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Autonomous navigation at high speeds in off-road environments necessitates robots to comprehensively understand their surroundings using onboard sensing only. The extreme conditions posed by the off-road setting can cause degraded camera…

Understanding the surrounding environment is fundamental in autonomous driving and robotic perception. Distinguishing between known classes and previously unseen objects is crucial in real-world environments, as done in Anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Alberto Pretto

Low-latency intelligent systems are required for autonomous driving on non-uniform terrain in open-pit mines and developing countries. This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles on unpaved roads and off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Driveable area detection is a key component for various applications in the field of autonomous driving (AD), such as ground-plane detection, obstacle detection and maneuver planning. Additionally, bulky and over-parameterized networks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Alexander Frickenstein , Manoj Rohit Vemparala , Jakob Mayr , Naveen Shankar Nagaraja , Christian Unger , Federico Tombari , Walter Stechele

Lane mark detection is an important element in the road scene analysis for Advanced Driver Assistant System (ADAS). Limited by the onboard computing power, it is still a challenge to reduce system complexity and maintain high accuracy at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Ping-Rong Chen , Shao-Yuan Lo , Hsueh-Ming Hang , Sheng-Wei Chan , Jing-Jhih Lin

Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lingdong Kong , Xiang Xu , Jiawei Ren , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Wei Tsang Ooi , Ziwei Liu

Traffic volume data collection is a crucial aspect of transportation engineering and urban planning, as it provides vital insights into traffic patterns, congestion, and infrastructure efficiency. Traditional manual methods of traffic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Linlin Zhang , Xiang Yu , Armstrong Aboah , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

In this paper, we developed the solution of roadside LiDAR object detection using a combination of two unsupervised learning algorithms. The 3D point clouds are firstly converted into spherical coordinates and filled into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianya Zhang , Peter J. Jin

Dense 3D reconstruction has many applications in automated driving including automated annotation validation, multimodal data augmentation, providing ground truth annotations for systems lacking LiDAR, as well as enhancing auto-labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Lidar has become an essential sensor for autonomous driving as it provides reliable depth estimation. Lidar is also the primary sensor used in building 3D maps which can be used even in the case of low-cost systems which do not use Lidar.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 B Ravi Kiran , Luis Roldão , Benat Irastorza , Renzo Verastegui , Sebastian Suss , Senthil Yogamani , Victor Talpaert , Alexandre Lepoutre , Guillaume Trehard

Unstructured environments are difficult for autonomous driving. This is because various unknown obstacles are lied in drivable space without lanes, and its width and curvature change widely. In such complex environments, searching for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Joonwoo Ahn , Minsoo Kim , Jaeheung Park

Autonomous driving requires a detailed understanding of complex driving scenes. The redundancy and complementarity of the vehicle's sensors provide an accurate and robust comprehension of the environment, thereby increasing the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arthur Ouaknine

Traversing terrain with good traction is crucial for achieving fast off-road navigation. Instead of manually designing costs based on terrain features, existing methods learn terrain properties directly from data via self-supervision to…

Segmenting or detecting objects in sparse Lidar point clouds are two important tasks in autonomous driving to allow a vehicle to act safely in its 3D environment. The best performing methods in 3D semantic segmentation or object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Corentin Sautier , Gilles Puy , Spyros Gidaris , Alexandre Boulch , Andrei Bursuc , Renaud Marlet

To assure that an autonomous car is driving safely on public roads, its object detection module should not only work correctly, but show its prediction confidence as well. Previous object detectors driven by deep learning do not explicitly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Di Feng , Lars Rosenbaum , Klaus Dietmayer

Estimating the traversability of terrain should be reliable and accurate in diverse conditions for autonomous driving in off-road environments. However, learning-based approaches often yield unreliable results when confronted with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Junwon Seo , Sungdae Sim , Inwook Shim

Understanding terrain topology at long-range is crucial for the success of off-road robotic missions, especially when navigating at high-speeds. LiDAR sensors, which are currently heavily relied upon for geometric mapping, provide sparse…

High-definition (HD) maps offer extensive and accurate environmental information about the driving scene, making them a crucial and essential element for planning within autonomous driving systems. To avoid extensive efforts from manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Michael Hubbertz , Pascal Colling , Qi Han , Tobias Meisen

Even though many existing 3D object detection algorithms rely mostly on camera and LiDAR, camera and LiDAR are prone to be affected by harsh weather and lighting conditions. On the other hand, radar is resistant to such conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Seungjun Lee