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Accurately measuring street dimensions is essential to evaluating how their design influences both travel behavior and safety. However, gathering street-level information at city scale with precision is difficult given the quantity and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-28 Marcel Moran , Arunav Gupta , Jiali Qian , Debra Laefer

Lane detection algorithms are crucial for the development of autonomous vehicles technologies. The more extended approach is to use cameras as sensors. However, LIDAR sensors can cope with weather and light conditions that cameras can not.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Novel Certad , Walter Morales-Alvarez , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

On-road air pollution exhibits substantial variability over short distances due to emission sources, dilution, and physicochemical processes. Integrating mobile monitoring data with street view images (SVIs) holds promise for predicting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Hui Zhong , Di Chen , Pengqin Wang , Wenrui Wang , Shaojie Shen , Yonghong Liu , Meixin Zhu

Object extraction from remote sensing images has long been an intensive research topic in the field of surveying and mapping. Most existing methods are devoted to handling just one type of object and little attention has been paid to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Zhongbin Li , Wenzhong Shi , Qunming Wang , Zelang Miao

Cities are structured by roads. Having up to date and detailed maps of these is thus an important challenge for urban planing, civil engineering and transportation. Those maps are traditionally created manually, which represents a massive…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Remi Cura , Julien Perret , Nicolas Paparoditis

Creating high definition maps that contain precise information of static elements of the scene is of utmost importance for enabling self driving cars to drive safely. In this paper, we tackle the problem of drivable road boundary extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Justin Liang , Namdar Homayounfar , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

The improvements in spectral and spatial resolution of the satellite images have facilitated the automatic extraction and identification of the features from satellite images and aerial photographs. An automatic object extraction method is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-26 S. K. Katiyar , P. V. Arun

Transportation networks serve as windows into the complex world of urban systems. By properly characterizing a road network, we can therefore better understand its encompassing urban system. This study offers a geometrical approach towards…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-07-15 Farideddin Peiravian , Sybil Derrible

An efficient algorithm is required to extract moving objects (asteroids, satellites, and space debris) from enormous data with advances in observational instruments. We have developed an algorithm, tracee, to swiftly detect points aligned…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-29 Ryou Ohsawa

In this paper, we introduce and test our algorithm to create a road network representation for city-scale active transportation simulation models. The algorithm relies on open and universal data to ensure applicability for different cities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-10-14 Afshin Jafari , Alan Both , Dhirendra Singh , Lucy Gunn , Billie Giles-Corti

Autonomous driving requires accurate local scene understanding information. To this end, autonomous agents deploy object detection and online BEV lane graph extraction methods as a part of their perception stack. In this work, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Yigit Baran Can , Alexander Liniger , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Routing optimization is a relevant problem in many contexts. Solving directly this type of optimization problem is often computationally unfeasible. Recent studies suggest that one can instead turn this problem into one of solving a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-11 Diego Baptista , Daniela Leite , Enrico Facca , Mario Putti , Caterina De Bacco

The rapid urbanization and increasing traffic have serious social, economic, and environmental impact on metropolitan areas worldwide. It is of a great importance to understand the complex interplay of road networks and traffic conditions.…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Weizi Li , Meilei Jiang , Yaoyu Chen , Ming C. Lin

Road network and building footprint extraction is essential for many applications such as updating maps, traffic regulations, city planning, ride-hailing, disaster response \textit{etc}. Mapping road networks is currently both expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 An Tran , Ali Zonoozi , Jagannadan Varadarajan , Hannes Kruppa

We propose a new approach, named PolyMapper, to circumvent the conventional pixel-wise segmentation of (aerial) images and predict objects in a vector representation directly. PolyMapper directly extracts the topological map of a city from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Zuoyue Li , Jan Dirk Wegner , Aurélien Lucchi

The accurate and automatic extraction of roads from satellite imagery is critical for applications in navigation and urban planning, significantly reducing the need for manual annotation. Many existing methods decompose this task into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhengyang Wei , Renzhi Jing , Yiyi He , Jenny Suckale

In the 21st century, Aerial and satellite images are information rich. They are also complex to analyze. For GIS systems, many features require fast and reliable extraction of open space area from high resolution satellite imagery. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-03 B. G. Kodge , P. S. Hiremath

One essential feature of an autonomous train is minimizing collision risks with third-party objects. To estimate the risk, the control system must identify topological information of all the rail routes ahead on which the train can possibly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jungwon Kang , Mohammadjavad Ghorbanalivakili , Gunho Sohn , David Beach , Veronica Marin

In autonomous driving applications, accurate and efficient road surface reconstruction is paramount. This paper introduces RoMe, a novel framework designed for the robust reconstruction of large-scale road surfaces. Leveraging a unique mesh…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Ruohong Mei , Wei Sui , Jiaxin Zhang , Xue Qin , Gang Wang , Tao Peng , Cong Yang

Getting precise aspects of road through segmentation from remote sensing imagery is useful for many real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, urban development and planning, and achieving sustainable development goals. Roads are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Javed Iqbal , Aliza Masood , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali