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The recent surge in interest in autonomous driving stems from its rapidly developing capacity to enhance safety, efficiency, and convenience. A pivotal aspect of autonomous driving technology is its perceptual systems, where core algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Qi Zhang , Siyuan Gou , Wenbin Li

Accurate depth information is essential for many computer vision applications. Yet, no available dataset recording method allows for fully dense accurate depth estimation in a large scale dynamic environment. In this paper, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Simon de Moreau , Mathias Corsia , Hassan Bouchiba , Yasser Almehio , Andrei Bursuc , Hafid El-Idrissi , Fabien Moutarde

Machine vision and image processing are often used with sensors for situation awareness in autonomous systems, from industrial robots to self-driving cars. The 3D depth sensors, such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging), Radar, are great…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 MA Muktadir , Sydney Parker , Sun Yi

Depth estimation is a core task in 3D computer vision. Recent methods investigate the task of monocular depth trained with various depth sensor modalities. Every sensor has its advantages and drawbacks caused by the nature of estimates. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 HyunJun Jung , Patrick Ruhkamp , Guangyao Zhai , Nikolas Brasch , Yitong Li , Yannick Verdie , Jifei Song , Yiren Zhou , Anil Armagan , Slobodan Ilic , Ales Leonardis , Benjamin Busam

Accurate depth estimation is critical for autonomous driving perception systems, particularly for long range vehicle detection on highways. Traditional dense stereo matching methods such as Block Matching (BM) and Semi Global Matching (SGM)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Qihao Huang

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

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR data presents considerable challenges, particularly when dealing with diverse sensor types and configurations. However, incorporating semantic information can significantly enhance the accuracy and robustness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sven Ochs , Philip Schörner , Marc René Zofka , J. Marius Zöllner

Safety and reliability are crucial for the public acceptance of autonomous driving. To ensure accurate and reliable environmental perception, intelligent vehicles must exhibit accuracy and robustness in various environments. Millimeter-wave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

In recent years, consumer-level depth cameras have been adopted for various applications. However, they often produce depth maps at only a moderately high frame rate (approximately 30 frames per second), preventing them from being used for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ming-Ze Yuan , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu , Shihong Xia

Autonomous driving requires 3D maps that provide accurate and up-to-date information about semantic landmarks. Due to the wider availability and lower cost of cameras compared with laser scanners, vision-based mapping solutions, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Clayton Souza Leite , Yu Xiao

Radar is a key component of the suite of perception sensors used for safe and reliable navigation of autonomous vehicles. Its unique capabilities include high-resolution velocity imaging, detection of agents in occlusion and over long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Arvind Srivastav , Soumyajit Mandal

The current autonomous driving architecture places a heavy burden in signal processing for the graphics processing units (GPUs) in the car. This directly translates into battery drain and lower energy efficiency, crucial factors in electric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Nalin Jayaweera , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-aho

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

In this paper, a multi-modal 360$^{\circ}$ framework for 3D object detection and tracking for autonomous vehicles is presented. The process is divided into four main stages. First, images are fed into a CNN network to obtain instance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Jorge Beltrán , Carlos Guindel , Irene Cortés , Alejandro Barrera , Armando Astudillo , Jesús Urdiales , Mario Álvarez , Farid Bekka , Vicente Milanés , Fernando García

With the rapid advancements in autonomous driving and robot navigation, there is a growing demand for lifelong learning models capable of estimating metric (absolute) depth. Lifelong learning approaches potentially offer significant cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Hu , Chenyou Fan , Liguang Zhou , Qing Gao , Honghai Liu , Tin Lun Lam

Autonomous vehicle perception systems have traditionally relied on costly LiDAR sensors to generate precise environmental representations. In this paper, we propose a camera-only perception framework that produces Bird's Eye View (BEV) maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Anupkumar Bochare

Accurate perception of dynamic obstacles is essential for autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments. Although sophisticated 3D object detection and tracking methods have been investigated and developed thoroughly in the fields of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhefan Xu , Haoyu Shen , Xinming Han , Hanyu Jin , Kanlong Ye , Kenji Shimada

Modern driver assistance systems rely on a wide range of sensors (RADAR, LIDAR, ultrasound and cameras) for scene understanding and prediction. These sensors are typically used for detecting traffic participants and scene elements required…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 JeongYeol Baek , Ioana Veronica Chelu , Livia Iordache , Vlad Paunescu , HyunJoo Ryu , Alexandru Ghiuta , Andrei Petreanu , YunSung Soh , Andrei Leica , ByeongMoon Jeon

Depth information is the foundation of perception, essential for autonomous driving, robotics, and other source-constrained applications. Promptly obtaining accurate and efficient depth information allows for a rapid response in dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Xin Zhang , Rabab Abdelfattah , Yuqi Song , Samuel A. Dauchert , Xiaofeng wang

We present the design of a productionized end-to-end stereo depth sensing system that does pre-processing, online stereo rectification, and stereo depth estimation with a fallback to monocular depth estimation when rectification is…