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In this work, we propose the use of radar with advanced deep segmentation models to identify open space in parking scenarios. A publically available dataset of radar observations called SCORP was collected. Deep models are evaluated with…

Real-time measurements on the occupancy status of indoor and outdoor spaces can be exploited in many scenarios (HVAC and lighting system control, building energy optimization, allocation and reservation of spaces, etc.). Traditional systems…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Paolo Galluzzi , Edoardo Longo , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Matteo Cesana

In the rapidly evolving field of autonomous driving, reliable prediction is pivotal for vehicular safety. However, trajectory predictions often deviate from actual paths, particularly in complex and challenging environments, leading to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Wenbo Shao , Jiahui Xu , Wenhao Yu , Jun Li , Hong Wang

3D occupancy prediction provides dense spatial understanding critical for safe autonomous driving. However, this task suffers from a severe class imbalance due to its volumetric representation, where safety-critical objects (bicycles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wonjune Kim , In-Jae Lee , Sihwan Hwang , Sanmin Kim , Dongsuk Kum

3D occupancy prediction is critical for comprehensive scene understanding in vision-centric autonomous driving. Recent advances have explored utilizing 3D semantic Gaussians to model occupancy while reducing computational overhead, but they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaoyang Yan , Muleilan Pei , Shaojie Shen

3D occupancy prediction has recently emerged as a new paradigm for holistic 3D scene understanding and provides valuable information for downstream planning in autonomous driving. Most existing methods, however, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

Semantic scene understanding is important for various applications. In particular, self-driving cars need a fine-grained understanding of the surfaces and objects in their vicinity. Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) provides precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Jens Behley , Martin Garbade , Andres Milioto , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke , Cyrill Stachniss , Juergen Gall

Driving scene generation is a critical domain for autonomous driving, enabling downstream applications, including perception and planning evaluation. Occupancy-centric methods have recently achieved state-of-the-art results by offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Bohan Li , Xin Jin , Hu Zhu , Hongsi Liu , Ruikai Li , Jiazhe Guo , Kaiwen Cai , Chao Ma , Yueming Jin , Hao Zhao , Xiaokang Yang , Wenjun Zeng

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Understanding and anticipating human activity is an important capability for intelligent systems in mobile robotics, autonomous driving, and video surveillance. While learning from demonstrations with on-site collected trajectory data is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Andrey Rudenko , Luigi Palmieri , Johannes Doellinger , Achim J. Lilienthal , Kai O. Arras

Understanding how the surrounding environment changes is crucial for performing downstream tasks safely and reliably in autonomous driving applications. Recent occupancy estimation techniques using only camera images as input can provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Junyi Ma , Xieyuanli Chen , Jiawei Huang , Jingyi Xu , Zhen Luo , Jintao Xu , Weihao Gu , Rui Ai , Hesheng Wang

One of the most important parts of environment perception is the detection of obstacles in the surrounding of the vehicle. To achieve that, several sensors like radars, LiDARs and cameras are installed in autonomous vehicles. The produced…

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The static world assumption is standard in most simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) algorithms. Increased deployment of autonomous systems to unstructured dynamic environments is driving a need to identify moving objects and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Mina Henein , Jun Zhang , Robert Mahony , Viorela Ila

In autonomous navigation of mobile robots, sensors suffer from massive occlusion in cluttered environments, leaving significant amount of space unknown during planning. In practice, treating the unknown space in optimistic or pessimistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Lizi Wang , Hongkai Ye , Qianhao Wang , Yuman Gao , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

This paper presents a method to predict the evolution of a complex traffic scenario with multiple objects. The current state of the scenario is assumed to be known from sensors and the prediction is taking into account various hypotheses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Parthasarathy Nadarajan , Michael Botsch

We address the issue of domain gap when making use of synthetic data to train a scene-specific object detector and pose estimator. While previous works have shown that the constraints of learning a scene-specific model can be leveraged to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Rawal Khirodkar , Donghyun Yoo , Kris M. Kitani

Directly learning multiple 3D objects motion from sequential images is difficult, while the geometric bundle adjustment lacks the ability to localize the invisible object centroid. To benefit from both the powerful object understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peiliang Li , Jieqi Shi , Shaojie Shen

Recent advances in LiDAR technology have opened up new possibilities for robotic navigation. Given the widespread use of occupancy grid maps (OGMs) in robotic motion planning, this paper aims to address the challenges of integrating LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yunfan Ren , Yixi Cai , Fangcheng Zhu , Siqi Liang , Fu Zhang

Joint optimization of poses and features has been extensively studied and demonstrated to yield more accurate results in feature-based SLAM problems. However, research on jointly optimizing poses and non-feature-based maps remains limited.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Yingyu Wang , Liang Zhao , Shoudong Huang

In this paper we present an end-to-end deep learning framework to turn images that show dynamic content, such as vehicles or pedestrians, into realistic static frames. This objective encounters two main challenges: detecting all the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Berta Bescos , José Neira , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena