TractorRoadBEV: A BEV-Based Multi-View Camera Fusion Model for 3D Object Detection on Tractor Road
Abstract:
Multi-view image fusion for three-dimensional (3D)
object detection in agricultural scenarios has received limited
research attention. To address this issue, we propose Tractor-RoadBEV, a multi-stage multi-view perception framework. The
proposed framework first performs two-dimensional (2D) object
detection and mask enhancement to extract object-aware features
from images. The multi-view features are then transformed into a
unified bird’s eye view (BEV) representation through a depth
mapping module and a spatial unification module. Subsequently,
a temporal fusion module integrates the current BEV feature
map with historical BEV features to enhance temporal consistency.
Finally, the fused BEV feature map is decoded to obtain 3D
object detection results. Experimental results on the constructed
tractor road dataset show that TractorRoadBEV achieves F1
scores of 0.8307 and 0.8166 for person detection and vehicle
detection, respectively, which significantly outperforms the classical
monocular detection method Deep3DBox. In addition, the
backbone network of TractorRoadBEV demonstrates strong
generalization capability in BEV scene segmentation, achieving an
intersection over union (IoU) of 0.602, which is 0.151 higher than
that of the classical lift-splat-shoot (LSS) method. These results
indicate that the proposed method provides a low-cost, efficient,
and scalable perception solution for autonomous agricultural
machinery in tractor road environments.
Index Terms: Bird' s eye view (BEV), three-dimensional (3D), object detection, multi-camera, multi-stage, tractor road
Published in:The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (Volume: 31, Issue: 1, 2026-03-31)
Page(s):61 - 71