# Robust Single-Stage Fully Sparse 3D Object Detection via Detachable Latent Diffusion

Source: [Robust Single-Stage Fully Sparse 3D Object Detection via Detachable Latent Diffusion](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa7b021e209131cea86380>)

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Authors: Wentao Qu, Guofeng Mei, Jing Wang, Yujiao Wu, Xiaoshui Huang, Liang Xiao

Published: 2025-08-05T09:30:39.000Z

## Abstract

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPMs) have shown success in robust 3D object detection tasks. Existing methods often rely on the score matching from 3D boxes or pre-trained diffusion priors. However, they typically require multi-step iterations in inference, which limits efficiency. To address this, we propose a Robust single-stage fully Sparse 3D object Detection Network with a Detachable Latent Framework (DLF) of DDPMs, named RSDNet. Specifically, RSDNet learns the denoising process in latent feature spaces through lightweight denoising networks like multi-level denoising autoencoders (DAEs). This enables RSDNet to effectively understand scene distributions under multi-level perturbations, achieving robust and reliable detection. Meanwhile, we reformulate the noising and denoising mechanisms of DDPMs, enabling DLF to construct multi-type and multi-level noise samples and targets, enhancing RSDNet robustness to multiple perturbations. Furthermore, a semantic-geometric conditional guidance is introduced to perceive the object boundaries and shapes, alleviating the center feature missing problem in sparse representations, enabling RSDNet to perform in a fully sparse detection pipeline. Moreover, the detachable denoising network design of DLF enables RSDNet to perform single-step detection in inference, further enhancing detection efficiency. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks show that RSDNet can outperform existing methods, achieving state-of-the-art detection.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03252>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03252.pdf>)
