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This paper presents a tightly-coupled multi-sensor fusion algorithm termed LiDAR-inertial-camera fusion (LIC-Fusion), which efficiently fuses IMU measurements, sparse visual features, and extracted LiDAR points. In particular, the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Xingxing Zuo , Patrick Geneva , Woosik Lee , Yong Liu , Guoquan Huang

This paper proposes a depth estimation method using radar-image fusion by addressing the uncertain vertical directions of sparse radar measurements. In prior radar-image fusion work, image features are merged with the uncertain sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Masaya Kotani , Takeru Oba , Norimichi Ukita

This paper presents a novel method for detecting scene changes from a pair of images with a difference of camera viewpoints using a dense optical flow based change detection network. In the case that camera poses of input images are fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Ken Sakurada , Weimin Wang , Nobuo Kawaguchi , Ryosuke Nakamura

The light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology allows to sense surrounding objects with fine-grained resolution in a large areas. Their data (aka point clouds), generated continuously at very high rates, can provide information to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Hannaneh Najdataei , Yiannis Nikolakopoulos , Vincenzo Gulisano , Marina Papatriantafilou

The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sander Elias Magnussen Helgesen , Kazuto Nakashima , Jim Tørresen , Ryo Kurazume

The performance of image based stereo estimation suffers from lighting variations, repetitive patterns and homogeneous appearance. Moreover, to achieve good performance, stereo supervision requires sufficient densely-labeled data, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yu-Kai Huang , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

In fluid flow imaging, intensity gradients are a good measure of spatial variations in scalar properties, which play an important role in controlling transport processes. However, current flow imaging techniques exhibit system-limited…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-22 Hy Cao , Abhishek Saha , Lisa V. Poulikakos

Three-dimensional imaging plays an important role in imaging applications where it is necessary to record depth. The number of applications that use depth imaging is increasing rapidly, and examples include self-driving autonomous vehicles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Alice Ruget , Stephen McLaughlin , Robert K. Henderson , Istvan Gyongy , Abderrahim Halimi , Jonathan Leach

Optical flow estimation has achieved promising results in conventional scenes but faces challenges in high-speed and low-light scenes, which suffer from motion blur and insufficient illumination. These conditions lead to weakened texture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Haonan Wang , Hanyu Zhou , Haoyue Liu , Luxin Yan

Initializing optical flow field by either sparse descriptor matching or dense patch matches has been proved to be particularly useful for capturing large displacements. In this paper, we present a pyramidal gradient matching approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Yuanwei Li

We present a stereo-based dense mapping algorithm for large-scale dynamic urban environments. In contrast to other existing methods, we simultaneously reconstruct the static background, the moving objects, and the potentially moving but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Ioan Andrei Bârsan , Peidong Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Andreas Geiger

In this paper, we propose a method of targetless and automatic Camera-LiDAR calibration. Our approach is an extension of hand-eye calibration framework to 2D-3D calibration. By using the sensor fusion odometry method, the scaled camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Ryoichi Ishikawa , Takeshi Oishi , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Event cameras do not produce images, but rather a continuous flow of events, which encode changes of illumination for each pixel independently and asynchronously. While they output temporally rich information, they lack any depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Vincent Brebion , Julien Moreau , Franck Davoine

In this paper, we present a new self-supervised scene flow estimation approach for a pair of consecutive point clouds. The key idea of our approach is to represent discrete point clouds as continuous probability density functions using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

By enabling capturing of 3D point clouds that reflect the geometry of the immediate environment, LiDAR has emerged as a primary sensor for autonomous systems. If a LiDAR scan is too sparse, occluded by obstacles, or too small in range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

Fusion of LiDAR and RGB data has the potential to enhance outdoor 3D object detection accuracy. To address real-world challenges in outdoor 3D object detection, fusion of LiDAR and RGB input has started gaining traction. However, effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Muhammad Ibrahim , Naveed Akhtar , Haitian Wang , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian

Camera and LiDAR serve as informative sensors for accurate and robust autonomous driving systems. However, these sensors often exhibit heterogeneous natures, resulting in distributional modality gaps that present significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yiran Yang , Xu Gao , Tong Wang , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi , Xiao Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

In this paper, we explore the possibility of achieving a more accurate depth estimation by fusing monocular images and Radar points using a deep neural network. We give a comprehensive study of the fusion between RGB images and Radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Juan-Ting Lin , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Sensor fusion has become a popular topic in robotics. However, conventional fusion methods encounter many difficulties, such as data representation differences, sensor variations, and extrinsic calibration. For example, the calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Shuyi Zhou , Shuxiang Xie , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Ken Sakurada , Masaki Onishi , Takeshi Oishi