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A realistic view of the vehicle's surroundings is generally offered by camera sensors, which is crucial for environmental perception. Affordable radar sensors, on the other hand, are becoming invaluable due to their robustness in variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kavin Chandrasekaran , Sorin Grigorescu , Gijs Dubbelman , Pavol Jancura

LiDARs have been widely adopted to modern self-driving vehicles, providing 3D information of the scene and surrounding objects. However, adverser weather conditions still pose significant challenges to LiDARs since point clouds captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

LiDAR odometry estimation and 3D semantic segmentation are crucial for autonomous driving, which has achieved remarkable advances recently. However, these tasks are challenging due to the imbalance of points in different semantic categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guanqun Ding , Nevrez Imamoglu , Ali Caglayan , Masahiro Murakawa , Ryosuke Nakamura

Semantic segmentation of point clouds is a key component of scene understanding for robotics and autonomous driving. In this paper, we introduce TORNADO-Net - a neural network for 3D LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation. We incorporate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Martin Gerdzhev , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Bingbing Liu

Autonomous driving requires the inference of actionable information such as detecting and classifying objects, and determining the drivable space. To this end, we present Multi-View LidarNet (MVLidarNet), a two-stage deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ke Chen , Ryan Oldja , Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Stan Birchfield , Alexander Popov , David Wehr , Ibrahim Eden , Joachim Pehserl

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

Current methods for LIDAR semantic segmentation are not robust enough for real-world applications, e.g., autonomous driving, since it is closed-set and static. The closed-set assumption makes the network only able to output labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Shiwei Zhang , Junhao Cai , Di Luan , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu , Mingqian Tang

Clustering objects from the LiDAR point cloud is an important research problem with many applications such as autonomous driving. To meet the real-time requirement, existing research proposed to apply the connected-component-labeling (CCL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yiming Zhao , Xiao Zhang , Xinming Huang

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an essential part of the remote sensing toolbox used for biosphere monitoring. In particular, LiDAR provides the opportunity to map forest leaf area with unprecedented accuracy, while leaf area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yuchen Bai , Jean-Baptiste Durand , Grégoire Vincent , Florence Forbes

LiDAR is crucial for robust 3D scene perception in autonomous driving. LiDAR perception has the largest body of literature after camera perception. However, multi-task learning across tasks like detection, segmentation, and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sambit Mohapatra , Senthil Yogamani , Varun Ravi Kumar , Stefan Milz , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mäder

In autonomous driving, place recognition is critical for global localization in GPS-denied environments. LiDAR and radar-based place recognition methods have garnered increasing attention, as LiDAR provides precise ranging, whereas radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangshuo Qi , Luqi Cheng , Zijie Zhou , Guangming Xiong

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

The ambiguity at the boundaries of different semantic classes in point cloud semantic segmentation often leads to incorrect decisions in intelligent perception systems, such as autonomous driving. Hence, accurate delineation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiale Chen , Fei Xia , Jianliang Mao , Haoping Wang , Chuanlin Zhang

3D vehicle detection based on point cloud is a challenging task in real-world applications such as autonomous driving. Despite significant progress has been made, we observe two aspects to be further improved. First, the semantic context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Hongwei Yi , Shaoshuai Shi , Mingyu Ding , Jiankai Sun , Kui Xu , Hui Zhou , Zhe Wang , Sheng Li , Guoping Wang

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data is essential for enhanced high-level perception in autonomous platforms. Furthermore, given the increasing deployment of LiDAR sensors onboard of cars and drones, a special emphasis is also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Yara Ali Alnaggar , Mohamed Afifi , Karim Amer , Mohamed Elhelw

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Understanding the structure of Earth's polar ice sheets is important for modeling how global warming will impact polar ice and, in turn, the Earth's climate. Ground-penetrating radar is able to collect observations of the internal structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Yuchen Wang , Mingze Xu , John Paden , Lora Koenig , Geoffrey Fox , David Crandall

The autonomous car must recognize the driving environment quickly for safe driving. As the Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) sensor is widely used in the autonomous car, fast semantic segmentation of LiDAR point cloud, which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jaehyun Park , Chansoo Kim , Kichun Jo

LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving. Existing voxel-based methods for LiDAR semantic segmentation apply uniform partition to the 3D LiDAR point cloud to form a structured representation based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xuzhi Wang , Wei Feng , Lingdong Kong , Liang Wan

Radar shows great potential for autonomous driving by accomplishing long-range sensing under diverse weather conditions. But radar is also a particularly challenging sensing modality due to the radar noises. Recent works have made enormous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Pou-Chun Kung , Chieh-Chih Wang , Wen-Chieh Lin