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Detection of the drivable area in all conditions is crucial for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. However, the amount of labeled data in adverse driving conditions is limited, especially in winter, and supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Eerik Alamikkotervo , Risto Ojala , Alvari Seppänen , Kari Tammi

Estimating building footprint maps from geospatial data is of paramount importance in urban planning, development, disaster management, and various other applications. Deep learning methodologies have gained prominence in building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Anuja Vats , David Völgyes , Martijn Vermeer , Marius Pedersen , Kiran Raja , Daniele S. M. Fantin , Jacob Alexander Hay

Navigating off-road with a fast autonomous vehicle depends on a robust perception system that differentiates traversable from non-traversable terrain. Typically, this depends on a semantic understanding which is based on supervised learning…

Traversability estimation for mobile robots in off-road environments requires more than conventional semantic segmentation used in constrained environments like on-road conditions. Recently, approaches to learning a traversability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jihwan Bae , Junwon Seo , Taekyung Kim , Hae-gon Jeon , Kiho Kwak , Inwook Shim

It has been well recognized that detecting drivable area is central to self-driving cars. Most of existing methods attempt to locate road surface by using lane line, thereby restricting to drivable area on which have a clear lane mark. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Ziyi Liu , Siyu Yu , Xiao Wang , Nanning Zheng

This work studies semantic segmentation using 3D LiDAR data. Popular deep learning methods applied for this task require a large number of manual annotations to train the parameters. We propose a new method that makes full use of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Jilin Mei , Huijing Zhao

Reliable and accurate lane detection has been a long-standing problem in the field of autonomous driving. In recent years, many approaches have been developed that use images (or videos) as input and reason in image space. In this paper we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Min Bai , Gellert Mattyus , Namdar Homayounfar , Shenlong Wang , Shrinidhi Kowshika Lakshmikanth , Raquel Urtasun

Current 3D object detectors for autonomous driving are almost entirely trained on human-annotated data. Although of high quality, the generation of such data is laborious and costly, restricting them to a few specific locations and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yurong You , Katie Z Luo , Cheng Perng Phoo , Wei-Lun Chao , Wen Sun , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Discriminating the traversability of terrains is a crucial task for autonomous driving in off-road environments. However, it is challenging due to the diverse, ambiguous, and platform-specific nature of off-road traversability. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Hanzhang Xue , Xiaochang Hu , Rui Xie , Hao Fu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

Creating high definition maps that contain precise information of static elements of the scene is of utmost importance for enabling self driving cars to drive safely. In this paper, we tackle the problem of drivable road boundary extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Justin Liang , Namdar Homayounfar , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

For a self-driving car to operate reliably, its perceptual system must generalize to the end-user's environment -- ideally without additional annotation efforts. One potential solution is to leverage unlabeled data (e.g., unlabeled LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yurong You , Cheng Perng Phoo , Katie Z Luo , Travis Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Robust road segmentation in all road conditions is required for safe autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Supervised deep learning methods provide accurate road segmentation in the domain of their training data but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eerik Alamikkotervo , Henrik Toikka , Kari Tammi , Risto Ojala

In this paper, we describe a strategy for training neural networks for object detection in range images obtained from one type of LiDAR sensor using labeled data from a different type of LiDAR sensor. Additionally, an efficient model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Manuel Herzog , Klaus Dietmayer

To operate safely, autonomous vehicles (AVs) need to detect and handle unexpected objects or anomalies on the road. While significant research exists for anomaly detection and segmentation in 2D, research progress in 3D is underexplored.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Alexey Nekrasov , Malcolm Burdorf , Stewart Worrall , Bastian Leibe , Julie Stephany Berrio Perez

We present OffRoadTranSeg, the first end-to-end framework for semi-supervised segmentation in unstructured outdoor environment using transformers and automatic data selection for labelling. The offroad segmentation is a scene understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Anukriti Singh , Kartikeya Singh , P. B. Sujit

Lane detection is an essential part of the perception sub-architecture of any automated driving (AD) or advanced driver assistance system (ADAS). When focusing on low-cost, large scale products for automated driving, model-driven approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Thomas Michalke , Di Feng , Claudius Gläser , Fabian Timm

Deep neural networks for aerial image segmentation require large amounts of labeled data, but high-quality aerial datasets with precise annotations are scarce and costly to produce. To address this limitation, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rupert Polley , Sai Vignesh Abishek Deenadayalan , J. Marius Zöllner

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable high-level semantic reasoning for end-to-end autonomous driving, particularly in unstructured environments, existing off-road datasets suffer from language annotations that are weakly aligned with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byounggun Park , Soonmin Hwang

Off-road environments remain significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles, due to the lack of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zitong Chen , Chao Sun , Shida Nie , Chen Min , Changjiu Ning , Haoyu Li , Bo Wang

Recent advancements in deep-learning methods for object detection in point-cloud data have enabled numerous roadside applications, fostering improvements in transportation safety and management. However, the intricate nature of point-cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Muhammad Shahbaz , Shaurya Agarwal