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LiDAR and Radar are two complementary sensing approaches in that LiDAR specializes in capturing an object's 3D shape while Radar provides longer detection ranges as well as velocity hints. Though seemingly natural, how to efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yingjie Wang , Jiajun Deng , Yao Li , Jinshui Hu , Cong Liu , Yu Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Wanli Ouyang , Yanyong Zhang

Point clouds are naturally sparse, while image pixels are dense. The inconsistency limits feature fusion from both modalities for point-wise scene flow estimation. Previous methods rarely predict scene flow from the entire point clouds of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chensheng Peng , Guangming Wang , Xian Wan Lo , Xinrui Wu , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Hesheng Wang

Modern autonomous vehicles rely heavily on mechanical LiDARs for perception. Current perception methods generally require 360{\deg} point clouds, collected sequentially as the LiDAR scans the azimuth and acquires consecutive wedge-shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mazen Abdelfattah , Kaiwen Yuan , Z. Jane Wang , Rabab Ward

Event cameras such as DAVIS can simultaneously output high temporal resolution events and low frame-rate intensity images, which own great potential in capturing scene motion, such as optical flow estimation. Most of the existing optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Zhexiong Wan , Yuchao Dai , Yuxin Mao

Existing LiDAR-Camera fusion methods have achieved strong results in 3D object detection. To address the sparsity of point clouds, previous approaches typically construct spatial pseudo point clouds via depth completion as auxiliary input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jijun Wang , Yan Wu , Yujian Mo , Junqiao Zhao , Jun Yan , Yinghao Hu

We propose a new multi-frame method for efficiently computing scene flow (dense depth and optical flow) and camera ego-motion for a dynamic scene observed from a moving stereo camera rig. Our technique also segments out moving objects from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Tatsunori Taniai , Sudipta N. Sinha , Yoichi Sato

This paper as technology report is focusing on evaluation and performance about depth estimations based on lidar data and stereo images(front left and front right). The lidar 3d cloud data and stereo images are provided by ford. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Wu , Luoyu Chen

Most recent diffusion-based methods still show a large gap compared to non-diffusion methods for video frame interpolation, in both accuracy and efficiency. Most of them formulate the problem as a denoising procedure in latent space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yang Hai , Guo Wang , Tan Su , Wenjie Jiang , Yinlin Hu

The complementary characteristics of active and passive depth sensing techniques motivate the fusion of the Li-DAR sensor and stereo camera for improved depth perception. Instead of directly fusing estimated depths across LiDAR and stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Tsun-Hsuan Wang , Hou-Ning Hu , Chieh Hubert Lin , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Wei-Chen Chiu , Min Sun

In contrast to current state-of-the-art methods, such as NSFP [25], which employ deep implicit neural functions for modeling scene flow, we present a novel approach that utilizes classical kernel representations. This representation enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Xueqian Li , Simon Lucey

We propose a continuous optimization method for solving dense 3D scene flow problems from stereo imagery. As in recent work, we represent the dynamic 3D scene as a collection of rigidly moving planar segments. The scene flow problem then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Zhaoyang Lv , Chris Beall , Pablo F. Alcantarilla , Fuxin Li , Zsolt Kira , Frank Dellaert

3D surface reconstruction is essential across applications of virtual reality, robotics, and mobile scanning. However, RGB-based reconstruction often fails in low-texture, low-light, and low-albedo scenes. Handheld LiDARs, now common on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young , Siddharth Somasundaram , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar

This paper presents a new Bayesian spectral unmixing algorithm to analyse remote scenes sensed via sparse multispectral Lidar measurements. To a first approximation, in the presence of a target, each Lidar waveform consists of a main peak,…

Autonomous vehicles operate in highly dynamic environments necessitating an accurate assessment of which aspects of a scene are moving and where they are moving to. A popular approach to 3D motion estimation, termed scene flow, is to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Philipp Jund , Chris Sweeney , Nichola Abdo , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens

Multimodal sensor fusion methods for 3D object detection have been revolutionizing the autonomous driving research field. Nevertheless, most of these methods heavily rely on dense LiDAR data and accurately calibrated sensors which is often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Maciej K. Wozniak , Viktor Karefjards , Marko Thiel , Patric Jensfelt

Although Structure-from-Motion (SfM) as a maturing technique has been widely used in many applications, state-of-the-art SfM algorithms are still not robust enough in certain situations. For example, images for inspection purposes are often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Weikun Zhen , Yaoyu Hu , Huai Yu , Sebastian Scherer

Deep stereo matching has made significant progress in recent years. However, state-of-the-art methods are based on expensive 4D cost volume, which limits their use in real-world applications. To address this issue, 3D correlation maps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Xiaoming Zhao , Weihai Chen , Xingming Wu , Peter C. Y. Chen , Zhengguo Li

Scene flow estimation predicts the 3D motion at each point in successive LiDAR scans. This detailed, point-level, information can help autonomous vehicles to accurately predict and understand dynamic changes in their surroundings. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Qingwen Zhang , Yi Yang , Peizheng Li , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

This paper presents a general framework to build fast and accurate algorithms for video enhancement tasks such as super-resolution, deblurring, and denoising. Essential to our framework is the realization that the accuracy, rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yu Feng , Patrick Hansen , Paul N. Whatmough , Guoyu Lu , Yuhao Zhu

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume