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One of the primary objectives of satellite remote sensing is to capture the complex dynamics of the Earth environment, which encompasses tasks such as reconstructing continuous cloud-free image sequences, detecting land cover changes, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuxiang Zhang , Shunlin Liang , Wenyuan Li , Han Ma , Jianglei Xu , Yichuan Ma , Jiangwei Xie , Wei Li , Mengmeng Zhang , Ran Tao , Xiang-Gen Xia

High-level autonomous operations depend on a robot's ability to construct a sufficiently expressive model of its environment. Traditional three-dimensional (3D) scene representations, such as point clouds and occupancy grids, provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Chad R Samuelson , Timothy W McLain , Joshua G Mangelson

In this work we propose a software platform for the collection, visualization, management and analysis of heterogeneous and multisource data for soil characteristics estimation. The platform is designed in such a way that it can easily…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Flavio Piccoli , Simone Locatelli , Paolo Napoletano , Raimondo Schettini

The challenge of traversability estimation is a crucial aspect of autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments such as forests. It involves determining whether certain areas are passable or risky for robots, taking into…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Fetullah Atas , Grzegorz Cielniak , Lars Grimstad

In a point cloud sequence, 3D object tracking aims to predict the location and orientation of an object in the current search point cloud given a template point cloud. Motivated by the success of transformers, we propose Point Tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Changqing Zhou , Zhipeng Luo , Yueru Luo , Tianrui Liu , Liang Pan , Zhongang Cai , Haiyu Zhao , Shijian Lu

In this work, we propose a novel technique to generate shapes from point cloud data. A point cloud can be viewed as samples from a distribution of 3D points whose density is concentrated near the surface of the shape. Point cloud generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ruojin Cai , Guandao Yang , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Zekun Hao , Serge Belongie , Noah Snavely , Bharath Hariharan

Ground texture based localization methods are potential prospects for low-cost, high-accuracy self-localization solutions for robots. These methods estimate the pose of a given query image, i.e. the current observation of the ground from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Raaghav Radhakrishnan , Jan Fabian Schmid , Randolf Scholz , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

In this paper, we provide an early look at our model for generating terrain that is occluded in the initial lidar scan or out of range of the sensor. As a proof of concept, we show that a transformer based framework is able to be overfit to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Alec Reed , Christoffer Heckman

Procedural terrain generation for video games has been traditionally been done with smartly designed but handcrafted algorithms that generate heightmaps. We propose a first step toward the learning and synthesis of these using recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-07-12 Christopher Beckham , Christopher Pal

This paper considers outdoor terrain mapping using RGB images obtained from an aerial vehicle. While feature-based localization and mapping techniques deliver real-time vehicle odometry and sparse keypoint depth reconstruction, a dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Qiaojun Feng , Nikolay Atanasov

Understanding the temporal dynamics of Earth's surface is a mission of multi-temporal remote sensing image analysis, significantly promoted by deep vision models with its fuel -- labeled multi-temporal images. However, collecting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Zhuo Zheng , Shiqi Tian , Ailong Ma , Liangpei Zhang , Yanfei Zhong

Cloud removal is an essential task in remote sensing data analysis. As the image sensors are distant from the earth ground, it is likely that part of the area of interests is covered by cloud. Moreover, the atmosphere in between creates a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yi Guo , Feng Li , Zhuo Wang

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to revolutionize transportation by improving efficiency and safety. Their success relies on 3D vision systems that effectively sense the environment and detect traffic agents. Among sensors AVs use to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Amirhesam Aghanouri , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

Point cloud data from 3D LiDAR sensors are one of the most crucial sensor modalities for versatile safety-critical applications such as self-driving vehicles. Since the annotations of point cloud data is an expensive and time-consuming…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Khaled Saleh , Ahmed Abobakr , Mohammed Attia , Julie Iskander , Darius Nahavandi , Mohammed Hossny

We present a terrain traversability mapping and navigation system (TNS) for autonomous excavator applications in an unstructured environment. We use an efficient approach to extract terrain features from RGB images and 3D point clouds and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Tianrui Guan , Zhenpeng He , Ruitao Song , Dinesh Manocha , Liangjun Zhang

Virtual Reality (VR) enabled applications are becoming very important to visualize the terrain features in 3D. In general 3D datasets generated from high-resolution satellites and DEM occupy large volumes of data. However, lightweight…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 K. Seshadri , M. Naresh Kumar

Remote sensing image generation provides a reliable data foundation for remote sensing large models and downstream tasks. However, existing controllable remote sensing image generation methods typically rely on traditional techniques such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zuopeng Zhao , Ying Liu , Kanyaphakphachsorn Pharksuwan , Su Luo , Xiaoyu Li , Maocai Ning

Point-cloud data acquired using a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) play an important role in digital forestry research. Multiple scans are generally used to overcome occlusion effects and obtain complete tree structural information. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Xiuxian Xu , Pei Wang , Xiaozheng Gan , Yaxin Li , Li Zhang , Qing Zhang , Mei Zhou , Yinghui Zhao , Xinwei Li

Change detection, as an important and widely applied technique in the field of remote sensing, aims to analyze changes in surface areas over time and has broad applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zihan Yu , Tianxiao Li , Yuxin Zhu , Rongze Pan

In terrain mapping, there are so many ways to measure and estimate the terrain measurements like contouring, vertical profiling, hill shading, hypsometric tinting, perspective view, etc. Here in this paper we are using the contouring…

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