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This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

Understanding road scenes for visual perception remains crucial for intelligent self-driving cars. In particular, it is desirable to detect unexpected small road hazards reliably in real-time, especially under varying adverse conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jongoh Jeong , Taek-Jin Song , Jong-Hwan Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Implicit Neural Representations have gained prominence as a powerful framework for capturing complex data modalities, encompassing a wide range from 3D shapes to images and audio. Within the realm of 3D shape representation, Neural Signed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Amine Ouasfi , Adnane Boukhayma

A self-driving vehicle must understand its environment to determine the appropriate action. Traditional autonomy systems rely on object detection to find the agents in the scene. However, object detection assumes a discrete set of objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Sourav Biswas , Sergio Casas , Quinlan Sykora , Ben Agro , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Learning contextual and spatial environmental representations enhances autonomous vehicle's hazard anticipation and decision-making in complex scenarios. Recent perception systems enhance spatial understanding with sensor fusion but often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Shoaib Azam , Farzeen Munir , Ville Kyrki , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

Maps are a key component in image-based camera localization and visual SLAM systems: they are used to establish geometric constraints between images, correct drift in relative pose estimation, and relocalize cameras after lost tracking. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Samarth Brahmbhatt , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , James Hays , Jan Kautz

We propose the use of deep neural networks (DNN) for solving the problem of inferring the position and relevant properties of lanes of urban roads with poor or absent horizontal signalization, in order to allow the operation of autonomous…

For autonomous driving, radar sensors provide superior reliability regardless of weather conditions as well as a significantly high detection range. State-of-the-art algorithms for environment perception based on radar scans build up on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Marco Braun , Alessandro Cennamo , Markus Schoeler , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

Parking guidance systems have recently become a popular trend as a part of the smart cities' paradigm of development. The crucial part of such systems is the algorithm allowing drivers to search for available parking lots across regions of…

We present a framework for simulating realistic inverse synthetic aperture radar images of automotive targets at millimeter wave frequencies. The model incorporates radar scattering phenomenology of commonly found vehicles along with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-19 Neeraj Pandey , Shobha Sundar Ram

Radar has stronger adaptability in adverse scenarios for autonomous driving environmental perception compared to widely adopted cameras and LiDARs. Compared with commonly used 3D radars, the latest 4D radars have precise vertical resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Xinyu Zhang , Li Wang , Jian Chen , Cheng Fang , Lei Yang , Ziying Song , Guangqi Yang , Yichen Wang , Xiaofei Zhang , Jun Li , Zhiwei Li , Qingshan Yang , Zhenlin Zhang , Shuzhi Sam Ge

Place recognition is a crucial task in autonomous driving, allowing vehicles to determine their position using sensor data. While most existing methods rely on contrastive learning, we explore an alternative approach by framing place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Maksim Konoplia , Dmitrii Khizbullin

Weakly-supervised 3D occupancy perception is crucial for vision-based autonomous driving in outdoor environments. Previous methods based on NeRF often face a challenge in balancing the number of samples used. Too many samples can decrease…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Qianpu Sun , Changyong Shu , Sifan Zhou , Runxi Cheng , Yongxian Wei , Zichen Yu , Dawei Yang , Sirui Han , Yuan Chun

For high resolution scene mapping and object recognition, optical technologies such as cameras and LiDAR are the sensors of choice. However, for robust future vehicle autonomy and driver assistance in adverse weather conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Marcel Sheeny , Andrew Wallace , Sen Wang

Categorizing driving scenes via visual perception is a key technology for safe driving and the downstream tasks of autonomous vehicles. Traditional methods infer scene category by detecting scene-related objects or using a classifier that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Shaochi Hu , Hanwei Fan , Biao Gao , XijunZhao , Huijing Zhao

Deep learning and computer vision techniques have become increasingly important in the development of self-driving cars. These techniques play a crucial role in enabling self-driving cars to perceive and understand their surroundings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Kanishkha Jaisankar , Pranav M. Pawar , Diana Susane Joseph , Raja Muthalagu , Mithun Mukherjee

Occupancy mapping has been a key enabler of mobile robotics. Originally based on a discrete grid representation, occupancy mapping has evolved towards continuous representations that can predict the occupancy status at any location and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Cedric Le Gentil , Cedric Pradalier , Timothy D. Barfoot

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi

In this paper we address three different aspects of semantic segmentation from remote sensor data using deep neural networks. Firstly, we focus on the semantic segmentation of buildings from remote sensor data and propose ICT-Net. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Bodhiswatta Chatterjee , Charalambos Poullis