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Deep reinforcement learning has achieved great success in laser-based collision avoidance works because the laser can sense accurate depth information without too much redundant data, which can maintain the robustness of the algorithm when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Jianchuan Ding , Lingping Gao , Wenxi Liu , Haiyin Piao , Jia Pan , Zhenjun Du , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin

4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation is essential for scene understanding in autonomous driving and robotics, combining semantic and instance segmentation with temporal consistency. Current methods, like 4D-PLS and 4D-STOP, use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Nirit Alkalay , Roy Orfaig , Ben-Zion Bobrovsky

Point cloud datasets for perception tasks in the context of autonomous driving often rely on high resolution 64-layer Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) scanners. They are expensive to deploy on real-world autonomous driving sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leonardo Gigli , B Ravi Kiran , Thomas Paul , Andres Serna , Nagarjuna Vemuri , Beatriz Marcotegui , Santiago Velasco-Forero

Pseudo-LiDAR 3D detectors have made remarkable progress in monocular 3D detection by enhancing the capability of perceiving depth with depth estimation networks, and using LiDAR-based 3D detection architectures. The advanced stereo 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Yi-Nan Chen , Hang Dai , Yong Ding

Panoptic segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task that enables autonomous vehicles to comprehend their vicinity using their highly accurate and reliable LiDAR sensors. Existing top-down approaches tackle this problem by either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kshitij Sirohi , Rohit Mohan , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Road detection is a fundamental task in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we consider the case of monocular road detection, where images are segmented into road and non-road regions. Our starting point is the well-known machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-04 Caio César Teodoro Mendes , Vincent Frémont , Denis Fernando Wolf

In autonomous driving, the novel objects and lack of annotations challenge the traditional 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation based on deep learning. Few-shot learning is a feasible way to solve these issues. However, currently few-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilin Mei , Junbao Zhou , Yu Hu

The awareness about moving objects in the surroundings of a self-driving vehicle is essential for safe and reliable autonomous navigation. The interpretation of LiDAR and camera data achieves exceptional results but typically requires to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Matthias Zeller , Vardeep S. Sandhu , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

The introduction of light emitting diodes (LED) in automotive exterior lighting systems provides opportunities to develop viable alternatives to conventional communication and sensing technologies. Most of the advanced driver-assist and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Hisham Abuella , Farshad Miramirkhani , Sabit Ekin , Murat Uysal , Samir Ahmed

We present a weakly-supervised approach to segmenting proposed drivable paths in images with the goal of autonomous driving in complex urban environments. Using recorded routes from a data collection vehicle, our proposed method generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-20 Dan Barnes , Will Maddern , Ingmar Posner

LiDAR-based 3D panoptic segmentation often struggles with the inherent sparsity of data from LiDAR sensors, which makes it challenging to accurately recognize distant or small objects. Recently, a few studies have sought to overcome this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yining Pan , Qiongjie Cui , Xulei Yang , Na Zhao

Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

In recent years, the field of autonomous driving has witnessed remarkable advancements, driven by the integration of a multitude of sensors, including cameras and LiDAR systems, in different prototypes. However, with the proliferation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Irene Cortés , Jorge Beltrán , Arturo de la Escalera , Fernando García

We propose a robust method for estimating road curb 3D parameters (size, location, orientation) using a calibrated monocular camera equipped with a fisheye lens. Automatic curb detection and localization is particularly important in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Stanislav Panev , Francisco Vicente , Fernando De la Torre , Véronique Prinet

LiDAR and camera are two modalities available for 3D semantic segmentation in autonomous driving. The popular LiDAR-only methods severely suffer from inferior segmentation on small and distant objects due to insufficient laser points, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jiale Li , Hang Dai , Hao Han , Yong Ding

Structure from Motion (SfM) often fails to estimate accurate poses in environments that lack suitable visual features. In such cases, the quality of the final 3D mesh, which is contingent on the accuracy of those estimates, is reduced. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Victor Amblard , Timothy P. Osedach , Arnaud Croux , Andrew Speck , John J. Leonard

State-of-the-art lidar panoptic segmentation (LPS) methods follow bottom-up segmentation-centric fashion wherein they build upon semantic segmentation networks by utilizing clustering to obtain object instances. In this paper, we re-think…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Abhinav Agarwalla , Xuhua Huang , Jason Ziglar , Francesco Ferroni , Laura Leal-Taixé , James Hays , Aljoša Ošep , Deva Ramanan

LiDAR and camera are two critical sensors for multi-modal 3D semantic segmentation and are supposed to be fused efficiently and robustly to promise safety in various real-world scenarios. However, existing multi-modal methods face two key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Feng Jiang , Chaoping Tu , Gang Zhang , Jun Li , Hanqing Huang , Junyu Lin , Di Feng , Jian Pu

Accurate inter-vehicle distance estimation is a cornerstone of advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. While LiDAR and radar provide high precision, their cost prohibits widespread adoption in mass-market vehicles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Manognya Lokesh Reddy , Zheng Liu

Object detection algorithms for Lidar data have seen numerous publications in recent years, reporting good results on dataset benchmarks oriented towards automotive requirements. Nevertheless, many of these are not deployable to embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Lukas Hahn , Frederik Hasecke , Anton Kummert