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In GPS-denied scenarios, a robust environmental perception and localization system becomes crucial for autonomous driving. In this paper, a LiDAR-based online localization system is developed, incorporating road marking detection and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yansong Gong , Xinglian Zhang , Jingyi Feng , Xiao He , Dan Zhang

LiDAR panoptic segmentation is a newly proposed technical task for autonomous driving. In contrast to popular end-to-end deep learning solutions, we propose a hybrid method with an existing semantic segmentation network to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yiming Zhao , Xiao Zhang , Xinming Huang

Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yi Chen , Tianchen Deng , Wentao Zhao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Current traditional methods for LiDAR-camera extrinsics estimation depend on offline targets and human efforts, while learning-based approaches resort to iterative refinement for calibration results, posing constraints on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shuang Xu , Sifan Zhou , Zhi Tian , Jizhou Ma , Qiong Nie , Xiangxiang Chu

Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

This letter proposes an extrinsic calibration approach for a pair of monocular camera and prism-spinning solid-state LiDAR. The unique characteristics of the point cloud measured resulting from the flower-like scanning pattern is first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jiahui Liu , Xingqun Zhan , Cheng Chi , Xin Zhang , Chuanrun Zhai

Achieving safe and reliable autonomous driving relies greatly on the ability to achieve an accurate and robust perception system; however, this cannot be fully realized without precisely calibrated sensors. Environmental and operational…

Accurate LiDAR-Camera (LC) calibration is challenging but crucial for autonomous systems and robotics. In this paper, we propose two single-shot and target-less algorithms to estimate the calibration parameters between LiDAR and camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

With the increasing adoption of vision-language models (VLMs) in critical decision-making systems such as healthcare or autonomous driving, the calibration of their uncertainty estimates becomes paramount. Yet, this dimension has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Leo Fillioux , Omprakash Chakraborty , Ismail Ben Ayed , Paul-Henry Cournède , Stergios Christodoulidis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Jose Dolz

For autonomous vehicles, an accurate calibration for LiDAR and camera is a prerequisite for multi-sensor perception systems. However, existing calibration techniques require either a complicated setting with various calibration targets, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Tao Ma , Zhizheng Liu , Guohang Yan , Yikang Li

Accurate LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for multi-sensor systems. However, traditional methods often rely on physical targets, which are impractical for real-world deployment. Moreover, even carefully calibrated extrinsics can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haebeom Jung , Namtae Kim , Jungwoo Kim , Jaesik Park

In a multi-sensor fusion system composed of cameras and LiDAR, precise extrinsic calibration contributes to the system's long-term stability and accurate perception of the environment. However, methods based on extracting and registering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Tianle Zeng , Dengke He , Feifan Yan , Meixi He

This paper presents DeepI2P: a novel approach for cross-modality registration between an image and a point cloud. Given an image (e.g. from a rgb-camera) and a general point cloud (e.g. from a 3D Lidar scanner) captured at different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Jiaxin Li , Gim Hee Lee

We propose a semantic similarity metric for image registration. Existing metrics like Euclidean Distance or Normalized Cross-Correlation focus on aligning intensity values, giving difficulties with low intensity contrast or noise. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Steffen Czolbe , Oswin Krause , Aasa Feragen

Remote sensing image change captioning (RSICC) aims to articulate the changes in objects of interest within bi-temporal remote sensing images using natural language. Given the limitations of current RSICC methods in expressing general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yongshuo Zhu , Lu Li , Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Fugen Zhou , Zhenwei Shi

With information from multiple input modalities, sensor fusion-based algorithms usually out-perform their single-modality counterparts in robotics. Camera and LIDAR, with complementary semantic and depth information, are the typical choices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Akio Kodaira , Yiyang Zhou , Pengwei Zang , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Accurate extrinsic calibration between LiDAR and camera sensors is important for reliable perception in autonomous systems. In this paper, we present a novel multi-objective optimization framework that jointly minimizes the geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Venkat Karramreddy , Rangarajan Ramanujam

Temporal semantic scene understanding is critical for self-driving cars or robots operating in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation to assign a semantic class and a temporally-consistent instance ID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Mehmet Aygün , Aljoša Ošep , Mark Weber , Maxim Maximov , Cyrill Stachniss , Jens Behley , Laura Leal-Taixé

The need for fine-grained perception in autonomous driving systems has resulted in recently increased research on online semantic segmentation of single-scan LiDAR. Despite the emerging datasets and technological advancements, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yang Zhang , Zixiang Zhou , Philip David , Xiangyu Yue , Zerong Xi , Boqing Gong , Hassan Foroosh