Accurate Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data with Neural Radiance Fields

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25623v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:37:08 GMT
• Title: Accurate Surface and Reflectance Modelling from 3D Radar Data with Neural Radiance Fields
• Abstract summary: We propose a neural implicit approach for 3D mapping from radar point clouds.<n>We show that our approach produces smoother, more accurate 3D surface reconstructions compared to existing lidar-based reconstruction methods.
• Score: 8.848338996604285
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental factors such as fog, smoke, or dust. However, radar data is inherently sparse and noisy, making reliable 3D surface reconstruction challenging. To address these challenges, we propose a neural implicit approach for 3D mapping from radar point clouds, which jointly models scene geometry and view-dependent radar intensities. Our method leverages a memory-efficient hybrid feature encoding to learn a continuous Signed Distance Field (SDF) for surface reconstruction, while also capturing radar-specific reflective properties. We show that our approach produces smoother, more accurate 3D surface reconstructions compared to existing lidar-based reconstruction methods applied to radar data, and can reconstruct view-dependent radar intensities. We also show that in general, as input point clouds get sparser, neural implicit representations render more faithful surfaces, compared to traditional explicit SDFs and meshing techniques.

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