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Synthetic infrared (IR) scene and target generation is an important computer vision problem as it allows the generation of realistic IR images and targets for training and testing of various applications, such as remote sensing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Avinash Upadhyay , Manoj sharma , Prerana Mukherjee , Amit Singhal , Brejesh Lall

Since the generative neural networks have made a breakthrough in the image generation problem, lots of researches on their applications have been studied such as image restoration, style transfer and image completion. However, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jeesoo Kim , Jangho Kim , Jaeyoung Yoo , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

A powerful simulator highly decreases the need for real-world tests when training and evaluating autonomous vehicles. Data-driven simulators flourished with the recent advancement of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Saeed Saadatnejad , Siyuan Li , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

The objective of this paper is to propose a systematic analysis of the sensor coverage of automated vehicles. Due to an unlimited number of possible traffic situations, a selection of scenarios to be tested must be applied in the safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Thomas Ponn , Fabian Müller , Frank Diermeyer

Recent successful video generation systems that predict and create realistic automotive driving scenes from short video inputs assign tokenization, future state prediction (world model), and video decoding to dedicated models. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Björn Möller , Zhengyang Li , Malte Stelzer , Thomas Graave , Fabian Bettels , Muaaz Ataya , Tim Fingscheidt

Scalable sensor simulation is an important yet challenging open problem for safety-critical domains such as self-driving. Current works in image simulation either fail to be photorealistic or do not model the 3D environment and the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yun Chen , Frieda Rong , Shivam Duggal , Shenlong Wang , Xinchen Yan , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shangjie Xue , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Simulation is crucial for developing and evaluating autonomous vehicle (AV) systems. Recent literature builds on a new generation of generative models to synthesize highly realistic images for full-stack simulation. However, purely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zehao Zhu , Yuliang Zou , Chiyu Max Jiang , Bo Sun , Vincent Casser , Xiukun Huang , Jiahao Wang , Zhenpei Yang , Ruiqi Gao , Leonidas Guibas , Mingxing Tan , Dragomir Anguelov

Constructing simulation scenes that are both visually and physically realistic is a problem of practical interest in domains ranging from robotics to computer vision. This problem has become even more relevant as researchers wielding large…

The task of generating natural images from 3D scenes has been a long standing goal in computer graphics. On the other hand, recent developments in deep neural networks allow for trainable models that can produce natural-looking images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Hassan Abu Alhaija , Siva Karthik Mustikovela , Andreas Geiger , Carsten Rother

We describe and experimentally validate an end-to-end simulation of a digital camera. The simulation models the spectral radiance of 3D-scenes, formation of the spectral irradiance by multi-element optics, and conversion of the irradiance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Zheng Lyu , Krithin Kripakaran , Max Furth , Eric Tang , Brian Wandell , Joyce Farrell

Simulating camera sensors is a crucial task in autonomous driving. Although neural radiance fields are exceptional at synthesizing photorealistic views in driving simulations, they still fail to generate extrapolated views. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chenming Wu , Jiadai Sun , Zhelun Shen , Liangjun Zhang

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

With the recent advances in autonomous driving and the decreasing cost of LiDARs, the use of multimodal sensor systems is on the rise. However, in order to make use of the information provided by a variety of complimentary sensors, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Quentin Herau , Nathan Piasco , Moussab Bennehar , Luis Roldão , Dzmitry Tsishkou , Cyrille Migniot , Pascal Vasseur , Cédric Demonceaux

Verifying highly automated driving functions can be challenging, requiring identifying relevant test scenarios. Scenario-based testing will likely play a significant role in verifying these systems, predominantly occurring within…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Maximilian Zipfl , Barbara Schütt , J. Marius Zöllner

Many creative ideas are being proposed for image sensor designs, and these may be useful in applications ranging from consumer photography to computer vision. To understand and evaluate each new design, we must create a corresponding image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Haomiao Jiang , Qiyuan Tian , Joyce Farrell , Brian Wandell

For autonomous navigation and robotic applications, sensing the environment correctly is crucial. Many sensing modalities for this purpose exist. In recent years, one such modality that is being used is in-air imaging sonar. It is ideal in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Robin Kerstens , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for…

The generation and simulation of diverse real-world scenes have significant application value in the field of autonomous driving, especially for the corner cases. Recently, researchers have explored employing neural radiance fields or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Bin Xie , Yingfei Liu , Tiancai Wang , Jiale Cao , Xiangyu Zhang

Conducting real road testing for autonomous driving algorithms can be expensive and sometimes impractical, particularly for small startups and research institutes. Thus, simulation becomes an important method for evaluating these…

The need for large amounts of training and validation data is a huge concern in scaling AI algorithms for autonomous driving. Semantic Image Synthesis (SIS), or label-to-image translation, promises to address this issue by translating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 George Eskandar , Diandian Guo , Karim Guirguis , Bin Yang