Foundation4D: Towards a unified perception and reconstruction model for autonomous vehicles
Foundation4D is presented as a unified feed-forward model that estimates geometry, performs 3D detection, predicts semantic occupancy, and produces Gaussian reconstructions from multi-camera driving video. A shared backbone uses factorized spatiotemporal attention, and pose graph optimization refines camera trajectories. The authors also release PAI-Foundation4D, a benchmark with dense depth and semantic occupancy labels for 1,253 driving clips. The source reports benchmark-specific results on Waymo, nuScenes, and OpenOccupancy, along with task co-training gains.
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Foundation4D is presented as a unified feed-forward model that estimates geometry, performs 3D detection, predicts semantic occupancy, and produces Gaussian reconstructions from multi-camera driving video. A shared backbone uses factorized spatiotemporal attention, and pose graph optimization refines camera trajectories. The authors also release PAI-Foundation4D, a benchmark with dense depth and semantic occupancy labels for 1,253 driving clips. The source reports benchmark-specific results on Waymo, nuScenes, and OpenOccupancy, along with task co-training gains.
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- A shared backbone with factorized spatiotemporal attention combines observations across cameras and time.
- Co-training detection with geometry and occupancy improves top-class mAP by 1.2 points over detection-only training.
- Co-training geometry with detection reduces camera-to-rig translation error by 13.4% relative to geometry-only training.
- The authors release PAI-Foundation4D, a benchmark with dense depth and semantic occupancy labels for 1,253 driving clips.
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Unifying geometry, detection, occupancy, and reconstruction in one model could reduce the need for separate task-specific pipelines in autonomous driving perception and simulation.
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