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This paper proposes anchor pruning for object detection in one-stage anchor-based detectors. While pruning techniques are widely used to reduce the computational cost of convolutional neural networks, they tend to focus on optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Maxim Bonnaerens , Matthias Freiberger , Joni Dambre

Most currently used object detection methods are learning-based, and can detect objects under varying appearances. Those models require training and a training dataset. We focus on use cases with less data variation, but the requirement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Valentin Braeutigam , Matthias Stock , Bernhard Egger

LiDAR is an important method for autonomous driving systems to sense the environment. The point clouds obtained by LiDAR typically exhibit sparse and irregular distribution, thus posing great challenges to the detection of 3D objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Tai Wang , Xinge Zhu , Dahua Lin

3D object detection is a significant task for autonomous driving. Recently with the progress of vision transformers, the 2D object detection problem is being treated with the set-to-set loss. Inspired by these approaches on 2D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Gopi Krishna Erabati , Helder Araujo

Capturing uncertainty in object detection is indispensable for safe autonomous driving. In recent years, deep learning has become the de-facto approach for object detection, and many probabilistic object detectors have been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Di Feng , Ali Harakeh , Steven Waslander , Klaus Dietmayer

In autonomous driving, recent research has increasingly focused on collaborative perception based on deep learning to overcome the limitations of individual perception systems. Although these methods achieve high accuracy, they rely on high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Maryem Fadili , Mohamed Anis Ghaoui , Louis Lecrosnier , Steve Pechberti , Redouane Khemmar

Detecting dynamic objects and predicting static road information such as drivable areas and ground heights are crucial for safe autonomous driving. Previous works studied each perception task separately, and lacked a collective quantitative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Di Feng , Yiyang Zhou , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

This paper introduces a novel perception framework that has the ability to identify and track objects in autonomous vehicle's field of view. The proposed algorithms don't require any training for achieving this goal. The framework makes use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Suryansh Saxena , Isaac K Isukapati

Autonomous driving requires 3D perception of vehicles and other objects in the in environment. Much of the current methods support 2D vehicle detection. This paper proposes a flexible pipeline to adopt any 2D detection network and fuse it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Xinxin Du , Marcelo H. Ang , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

The classification and the position estimation of objects become more and more relevant as the field of robotics is expanding in diverse areas of society. In this Bachelor Thesis, we developed a cone detection algorithm for an autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Nico Messikommer , Simon Schaefer , Renaud Dubé , Mark Pfeiffer

Autonomous vehicles operate in a dynamic environment, where the speed with which a vehicle can perceive and react impacts the safety and efficacy of the system. LiDAR provides a prominent sensory modality that informs many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Wei Han , Zhengdong Zhang , Benjamin Caine , Brandon Yang , Christoph Sprunk , Ouais Alsharif , Jiquan Ngiam , Vijay Vasudevan , Jonathon Shlens , Zhifeng Chen

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross

Self-driving cars must detect vehicles, pedestrians, and other traffic participants accurately to operate safely. Small, far-away, or highly occluded objects are particularly challenging because there is limited information in the LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yurong You , Katie Z Luo , Xiangyu Chen , Junan Chen , Wei-Lun Chao , Wen Sun , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Autonomous driving datasets are often skewed and in particular, lack training data for objects at farther distances from the ego vehicle. The imbalance of data causes a performance degradation as the distance of the detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

Lidar point cloud distortion from moving object is an important problem in autonomous driving, and recently becomes even more demanding with the emerging of newer lidars, which feature back-and-forth scanning patterns. Accurately estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen Yang , Zheng Gong , Baifu Huang , Xiaoping Hong

Efficient representation of point clouds is fundamental for LiDAR-based 3D object detection. While recent grid-based detectors often encode point clouds into either voxels or pillars, the distinctions between these approaches remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuhao Huang , Sanping Zhou , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Dong , Nanning Zheng

A practical autonomous driving system urges the need to reliably and accurately detect vehicles and persons. In this report, we introduce a state-of-the-art 2D object detection system for autonomous driving scenarios. Specifically, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Sijia Chen , Yu Wang , Li Huang , Runzhou Ge , Yihan Hu , Zhuangzhuang Ding , Jie Liao

Change detection and irregular object extraction in 3D point clouds is a challenging task that is of high importance not only for autonomous navigation but also for updating existing digital twin models of various industrial environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

Lidar based 3D object detection and classification tasks are essential for automated driving(AD). A Lidar sensor can provide the 3D point coud data reconstruction of the surrounding environment. But the detection in 3D point cloud still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xuanyu YIN , Yoko SASAKI , Weimin WANG , Kentaro SHIMIZU

Arbitrary-oriented objects widely appear in natural scenes, aerial photographs, remote sensing images, etc., thus arbitrary-oriented object detection has received considerable attention. Many current rotation detectors use plenty of anchors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Qi Ming , Zhiqiang Zhou , Lingjuan Miao , Hongwei Zhang , Linhao Li