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Detecting obstacles in railway scenarios is both crucial and challenging due to the wide range of obstacle categories and varying ambient conditions such as weather and light. Given the impossibility of encompassing all obstacle categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qiushi Guo

In this work, we pioneer Semantic Flow, a neural semantic representation of dynamic scenes from monocular videos. In contrast to previous NeRF methods that reconstruct dynamic scenes from the colors and volume densities of individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Fengrui Tian , Yueqi Duan , Angtian Wang , Jianfei Guo , Shaoyi Du

As vehicle automation advances, motion planning algorithms face escalating challenges in achieving safe and efficient navigation. Existing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) primarily focus on basic tasks, leaving unexpected…

Anticipating the motion of other road users is crucial for automated driving systems (ADS), as it enables safe and informed downstream decision-making and motion planning. Unfortunately, contemporary learning-based approaches for motion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-21 MReza Alipour Sormoli , Amir Samadi , Sajjad Mozaffari , Konstantinos Koufos , Mehrdad Dianati , Roger Woodman

Motion representation plays a vital role in human action recognition in videos. In this study, we introduce a novel compact motion representation for video action recognition, named Optical Flow guided Feature (OFF), which enables the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Wanli Ouyang , Lu Sheng , Wei Zhang

Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) refers to an agent navigating to an object in an unseen environment, which is an ability often required in the accomplishment of complex tasks. While existing methods demonstrate proficiency in isolated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jiahua Pei , Yi Liu , Guoping Pan , Yuanhao Jiang , Houde Liu , Xueqian Wang

Vehicle 3D extents and trajectories are critical cues for predicting the future location of vehicles and planning future agent ego-motion based on those predictions. In this paper, we propose a novel online framework for 3D vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Hou-Ning Hu , Qi-Zhi Cai , Dequan Wang , Ji Lin , Min Sun , Philipp Krähenbühl , Trevor Darrell , Fisher Yu

Motion, measured via optical flow, provides a powerful cue to discover and learn objects in images and videos. However, compared to using appearance, it has some blind spots, such as the fact that objects become invisible if they do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Subhabrata Choudhury , Laurynas Karazija , Iro Laina , Andrea Vedaldi , Christian Rupprecht

Interpreting motion captured in image sequences is crucial for a wide range of computer vision applications. Typical estimation approaches include optical flow (OF), which approximates the apparent motion instantaneously in a scene, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Tanner D. Harms , Steven L. Brunton , Beverley J. McKeon

This paper proposes a novel algorithm for vehicle speed-aided monocular visual-inertial localization using a topological map. The proposed system aims to address the limitations of existing methods that rely heavily on expensive sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chanuk Yang , Hayeon O , Kunsoo Huh

Most applications in autonomous navigation using mounted cameras rely on the construction and processing of geometric 3D point clouds, which is an expensive process. However, there is another simpler way to make a space navigable quickly:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Khizar Anjum , Parul Pandey , Vidyasagar Sadhu , Roberto Tron , Dario Pompili

Optical flow, inspired by the mechanisms of biological visual systems, calculates spatial motion vectors within visual scenes that are necessary for enabling robotics to excel in complex and dynamic working environments. However, current…

In literature, several approaches are trying to make the UAVs fly autonomously i.e., by extracting perspective cues such as straight lines. However, it is only available in well-defined human made environments, in addition to many other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Mohamed Elawady , Ibrahim Sadek , Hiliwi Kidane

Visual inspection is a crucial yet time-consuming task across various industries. Numerous established methods employ machine learning in inspection tasks, necessitating specific training data that includes predefined inspection poses and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-06 O. Tasneem , R. Pieters

Predicting the motion of surrounding vehicles is key to safe autonomous driving, especially in unstructured environments without prior information. This paper proposes a novel online method to accurately predict the occupancy sets of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-24 Alvaro Carrizosa-Rendon , Jian Zhou , Erik Frisk , Vicenc Puig , Fatiha Nejjari

The ability of predicting the future is important for intelligent systems, e.g. autonomous vehicles and robots to plan early and make decisions accordingly. Future scene parsing and optical flow estimation are two key tasks that help agents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Xiaojie Jin , Huaxin Xiao , Xiaohui Shen , Jimei Yang , Zhe Lin , Yunpeng Chen , Zequn Jie , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Optical flow estimation is a fundamental problem in computer vision, yet the reliance on expensive ground-truth annotations limits the scalability of supervised approaches. Although unsupervised and semi-supervised methods alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yixuan Luo , Feng Qiao , Zhexiao Xiong , Yanjing Li , Nathan Jacobs

Optical flow is inherently a 2D search problem, and thus the computational complexity grows quadratically with respect to the search window, making large displacements matching infeasible for high-resolution images. In this paper, we take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Haofei Xu , Jiaolong Yang , Jianfei Cai , Juyong Zhang , Xin Tong

Machine learning models, which are frequently used in self-driving cars, are trained by matching the captured images of the road and the measured angle of the steering wheel. The angle of the steering wheel is generally fetched from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Kemal Alkin Gunbay , Mert Arikan , Mehmet Turkan

Navigating safely in urban environments remains a challenging problem for autonomous vehicles. Occlusion and limited sensor range can pose significant challenges to safely navigate among pedestrians and other vehicles in the environment.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Ming-Yuan Yu , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson