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2D RGB images and 3D LIDAR point clouds provide complementary knowledge for the perception system of autonomous vehicles. Several 2D and 3D fusion methods have been explored for the LIDAR semantic segmentation task, but they suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jun Cen , Shiwei Zhang , Yixuan Pei , Kun Li , Hang Zheng , Maochun Luo , Yingya Zhang , Qifeng Chen

In this work, we propose \textit{MVFuseNet}, a novel end-to-end method for joint object detection and motion forecasting from a temporal sequence of LiDAR data. Most existing methods operate in a single view by projecting data in either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Ankit Laddha , Shivam Gautam , Stefan Palombo , Shreyash Pandey , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoran Xiao , Xiaofei Yang , Shijian Lu , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang

Autonomous off-road navigation requires an accurate semantic understanding of the environment, often converted into a bird's-eye view (BEV) representation for various downstream tasks. While learning-based methods have shown success in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ohn Kim , Junwon Seo , Seongyong Ahn , Chong Hui Kim

Autonomous driving technology is rapidly evolving, offering the potential for safer and more efficient transportation. However, the performance of these systems can be significantly compromised by the occlusion on sensors due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Sanjay Kumar , Hiep Truong , Sushil Sharma , Ganesh Sistu , Tony Scanlan , Eoin Grua , Ciarán Eising

Accurate environment perception is essential for automated driving. When using monocular cameras, the distance estimation of elements in the environment poses a major challenge. Distances can be more easily estimated when the camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Lennart Reiher , Bastian Lampe , Lutz Eckstein

LiDAR point clouds have become the most common data source in autonomous driving. However, due to the sparsity of point clouds, accurate and reliable detection cannot be achieved in specific scenarios. Because of their complementarity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Xiaoyu Mo

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) use multiple sensors to gather information about their surroundings. By sharing sensor data between Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs), the safety and reliability of these vehicles can be improved through a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Donghao Qiao , Farhana Zulkernine

Multi-sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles is becoming more common to offer a more robust alternative for several perception tasks. This need arises from the unique contribution of each sensor in collecting data: camera-radar fusion offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruan Bispo , Tim Brophy , Reenu Mohandas , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

Autonomous vehicles were experiencing rapid development in the past few years. However, achieving full autonomy is not a trivial task, due to the nature of the complex and dynamic driving environment. Therefore, autonomous vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yaodong Cui , Ren Chen , Wenbo Chu , Long Chen , Daxin Tian , Ying Li , Dongpu Cao

Accurate and robust 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving, where fusing data from sensors like LiDAR and camera enhances detection accuracy. However, sensor malfunctions such as corruption or disconnection can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Reza Sadeghian , Niloofar Hooshyaripour , Chris Joslin , WonSook Lee

Robust real-time detection and motion forecasting of traffic participants is necessary for autonomous vehicles to safely navigate urban environments. In this paper, we present RV-FuseNet, a novel end-to-end approach for joint detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Ankit Laddha , Shivam Gautam , Gregory P. Meyer , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

Visual bird's eye view (BEV) perception, due to its excellent perceptual capabilities, is progressively replacing costly LiDAR-based perception systems, especially in the realm of urban intelligent driving. However, this type of perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lei He , Qiaoyi Wang , Honglin Sun , Qing Xu , Bolin Gao , Shengbo Eben Li , Jianqiang Wang , Keqiang Li

3D object detection based on LiDAR-camera fusion is becoming an emerging research theme for autonomous driving. However, it has been surprisingly difficult to effectively fuse both modalities without information loss and interference. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Guojun Wang , Bin Tian , Yachen Zhang , Long Chen , Dongpu Cao , Jian Wu

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

In this paper, we introduce a deep encoder-decoder network, named SalsaNet, for efficient semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds. SalsaNet segments the road, i.e. drivable free-space, and vehicles in the scene by employing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Eren Erdal Aksoy , Saimir Baci , Selcuk Cavdar

Fully autonomous driving systems require fast detection and recognition of sensitive objects in the environment. In this context, intelligent vehicles should share their sensor data with computing platforms and/or other vehicles, to detect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Valentina Rossi , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Recently, 3D object detection has attracted significant attention and achieved continuous improvement in real road scenarios. The environmental information is collected from a single sensor or multi-sensor fusion to detect interested…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Hongwei Liu , Jian Yang , Jianfeng Zhang , Dongheng Shao , Jielong Guo , Shaobo Li , Xuan Tang , Xian Wei

Integrating LiDAR and camera information into Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation has emerged as a crucial aspect of 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, existing methods are susceptible to the inaccurate calibration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Ziying Song , Lei Yang , Shaoqing Xu , Lin Liu , Dongyang Xu , Caiyan Jia , Feiyang Jia , Li Wang

This paper aims at high-accuracy 3D object detection in autonomous driving scenario. We propose Multi-View 3D networks (MV3D), a sensory-fusion framework that takes both LIDAR point cloud and RGB images as input and predicts oriented 3D…

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