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LiDAR-based outdoor 3D object detection has received widespread attention. However, training 3D detectors from the LiDAR point cloud typically relies on expensive bounding box annotations. This paper presents SC3D, an innovative…

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Deep learning is the essential building block of state-of-the-art person detectors in 2D range data. However, only a few annotated datasets are available for training and testing these deep networks, potentially limiting their performance…

Reliable detection of humans beneath forest canopy remains a difficult remote-sensing challenge due to sparse, structured, and viewpoint-dependent occlusion. This paper presents a multimodal proof-of-concept pipeline that integrates three…

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