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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

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with multiple complementary sensors have tremendous potential for fast autonomous or remote-controlled semantic scene analysis, e.g., for disaster examination. In this work, we propose a UAV system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Simon Bultmann , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Over the past few years, there has been remarkable progress in research on 3D point clouds and their use in autonomous driving scenarios has become widespread. However, deep learning methods heavily rely on annotated data and often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Jingjing Zhao , Chenming Wu , Chulin Tang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Liangjun Zhang

Land Use Land Cover (LULC) classification is essential for national 3D mapping, geospatial analysis, and sustainable planning. Multispectral (MS) LiDAR provides synchronized spatial-spectral information, and deep learning (DL) enables 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Narges Takhtkeshha , Aldino Rizaldy , Markus Hollaus , Juha Hyyppä , Fabio Remondino , Gottfried Mandlburger

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) plays an increasingly significant role in urban planning, topographic mapping, environmental monitoring, power line detection and other fields thanks to its capability to quickly acquire…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Congcong Wen , Xiang Li , Xiaojing Yao , Ling Peng , Tianhe Chi

There has been significant progress made in the field of autonomous vehicles. Object detection and tracking are the primary tasks for any autonomous vehicle. The task of object detection in autonomous vehicles relies on a variety of sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Gaurav Raut , Advait Patole

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

Recently, the advancement of deep learning in discriminative feature learning from 3D LiDAR data has led to rapid development in the field of autonomous driving. However, automated processing uneven, unstructured, noisy, and massive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ying Li , Lingfei Ma , Zilong Zhong , Fei Liu , Dongpu Cao , Jonathan Li , Michael A. Chapman

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller

Online localization of road intersections is beneficial for autonomous vehicle localization, mapping and motion planning. Intersections offer strong landmarks for correcting vehicle pose estimation, anchoring new sensor data in up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Nguyen Hoang Khoi Tran , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Zhenxing Ming , Stewart Worrall

LIDAR semantic segmentation, which assigns a semantic label to each 3D point measured by the LIDAR, is becoming an essential task for many robotic applications such as autonomous driving. Fast and efficient semantic segmentation methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Iñigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

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

Reticular structures form the backbone of major infrastructure like bridges, pylons, and airports, but their inspection and maintenance are costly and hazardous, often requiring human intervention. While prior research has focused on fault…

This study investigates the application of PointNet and PointNet++ in the classification of LiDAR-generated point cloud data, a critical component for achieving fully autonomous vehicles. Utilizing a modified dataset from the Lyft 3D Object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Rajat K. Doshi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are considered cutting-edge technology with highly cost-effective and flexible usage scenarios. Although many papers have reviewed the application of UAVs in agriculture, the review of the application for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Weijie Kuang , Hann Woei Ho , Ye Zhou , Shahrel Azmin Suandi , Farzad Ismail

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

The advancement of UAV technology has enabled efficient, non-contact structural health monitoring. Combined with photogrammetry, UAVs can capture high-resolution scans and reconstruct detailed 3D models of infrastructure. However, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Siqi Chen , Shanyue Guan

Developing a robust and effective obstacle detection and tracking system for Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) at marine environments is a challenging task. Research efforts have been made in this area during the past years by GRAAL lab at the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yara AlaaEldin , Enrico Simetti , Francesca Odone

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein

Unsupervised change detection between airborne LiDAR data points, taken at separate times over the same location, can be difficult due to unmatching spatial support and noise from the acquisition system. Most current approaches to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Marco Fiorucci , Peter Naylor , Makoto Yamada