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In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Felix Fent , Gerhard Rigoll

Existing object detection methods often consider sRGB input, which was compressed from RAW data using ISP originally designed for visualization. However, such compression might lose crucial information for detection, especially under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhong-Yu Li , Xin Jin , Boyuan Sun , Chun-Le Guo , Ming-Ming Cheng

Scene parsing, or recognizing and segmenting objects and stuff in an image, is one of the key problems in computer vision. Despite the community's efforts in data collection, there are still few image datasets covering a wide range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Bolei Zhou , Hang Zhao , Xavier Puig , Tete Xiao , Sanja Fidler , Adela Barriuso , Antonio Torralba

High-quality datasets can speed up breakthroughs and reveal potential developing directions in SLAM research. To support the research on corner cases of visual SLAM systems, this paper presents Ground-Challenge: a challenging dataset…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jie Yin , Hao Yin , Conghui Liang , Zhengyou Zhang

Robust grasping in cluttered environments remains an open challenge in robotics. While benchmark datasets have significantly advanced deep learning methods, they mainly focus on simplistic scenes with light occlusion and insufficient…

Recent years have seen a significant increase in demand for robotic solutions in unstructured natural environments, alongside growing interest in bridging 2D and 3D scene understanding. However, existing robotics datasets are predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Joshua Knights , Joseph Reid , Kaushik Roy , David Hall , Mark Cox , Peyman Moghadam

Understanding material surfaces from sparse visual cues is critical for applications in robotics, simulation, and material perception. However, most existing methods rely on dense or full-scene observations, limiting their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Sindhuja Penchala , Gavin Money , Gabriel Marques , Samuel Wood , Jessica Kirschman , Travis Atkison , Shahram Rahimi , Noorbakhsh Amiri Golilarz

Precise spatial understanding in Earth Observation is essential for translating raw aerial imagery into actionable insights for critical applications like urban planning, environmental monitoring and disaster management. However, Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Roger Ferrod , Maël Lecene , Krishna Sapkota , George Leifman , Vered Silverman , Genady Beryozkin , Sylvain Lobry

Satellite imagery analytics have numerous human development and disaster response applications, particularly when time series methods are involved. For example, quantifying population statistics is fundamental to 67 of the 231 United…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Adam Van Etten , Daniel Hogan , Jesus Martinez-Manso , Jacob Shermeyer , Nicholas Weir , Ryan Lewis

Access to high resolution satellite imagery has dramatically increased in recent years as several new constellations have entered service. High revisit frequencies as well as improved resolution has widened the use cases of satellite…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Michael Thoreau , Frazer Wilson

We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing the state-of-the-art in object recognition by placing the question of object recognition in the context of the broader question of scene understanding. This is achieved by gathering images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Tsung-Yi Lin , Michael Maire , Serge Belongie , Lubomir Bourdev , Ross Girshick , James Hays , Pietro Perona , Deva Ramanan , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Piotr Dollár

Visual understanding of complex urban street scenes is an enabling factor for a wide range of applications. Object detection has benefited enormously from large-scale datasets, especially in the context of deep learning. For semantic urban…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Marius Cordts , Mohamed Omran , Sebastian Ramos , Timo Rehfeld , Markus Enzweiler , Rodrigo Benenson , Uwe Franke , Stefan Roth , Bernt Schiele

This paper presents a data processing pipeline designed to extract information from the hyperspectral signature of unknown space objects. The methodology proposed in this paper determines the material composition of space objects from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-30 Massimiliano Vasile , Lewis Walker , Andrew Campbell , Simao Marto , Paul Murray , Stephen Marshall , Vasili Savitski

Autonomous robots operating in natural karstic caves face perception and navigation challenges that are qualitatively distinct from those encountered in mines or tunnels: irregular geometry, reflective wet surfaces, near-zero ambient light,…

The scarcity of data acquired under actual space operational conditions poses a significant challenge for developing learning-based visual navigation algorithms crucial for autonomous spacecraft navigation. This data shortage is primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Javier Montalvo , Juan Ignacio Bravo Pérez-Villar , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Jesús Bescós

Object recognition is among the fundamental tasks in the computer vision applications, paving the path for all other image understanding operations. In every stage of progress in object recognition research, efforts have been made to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aria Salari , Abtin Djavadifar , Xiangrui Liu , Homayoun Najjaran

Our goal is to develop stable, accurate, and robust semantic scene understanding methods for wide-area scene perception and understanding, especially in challenging outdoor environments. To achieve this, we are exploring and evaluating a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Jiesi Hu , Ganning Zhao , Suya You , C. C. Jay Kuo

Real-time detection of moving objects is an essential capability for robots acting autonomously in dynamic environments. We thus propose Dynablox, a novel online mapping-based approach for robust moving object detection in complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Lukas Schmid , Olov Andersson , Aurelio Sulser , Patrick Pfreundschuh , Roland Siegwart

We present a novel synthetically generated multi-modal dataset, SCaRL, to enable the training and validation of autonomous driving solutions. Multi-modal datasets are essential to attain the robustness and high accuracy required by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Avinash Nittur Ramesh , Aitor Correas-Serrano , María González-Huici

While 3D object detection and pose estimation has been studied for a long time, its evaluation is not yet completely satisfactory. Indeed, existing datasets typically consist in numerous acquisitions of only a few scenes because of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Romain Brégier , Frédéric Devernay , Laetitia Leyrit , James Crowley