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Safe and efficient path planning is crucial for autonomous mobile robots. A prerequisite for path planning is to have a comprehensive understanding of the 3D structure of the robot's environment. On MAVs this is commonly achieved using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Marius Fehr , Tim Taubner , Yang Liu , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

LiDAR has become a standard sensor for autonomous driving applications as they provide highly precise 3D point clouds. LiDAR is also robust for low-light scenarios at night-time or due to shadows where the performance of cameras is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Khaled El Madawy , Hazem Rashed , Ahmad El Sallab , Omar Nasr , Hanan Kamel , Senthil Yogamani

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Self-supervised depth estimation draws a lot of attention recently as it can promote the 3D sensing capabilities of self-driving vehicles. However, it intrinsically relies upon the photometric consistency assumption, which hardly holds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Yupeng Zheng , Chengliang Zhong , Pengfei Li , Huan-ang Gao , Yuhang Zheng , Bu Jin , Ling Wang , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao

Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

Integrating robotically driven contact-based material characterization techniques into self-driving laboratories can enhance measurement quality, reliability, and throughput. While deep learning models support robust autonomy, current…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Alexander E. Siemenn , Basita Das , Kangyu Ji , Fang Sheng , Tonio Buonassisi

Estimating the 3D position and orientation of objects in the environment with a single RGB camera is a critical and challenging task for low-cost urban autonomous driving and mobile robots. Most of the existing algorithms are based on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Yuxuan Liu , Yuan Yixuan , Ming Liu

Driven by deep learning techniques, perception technology in autonomous driving has developed rapidly in recent years, enabling vehicles to accurately detect and interpret surrounding environment for safe and efficient navigation. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Shanliang Yao , Runwei Guan , Xiaoyu Huang , Zhuoxiao Li , Xiangyu Sha , Yong Yue , Eng Gee Lim , Hyungjoon Seo , Ka Lok Man , Xiaohui Zhu , Yutao Yue

Modern driver assistance systems rely on a wide range of sensors (RADAR, LIDAR, ultrasound and cameras) for scene understanding and prediction. These sensors are typically used for detecting traffic participants and scene elements required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 JeongYeol Baek , Ioana Veronica Chelu , Livia Iordache , Vlad Paunescu , HyunJoo Ryu , Alexandru Ghiuta , Andrei Petreanu , YunSung Soh , Andrei Leica , ByeongMoon Jeon

Estimating a dense and accurate depth map is the key requirement for autonomous driving and robotics. Recent advances in deep learning have allowed depth estimation in full resolution from a single image. Despite this impressive result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sungho Yoon , Ayoung Kim

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

The ubiquitous multi-camera setup on modern autonomous vehicles provides an opportunity to construct surround-view depth. Existing methods, however, either perform independent monocular depth estimations on each camera or rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yunxiao Shi , Hong Cai , Amin Ansari , Fatih Porikli

In this work we present a novel approach for single depth map super-resolution. Modern consumer depth sensors, especially Time-of-Flight sensors, produce dense depth measurements, but are affected by noise and have a low lateral resolution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Gernot Riegler , Matthias Rüther , Horst Bischof

The goal of our work is to complete the depth channel of an RGB-D image. Commodity-grade depth cameras often fail to sense depth for shiny, bright, transparent, and distant surfaces. To address this problem, we train a deep network that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Yinda Zhang , Thomas Funkhouser

Image-based depth estimation has gained significant attention in recent research on computer vision for autonomous vehicles in intelligent transportation systems. This focus stems from its cost-effectiveness and wide range of potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Elton F. de S. Soares , Carlos Alberto V. Campos

Utilizing the complementary strengths of wavelength-specific range or depth sensors is crucial for robust computer-assisted tasks such as autonomous driving. Despite this, there is still little research done at the intersection of optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Vanessa Wirth , Johanna Bräunig , Nikolai Hofmann , Martin Vossiek , Tim Weyrich , Marc Stamminger

Advancements in imaging technology have enabled hardware to support 10 to 16 bits per channel, facilitating precise manipulation in applications like image editing and video processing. While deep neural networks promise to recover high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Xuanshuo Fu , Danna Xue , Javier Vazquez-Corral

In recent years, self-supervised methods for monocular depth estimation has rapidly become an significant branch of depth estimation task, especially for autonomous driving applications. Despite the high overall precision achieved, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Feng Xue , Guirong Zhuo , Ziyuan Huang , Wufei Fu , Zhuoyue Wu , Marcelo H. Ang