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Automated driving fundamentally requires knowledge about the surrounding geometry of the scene. Modern approaches use only captured images to predict occupancy maps that represent the geometry. Training these approaches requires accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jonas Kälble , Sascha Wirges , Maxim Tatarchenko , Eddy Ilg

Automotive radar provides reliable environmental perception in all-weather conditions with affordable cost, but it hardly supplies semantic and geometry information due to the sparsity of radar detection points. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jianan Liu , Weiyi Xiong , Liping Bai , Yuxuan Xia , Tao Huang , Wanli Ouyang , Bing Zhu

Autonomous driving requires a detailed understanding of complex driving scenes. The redundancy and complementarity of the vehicle's sensors provide an accurate and robust comprehension of the environment, thereby increasing the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arthur Ouaknine

Real-time parking occupancy information is valuable for guiding drivers' searching for parking spaces. Recently many parking detection systems using range-based on-vehicle sensors are invented, but they disregard the practical difficulty of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Qi Luo , Romesh Saigal , Robert Hampshire , Xinyi Wu

This paper describes a system whereby a robot detects and track human-meaningful navigational cues as it navigates in an indoor environment. It is intended as the sensor front-end for a mobile robot system that can communicate its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Payam Nikdel , Richard Vaughan

Autonomous driving requires robust perception across diverse environmental conditions, yet 3D semantic occupancy prediction remains challenging under adverse weather and lighting. In this work, we present the first study combining 4D radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 David Ninfa , Andras Palffy , Holger Caesar

Robots and autonomous vehicles should be aware of what happens in their surroundings. The segmentation and tracking of moving objects are essential for reliable path planning, including collision avoidance. We investigate this estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Occupancy prediction reconstructs 3D structures of surrounding environments. It provides detailed information for autonomous driving planning and navigation. However, most existing methods heavily rely on the LiDAR point clouds to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Chubin Zhang , Juncheng Yan , Yi Wei , Jiaxin Li , Li Liu , Yansong Tang , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu

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

Semantic scene understanding, including the perception and classification of moving agents, is essential to enabling safe and robust driving behaviours of autonomous vehicles. Cameras and LiDARs are commonly used for semantic scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Bengisu Ayan , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

We learn, in an unsupervised way, an embedding from sequences of radar images that is suitable for solving the place recognition problem with complex radar data. Our method is based on invariant instance feature learning but is tailored for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Matthew Gadd , Daniele De Martini , Paul Newman

The unique properties of radar sensors, such as their robustness to adverse weather conditions, make them an important part of the environment perception system of autonomous vehicles. One of the first steps during the processing of radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Johannes Kopp , Dominik Kellner , Aldi Piroli , Vinzenz Dallabetta , Klaus Dietmayer

Radar is a key component of the suite of perception sensors used for safe and reliable navigation of autonomous vehicles. Its unique capabilities include high-resolution velocity imaging, detection of agents in occlusion and over long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Arvind Srivastav , Soumyajit Mandal

Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

Autonomous driving is a rapidly evolving technology. Autonomous vehicles are capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human input through sensory information such as radar, lidar, GNSS, vehicle odometry, and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Yasamin Alkhorshid , Kamelia Aryafar , Sven Bauer , Gerd Wanielik

3D occupancy-based perception pipeline has significantly advanced autonomous driving by capturing detailed scene descriptions and demonstrating strong generalizability across various object categories and shapes. Current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Fangqiang Ding , Xiangyu Wen , Yunzhou Zhu , Yiming Li , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Accurately predicting 3D occupancy grids from visual inputs is critical for autonomous driving, but current discriminative methods struggle with noisy data, incomplete observations, and the complex structures inherent in 3D scenes. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yunshen Wang , Yicheng Liu , Tianyuan Yuan , Yingshi Liang , Xiuyu Yang , Honggang Zhang , Hang Zhao

In this paper, we consider the transformation of laser range measurements into a top-view grid map representation to approach the task of LiDAR-only semantic segmentation. Since the recent publication of the SemanticKITTI data set,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Frank Bieder , Sascha Wirges , Johannes Janosovits , Sven Richter , Zheyuan Wang , Christoph Stiller

Reliably predicting future occupancy of highly dynamic urban environments is an important precursor for safe autonomous navigation. Common challenges in the prediction include forecasting the relative position of other vehicles, modelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Khushdeep Singh Mann , Abhishek Tomy , Anshul Paigwar , Alessandro Renzaglia , Christian Laugier

Accurate prediction of driving scenes is essential for road safety and autonomous driving. Occupancy Grid Maps (OGMs) are commonly employed for scene prediction due to their structured spatial representation, flexibility across sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Rabbia Asghar , Wenqian Liu , Lukas Rummelhard , Anne Spalanzani , Christian Laugier