ROSep 25, 2025Code
Equi-RO: A 4D mmWave Radar Odometry via Equivariant NetworksZeyu Han, Shuocheng Yang, Minghan Zhu et al.
Autonomous vehicles and robots rely on accurate odometry estimation in GPS-denied environments. While LiDARs and cameras struggle under extreme weather, 4D mmWave radar emerges as a robust alternative with all-weather operability and velocity measurement. In this paper, we introduce Equi-RO, an equivariant network-based framework for 4D radar odometry. Our algorithm pre-processes Doppler velocity into invariant node and edge features in the graph, and employs separate networks for equivariant and invariant feature processing. A graph-based architecture enhances feature aggregation in sparse radar data, improving inter-frame correspondence. Experiments on the open-source dataset and self-collected dataset show Equi-RO outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in accuracy and robustness. Overall, our method achieves 10.7% and 20.0% relative improvements in translation and rotation accuracy, respectively, compared to the best baseline on the open-source dataset.
CVApr 10
Long-SCOPE: Fully Sparse Long-Range Cooperative 3D PerceptionJiahao Wang, Zikun Xu, Yuner Zhang et al.
Cooperative 3D perception via Vehicle-to-Everything communication is a promising paradigm for enhancing autonomous driving, offering extended sensing horizons and occlusion resolution. However, the practical deployment of existing methods is hindered at long distances by two critical bottlenecks: the quadratic computational scaling of dense BEV representations and the fragility of feature association mechanisms under significant observation and alignment errors. To overcome these limitations, we introduce Long-SCOPE, a fully sparse framework designed for robust long-distance cooperative 3D perception. Our method features two novel components: a Geometry-guided Query Generation module to accurately detect small, distant objects, and a learnable Context-Aware Association module that robustly matches cooperative queries despite severe positional noise. Experiments on the V2X-Seq and Griffin datasets validate that Long-SCOPE achieves state-of-the-art performance, particularly in challenging 100-150 m long-range settings, while maintaining highly competitive computation and communication costs.
SPJun 3, 2025
Simulate Any Radar: Attribute-Controllable Radar Simulation via Waveform Parameter EmbeddingWeiqing Xiao, Hao Huang, Chonghao Zhong et al.
We present SA-Radar (Simulate Any Radar), a radar simulation approach that enables controllable and efficient generation of radar cubes conditioned on customizable radar attributes. Unlike prior generative or physics-based simulators, SA-Radar integrates both paradigms through a waveform-parameterized attribute embedding. We design ICFAR-Net, a 3D U-Net conditioned on radar attributes encoded via waveform parameters, which captures signal variations induced by different radar configurations. This formulation bypasses the need for detailed radar hardware specifications and allows efficient simulation of range-azimuth-Doppler (RAD) tensors across diverse sensor settings. We further construct a mixed real-simulated dataset with attribute annotations to robustly train the network. Extensive evaluations on multiple downstream tasks-including 2D/3D object detection and radar semantic segmentation-demonstrate that SA-Radar's simulated data is both realistic and effective, consistently improving model performance when used standalone or in combination with real data. Our framework also supports simulation in novel sensor viewpoints and edited scenes, showcasing its potential as a general-purpose radar data engine for autonomous driving applications. Code and additional materials are available at https://zhuxing0.github.io/projects/SA-Radar.