Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 21, Issue 9, 547(2025)

Point-voxel dual transformer for LiDAR 3D object detection

Jigang TONG, Fanhang YANG, Sen YANG, and Shengzhi DU
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Category: Image and Information processing

Received: Jul. 17, 2023

Accepted: Sep. 15, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 15, 2025

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DOI:10.1007/s11801-025-3134-9

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