 50 intersections and 600 cameras.
