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Online localization of road intersections is beneficial for autonomous vehicle localization, mapping and motion planning. Intersections offer strong landmarks for correcting vehicle pose estimation, anchoring new sensor data in up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nguyen Hoang Khoi Tran , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, which assists Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in reducing accumulated errors and achieving reliable localization. However, existing reviews…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yongjun Zhang , Pengcheng Shi , Jiayuan Li

Despite the number of works published in recent years, vehicle localization remains an open, challenging problem. While map-based localization and SLAM algorithms are getting better and better, they remain a single point of failure in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Luca Mozzarelli , Luca Cattaneo , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Multiple pedestrian tracking is crucial for enhancing safety and efficiency in intelligent transport and autonomous driving systems by predicting movements and enabling adaptive decision-making in dynamic environments. It optimizes traffic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jianjun Gao , Yi Wang , Kim-Hui Yap , Kratika Garg , Boon Siew Han

Visible light positioning (VLP) technology is a promising technique as it can provide high accuracy positioning based on the existing lighting infrastructure. However, existing approaches often require dense lighting distributions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Weipeng Guan , Patrick Yue

Most autonomous vehicles rely on accurate and efficient localization, which is achieved by comparing live sensor data to a preexisting map, to navigate their environment. Balancing the accuracy of localization with computational efficiency…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Katya M. Papais , Daniil Lisus , Cedric Le Gentil , David J. Yoon , Timothy D. Barfoot

Occluded face detection is a challenging detection task due to the large appearance variations incurred by various real-world occlusions. This paper introduces an Adversarial Occlusion-aware Face Detector (AOFD) by simultaneously detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Yujia Chen , Lingxiao Song , Ran He

Currently, visual odometry and LIDAR odometry are performing well in pose estimation in some typical environments, but they still cannot recover the localization state at high speed or reduce accumulated drifts. In order to solve these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jintao Cheng , Bohuan Xue , Shiyang Chen , Qiuchi Xiang , Xiaoyu Tang

As the popularity of on-orbit operations grows, so does the need for precise navigation around unknown resident space objects (RSOs) such as other spacecraft, orbital debris, and asteroids. The use of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Eric J. Elias , Michael Esswein , Jonathan P. How , David W. Miller

Compared to the onboard camera and laser scanner, radar sensor provides lighting and weather invariant sensing, which is naturally suitable for long-term localization under adverse conditions. However, radar data is sparse and noisy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Huan Yin , Runjian Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

This paper presents a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data set that targets complex urban environments. Urban environments with high-rise buildings and congested traffic pose a significant challenge for many robotics applications. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Jinyong Jeong , Younggun Cho , Young-Sik Shin , Hyunchul Roh , Ayoung Kim

Lane detection for autonomous driving in snow-covered environments remains a major challenge due to the frequent absence or occlusion of lane markings. In this paper, we present a novel, robust and realtime capable approach that bypasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jörg Gamerdinger , Benedict Wetzel , Patrick Schulz , Sven Teufel , Oliver Bringmann

Indoor localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Dennis Melamed , Karnik Ram , Vivek Roy , Kris Kitani

Accurate, robust, and real-time LiDAR-based odometry (LO) is imperative for many applications like robot navigation, globally consistent 3D scene map reconstruction, or safe motion-planning. Though LiDAR sensor is known for its precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sk Aziz Ali , Djamila Aouada , Gerd Reis , Didier Stricker

Safe motion planning in robotics requires planning into space which has been verified to be free of obstacles. However, obtaining such environment representations using lidars is challenging by virtue of the sparsity of their depth…

LIDAR sensors are usually used to provide autonomous vehicles with 3D representations of their environment. In ideal conditions, geometrical models could detect the road in LIDAR scans, at the cost of a manual tuning of numerical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Edouard Capellier , Franck Davoine , Veronique Cherfaoui , You Li

Freespace detection is an essential component of autonomous driving technology and plays an important role in trajectory planning. In the last decade, deep learning-based free space detection methods have been proved feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chen Min , Weizhong Jiang , Dawei Zhao , Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Although deep-learning based methods for monocular pedestrian detection have made great progress, they are still vulnerable to heavy occlusions. Using multi-view information fusion is a potential solution but has limited applications, due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Rui Qiu , Ming Xu , Yuyao Yan , Jeremy S. Smith , Xi Yang

Intersection scenarios provide the most complex traffic situations in Autonomous Driving and Driving Assistance Systems. Knowing where to stop in advance in an intersection is an essential parameter in controlling the longitudinal velocity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Runsheng Xu , Faezeh Tafazzoli , Li Zhang , Timo Rehfeld , Gunther Krehl , Arunava Seal

Laser triangulation sensors are widely used in industry for surface inspection due to simple setup, micron precision and low cost. Conventional laser triangulation methods only enable axial distance measurement limiting further…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-02 Hao Zhang , Shiji Wang