RaUF: Learning the Spatial Uncertainty Field of Radar

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01026v1
• Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:10:43 GMT
• Title: RaUF: Learning the Spatial Uncertainty Field of Radar
• Authors: Shengpeng Wang, Kuangyu Wang, Wei Wang,
• Abstract summary: Millimeter-wave radar offers unique advantages in adverse weather but suffers from low spatial fidelity, severe azimuth ambiguity, and clutter-induced spurious returns.<n>We propose RaUF, a spatial uncertainty field learning framework that models radar measurements through their physically grounded anisotropic properties.<n>To resolve conflicting feature-to-label mapping, we design an anisotropic probabilistic model that learns fine-grained uncertainty.
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• Abstract: Millimeter-wave radar offers unique advantages in adverse weather but suffers from low spatial fidelity, severe azimuth ambiguity, and clutter-induced spurious returns. Existing methods mainly focus on improving spatial perception effectiveness via coarse-to-fine cross-modal supervision, yet often overlook the ambiguous feature-to-label mapping, which may lead to ill-posed geometric inference and pose fundamental challenges to downstream perception tasks. In this work, we propose RaUF, a spatial uncertainty field learning framework that models radar measurements through their physically grounded anisotropic properties. To resolve conflicting feature-to-label mapping, we design an anisotropic probabilistic model that learns fine-grained uncertainty. To further enhance reliability, we propose a Bidirectional Domain Attention mechanism that exploits the mutual complementarity between spatial structure and Doppler consistency, effectively suppressing spurious or multipath-induced reflections. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks and real-world datasets demonstrate that RaUF delivers highly reliable spatial detections with well-calibrated uncertainty. Moreover, downstream case studies further validate the enhanced reliability and scalability of RaUF under challenging real-world driving scenarios.

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