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This paper aims to introduce a method for simulating with a real time performance the automotive LIDAR disturbance by dust clouds caused by natural phenomena, mechanical or man-made processes like a traveling vehicle. In this study, we are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Mokrane Hadj-Bachir , P de Souza , P Nordqvist , N Roy

Large-scale scene data is essential for training and testing in robot learning. Neural reconstruction methods have promised the capability of reconstructing large physically-grounded outdoor scenes from captured sensor data. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Julian Ost , Andrea Ramazzina , Amogh Joshi , Maximilian Bömer , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

We present a novel method for testing the safety of self-driving vehicles in simulation. We propose an alternative to sensor simulation, as sensor simulation is expensive and has large domain gaps. Instead, we directly simulate the outputs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Kelvin Wong , Qiang Zhang , Ming Liang , Bin Yang , Renjie Liao , Abbas Sadat , Raquel Urtasun

Avatars are important to create interactive and immersive experiences in virtual worlds. One challenge in animating these characters to mimic a user's motion is that commercial AR/VR products consist only of a headset and controllers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Daniele Reda , Jungdam Won , Yuting Ye , Michiel van de Panne , Alexander Winkler

This work aims to address the challenges in autonomous driving by focusing on the 3D perception of the environment using roadside LiDARs. We design a 3D object detection model that can detect traffic participants in roadside LiDARs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Walter Zimmer , Jialong Wu , Xingcheng Zhou , Alois C. Knoll

Modeling perception sensors is key for simulation based testing of automated driving functions. Beyond weather conditions themselves, sensors are also subjected to object dependent environmental influences like tire spray caused by vehicles…

Our brain has an inner global positioning system which enables us to sense and navigate 3D spaces in real time. Can mobile robots replicate such a biological feat in a dynamic environment? We introduce the first spatial reasoning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengdi Huang , Mingyang Wang , Huan Tian , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Perception sensors, particularly camera and Lidar, are key elements of Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) that enable them to comprehend their surroundings to informed driving and control decisions. Therefore, developing realistic simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Hamed Haghighi , Xiaomeng Wang , Hao Jing , Mehrdad Dianati

The present cross-disciplinary research explores pedestrian-autonomous vehicle interactions in a safe, virtual environment. We first present contemporary tools in the field and then propose the design and development of a new application…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Georgios Pappas , Joshua E. Siegel , Jacob Rutkowski , Andrea Schaaf

In this paper we deal with pedestrian modeling, aiming at simulating crowd behavior in normal and emergency scenarios, including highly congested mass events. We are specifically concerned with a new agent-based, continuous-in-space,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-23 E. Cristiani , M. Menci , A. Malagnino , G. G. Amaro

We propose a perception imitation method to simulate results of a certain perception model, and discuss a new heuristic route of autonomous driving simulator without data synthesis. The motivation is that original sensor data is not always…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Xiaoliang Ju , Yiyang Sun , Yiming Hao , Yikang Li , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li

In this paper, we propose an approach to address the problem of 3D reconstruction of scenes from a single image captured by a light-field camera equipped with a rolling shutter sensor. Our method leverages the 3D information cues present in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Hermes McGriff , Renato Martins , Nicolas Andreff , Cédric Demonceaux

Reconstructing accurate 3D surfaces for street-view scenarios is crucial for applications such as digital entertainment and autonomous driving simulation. However, existing street-view datasets, including KITTI, Waymo, and nuScenes, only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Yubin Hu , Kairui Wen , Heng Zhou , Xiaoyang Guo , Yong-Jin Liu

This work addresses the problem of recovering complete, simulatable object geometry from reconstructed real-world scenes, enabling physics-based interaction with objects embedded in the scene. While modern multi-view reconstruction methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Xin Dong , Weijian Deng , Lihan Zhang , Tianru Dai , Wenfeng Deng , Yansong Tang

Virtual testing is a crucial task to ensure safety in autonomous driving, and sensor simulation is an important task in this domain. Most current LiDAR simulations are very simplistic and are mainly used to perform initial tests, while the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Richard Marcus , Niklas Knoop , Bernhard Egger , Marc Stamminger

Scalable sensor simulation is an important yet challenging open problem for safety-critical domains such as self-driving. Current works in image simulation either fail to be photorealistic or do not model the 3D environment and the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yun Chen , Frieda Rong , Shivam Duggal , Shenlong Wang , Xinchen Yan , Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shangjie Xue , Ersin Yumer , Raquel Urtasun

Aerial vehicles are revolutionizing applications that require capturing the 3D structure of dynamic targets in the wild, such as sports, medicine, and entertainment. The core challenges in developing a motion-capture system that operates in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cherie Ho , Andrew Jong , Harry Freeman , Rohan Rao , Rogerio Bonatti , Sebastian Scherer

We present a system to recover the 3D shape and motion of a wide variety of quadrupeds from video. The system comprises a machine learning front-end which predicts candidate 2D joint positions, a discrete optimization which finds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Benjamin Biggs , Thomas Roddick , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Roberto Cipolla

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for…

The idea of 3D reconstruction as scene understanding is foundational in computer vision. Reconstructing 3D scenes from 2D visual observations requires strong priors to disambiguate structure. Much work has been focused on the…

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