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Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Motion prediction is a challenging task for autonomous vehicles due to uncertainty in the sensor data, the non-deterministic nature of future, and complex behavior of agents. In this paper, we tackle this problem by representing the scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Rabbia Asghar , Manuel Diaz-Zapata , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier

In this paper, we tackle the challenge of predicting the unseen walls of a partially observed environment as a set of 2D line segments, conditioned on occupancy grids integrated along the trajectory of a 360{\deg} LIDAR sensor. A dataset of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ludvig Ericson , Patric Jensfelt

The classification of individual traffic participants is a complex task, especially for challenging scenarios with multiple road users or under bad weather conditions. Radar sensors provide an - with respect to well established camera…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Nicolas Scheiner , Nils Appenrodt , Jürgen Dickmann , Bernhard Sick

Digital maps will revolutionize our experience of perceiving and navigating indoor environments. While today we rely only on the representation of the outdoors, the mapping of indoors is mainly a part of the traditional SLAM problem where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Anna Guerra , Francesco Guidi , Gianni Pasolini , Antonio Clemente , Raffaele D'Errico , Davide Dardari

With the advent of Internet of Thing (IoT), and ubiquitous data collected every moment by either portable (smart phone) or fixed (sensor) devices, it is important to gain insights and meaningful information from the sensor data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Mohammadhossein Toutiaee

This work describes the implementation of a simple and computationally efficient Intelligent Navigation System (INS) for autonomous systems used in areas where human access is impossible. The system uses Laser Range Finder (LRF) readings as…

With the rapid advancements of sensor technology and deep learning, autonomous driving systems are providing safe and efficient access to intelligent vehicles as well as intelligent transportation. Among these equipped sensors, the radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shanliang Yao , Runwei Guan , Zitian Peng , Chenhang Xu , Yilu Shi , Weiping Ding , Eng Gee Lim , Yong Yue , Hyungjoon Seo , Ka Lok Man , Jieming Ma , Xiaohui Zhu , Yutao Yue

Road boundaries, or curbs, provide autonomous vehicles with essential information when interpreting road scenes and generating behaviour plans. Although curbs convey important information, they are difficult to detect in complex urban…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Tarlan Suleymanov , Lars Kunze , Paul Newman

Leveraging perception from radar data can assist multiple communication tasks, especially in highly-mobile and large-scale MIMO systems. One particular challenge, however, is how to distinguish the communication user (object) from the other…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Umut Demirhan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Cognitive sensing refers to a reconfigurable sensor that dynamically adapts its sensing mechanism by using stochastic control to optimize its sensing resources. For example, cognitive radars are sophisticated dynamical systems; they use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Vikram Krishnamurthy

Sensing is an integral part of 6G and beyond systems, providing exceptional environmental perception along with communication. Radio frequency (RF)-based sensing often relies on simplified geometric assumptions (e.g., point scatterers or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Xuhong Li , Erik Leitinger , Fredrik Tufvesson , Florian Meyer

This paper details an application which yields significant improvements to the adeptness of place recognition with Frequency-Modulated Continuous-Wave radar - a commercially promising sensor poised for exploitation in mobile autonomy. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Paul Newman

Passive radar has key advantages over its active counterpart in terms of cost and stealth. In this paper, we address passive radar imaging problem by interferometric inversion using a spectral estimation method with a priori information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Samia Kazemi , Bariscan Yonel , Birsen Yazici

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

Visual localization is a crucial component in the application of mobile robot and autonomous driving. Image retrieval is an efficient and effective technique in image-based localization methods. Due to the drastic variability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Hanjiang Hu , Hesheng Wang , Zhe Liu , Weidong Chen

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

In perception tasks of automated vehicles (AVs) data-driven have often outperformed conventional approaches. This motivated us to develop a data-driven methodology to compute occupancy grid maps (OGMs) from lidar measurements. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Raphael van Kempen , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Timo Woopen , Till Beemelmanns , Lutz Eckstein

Localization is paramount for autonomous robots. While camera and LiDAR-based approaches have been extensively investigated, they are affected by adverse illumination and weather conditions. Therefore, radar sensors have recently gained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Abhijeet Nayak , Daniele Cattaneo , Abhinav Valada

Highly dynamic environments, with moving objects such as cars or humans, can pose a performance challenge for LiDAR SLAM systems that assume largely static scenes. To overcome this challenge and support the deployment of robots in real…