RadarGen: Automotive Radar Point Cloud Generation from Cameras

Tomer Borreda, Fangqiang Ding, Sanja Fidler, Shengyu Huang, Or Litany

RadarGen: Automotive Radar Point Cloud Generation from Cameras: 11 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #12 of 22 papers on 2025-12-22. Day-by-day upvote history. It lost 7 votes when the Hub removed votes in bulk.

We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery. RadarGen adapts efficient image-latent diffusion to the radar domain by representing radar measurements in bird's-eye-view form that encodes spatial structure together with radar cross section (RCS) and Doppler attributes. A lightweight recovery step reconstructs point clouds from the generated maps. To better align generation with the visual scene, RadarGen incorporates BEV-aligned depth, semantic, and motion cues extracted from pretrained foundation models, which guide the stochastic generation process toward physically plausible radar patterns. Conditioning on images makes the approach broadly compatible, in principle, with existing visual datasets and simulation frameworks, offering a scalable direction for multimodal generative simulation. Evaluations on large-scale driving data show that RadarGen captures characteristic radar measurement distributions and reduces the gap to perception models trained on real data, marking a step toward unified generative simulation across sensing modalities.

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