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With the increasing reliance of self-driving and similar robotic systems on robust 3D vision, the processing of LiDAR scans with deep convolutional neural networks has become a trend in academia and industry alike. Prior attempts on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Ran Cheng , Christopher Agia , Yuan Ren , Xinhai Li , Liu Bingbing

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

Semantic segmentation of eyes has long been a vital pre-processing step in many biometric applications. Majority of the works focus only on high resolution eye images, while little has been done to segment the eyes from low quality images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Bingnan Luo , Jie Shen , Shiyang Cheng , Yujiang Wang , Maja Pantic

Segmentation of planar regions from a single RGB image is a particularly important task in the perception of complex scenes. To utilize both visual and geometric properties in images, recent approaches often formulate the problem as a joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Cao Dinh Duc , Jongwoo Lim

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

3D semantic segmentation is one of the most crucial tasks in driving perception. The ability of a learning-based model to accurately perceive dense 3D surroundings often ensures the safe operation of autonomous vehicles. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Qing Wu

LiDAR is widely used to capture accurate 3D outdoor scene structures. However, LiDAR produces many undesirable noise points in snowy weather, which hamper analyzing meaningful 3D scene structures. Semantic segmentation with snow labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gwangtak Bae , Byungjun Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Jihong Min , Inwook Shim

Existing joint optic disc and cup segmentation approaches are developed either in Cartesian or polar coordinate system. However, due to the subtle optic cup, the contextual information exploited from the single domain even by the prevailing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Qing Liu , Xiaopeng Hong , Wei Ke , Zailiang Chen , Beiji Zou

Localization has been a challenging task for autonomous navigation. A loop detection algorithm must overcome environmental changes for the place recognition and re-localization of robots. Therefore, deep learning has been extensively…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Alex Junho Lee , Seungwon Song , Hyungtae Lim , Woojoo Lee , Hyun Myung

In this paper, we propose SpotNet: a fast, single stage, image-centric but LiDAR anchored approach for long range 3D object detection. We demonstrate that our approach to LiDAR/image sensor fusion, combined with the joint learning of 2D and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Louis Foucard , Samar Khanna , Yi Shi , Chi-Kuei Liu , Quinn Z Shen , Thuyen Ngo , Zi-Xiang Xia

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiquan Ngiam , Benjamin Caine , Wei Han , Brandon Yang , Yuning Chai , Pei Sun , Yin Zhou , Xi Yi , Ouais Alsharif , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens , Vijay Vasudevan

The unique properties of radar sensors, such as their robustness to adverse weather conditions, make them an important part of the environment perception system of autonomous vehicles. One of the first steps during the processing of radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Johannes Kopp , Dominik Kellner , Aldi Piroli , Vinzenz Dallabetta , Klaus Dietmayer

Recently, polar-based representation has shown promising properties in perceptual tasks. In addition to Cartesian-based approaches, which separate point clouds unevenly, representing point clouds as polar grids has been recognized as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Ming Nie , Yujing Xue , Chunwei Wang , Chaoqiang Ye , Hang Xu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Michael Bi Mi , Xinchao Wang , Li Zhang

Unsupervised point cloud shape correspondence aims to obtain dense point-to-point correspondences between point clouds without manually annotated pairs. However, humans and some animals have bilateral symmetry and various orientations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiacheng Deng , Chuxin Wang , Jiahao Lu , Jianfeng He , Tianzhu Zhang , Jiyang Yu , Zhe Zhang

Semantic segmentation of large-scale outdoor point clouds is essential for urban scene understanding in various applications, especially autonomous driving and urban high-definition (HD) mapping. With rapid developments of mobile laser…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Weikai Tan , Nannan Qin , Lingfei Ma , Ying Li , Jing Du , Guorong Cai , Ke Yang , Jonathan Li

Point clouds have been widely adopted in 3D semantic scene understanding. However, point clouds for typical tasks such as 3D shape segmentation or indoor scenario parsing are much denser than outdoor LiDAR sweeps for the application of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Yang Zheng , Izzat H. Izzat , Sanling Song

Mapping the environment has been an important task for robot navigation and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM). LIDAR provides a fast and accurate 3D point cloud map of the environment which helps in map building. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-14 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

In autonomous driving, addressing occlusion scenarios is crucial yet challenging. Robust surrounding perception is essential for handling occlusions and aiding motion planning. State-of-the-art models fuse Lidar and Camera data to produce…

The ability for robots to comprehend and execute manipulation tasks based on natural language instructions is a long-term goal in robotics. The dominant approaches for language-guided manipulation use 2D image representations, which face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Shizhe Chen , Ricardo Garcia , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui