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3D surface reconstruction is essential across applications of virtual reality, robotics, and mobile scanning. However, RGB-based reconstruction often fails in low-texture, low-light, and low-albedo scenes. Handheld LiDARs, now common on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Nikhil Behari , Aaron Young , Siddharth Somasundaram , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar

In this paper, we study the problem of jointly estimating the optical flow and scene flow from synchronized 2D and 3D data. Previous methods either employ a complex pipeline that splits the joint task into independent stages, or fuse 2D and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Haisong Liu , Tao Lu , Yihui Xu , Jia Liu , Wenjie Li , Lijun Chen

In the realm of autonomous driving, accurate 3D perception is the foundation. However, developing such models relies on extensive human annotations -- a process that is both costly and labor-intensive. To address this challenge from a data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Hui Shuai , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

This paper reports a new continuous 3D loss function for learning depth from monocular images. The dense depth prediction from a monocular image is supervised using sparse LIDAR points, which enables us to leverage available open source…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Minghan Zhu , Maani Ghaffari , Yuanxin Zhong , Pingping Lu , Zhong Cao , Ryan M. Eustice , Huei Peng

Modern high-definition LIDAR is expensive for commercial autonomous driving vehicles and small indoor robots. An affordable solution to this problem is fusion of planar LIDAR with RGB images to provide a similar level of perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Chen Fu , Chiyu Dong , Christoph Mertz , John M. Dolan

Robust three-dimensional scene understanding is now an ever-growing area of research highly relevant in many real-world applications such as autonomous driving and robotic navigation. In this paper, we propose a multi-task learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

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

In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

Videos for outdoor scene often show unpleasant blur effects due to the large relative motion between the camera and the dynamic objects and large depth variations. Existing works typically focus monocular video deblurring. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Liyuan Pan , Yuchao Dai , Miaomiao Liu , Fatih Porikli

Depth sensing is crucial for 3D reconstruction and scene understanding. Active depth sensors provide dense metric measurements, but often suffer from limitations such as restricted operating ranges, low spatial resolution, sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Chao Liu , Jinwei Gu , Kihwan Kim , Srinivasa Narasimhan , Jan Kautz

Scene flow is a challenging task aimed at jointly estimating the 3D structure and motion of the sensed environment. Although deep learning solutions achieve outstanding performance in terms of accuracy, these approaches divide the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Fabio Tosi , Stefano Mattoccia

Scene flow estimation has been receiving increasing attention for 3D environment perception. Monocular scene flow estimation -- obtaining 3D structure and 3D motion from two temporally consecutive images -- is a highly ill-posed problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Junhwa Hur , Stefan Roth

Self-supervised multi-frame methods have currently achieved promising results in depth estimation. However, these methods often suffer from mismatch problems due to the moving objects, which break the static assumption. Additionally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Yiyang Sun , Zhiyuan Xu , Xiaonian Wang , Jing Yao

Reconstructing and tracking dynamic 3D scenes remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision. Existing approaches often decouple geometry from motion: multi-view reconstruction methods assume static scenes, while dynamic tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shenhan Qian , Ganlin Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Daniel Cremers

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

Scene flow estimation predicts the 3D motion at each point in successive LiDAR scans. This detailed, point-level, information can help autonomous vehicles to accurately predict and understand dynamic changes in their surroundings. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Qingwen Zhang , Yi Yang , Peizheng Li , Olov Andersson , Patric Jensfelt

Modern lidar systems can produce not only dense point clouds but also 360 degrees low-resolution images. This advancement facilitates the application of deep learning (DL) techniques initially developed for conventional RGB cameras and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Jian Song , Tomi Westerlund

Precise LiDAR-camera calibration is crucial for integrating these two sensors into robotic systems to achieve robust perception. In applications like autonomous driving, online targetless calibration enables a prompt sensor misalignment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shu Han , Xubo Zhu , Ji Wu , Ximeng Cai , Wen Yang , Huai Yu , Gui-Song Xia

Scene flow is a description of real world motion in 3D that contains more information than optical flow. Because of its complexity there exists no applicable variant for real-time scene flow estimation in an automotive or commercial vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies in some fields such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, the traditional method of using a single sensor is inevitably limited by the performance of the sensor. Therefore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Guangyao Xu , Junfeng Fan , En Li , Xiaoyu Long , Rui Guo