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LiDAR (short for "Light Detection And Ranging" or "Laser Imaging, Detection, And Ranging") technology can be used to provide detailed three-dimensional elevation maps of urban and rural landscapes. To date, airborne LiDAR imaging has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Matthew Stevenson , Christophe Mues , Cristián Bravo

Automotive cameras, particularly surround-view cameras, tend to get soiled by mud, water, snow, etc. For higher levels of autonomous driving, it is necessary to have a soiling detection algorithm which will trigger an automatic cleaning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Arindam Das , Pavel Krizek , Ganesh Sistu , Fabian Burger , Sankaralingam Madasamy , Michal Uricar , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Autonomous navigation is one of the key requirements for every potential application of mobile robots in the real-world. Besides high-accuracy state estimation, a suitable and globally consistent representation of the 3D environment is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Boche , Sebastián Barbas Laina , Stefan Leutenegger

Accurate building height estimation is key to the automatic derivation of 3D city models from emerging big geospatial data, including Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI). However, an automatic solution for large-scale building height…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Hao Li , Zhendong Yuan , Gabriel Dax , Gefei Kong , Hongchao Fan , Alexander Zipf , Martin Werner

In this study, a novel machine learning algorithm is presented for disaggregation of satellite soil moisture (SM) based on self-regularized regressive models (SRRM) using high-resolution correlated information from auxiliary sources. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Subit Chakrabarti , Jasmeet Judge , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

The diversity of terrestrial vascular plants plays a key role in maintaining the stability and productivity of ecosystems. Airborne hyperspectral imaging has shown promise for measuring plant diversity remotely, but to operationalise these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Yiqing Guo , Karel Mokany , Cindy Ong , Peyman Moghadam , Simon Ferrier , Shaun R. Levick

We propose a new deep learning-based method for estimating the occupancy of vegetation strata from airborne 3D LiDAR point clouds. Our model predicts rasterized occupancy maps for three vegetation strata corresponding to lower, medium, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Ekaterina Kalinicheva , Loic Landrieu , Clément Mallet , Nesrine Chehata

Diversity of terrestrial plants plays a key role in maintaining a stable, healthy, and productive ecosystem. Though remote sensing has been seen as a promising and cost-effective proxy for estimating plant diversity, there is a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Yiqing Guo , Karel Mokany , Cindy Ong , Peyman Moghadam , Simon Ferrier , Shaun R. Levick

The microwave imaging system(MIS) stands out among prominent imaging tools for capturing images of concealed obstacles. Leveraging its capability to penetrate through heterogeneous environments MIS has been widely used for subsurface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Mohammad Ramezaninia , Mohammad Zoofaghari

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

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

Protecting Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) is a critical safety challenge for automotive perception systems, particularly under visual ambiguity caused by metamerism, a phenomenon where distinct materials appear similar in RGB imagery. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Jiarong Li , Imad Ali Shah , Diarmaid Geever , Fiachra Collins , Enda Ward , Martin Glavin , Edward Jones , Brian Deegan

Hyperspectral images often have hundreds of spectral bands of different wavelengths captured by aircraft or satellites that record land coverage. Identifying detailed classes of pixels becomes feasible due to the enhancement in spectral and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Raymond H. Chan , Ruoning Li

In this paper, an approach is proposed to fuse LiDAR and hyperspectral data, which considers both spectral and spatial information in a single framework. Here, an extended self-dual attribute profile (ESDAP) is investigated to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Pedram Ghamisi , Gabriele Cavallaro , Dan , Wu , Jon Atli Benediktsson , Antonio Plaza

Intra-class terrain differences such as water content directly influence a vehicle's ability to traverse terrain, yet RGB vision systems may fail to distinguish these properties. Evaluating a terrain's spectral content beyond red-green-blue…

Dimensionality reduction (DR) methods have attracted extensive attention to provide discriminative information and reduce the computational burden of the hyperspectral image (HSI) classification. However, the DR methods face many challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Ramanarayan Mohanty , S L Happy , Aurobinda Routray

Object detection models commonly deployed on uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) focus on identifying objects in the visible spectrum using Red-Green-Blue (RGB) imagery. However, there is growing interest in fusing RGB with thermal long wave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 James Gallagher , Edward Oughton

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification presents significant challenges due to the high dimensionality, spectral redundancy, and limited labeled data typically available in real-world applications. To address these issues and optimize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Vita V. Vlasova , Vladimir G. Kuzmin , Maria S. Varetsa , Natalia A. Ibragimova , Oleg Y. Rogov , Elena V. Lyapuntsova

Hyperspectral images (HSI) classification is a high technical remote sensing software. The purpose is to reproduce a thematic map . The HSI contains more than a hundred hyperspectral measures, as bands (or simply images), of the concerned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Elkebir Sarhrouni , Ahmed Hammouch , Driss Aboutajdine

Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems are an essential component in agricultural robotics that enable autonomous navigation and the construction of accurate 3D maps of agricultural fields. However, lack of texture,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Mohamad Qadri , George Kantor