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Point cloud processing as a fundamental task in the field of geomatics and computer vision, has been supporting tasks and applications at different scales from air to ground, including mapping, environmental monitoring, urban/tree structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Zhenxin Zhang , Zhihua Xu , Yuwei Cao , Ningli Xu , Shuye Wang , Shen'ao Cui , Zhen Li , Rongjun Qin

Processing point clouds using deep neural networks is still a challenging task. Most existing models focus on object detection and registration with deep neural networks using point clouds. In this paper, we propose a deep model that learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Farzan Erlik Nowruzi , Dhanvin Kolhatkar , Prince Kapoor , Robert Laganiere

This paper presents an analysis of utilizing elevation data to aid outdoor point cloud semantic segmentation through existing machine-learning networks in remote sensing, specifically in urban, built-up areas. In dense outdoor point clouds,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Kevin Qiu , Dimitri Bulatov , Dorota Iwaszczuk

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

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Advances in precision agriculture greatly rely on innovative control and sensing technologies that allow service units to increase their level of driving automation while ensuring at the same time high safety standards. This paper deals…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Giulio Reina , Annalisa Milella , Rocco Galati

We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery. RadarGen adapts efficient image-latent diffusion to the radar domain by representing radar measurements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tomer Borreda , Fangqiang Ding , Sanja Fidler , Shengyu Huang , Or Litany

Since NASA put forward the concept of the digital twin in 2010, many industries have put forward the dynamic goal of digital development, and the transportation industry is also among them. With more and more companies laying out on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhanyuan Tian , Tianrui Zhu , Zerui Tian , Zhen Dong

This study explores the use of a digital twin model and deep learning method to build a global terrain and altitude map based on USGS information. The goal is to artistically represent various landforms while incorporating precise elevation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-25 Mohsen Ahmadi , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Mohammadsadegh Nouri , Amir Sharifzadeh Javidi , Ali Tarlani Beris , Abbas Sharifi , Ali Salimi-Tarazouj

Remote Sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc. While artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Aoran Xiao , Weihao Xuan , Junjue Wang , Jiaxing Huang , Dacheng Tao , Shijian Lu , Naoto Yokoya

Procedural terrain generation plays a vital role in creating virtual landscapes for games, simulations, and various applications. The WaveFunctionCollapse (WFC) algorithm has proven effective in generating content by learning patterns from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Seyedparsa Dajkhosh

Existing lane-level simulation road network generation is labor-intensive, resource-demanding, and costly due to the need for large-scale data collection and manual post-editing. To overcome these limitations, we propose automatically…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Liang Xie , Wenke Huang

True Digital Orthophoto Map (TDOM), a 2D objective representation of the Earth's surface, is an essential geospatial product widely used in urban management, city planning, land surveying, and related applications. However, traditional TDOM…

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Domain adaptation is a crucial and increasingly important task in remote sensing, aiming to transfer knowledge from a source domain a differently distributed target domain. It has broad applications across various real-world applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Shuchang Lyu , Qi Zhao , Zheng Zhou , Meng Li , You Zhou , Dingding Yao , Guangliang Cheng , Huiyu Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

Digital Surface Models (DSM) offer a wealth of height information for understanding the Earth's surface as well as monitoring the existence or change in natural and man-made structures. Classical height estimation requires multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Isaac Corley , Peyman Najafirad

We present LiDARGen, a novel, effective, and controllable generative model that produces realistic LiDAR point cloud sensory readings. Our method leverages the powerful score-matching energy-based model and formulates the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Vlas Zyrianov , Xiyue Zhu , Shenlong Wang

Acquisition of data with adverse conditions in robotics is a cumbersome task due to the difficulty in guaranteeing proper ground truth and synchronising with desired weather conditions. In this paper, we present a simple method - recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Horia Porav , Valentina-Nicoleta Musat , Tom Bruls , Paul Newman

Deep neural networks have made great achievements in rainfall prediction.However, the current forecasting methods have certain limitations, such as with blurry generated images and incorrect spatial positions. To overcome these challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 XuDong Ling , ChaoRong Li , FengQing Qin , LiHong Zhu , Yuanyuan Huang

In the field of large-scale SLAM for autonomous driving and mobile robotics, 3D point cloud based place recognition has aroused significant research interest due to its robustness to changing environments with drastic daytime and weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Zhijian Qiao , Hanjiang Hu , Weiang Shi , Siyuan Chen , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Off-road environments remain significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles, due to the lack of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zitong Chen , Chao Sun , Shida Nie , Chen Min , Changjiu Ning , Haoyu Li , Bo Wang

In geology, a key activity is the characterisation of geological structures (surface formation topology and rock units) using Planar Orientation measurements such as Strike, Dip and Dip Direction. In general these measurements are collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 J. Kissi-Ameyaw , K. McIsaac , X. Wang , G. R. Osinski