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LiDAR scene synthesis is an emerging solution to scarcity in 3D data for robotic tasks such as autonomous driving. Recent approaches employ diffusion or flow matching models to generate realistic scenes, but 3D data remains limited compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nicolas Sereyjol-Garros , Ellington Kirby , Victor Besnier , Nermin Samet

The generation of LiDAR scans is a growing topic with diverse applications to autonomous driving. However, scan generation remains challenging, especially when compared to the rapid advancement of image and 3D object generation. We consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Ellington Kirby , Mickael Chen , Renaud Marlet , Nermin Samet

3D generative modeling is accelerating as the technology allowing the capture of geometric data is developing. However, the acquired data is often inconsistent, resulting in unregistered meshes or point clouds. Many generative learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Thomas Besnier , Sylvain Arguillère , Emery Pierson , Mohamed Daoudi

Implicit generative models have the capability to learn arbitrary complex data distributions. On the downside, training requires telling apart real data from artificially-generated ones using adversarial discriminators, leading to unstable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 José Manuel de Frutos , Pablo M. Olmos , Manuel A. Vázquez , Joaquín Míguez

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

The ability to detect and segment moving objects in a scene is essential for building consistent maps, making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of moving object segmentation…

As mobile robot capabilities improve and deployment times increase, tools to analyze the growing volume of data are becoming necessary. Current state-of-the-art logging, playback, and exploration systems are insufficient for practitioners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Samer B. Nashed

Recent work has shown the ability to learn generative models for 3D shapes from only unstructured 2D images. However, training such models requires differentiating through the rasterization step of the rendering process, therefore past work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Sebastian Lunz , Yingzhen Li , Andrew Fitzgibbon , Nate Kushman

Building accurate maps is a key building block to enable reliable localization, planning, and navigation of autonomous vehicles. We propose a novel approach for building accurate maps of dynamic environments utilizing a sequence of LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Xingguang Zhong , Yue Pan , Cyrill Stachniss , Jens Behley

We present a deep generative scene modeling technique for indoor environments. Our goal is to train a generative model using a feed-forward neural network that maps a prior distribution (e.g., a normal distribution) to the distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Zaiwei Zhang , Zhenpei Yang , Chongyang Ma , Linjie Luo , Alexander Huth , Etienne Vouga , Qixing Huang

We study the problem of 3D object generation. We propose a novel framework, namely 3D Generative Adversarial Network (3D-GAN), which generates 3D objects from a probabilistic space by leveraging recent advances in volumetric convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Jiajun Wu , Chengkai Zhang , Tianfan Xue , William T. Freeman , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

In this paper, we consider the transformation of laser range measurements into a top-view grid map representation to approach the task of LiDAR-only semantic segmentation. Since the recent publication of the SemanticKITTI data set,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Frank Bieder , Sascha Wirges , Johannes Janosovits , Sven Richter , Zheyuan Wang , Christoph Stiller

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

This work studies the semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR data in dynamic scenes for autonomous driving applications. A system of semantic segmentation using 3D LiDAR data, including range image segmentation, sample generation, inter-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jilin Mei , Biao Gao , Donghao Xu , Wen Yao , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

We present LiDAR-EDIT, a novel paradigm for generating synthetic LiDAR data for autonomous driving. Our framework edits real-world LiDAR scans by introducing new object layouts while preserving the realism of the background environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shing-Hei Ho , Bao Thach , Minghan Zhu

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

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

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

In recent years, much progress has been made in LiDAR-based 3D object detection mainly due to advances in detector architecture designs and availability of large-scale LiDAR datasets. Existing 3D object detectors tend to perform well on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Eduardo R. Corral-Soto , Alaap Grandhi , Yannis Y. He , Mrigank Rochan , Bingbing Liu

Generative models aim to learn the distribution of observed data by generating new instances. With the advent of neural networks, deep generative models, including variational autoencoders (VAEs), generative adversarial networks (GANs), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zifan Shi , Sida Peng , Yinghao Xu , Andreas Geiger , Yiyi Liao , Yujun Shen