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ARXIV:2604.01921 · AUTOMOTIVE PERCEPTION · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.01921AUTOMOTIVE PERCEPTIONSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTCFRESHNESS STALEGeorge Sebastian · Philipp Berthold · Bianca Forkel · Leon Pohl · Mirko Maehlisch · arXiv
Learning spatial structure directly from raw radar data for automotive perception.
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Learning spatial structure directly from raw radar data for automotive perception. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) measurements?
Automotive radar perception pipelines commonly construct angle-domain representations via beamforming before applying learning-based models. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) measurements?
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. The results indicate that spatial structure can be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors without explicit angle-domain construction or hand-crafted signal-processing stages.
Automotive Perception moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10.
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Learning spatial structure directly from raw radar data for automotive perception.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.01921Learning spatial structure directly from raw radar data for automotive perception.
Abstract
Automotive radar perception pipelines commonly construct angle-domain representations via beamforming before applying learning-based models. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) measurements? Experiments are conducted on a 6-TX x 8-RX (48 virtual antennas) commodity automotive radar employing an A/B chirp-sequence frequency-modulated continuous-wave (CS-FMCW) transmit scheme, in which the effective transmit aperture varies between chirps (single-TX vs. multi-TX), enabling controlled analysis of chirp-dependent transmit configurations. We operate on pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors using a dual-chirp shared-weight encoder trained in an end-to-end, fully data-driven manner, and evaluate spatial recoverability using bird's-eye-view (BEV) occupancy as a geometric probe rather than a performance-driven objective. Supervision is visibility-aware and cross-modal, derived from LiDAR with explicit modeling of the radar field-of-view and occlusion-aware LiDAR observability via ray-based visibility. Through chirp ablations (A-only, B-only, A+B), range-band analysis, and physics-aligned baselines, we assess how transmit configurations affect geometric recoverability. The results indicate that spatial structure can be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors without explicit angle-domain construction or hand-crafted signal-processing stages.
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Learning spatial structure directly from raw radar data for automotive perception. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna range-Doppler (RD) measurements?
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Automotive radar perception pipelines commonly construct angle-domain representations via beamforming before applying learning-based models. This work instead investigates a representational question: can meaningful spatial structure be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 3.0/10 on the public viability pass. The results indicate that spatial structure can be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors without explicit angle-domain construction or hand-crafted signal-processing stages.
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Automotive Perception moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 3.0/10.
The results indicate that spatial structure can be learned directly from pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors without explicit angle-domain construction or hand-crafted signal-processing stages.
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We operate on pre-beamforming per-antenna RD tensors using a dual-chirp shared-weight encoder trained in an end-to-end, fully data-driven manner
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evaluate spatial recoverability using bird's-eye-view (BEV) occupancy as a geometric probe rather than a performance-driven objective
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Supervision is visibility-aware and cross-modal, derived from LiDAR with explicit modeling of the radar field-of-view and occlusion-aware LiDAR observability via ray-based visibility.
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Experiments are conducted on a 6-TX x 8-RX (48 virtual antennas) commodity automotive radar employing an A/B chirp-sequence frequency-modulated continuous-wave (CS-FMCW) transmit scheme
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in which the effective transmit aperture varies between chirps (single-TX vs. multi-TX), enabling controlled analysis of chirp-dependent transmit configurations
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Through chirp ablations (A-only, B-only, A+B), range-band analysis, and physics-aligned baselines, we assess how transmit configurations affect geometric recoverability.
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