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LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth

LiDARs are widely used in autonomous robots due to their ability to provide accurate environment structural information. However, the large size of point clouds poses challenges in terms of data storage and transmission. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuhao Cao , Yu Wang , Haoyao Chen

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

Learning semantic representations from point sets of 3D object shapes is often challenged by significant geometric variations, primarily due to differences in data acquisition methods. Typically, training data is generated using point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longkun Zou , Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Kailing Guo , Kui Jia , Yaowei Wang

Autonomous driving vehicles and robotic systems rely on accurate perception of their surroundings. Scene understanding is one of the crucial components of perception modules. Among all available sensors, LiDARs are one of the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ryan Razani , Ran Cheng , Ehsan Taghavi , Liu Bingbing

In a fully autonomous driving framework, where vehicles operate without human intervention, information sharing plays a fundamental role. In this context, new network solutions have to be designed to handle the large volumes of data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Andrea Varischio , Francesco Mandruzzato , Marcello Bullo , Marco Giordani , Paolo Testolina , Michele Zorzi

4D LiDAR semantic segmentation, also referred to as multi-scan semantic segmentation, plays a crucial role in enhancing the environmental understanding capabilities of autonomous vehicles or robots. It classifies the semantic category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Neng Wang , Ruibin Guo , Chenghao Shi , Ziyue Wang , Hui Zhang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Xieyuanli Chen

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate impressive cross-modal reasoning, extending beyond images to 3D perception. Yet, these models remain fragile under domain shifts, especially when adapting from synthetic to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Mainak Singha , Sarthak Mehrotra , Paolo Casari , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Elisa Ricci , Biplab Banerjee

Domain adaptation aims to exploit the knowledge in source domain to promote the learning tasks in target domain, which plays a critical role in real-world applications. Recently, lots of deep learning approaches based on autoencoders have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Shuai Yang , Hao Wang , Yuhong Zhang , Pei-Pei Li , Yi Zhu , Xuegang Hu

Recent advancements in lidar technology have led to improved point cloud resolution as well as the generation of 360 degrees, low-resolution images by encoding depth, reflectivity, or near-infrared light within each pixel. These images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

While no-reference point cloud quality assessment (NR-PCQA) approaches have achieved significant progress over the past decade, their performance often degrades substantially when a distribution gap exists between the training (source…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-13 Bingxu Xie , Fang Zhou , Jincan Wu , Yonghui Liu , Weiqing Li , Zhiyong Su

Recently, progress in acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors has enabled sensing increasingly spacious outdoor 3D environments. Making sense of such 3D acquisitions requires fine-grained scene understanding, such as constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Cedric Perauer , Laurenz Adrian Heidrich , Haifan Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

Point cloud scene flow estimation is of practical importance for dynamic scene navigation in autonomous driving. Since scene flow labels are hard to obtain, current methods train their models on synthetic data and transfer them to real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhao Jin , Yinjie Lei , Naveed Akhtar , Haifeng Li , Munawar Hayat

Unsupervised Domain Adaptation~(UDA) has attracted a surge of interest over the past decade but is difficult to be used in real-world applications. Considering the privacy-preservation issues and security concerns, in this work, we study a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jiexiang Wang , Chaoqi Chen

Existing deep learning-based change detection methods try to elaborately design complicated neural networks with powerful feature representations, but ignore the universal domain shift induced by time-varying land cover changes, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Jia Liu , Wenjie Xuan , Yuhang Gan , Juhua Liu , Bo Du

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

3D Point cloud registration is still a very challenging topic due to the difficulty in finding the rigid transformation between two point clouds with partial correspondences, and it's even harder in the absence of any initial estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Zhijian Qiao , Huanshu Wei , Zhe Liu , Chuanzhe Suo , Hesheng Wang

This paper introduces Unified Language-driven Zero-shot Domain Adaptation (ULDA), a novel task setting that enables a single model to adapt to diverse target domains without explicit domain-ID knowledge. We identify the constraints in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Senqiao Yang , Zhuotao Tian , Li Jiang , Jiaya Jia

Cross-modal knowledge transfer enhances point cloud representation learning in LiDAR semantic segmentation. Despite its potential, the \textit{weak teacher challenge} arises due to repetitive and non-diverse car camera images and sparse,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Zhibo Zhang , Ximing Yang , Weizhong Zhang , Cheng Jin

Transfer learning aims to learn robust classifiers for the target domain by leveraging knowledge from a source domain. Since the source and the target domains are usually from different distributions, existing methods mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Wenjie Feng , Han Yu , Meiyu Huang , Qiang Yang