Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Systems (ICARECS-2025)

Advances in LiDAR-Camera Fusion for Object Detection in Autonomous Driving

Authors
R. Vidhyacharan1, *, S. Kumar1, R. Vinod Kumar1
1Department of EIE, NICHE, Kumaracoil, India
*Corresponding author. Email: rvidhyacharan@gmail.com
Corresponding Author
R. Vidhyacharan
Available Online 30 June 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-754-0_28How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Object Detection; Autonomous Vehicles; LiDAR-Camera Fusion
Abstract

Object detection is an important problem for autonomous vehicles, enabling safe navigation and decision making in complex environments. In this review, an overview of LiDAR and camera fusion techniques for detecting objects, exploiting the synergy between LiDAR’s geometric accuracy and cameras’ colour and texture richness, is provided. The methods of fusion are reviewed into early fusion, late fusion, and deep fusion, which are discussed with regard to their respective advantages and disadvantages. The recent deep fusion improvements made with attention mechanisms and transformer-based architectures, which have shown excellence in performance improvement along with commonly used performance measures and datasets are also discussed. This review will be helpful for researchers in understanding the fusion techniques available for autonomous vehicles.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Advanced Research in Electronics and Communication Systems (ICARECS-2025)
Series
Atlantis Highlights in Engineering
Publication Date
30 June 2025
ISBN
978-94-6463-754-0
ISSN
2589-4943
DOI
10.2991/978-94-6463-754-0_28How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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