R$^3$D: Regional-guided Residual Radar Diffusion

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06465v1
• Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:23:44 GMT
• Title: R$^3$D: Regional-guided Residual Radar Diffusion
• Authors: Hao Li, Xinqi Liu, Yaoqing Jin,
• Abstract summary: We propose R3D, a regional-guided residual radar diffusion framework.<n>Experiments on the ColoRadar dataset demonstrate that R3D outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either incur high learning complexity by modeling full LiDAR distributions or fail to prioritize critical structures due to uniform regional processing. To address these issues, we propose R3D, a regional-guided residual radar diffusion framework that integrates residual diffusion modeling-focusing on the concentrated LiDAR-radar residual encoding complementary high-frequency details to reduce learning difficulty-and sigma-adaptive regional guidance-leveraging radar-specific signal properties to generate attention maps and applying lightweight guidance only in low-noise stages to avoid gradient imbalance while refining key regions. Extensive experiments on the ColoRadar dataset demonstrate that R3D outperforms state-of-the-art methods, providing a practical solution for radar perception enhancement. Our anonymous code and pretrained models are released here: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/r3d-F836

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