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Land-use classification based on spaceborne or aerial remote sensing images has been extensively studied over the past decades. Such classification is usually a patch-wise or pixel-wise labeling over the whole image. But for many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Jian Kang , Marco Körner , Yuanyuan Wang , Hannes Taubenböck , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Land use mapping is a fundamental yet challenging task in geographic science. In contrast to land cover mapping, it is generally not possible using overhead imagery. The recent, explosive growth of online geo-referenced photo collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology has proven to be an important part of many robotics systems. Surface normals estimated from LiDAR data are commonly used for a variety of tasks in such systems. As most of the today's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Igor Bogoslavskyi , Konstantinos Zampogiannis , Raymond Phan

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

We propose a graph neural network(GNN) based method to incorporate scene context for the semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR data. The problem is defined as building a graph to represent the topology of a center segment with its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Jilin Mei , Huijing Zhao

Perception of traversable regions and objects of interest from a 3D point cloud is one of the critical tasks in autonomous navigation. A ground vehicle needs to look for traversable terrains that are explorable by wheels. Then, to make safe…

With information from multiple input modalities, sensor fusion-based algorithms usually out-perform their single-modality counterparts in robotics. Camera and LIDAR, with complementary semantic and depth information, are the typical choices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Akio Kodaira , Yiyang Zhou , Pengwei Zang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Landslide detection from high resolution satellite imagery is a critical task for disaster response and risk assessment, yet the relative effectiveness of modern segmentation architectures and finetuning strategies for this problem remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Md Kowsher , Weiwei Zhan , Chen Chen

Interpretation of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) point clouds is a critical procedure for producing various geo-information products like 3D city models, digital terrain models and land use maps. In this paper, we present a local and global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Yaping Lin , George Vosselman , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

We present a simple algorithm for differentiable rendering of surfaces represented by Signed Distance Fields (SDF), which makes it easy to integrate rendering into gradient-based optimization pipelines. To tackle visibility-related…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Zichen Wang , Xi Deng , Ziyi Zhang , Wenzel Jakob , Steve Marschner

LiDAR is widely used to capture accurate 3D outdoor scene structures. However, LiDAR produces many undesirable noise points in snowy weather, which hamper analyzing meaningful 3D scene structures. Semantic segmentation with snow labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gwangtak Bae , Byungjun Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Jihong Min , Inwook Shim

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) plays an increasingly significant role in urban planning, topographic mapping, environmental monitoring, power line detection and other fields thanks to its capability to quickly acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Congcong Wen , Xiang Li , Xiaojing Yao , Ling Peng , Tianhe Chi

Camera and 3D LiDAR sensors have become indispensable devices in modern autonomous driving vehicles, where the camera provides the fine-grained texture, color information in 2D space and LiDAR captures more precise and farther-away distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lin Zhao , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Hongsheng Li , Wenbing Tao

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR data presents considerable challenges, particularly when dealing with diverse sensor types and configurations. However, incorporating semantic information can significantly enhance the accuracy and robustness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sven Ochs , Philip Schörner , Marc René Zofka , J. Marius Zöllner

This study presents an approach to lane detection involving the prediction of binary segmentation masks and per-pixel affinity fields. These affinity fields, along with the binary masks, can then be used to cluster lane pixels horizontally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Hala Abualsaud , Sean Liu , David Lu , Kenny Situ , Akshay Rangesh , Mohan M. Trivedi

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task for agricultural robots to understand the surrounding environments in natural orchards. The recent development of the LiDAR techniques enables the robot to acquire accurate range measurements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang

This paper presents a method to detect reflection of 3D light detection and ranging (Lidar) scans and uses it to classify the points and also map objects outside the line of sight. Our software uses several approaches to analyze the point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Xiting Zhao , Zhijie Yang , Sören Schwertfeger

Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoran Xiao , Xiaofei Yang , Shijian Lu , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang

We study algorithms for detecting and including glass objects in an optimization-based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorithm in this work. When LiDAR data is the primary exteroceptive sensory input, glass objects are not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Lasitha Weerakoon , Gurtajbir Singh Herr , Jasmine Blunt , Miao Yu , Nikhil Chopra

Grain segmentation of sandstone that is partitioning the grain from its surrounding matrix/cement in the thin section is the primary step for computer-aided mineral identification and sandstone classification. The microscopic images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Rajdeep Das , Ajoy Mondal , Tapan Chakraborty , Kuntal Ghosh