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Off-road nighttime autonomous driving suffers from unreliable visible-light perception, making infrared modality crucial for accurate freespace detection. However, progress remains limited due to the scarcity of annotated infrared off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shuo Wang , Jilin Mei , Wenfei Guan , Shuai Wang , Yan Xing , Chen Min , Yu Hu

A map, as crucial information for downstream applications of an autonomous driving system, is usually represented in lanelines or centerlines. However, existing literature on map learning primarily focuses on either detecting geometry-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Tianyu Li , Peijin Jia , Bangjun Wang , Li Chen , Kun Jiang , Junchi Yan , Hongyang Li

We present two novel generative geometric deep learning frameworks, termed Flow Matching PointNet and Diffusion PointNet, for predicting fluid flow variables on irregular geometries by incorporating PointNet into flow matching and diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ali Kashefi

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

Advanced autonomous systems rely on multi-sensor fusion for safer and more robust perception. To enable effective fusion, calibrating directly from natural driving scenes (i.e., target-free) with high accuracy is crucial for precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Aditya Ranjan Dash , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

This paper presents a mixed traffic control policy designed to optimize traffic efficiency across diverse road topologies, addressing issues of congestion prevalent in urban environments. A model-free reinforcement learning (RL) approach is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Chuyang Xiao , Dawei Wang , Xinzheng Tang , Jia Pan , Yuexin Ma

The detection of small road hazards, such as lost cargo, is a vital capability for self-driving cars. We tackle this challenging and rarely addressed problem with a vision system that leverages appearance, contextual as well as geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Sebastian Ramos , Stefan Gehrig , Peter Pinggera , Uwe Franke , Carsten Rother

The reliable detection of speed of moving vehicles is considered key to traffic law enforcement in most countries, and is seen by many as an important tool to reduce the number of traffic accidents and fatalities. Many automatic systems and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Chaim Ginzburg , Amit Raphael , Daphna Weinshall

4D radar-based object detection has garnered great attention for its robustness in adverse weather conditions and capacity to deliver rich spatial information across diverse driving scenarios. Nevertheless, the sparse and noisy nature of 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Fuyang Liu , Jilin Mei , Fangyuan Mao , Chen Min , Yan Xing , Yu Hu

Inspired by frame-based methods, state-of-the-art event-based optical flow networks rely on the explicit construction of correlation volumes, which are expensive to compute and store, rendering them unsuitable for robotic applications with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yilun Wu , Federico Paredes-Vallés , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

Forecasting the flow of crowds is of great importance to traffic management and public safety, and very challenging as it is affected by many complex factors, including spatial dependencies (nearby and distant), temporal dependencies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Junbo Zhang , Yu Zheng , Dekang Qi , Ruiyuan Li , Xiuwen Yi , Tianrui Li

Detecting anomalies in crowded scenes is challenging due to severe inter-person occlusions and highly dynamic, context-dependent motion patterns. Existing approaches often struggle to adapt to varying crowd densities and lack interpretable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Fatima AlGhamdi , Omar Alharbi , Abdullah Aldwyish , Raied Aljadaany , Muhammad Kamran J Khan , Huda Alamri

To develop the most appropriate control strategy and monitor, maintain, and evaluate the traffic performance of the freeway weaving areas, state and local Departments of Transportation need to have access to traffic flows at each pair of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xiaobo Ma , Abolfazl Karimpour , Yao-Jan Wu

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

In this work, we present LaserFlow, an efficient method for 3D object detection and motion forecasting from LiDAR. Unlike the previous work, our approach utilizes the native range view representation of the LiDAR, which enables our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Gregory P. Meyer , Jake Charland , Shreyash Pandey , Ankit Laddha , Shivam Gautam , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

Road detection is a critically important task for self-driving cars. By employing LiDAR data, recent works have significantly improved the accuracy of road detection. Relying on LiDAR sensors limits the wide application of those methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Libo Sun , Haokui Zhang , Wei Yin

Photorealistic simulation plays a crucial role in applications such as autonomous driving, where advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) may allow better scalability through the automatic creation of digital 3D assets. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Shanlin Sun , Bingbing Zhuang , Ziyu Jiang , Buyu Liu , Xiaohui Xie , Manmohan Chandraker

Estimating scene flow in RGB-D videos is attracting much interest of the computer vision researchers, due to its potential applications in robotics. The state-of-the-art techniques for scene flow estimation, typically rely on the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Ravi Kumar Thakur , Snehasis Mukherjee

Radar sensors provide a unique method for executing environmental perception tasks towards autonomous driving. Especially their capability to perform well in adverse weather conditions often makes them superior to other sensors such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Nicolas Scheiner , Nils Appenrodt , Jürgen Dickmann , Bernhard Sick

Recognition of the surrounding environment using a camera is an important technology in Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems and Autonomous Driving, and recognition technology is often solved by machine learning approaches such as deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Genya Ogawa , Toru Saito , Noriyuki Aoi