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Large Language Models (LLMs) have impressive data fusion and reasoning capabilities for autonomous driving (AD). However, training LLMs for AD faces significant challenges including high computation transmission costs, and privacy concerns…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tianao Xiang , Mingjian Zhi , Yuanguo Bi , Lin Cai , Yuhao Chen

Reliable offroad autonomy requires low-latency, high-accuracy state estimates of pose as well as velocity, which remain viable throughout environments with sub-optimal operating conditions for the utilized perception modalities. As state…

We propose a methodology for lidar super-resolution with ground vehicles driving on roadways, which relies completely on a driving simulator to enhance, via deep learning, the apparent resolution of a physical lidar. To increase the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tixiao Shan , Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

High performance lidars are essential in autonomous robots such as self-driving cars, automated ground vehicles and intelligent machines. Traditional mechanical scanning lidars offer superior performance in autonomous vehicles, but the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Zheng Liu , Fu Zhang , Xiaoping Hong

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) have emerged as a crucial tool for high-resolution 3D imaging, particularly in autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and augmented reality. However, the increasing demand for faster acquisition speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yixiu Shen , Zi Heng Lim , Guangya Zhou

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental capability required by most autonomous systems. In this paper, we address the problem of loop closing for SLAM based on 3D laser scans recorded by autonomous cars. Our approach…

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

Most automated driving systems comprise a diverse sensor set, including several cameras, Radars, and LiDARs, ensuring a complete 360\deg coverage in near and far regions. Unlike Radar and LiDAR, which measure directly in 3D, cameras capture…

Radar and LiDAR have been widely used in autonomous driving as LiDAR provides rich structure information, and radar demonstrates high robustness under adverse weather. Recent studies highlight the effectiveness of fusing radar and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xiangyuan Peng , Huawei Sun , Kay Bierzynski , Anton Fischbacher , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

LiDARs plays an important role in self-driving cars and its configuration such as the location placement for each LiDAR can influence object detection performance. This paper aims to investigate an optimal configuration that maximizes the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Shenyu Mou , Yan Chang , Wenshuo Wang , Ding Zhao

End-to-end autonomous driving systems based on vision-language-action (VLA) models integrate multimodal sensor inputs and language instructions to generate planning and control signals. While autoregressive large language models and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingwang Xu , Jiahao Cui , Feipeng Cai , Hanlin Shang , Zhihao Zhu , Shan Luan , Yifang Xu , Neng Zhang , Yaoyi Li , Jia Cai , Siyu Zhu

Sampling discrepancies between different manufacturers and models of lidar sensors result in inconsistent representations of objects. This leads to performance degradation when 3D detectors trained for one lidar are tested on other types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Darren Tsai , Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

In order to navigate complex traffic environments, self-driving vehicles must recognize many semantic classes pertaining to vulnerable road users or traffic control devices. However, many safety-critical objects (e.g., construction worker)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Anqi Joyce Yang , James Tu , Nikita Dvornik , Enxu Li , Raquel Urtasun

Deep learning has been used to demonstrate end-to-end neural network learning for autonomous vehicle control from raw sensory input. While LiDAR sensors provide reliably accurate information, existing end-to-end driving solutions are mainly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zhijian Liu , Alexander Amini , Sibo Zhu , Sertac Karaman , Song Han , Daniela Rus

Visibility distance on the road pathway plays a significant role in road safety and in particular, has a clear impact on the choice of speed limits. Visibility distance is thus of importance for road engineers and authorities. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Pierre Charbonnier , Jean-Philippe Tarel , Francois Goulette

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

In this paper, we present a novel end-to-end deep neural network model for autonomous driving that takes monocular image sequence as input, and directly generates the steering control angle. Firstly, we model the end-to-end driving problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Peng Wan , Zhenbo Song , Jianfeng Lu

Today's autonomous vehicles rely extensively on high-definition 3D maps to navigate the environment. While this approach works well when these maps are completely up-to-date, safe autonomous vehicles must be able to corroborate the map's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ari Seff , Jianxiong Xiao

Depth estimation is one of the essential tasks to be addressed when creating mobile autonomous systems. While monocular depth estimation methods have improved in recent times, depth completion provides more accurate and reliable depth maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Wolfgang Boettcher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Ke Li , Dengxin Dai

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely heavily on LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) systems for accurate perception and navigation, providing high-resolution 3D environmental data that is crucial for object detection and classification. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Amira Guesmi , Muhammad Shafique