Multi-modal Gaussian splatting for 3D object detection
摘要
Multi-modal 3D object detection (3DOD) is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, where robust scene understanding from heterogeneous sensor data is required. Despite substantial progress, existing 3DOD approaches often suffer from inefficient multi-modal fusion mechanisms and limited robustness when processing sparse and irregular point cloud observations. To address these challenges, we propose a unified framework that integrates a compact Gaussian representation based on Vector–Matrix decomposition (VMGS), a modality-aware feature extraction network (DualModNet), and a graph-based detection architecture (GraphQuery3D). The VMGS representation encodes 3D scenes in a structured and memory-efficient manner, reducing computational overhead while preserving geometric expressiveness. DualModNet extracts complementary modality-specific features from LiDAR and RGB inputs, facilitating structured cross-modal integration. Built upon the constructed Gaussian representation, GraphQuery3D performs detection via graph-based feature aggregation and query-driven localization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.