A Survey of Deep Learning-Based 3D Object Detection Methods for Autonomous Driving Across Different Sensor Modalities

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of deep learning-based methods for 3D object detection in autonomous driving, focusing on their use of diverse sensor modalities, including monocular cameras, stereo vision, LiDAR, radar, and multi-modal fusion. To systematically organize the literature, a structured taxonomy is proposed that categorizes methods by input modality. The review also outlines the chronological evolution of these approaches, highlighting major architectural developments and paradigm shifts. Furthermore, the surveyed methods are quantitatively compared using standard evaluation metrics across benchmark datasets in autonomous driving scenarios. Overall, this work provides a detailed and modality-agnostic overview of the current landscape of deep learning approaches for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Results of this work are available in a github open repository.