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Urban-oriented autonomous vehicles require a reliable perception technology to tackle the high amount of uncertainties. The recently introduced compact 3D LIDAR sensor offers a surround spatial information that can be exploited to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Achim Kampker , Mohsen Sefati , Arya Abdul Rachman , Kai Kreisköther , Pascual Campoy

Depth and ego-motion estimations are essential for the localization and navigation of autonomous robots and autonomous driving. Recent studies make it possible to learn the per-pixel depth and ego-motion from the unlabeled monocular video.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Guangming Wang , Jiquan Zhong , Shijie Zhao , Wenhua Wu , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Autonomous driving systems are set to become a reality in transport systems and, so, maximum acceptance is being sought among users. Currently, the most advanced architectures require driver intervention when functional system failures or…

In this paper, we tackle the inductive semi-supervised learning problem that aims to obtain label predictions for out-of-sample data. The proposed approach, called Optimal Transport Induction (OTI), extends efficiently an optimal transport…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-15 Mourad El Hamri , Younès Bennani , Issam Falih

We propose a novel learning-based approach for robust 3D shape matching. Our method builds upon deep functional maps and can be trained in a fully unsupervised manner. Previous deep functional map methods mainly focus on predicting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Dongliang Cao , Paul Roetzer , Florian Bernard

Terrain traversability analysis is a fundamental issue to achieve the autonomy of a robot at off-road environments. Geometry-based and appearance-based methods have been studied in decades, while behavior-based methods exploiting learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Zeyu Zhu , Nan Li , Ruoyu Sun , Huijing Zhao , Donghao Xu

Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lingdong Kong , Xiang Xu , Jiawei Ren , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Wei Tsang Ooi , Ziwei Liu

Accurately modeling robot dynamics is crucial to safe and efficient motion control. In this paper, we develop and apply an iterative learning semi-parametric model, with a neural network, to the task of autonomous racing with a Model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Ignat Georgiev , Christoforos Chatzikomis , Timo Völkl , Joshua Smith , Michael Mistry

As a flexible passive 3D sensing means, unsupervised learning of depth from monocular videos is becoming an important research topic. It utilizes the photometric errors between the target view and the synthesized views from its adjacent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hualie Jiang , Laiyan Ding , Zhenglong Sun , Rui Huang

Supervised learning with large scale labeled datasets and deep layered models has made a paradigm shift in diverse areas in learning and recognition. However, this approach still suffers generalization issues under the presence of a domain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-28 Ozan Sener , Hyun Oh Song , Ashutosh Saxena , Silvio Savarese

This paper presents an entirely unsupervised interest point training framework by jointly learning detector and descriptor, which takes an image as input and outputs a probability and a description for every image point. The objective of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Pei Yan , Yihua Tan , Yuan Xiao , Yuan Tai , Cai Wen

Domain invariant learning aims to learn models that extract invariant features over various training domains, resulting in better generalization to unseen target domains. Recently, Bayesian Neural Networks have achieved promising results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shiyu Shen , Bin Pan , Tianyang Shi , Tao Li , Zhenwei Shi

Deep learning models for object detection in autonomous driving have recently achieved impressive performance gains and are already being deployed in vehicles worldwide. However, current models require increasingly large datasets for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Esteban Rivera , Loic Stratil , Markus Lienkamp

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces several challenges due to imaging in high noise environments and with sensors having limited resolution. This paper presents a deep learning algorithm based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Abderrahim Halimi , Jakeoung Koo , Stephen McLaughlin

A unified and versatile LiDAR segmentation model with strong robustness and generalizability is desirable for safe autonomous driving perception. This work presents M3Net, a one-of-a-kind framework for fulfilling multi-task, multi-dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Youquan Liu , Lingdong Kong , Xiaoyang Wu , Runnan Chen , Xin Li , Liang Pan , Ziwei Liu , Yuexin Ma

Navigating off-road with a fast autonomous vehicle depends on a robust perception system that differentiates traversable from non-traversable terrain. Typically, this depends on a semantic understanding which is based on supervised learning…

Autonomous navigation in off-road conditions requires an accurate estimation of terrain traversability. However, traversability estimation in unstructured environments is subject to high uncertainty due to the variability of numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Junwon Seo , Taekyung Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Kiho Kwak

Recently, significant progress has been achieved in sensing real large-scale outdoor 3D environments, particularly by using modern acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors. Unfortunately, they are fundamentally limited in their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Kutay Yılmaz , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

State-of-the-art lidar place recognition models exhibit unreliable performance when tested on environments different from their training dataset, which limits their use in complex and evolving environments. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Keita Mason , Joshua Knights , Milad Ramezani , Peyman Moghadam , Dimity Miller

We present a numerical method to learn an accurate predictive model for an unknown stochastic dynamical system from its trajectory data. The method seeks to approximate the unknown flow map of the underlying system. It employs the idea of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zhongshu Xu , Yuan Chen , Qifan Chen , Dongbin Xiu