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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-26 H. Honkanen , S. Liuti

LiDAR sensors are widely used in autonomous driving due to the reliable 3D spatial information. However, the data of LiDAR is sparse and the frequency of LiDAR is lower than that of cameras. To generate denser point clouds spatially and…

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Flow-based generative models achieve state-of-the-art sample quality, but require the expensive solution of a differential equation at inference time. Flow map models, commonly known as consistency models, encompass many recent efforts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nicholas M. Boffi , Michael S. Albergo , Eric Vanden-Eijnden

Extreme floods pose escalating risks in a changing climate, yet forecasting remains challenging due to peak flow underestimation and high uncertainty. We introduce DRUM, a diffusion-based probabilistic deep learning approach that advances…

Showing flows of people and resources between multiple geographic locations is a challenging visualisation problem. We conducted two quantitative user studies to evaluate different visual representations for such dense many-to-many flows.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Yalong Yang , Tim Dwyer , Sarah Goodwin , Kim Marriott

We introduce SENT-Map, a semantically enhanced topological map for representing indoor environments, designed to support autonomous navigation and manipulation by leveraging advancements in foundational models (FMs). Through representing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Raj Surya Rajendran Kathirvel , Zach A Chavis , Stephen J. Guy , Karthik Desingh

SOM is a type of unsupervised learning where the goal is to discover some underlying structure of the data. In this paper, a new extraction method based on the main idea of Concurrent Self-Organizing Maps (CSOM), representing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

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

We present LOOM (Line-Ordering Optimized Maps), a fully automatic generator of geographically accurate transit maps. The input to LOOM is data about the lines of a given transit network, namely for each line, the sequence of stations it…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Hannah Bast , Patrick Brosi , Sabine Storandt

Deep learning based localization and mapping has recently attracted significant attention. Instead of creating hand-designed algorithms through exploitation of physical models or geometric theories, deep learning based solutions provide an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Changhao Chen , Bing Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Floods are one of the most common natural disasters, with a disproportionate impact in developing countries that often lack dense streamflow gauge networks. Accurate and timely warnings are critical for mitigating flood risks, but…

Recent years have seen many successful applications of machine learning (ML) to facilitate fluid dynamic computations. As simulations grow, generating new training datasets for traditional offline learning creates I/O and storage…

Commuting flow prediction is an essential task for municipal operations in the real world. Previous studies have revealed that it is feasible to estimate the commuting origin-destination (OD) demand within a city using multiple auxiliary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Mingfei Cai , Yanbo Pang , Yoshihide Sekimoto

The problem of autonomous indoor mapping is addressed. The goal is to minimize the time to achieve a predefined percentage of exposure with some desired level of certainty. The use of a pre-trained generative deep neural network, acting as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Elchanan Zwecher , Eran Iceland , Shmuel Y. Hayoun , Ahavatya Revivo , Sean R. Levy , Ariel Barel

The dynamics of flooding are primarily influenced by the shape, height, and roughness (friction) of the underlying topography. For this reason, mechanisms to mitigate floods frequently employ structural measures that either modify…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Byron Tasseff , Russell Bent , Pascal Van Hentenryck

As gradient descent method in deep learning causes a series of questions, this paper proposes a novel gradient-free deep learning structure. By adding a new module into traditional Self-Organizing Map and introducing residual into the map,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Shaosheng Xu , Jinde Cao , Yichao Cao , Tong Wang

The Parameter-Less Self-Organizing Map (PLSOM) is a new neural network algorithm based on the Self-Organizing Map (SOM). It eliminates the need for a learning rate and annealing schemes for learning rate and neighbourhood size. We discuss…

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Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Thomas Pollok , Martin Weinmann

With the forecast increase in air traffic demand over the next decades, it is imperative to develop tools to provide traffic flow managers with the information required to support decision making. In particular, decision-support tools for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Erwan Salaün , Maxime Gariel , Adan Vela , Eric Feron