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We introduce a simple yet effective fusion method of LiDAR and RGB data to segment LiDAR point clouds. Utilizing the dense native range representation of a LiDAR sensor and the setup calibration, we establish point correspondences between…
4D LiDAR semantic segmentation, also referred to as multi-scan semantic segmentation, plays a crucial role in enhancing the environmental understanding capabilities of autonomous vehicles or robots. It classifies the semantic category of…
Semantic outdoor scene understanding based on 3D LiDAR point clouds is a challenging task for autonomous driving due to the sparse and irregular data structure. This paper takes advantages of the uneven range distribution of different LiDAR…
This work proposes a method for depth completion of sparse LiDAR data using a convolutional neural network which can be used to generate semi-dense depth maps and "almost" full 3D point-clouds with significantly lower root mean squared…
We introduce a new outdoor urban 3D pointcloud dataset, covering a total area of 2.7 $km^2$, sampled from three Swiss cities with different characteristics. The dataset is manually annotated for semantic segmentation with per-point labels,…
Curb detection is a crucial function in intelligent driving, essential for determining drivable areas on the road. However, the complexity of road environments makes curb detection challenging. This paper introduces CurbNet, a novel…
LiDAR perception is fundamental to robotics, enabling machines to understand their environment in 3D. A crucial task for LiDAR-based scene understanding and navigation is ground segmentation. However, existing methods are either handcrafted…
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…
Outdoor scene completion is a challenging issue in 3D scene understanding, which plays an important role in intelligent robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the sparsity of LiDAR acquisition, it is far more complex for 3D scene…
To train a well performing neural network for semantic segmentation, it is crucial to have a large dataset with available ground truth for the network to generalize on unseen data. In this paper we present novel point cloud augmentation…
Semantic segmentation of point clouds, aiming to assign each point a semantic category, is critical to 3D scene understanding.Despite of significant advances in recent years, most of existing methods still suffer from either the…
Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…
LiDAR-produced point clouds are the major source for most state-of-the-art 3D object detectors. Yet, small, distant, and incomplete objects with sparse or few points are often hard to detect. We present Sparse2Dense, a new framework to…
Existing point cloud modeling datasets primarily express the modeling precision by pose or trajectory precision rather than the point cloud modeling effect itself. Under this demand, we first independently construct a set of LiDAR system…
Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…
We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…
In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…
With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…
Robust road segmentation is a key challenge in self-driving research. Though many image-based methods have been studied and high performances in dataset evaluations have been reported, developing robust and reliable road segmentation is…
Occupancy grid mapping is an important component in road scene understanding for autonomous driving. It encapsulates information of the drivable area, road obstacles and enables safe autonomous driving. Radars are an emerging sensor in…