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In the field of autonomous driving, sensor simulation is essential for generating rare and diverse scenarios that are difficult to capture in real-world environments. Current solutions fall into two categories: 1) CG-based methods, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zhengqing Chen , Ruohong Mei , Xiaoyang Guo , Qingjie Wang , Yubin Hu , Wei Yin , Weiqiang Ren , Qian Zhang

LiDAR sensors are a key modality for 3D perception, yet they are typically designed independently of downstream tasks such as point cloud registration. Conventional registration operates on pre-acquired datasets with fixed LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Siddhant Katyan , Marc-André Gardner , Jean-François Lalonde

Virtual testing is a crucial task to ensure safety in autonomous driving, and sensor simulation is an important task in this domain. Most current LiDAR simulations are very simplistic and are mainly used to perform initial tests, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Richard Marcus , Niklas Knoop , Bernhard Egger , Marc Stamminger

Autonomous driving relies on a huge volume of real-world data to be labeled to high precision. Alternative solutions seek to exploit driving simulators that can generate large amounts of labeled data with a plethora of content variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 David Acuna , Jonah Philion , Sanja Fidler

The validation of LiDAR-based perception of intelligent mobile systems operating in open-world applications remains a challenge due to the variability of real environmental conditions. Virtual simulations allow the generation of arbitrary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Hubert Padusinski , Christian Steinhauser , Christian Scherl , Julian Gaal , Jacob Langner

Over the past few years, there has been remarkable progress in research on 3D point clouds and their use in autonomous driving scenarios has become widespread. However, deep learning methods heavily rely on annotated data and often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Jingjing Zhao , Chenming Wu , Chulin Tang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Liangjun Zhang

This paper presents a simulation workflow for generating synthetic LiDAR datasets to support autonomous vehicle perception, robotics research, and sensor security analysis. Leveraging the CoppeliaSim simulation environment and its Python…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Abhishek Phadke , Shakib Mahmud Dipto , Pratip Rana

Labeling LiDAR point clouds for training autonomous driving is extremely expensive and difficult. LiDAR simulation aims at generating realistic LiDAR data with labels for training and verifying self-driving algorithms more efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Junge Zhang , Feihu Zhang , Shaochen Kuang , Li Zhang

To train a well performing neural network for semantic segmentation, it is crucial to have a large dataset with available ground truth for the network to generalize on unseen data. In this paper we present novel point cloud augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Frederik Hasecke , Martin Alsfasser , Anton Kummert

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

Recently, LiDAR segmentation methods for autonomous vehicles, powered by deep neural networks, have experienced steep growth in performance on classic benchmarks, such as nuScenes and SemanticKITTI. However, there are still large gaps in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Marc Uecker , J. Marius Zöllner

In industrial automation, radar is a critical sensor in machine perception. However, the angular resolution of radar is inherently limited by the Rayleigh criterion, which depends on both the radar's operating wavelength and the effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanlong Yang , Jianan Liu , Guanxiong Luo , Hao Li , Euijoon Ahn , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Tao Huang

We present INDOOR-LIDAR, a comprehensive hybrid dataset of indoor 3D LiDAR point clouds designed to advance research in robot perception. Existing indoor LiDAR datasets often suffer from limited scale, inconsistent annotation formats, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

Existing deep learning-based object detection models perform well under daytime conditions but face significant challenges at night, primarily because they are predominantly trained on daytime images. Additionally, training with nighttime…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yunxiang Yang , Hao Zhen , Yongcan Huang , Jidong J. Yang

Sensor fusion is crucial for a performant and robust Perception system in autonomous vehicles, but sensor staleness, where data from different sensors arrives with varying delays, poses significant challenges. Temporal misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Meng Fan , Yifan Zuo , Patrick Blaes , Harley Montgomery , Subhasis Das

Cameras and LiDARs are both important sensors for autonomous driving, playing critical roles in 3D object detection. Camera-LiDAR Fusion has been a prevalent solution for robust and accurate driving perception. In contrast to the vast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ye Li , Hanjiang Hu , Zuxin Liu , Xiaohao Xu , Xiaonan Huang , Ding Zhao

We propose a methodology for lidar super-resolution with ground vehicles driving on roadways, which relies completely on a driving simulator to enhance, via deep learning, the apparent resolution of a physical lidar. To increase the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tixiao Shan , Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

In Autonomous Driving (AD), detection and tracking of obstacles on the roads is a critical task. Deep-learning based methods using annotated LiDAR data have been the most widely adopted approach for this. Unfortunately, annotating 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Feilong Yan , Tongtong Zhao , Feihu Zhang , Yu Ma , Liang Wang , Ruigang Yang

Recent work has focused on generating synthetic imagery to increase the size and variability of training data for learning visual tasks in urban scenes. This includes increasing the occurrence of occlusions or varying environmental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Rigorous testing of autonomous robots, such as self-driving vehicles, is essential to ensure their safety in real-world deployments. This requires building high-fidelity simulators to test scenarios beyond those that can be safely or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Haithem Turki , Qi Wu , Xin Kang , Janick Martinez Esturo , Shengyu Huang , Ruilong Li , Zan Gojcic , Riccardo de Lutio