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We propose a method for automatic calibration of a traffic surveillance camera with wide-angle lenses. Video footage of a few minutes is sufficient for the entire calibration process to take place. This method takes in the height of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Aman Gajendra Jain , Nicolas Saunier

Technology has made navigation in 3D real time possible and this has made possible what seemed impossible. This paper explores the aspect of deep visual odometry methods for mobile robots. Visual odometry has been instrumental in making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Jahanzaib Shabbir , Thomas Kruezer

In this work, we address the problem of real-time dense depth estimation from monocular images for mobile underwater vehicles. We formulate a deep learning model that fuses sparse depth measurements from triangulated features to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Luca Ebner , Gideon Billings , Stefan Williams

Depth estimation plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of the vehicle's 3D surroundings. Radar, with its robustness to adverse weather conditions and capability to measure distances, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Huawei Sun , Zixu Wang , Hao Feng , Julius Ott , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

The development of aerial autonomy has enabled aerial robots to fly agilely in complex environments. However, dodging fast-moving objects in flight remains a challenge, limiting the further application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Botao He , Haojia Li , Siyuan Wu , Dong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Qianli Dong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

The dense depth estimation of a 3D scene has numerous applications, mainly in robotics and surveillance. LiDAR and radar sensors are the hardware solution for real-time depth estimation, but these sensors produce sparse depth maps and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alwyn Mathew , Aditya Prakash Patra , Jimson Mathew

Robust and accurate, map-based localization is crucial for autonomous mobile systems. In this paper, we exploit range images generated from 3D LiDAR scans to address the problem of localizing mobile robots or autonomous cars in a map of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Xieyuanli Chen , Ignacio Vizzo , Thomas Läbe , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

We present a novel real-time visual odometry framework for a stereo setup of a depth and high-resolution event camera. Our framework balances accuracy and robustness against computational efficiency towards strong performance in challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yi-Fan Zuo , Jiaqi Yang , Jiaben Chen , Xia Wang , Yifu Wang , Laurent Kneip

Global localisation from visual data is a challenging problem applicable to many robotics domains. Prior works have shown that neural networks can be trained to map images of an environment to absolute camera pose within that environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Automated driving systems use multi-modal sensor suites to ensure the reliable, redundant and robust perception of the operating domain, for example camera and LiDAR. An accurate extrinsic calibration is required to fuse the camera and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jack Borer , Jeremy Tschirner , Florian Ölsner , Stefan Milz

Autonomous field robots operating in unstructured environments require robust perception to ensure safe and reliable operations. Recent advances in monocular depth estimation have demonstrated the potential of low-cost cameras as depth…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Eleni Kelasidi , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

On-road obstacle detection is an important field of research that falls in the scope of intelligent transportation infrastructure systems. The use of vision-based approaches results in an accurate and cost-effective solution to such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Umang Goenka , Aaryan Jagetia , Param Patil , Akshay Singh , Taresh Sharma , Poonam Saini

Computationally efficient moving object detection and depth estimation from a stereo camera is an extremely useful tool for many computer vision applications, including robotics and autonomous driving. In this paper we show how moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Goran Popović , Antea Hadviger , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

Lidar has become an essential sensor for autonomous driving as it provides reliable depth estimation. Lidar is also the primary sensor used in building 3D maps which can be used even in the case of low-cost systems which do not use Lidar.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 B Ravi Kiran , Luis Roldão , Benat Irastorza , Renzo Verastegui , Sebastian Suss , Senthil Yogamani , Victor Talpaert , Alexandre Lepoutre , Guillaume Trehard

This study addresses the evolving challenges in urban traffic monitoring detection systems based on fisheye lens cameras by proposing a framework that improves the efficacy and accuracy of these systems. In the context of urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Dai Quoc Tran , Armstrong Aboah , Yuntae Jeon , Maged Shoman , Minsoo Park , Seunghee Park

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems rely heavily on perception tasks such as semantic segmentation where images are captured from large field of view (FoV) cameras. State-of-the-art works have made considerable progress toward applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Clément Playout , Ola Ahmad , Freddy Lecue , Farida Cheriet

Accurate distance estimation is a fundamental challenge in robotic perception, particularly in omnidirectional imaging, where traditional geometric methods struggle with lens distortions and environmental variability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yitong Quan , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

With the advance of AI, road object detection has been a prominent topic in computer vision, mostly using perspective cameras. Fisheye lens provides omnidirectional wide coverage for using fewer cameras to monitor road intersections,…

3D object detection is an essential task in autonomous driving. Recent techniques excel with highly accurate detection rates, provided the 3D input data is obtained from precise but expensive LiDAR technology. Approaches based on cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Divyansh Garg , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger