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We present a system for estimating the friction of the pavement surface at any curved road section, by arriving at a consensus estimate, based on data from vehicles that have recently passed through that section. This estimate can help…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-08 Jens-Patrick Langstand , Maben Rabi

We propose a statistical learning-based traffic speed estimation method that uses sparse vehicle trajectory information. Using a convolutional encoder-decoder based architecture, we show that a well trained neural network can learn…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-15 Ouafa Benkraouda , Bilal Thonnam Thodi , Hwasoo Yeo , Monica Menendez , Saif Eddin Jabari

We present a method for determining surface flows from solar images based upon optical flow techniques. We apply the method to sets of images obtained by a variety of solar imagers to assess its performance. The {\tt opflow3d} procedure is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-02 Neal Hurlburt , Steve Jaffey

In this paper, we present a system for modelling vehicle motion in an urban scene from low frame-rate aerial video. In particular, the scene is modelled as a probability distribution over velocities at every pixel in the image. We describe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Edward Rosten , Rohan Loveland , Mark Hickman

The FlowNet demonstrated that optical flow estimation can be cast as a learning problem. However, the state of the art with regard to the quality of the flow has still been defined by traditional methods. Particularly on small displacements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Eddy Ilg , Nikolaus Mayer , Tonmoy Saikia , Margret Keuper , Alexey Dosovitskiy , Thomas Brox

Freespace detection is an essential component of autonomous driving technology and plays an important role in trajectory planning. In the last decade, deep learning-based free space detection methods have been proved feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chen Min , Weizhong Jiang , Dawei Zhao , Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Optical flow estimation is a well-studied topic for automated driving applications. Many outstanding optical flow estimation methods have been proposed, but they become erroneous when tested in challenging scenarios that are commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Senthil Yogamani

There is a Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method of incorporating the DNN inference to reduce the computational cost. The reduction is realized by replacing some calculations by DNN inference. The cost reduction depends on the…

Optical flow estimation is a basic task in self-driving and robotics systems, which enables to temporally interpret traffic scenes. Autonomous vehicles clearly benefit from the ultra-wide Field of View (FoV) offered by 360{\deg} panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Hao Shi , Yifan Zhou , Kailun Yang , Xiaoting Yin , Ze Wang , Yaozu Ye , Zhe Yin , Shi Meng , Peng Li , Kaiwei Wang

Obstacle Detection is a central problem for any robotic system, and critical for autonomous systems that travel at high speeds in unpredictable environment. This is often achieved through scene depth estimation, by various means. When fast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Michele Mancini , Gabriele Costante , Paolo Valigi , Thomas A. Ciarfuglia

This paper tackles the task of estimating the topology of road networks from aerial images. Building on top of a global model that performs a dense semantical classification of the pixels of the image, we design a Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Carles Ventura , Jordi Pont-Tuset , Sergi Caelles , Kevis-Kokitsi Maninis , Luc Van Gool

The novel concept of near-field velocity sensing is proposed. In contrast to far-field velocity sensing, near-field velocity sensing enables the simultaneous estimation of both radial and transverse velocities of a moving target. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

We present an approach to automatically generate semantic labels for real recordings of automotive range-Doppler (RD) radar spectra. Such labels are required when training a neural network for object recognition from radar data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Christopher Grimm , Tai Fei , Ernst Warsitz , Ridha Farhoud , Tobias Breddermann , Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

Accurate speed estimation of road vehicles is important for several reasons. One is speed limit enforcement, which represents a crucial tool in decreasing traffic accidents and fatalities. Compared with other research areas and domains, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Slobodan Djukanović , Nikola Bulatović , Ivana Čavor

We study the problem of self-supervised 3D scene flow estimation from real large-scale raw point cloud sequences, which is crucial to various tasks like trajectory prediction or instance segmentation. In the absence of ground truth scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Patrik Vacek , David Hurych , Tomáš Svoboda , Karel Zimmermann

We propose a traffic danger recognition model that works with arbitrary traffic surveillance cameras to identify and predict car crashes. There are too many cameras to monitor manually. Therefore, we developed a model to predict and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Lijun Yu , Dawei Zhang , Xiangqun Chen , Alexander Hauptmann

This paper addresses the nonparametric estimation of the drift function over a compact domain for a time-homogeneous diffusion process, based on high-frequency discrete observations from $N$ independent trajectories. We propose a neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-01 Yuzhen Zhao , Yating Liu , Marc Hoffmann

Fundamental diagrams describe the relationship between speed, flow, and density for some roadway (or set of roadway) configuration(s). These diagrams typically do not reflect, however, information on how speed-flow relationships change as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 James Koch , Thomas Maxner , Vinay Amatya , Andisheh Ranjbari , Chase Dowling

Freespace detection is a fundamental component of autonomous driving perception. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved impressive performance for this task. In particular, SNE-RoadSeg, our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Hengli Wang , Rui Fan , Peide Cai , Ming Liu

Estimation of unsteady flow fields around flight vehicles may improve flow interactions and lead to enhanced vehicle performance. Although flow-field representations can be very high-dimensional, their dynamics can have low-order…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-03-23 John Graff , Albert Medina , Francis Lagor