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We study the fundamental problem of learning a marginally stable unknown nonlinear dynamical system. We describe an algorithm for this problem, based on the technique of spectral filtering, which learns a mapping from past observations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Evan Dogariu , Anand Brahmbhatt , Elad Hazan

Due to the difficulty of obtaining ground-truth data for 4D radar scene flow estimation, previous methods typically rely on either self-supervised losses or cross-modal supervision using 3D LiDAR data, 2D images, and odometry. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jingyun Fu , Zhiyu Xiang , Na Zhao

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces multiple challenges including imaging in high noise environments. Several algorithms have been proposed to address these issues based on statistical or learning-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jakeoung Koo , Abderrahim Halimi , Stephen McLaughlin

Recent advances show that semi-supervised implicit representation learning can be achieved through physical constraints like Eikonal equations. However, this scheme has not yet been successfully used for LiDAR point cloud data, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Pengfei Li , Yongliang Shi , Tianyu Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Ya-Qin Zhang

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

Accurate full-body motion prediction is essential for the safe, autonomous navigation of legged robots, enabling critical capabilities like limb-level collision checking in cluttered environments. Simplified kinematic models often fail to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Abhijeet M. Kulkarni , Ioannis Poulakakis , Guoquan Huang

The recent success in human action recognition with deep learning methods mostly adopt the supervised learning paradigm, which requires significant amount of manually labeled data to achieve good performance. However, label collection is an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan S. Kankanhalli

Data classification without access to labeled samples remains a challenging problem. It usually depends on an appropriately chosen distance between features, a topic addressed in metric learning. Recently, Huizing, Cantini and Peyr\'e…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Janis Auffenberg , Jonas Bresch , Oleh Melnyk , Gabriele Steidl

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Object tracking is one of the fundamental problems in visual recognition tasks and has achieved significant improvements in recent years. The achievements often come with the price of enormous hardware consumption and expensive labor effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yan Shen , Zhanghexuan Ji , Chunwei Ma , Mingchen Gao

The perception of autonomous vehicles using radars has attracted increased research interest due its ability to operate in fog and bad weather. However, training radar models is hindered by the cost and difficulty of annotating large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Yiduo Hao , Sohrab Madani , Junfeng Guan , Mohammed Alloulah , Saurabh Gupta , Haitham Hassanieh

For high resolution scene mapping and object recognition, optical technologies such as cameras and LiDAR are the sensors of choice. However, for robust future vehicle autonomy and driver assistance in adverse weather conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Marcel Sheeny , Andrew Wallace , Sen Wang

Recently, 4D millimetre-wave radar exhibits more stable perception ability than LiDAR and camera under adverse conditions (e.g. rain and fog). However, low-quality radar points hinder its application, especially the odometry task that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Ningyuan Huang , Chenglin Pang , Zheng Fang

Safe motion planning in robotics requires planning into space which has been verified to be free of obstacles. However, obtaining such environment representations using lidars is challenging by virtue of the sparsity of their depth…

Pseudo-label based self training approaches are a popular method for source-free unsupervised domain adaptation. However, their efficacy depends on the quality of the labels generated by the source trained model. These labels may be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Deepti Hegde , Vishwanath Sindagi , Velat Kilic , A. Brinton Cooper , Mark Foster , Vishal Patel

Autonomous mobile robots require accurate human motion predictions to safely and efficiently navigate among pedestrians, whose behavior may adapt to environmental changes. This paper introduces a self-supervised continual learning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Luzia Knoedler , Chadi Salmi , Hai Zhu , Bruno Brito , Javier Alonso-Mora

Pedestrian trajectory prediction plays an important role in autonomous driving systems and robotics. Recent work utilizing prominent deep learning models for pedestrian motion prediction makes limited a priori assumptions about human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Honghui Wang , Weiming Zhi , Gustavo Batista , Rohitash Chandra

LiDAR-based SLAM is a core technology for autonomous vehicles and robots. One key contribution of this work to 3D LiDAR SLAM and localization is a fierce defense of view-based maps (pose graphs with time-stamped sensor readings) as the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 José Luis Blanco-Claraco

We consider the problem of learning observation models for robot state estimation with incremental non-differentiable optimizers in the loop. Convergence to the correct belief over the robot state is heavily dependent on a proper tuning of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Mohamad Qadri , Michael Kaess

Domain gaps of sensor modalities pose a challenge for the design of autonomous robots. Taking a step towards closing this gap, we propose two unsupervised training frameworks for finding a common representation of LiDAR and camera data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Andreas Bühler , Niclas Vödisch , Mathias Bürki , Lukas Schaupp