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Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attentions in computer vision. Recently deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Fen Xiao , Wenzheng Deng , Liangchan Peng , Chunhong Cao , Kai Hu , Xieping Gao

As an essential procedure of data fusion, LiDAR-camera calibration is critical for autonomous vehicles and robot navigation. Most calibration methods rely on hand-crafted features and require significant amounts of extracted features or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Xudong Lv , Boya Wang , Ziwen Dou , Dong Ye , Shuo Wang

We propose a new method for fusing a LIDAR point cloud and camera-captured images in the deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed method constructs a new layer called non-homogeneous pooling layer to transform features between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Zining Wang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Deep neural networks have enjoyed remarkable success for various vision tasks, however it remains challenging to apply CNNs to domains lacking a regular underlying structures such as 3D point clouds. Towards this we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Yifan Xu , Tianqi Fan , Mingye Xu , Long Zeng , Yu Qiao

Object segmentation and structure localization are important steps in automated image analysis pipelines for microscopy images. We present a convolution neural network (CNN) based deep learning architecture for segmentation of objects in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Shan E Ahmed Raza , Linda Cheung , Muhammad Shaban , Simon Graham , David Epstein , Stella Pelengaris , Michael Khan , Nasir M. Rajpoot

In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network framework embedded with low-level features (LCNN) for salient object detection in complex images. We utilise the advantage of convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hongyang Li , Huchuan Lu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price

Inferring the depth of images is a fundamental inverse problem within the field of Computer Vision since depth information is obtained through 2D images, which can be generated from infinite possibilities of observed real scenes. Benefiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Nicolas dos Santos Rosa , Valdir Grassi

Extracting features from a huge amount of data for object recognition is a challenging task. Convolution neural network can be used to meet the challenge, but it often requires a large number of computation resources. In this paper, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-08 Yunlong Ma , Chunyan Wang

Point clouds have grown in importance in the way computers perceive the world. From LIDAR sensors in autonomous cars and drones to the time of flight and stereo vision systems in our phones, point clouds are everywhere. Despite their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Vinit Sarode , Animesh Dhagat , Rangaprasad Arun Srivatsan , Nicolas Zevallos , Simon Lucey , Howie Choset

In recent years, self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation has rapidly become an significant branch of depth estimation task, especially for autonomous driving applications. Despite the high overall precision achieved, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Feng Xue , Guirong Zhuo , Ziyuan Huang , Wufei Fu , Zhuoyue Wu , Marcelo H. Ang

This study introduces a method for efficiently detecting objects within 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Our approach adopts a unique feature-centric voting mechanism to construct convolutional layers that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Tianyi Lyu , Dian Gu , Peiyuan Chen , Yaoting Jiang , Zhenhong Zhang , Huadong Pang , Li Zhou , Yiping Dong

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) plays an increasingly significant role in urban planning, topographic mapping, environmental monitoring, power line detection and other fields thanks to its capability to quickly acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Congcong Wen , Xiang Li , Xiaojing Yao , Ling Peng , Tianhe Chi

We propose a methodology for lidar super-resolution with ground vehicles driving on roadways, which relies completely on a driving simulator to enhance, via deep learning, the apparent resolution of a physical lidar. To increase the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tixiao Shan , Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

This paper proposes a computationally efficient approach to detecting objects natively in 3D point clouds using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In particular, this is achieved by leveraging a feature-centric voting scheme to implement…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Martin Engelcke , Dushyant Rao , Dominic Zeng Wang , Chi Hay Tong , Ingmar Posner

In this paper, we address extrinsic calibration for camera, lidar, and 4D radar sensors. Accurate extrinsic calibration of radar remains a challenge due to the sparsity of its data. We propose CLRNet, a novel, multi-modal end-to-end deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Marcell Kegl , Andras Palffy , Csaba Benedek , Dariu M. Gavrila

The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Aleksandr Savchenkov , Andrew Davis , Xuan Zhao

Computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used for cancer screening, such as early detection of lung cancer. However, CT studies have varying pixel spacing due to differences in acquisition parameters. Thick slice CTs have lower…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Meng Li , Shiwen Shen , Wen Gao , William Hsu , Jason Cong

LiDARs have been widely adopted to modern self-driving vehicles, providing 3D information of the scene and surrounding objects. However, adverser weather conditions still pose significant challenges to LiDARs since point clouds captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm