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arxiv: 2606.08844 · v1 · pith:H2CPOPO6new · submitted 2026-06-07 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.RO

Geometry-Aware Fisheye-LiDAR Fusion for Robust 3D Object Detection in Low-Overlap Setups

Xiangzhong Liu , Xihao Wang , Hao Shen This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CV cs.RO
keywords fisheye cameraLiDAR fusion3D object detectionBEVpolar gridgeometry-awaredual attentionlow-overlap
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A geometry-aware fusion method lifts fisheye features into polar BEV grids and applies dual-attention correction to improve 3D detection with LiDAR in low-overlap setups.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces the Geometry-Aware Hybrid Fusion framework to combine fisheye cameras and LiDAR for 3D object detection under extreme radial distortion and minimal overlap. Standard BEV methods convert both modalities to Cartesian grids early, which distorts the native angular density of fisheye images and loses information. GA-HF instead lifts fisheye features into a polar BEV grid via a Distortion-Aware LSS module to retain angular resolution while processing LiDAR in Cartesian space for accurate bounding-box regression, then bridges the streams with a Dual-Attention Warping Correction module. This produces measurable gains on KITTI-360, Dur360BEV, and Fisheye3DOD, establishing the first reported LiDAR-fisheye fusion approach. A sympathetic reader would care because it supports lower-cost sensor configurations for autonomous systems that still maintain detection reliability in wide-view, low-overlap regimes.

Core claim

GA-HF is the first approach to explore LiDAR-fisheye camera fusion; on KITTI-360 it improves NDS by 4.2% over Cartesian baselines while reducing orientation error on Dur360BEV and attaining the highest detection score among fusion methods on Fisheye3DOD.

What carries the argument

The Distortion-Aware Lift-Splat-Shoot module that lifts fisheye features into a polar BEV grid to preserve native angular density, paired with the Dual-Attention Warping Correction module that applies spatial and channel attention to suppress peripheral artifacts before fusion.

Load-bearing premise

The Dual-Attention Warping Correction module can reliably suppress artifacts in low-quality peripheral regions of the warped fisheye features while enhancing semantic cues.

What would settle it

An experiment on KITTI-360 where removing or disabling the Dual-Attention Warping Correction produces no improvement or a drop in NDS relative to the Cartesian baseline.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.08844 by Hao Shen, Xiangzhong Liu, Xihao Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Sparse sensor configuration on KITTI-360. The lateral dual fisheye [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the proposed Geometry-Aware Hybrid Fusion (GA-HF) framework for 3D object detection. Visual features are lifted to polar BEV grid [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visualization of the spatial attention map [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative detection results on KITTI-360. Top row: the camera-only [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗
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As autonomous systems expand from capital-intensive robotaxis to cost-sensitive logistics, sensor configurations are increasingly optimized for coverage-per-cost. A prevalent sparse-view setup utilizes dual-fisheye cameras with a roof-mounted LiDAR, introducing severe geometric challenges: extreme radial distortion, minimal overlap, and misalignment between spherical projections and rectilinear grids. BEV fusion algorithms typically force image and point cloud modalities into unified Cartesian grids early in the pipeline, causing significant feature distortion and information loss for wide-view fisheye cameras. To address this, we propose a Geometry-Aware Hybrid Fusion (GA-HF) framework that explicitly accounts for fisheye geometry and BEV feature distortion, where fisheye features are lifted into a polar BEV grid via a Distortion-Aware Lift-Splat-Shoot (LSS) module to preserve native angular density, while LiDAR features are processed in native Cartesian space for metric fidelity of bounding box regression. To bridge these heterogeneous streams, we introduce a Dual-Attention Warping Correction module that applies spatial and channel attention to the warped camera features before fusion, explicitly suppressing artifacts in low-quality peripheral regions while enhancing high-quality semantic cues. GA-HF is evaluated on three benchmarks: KITTI-360, Dur360BEV, and Fisheye3DOD datasets. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first approach to explore LiDAR-fisheye camera fusion. On KITTI-360, GA-HF improves NDS by 4.2% over Cartesian baselines; on Dur360BEV, it surpasses both LiDAR-only and BEVFusion, while significantly reducing orientation error despite the geometric distortions; on Fisheye3DOD, it attains the highest detection score among all fusion methods.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Geometry-Aware Hybrid Fusion (GA-HF) for 3D object detection in sparse-view setups with dual fisheye cameras and roof-mounted LiDAR. Fisheye features are lifted to a polar BEV grid via a Distortion-Aware LSS module to preserve angular density, LiDAR features remain in Cartesian space, and a Dual-Attention Warping Correction module fuses the streams by applying spatial/channel attention to suppress peripheral artifacts. It claims to be the first LiDAR-fisheye fusion method and reports a 4.2% NDS gain over Cartesian baselines on KITTI-360, reduced orientation error on Dur360BEV, and top fusion score on Fisheye3DOD.

Significance. If the performance gains hold after proper isolation of components, the work would be significant for cost-sensitive autonomous systems by enabling effective fusion under extreme distortion and low overlap, where standard Cartesian BEV methods lose information. The explicit handling of polar vs. Cartesian grids and the novelty claim as the first such fusion are positive aspects.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and Method] Abstract and Method: No ablation is presented that removes or replaces only the Dual-Attention Warping Correction module (e.g., with naive warping or concatenation) while holding the polar-Cartesian grid split and other architecture choices fixed. This is load-bearing for attributing the 4.2% NDS improvement on KITTI-360 and orientation gains on Dur360BEV specifically to the attention-based correction rather than the heterogeneous representation or added capacity.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments: The reported percentage gains and dataset rankings lack error bars, multiple random seeds, statistical significance tests, or details on baseline re-implementations and data splits. This makes it impossible to determine whether the improvements are robust or sensitive to unstated choices, directly affecting the central empirical claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Introduction] The abstract states the method is 'the first approach to explore LiDAR-fisheye camera fusion' but the introduction should include a more explicit comparison table or discussion against any prior multi-modal works that touch on wide-FOV cameras even if not exactly fisheye-LiDAR.
  2. [Method] Notation for the polar BEV grid and the warping operation could be clarified with an explicit equation or diagram reference in the method description to aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Method] Abstract and Method: No ablation is presented that removes or replaces only the Dual-Attention Warping Correction module (e.g., with naive warping or concatenation) while holding the polar-Cartesian grid split and other architecture choices fixed. This is load-bearing for attributing the 4.2% NDS improvement on KITTI-360 and orientation gains on Dur360BEV specifically to the attention-based correction rather than the heterogeneous representation or added capacity.

    Authors: We agree that a targeted ablation isolating the Dual-Attention Warping Correction module—while holding the polar-Cartesian grid split and other choices fixed—would better attribute the gains. Current ablations cover broader components but not this exact isolation. We will add the requested ablation (full GA-HF vs. naive warping and concatenation variants) in the revision. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments: The reported percentage gains and dataset rankings lack error bars, multiple random seeds, statistical significance tests, or details on baseline re-implementations and data splits. This makes it impossible to determine whether the improvements are robust or sensitive to unstated choices, directly affecting the central empirical claims.

    Authors: We acknowledge that error bars, multiple seeds, significance tests, and expanded baseline/split details would strengthen the empirical claims. The current results use standard single-run evaluations. We will re-run with multiple seeds, report means and standard deviations, add significance tests, and expand details on re-implementations and splits in the revision and supplement. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical method with additive modules and benchmark results

full rationale

The paper introduces GA-HF as a geometry-aware fusion framework using Distortion-Aware LSS for polar BEV lifting of fisheye features and Dual-Attention Warping Correction for heterogeneous stream alignment, with all performance numbers (e.g., 4.2% NDS lift) arising from end-to-end training and evaluation on KITTI-360, Dur360BEV, and Fisheye3DOD. No equations, uniqueness theorems, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citations appear in the provided text; the central claims rest on external benchmark comparisons rather than internal redefinitions or load-bearing prior work by the same authors. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and additive.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the central claim rests on the effectiveness of the two named modules whose internal mechanics are not detailed.

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