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This paper shows the effectiveness of 2D backbone scaling and pretraining for pillar-based 3D object detectors. Pillar-based methods mainly employ randomly initialized 2D convolution neural network (ConvNet) for feature extraction and fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Weixin Mao , Tiancai Wang , Diankun Zhang , Junjie Yan , Osamu Yoshie

Recent advancements in statistical learning and computational abilities have enabled autonomous vehicle technology to develop at a much faster rate. While many of the architectures previously introduced are capable of operating under highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 David Paz , Hengyuan Zhang , Qinru Li , Hao Xiang , Henrik Christensen

It is a crucial step to achieve effective semantic segmentation of lane marking during the construction of the lane level high-precision map. In recent years, many image semantic segmentation methods have been proposed. These methods mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Ruochen Yin , Biao Yu , Huapeng Wu , Yutao Song , Runxin Niu

Semantic segmentation serves as a cornerstone of scene understanding in autonomous driving but continues to face significant challenges under complex conditions such as occlusion. Light field and LiDAR modalities provide complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jie Luo , Yuxuan Jiang , Xin Jin , Mingyu Liu , Yihui Fan

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

Understanding the complex urban infrastructure with centimeter-level accuracy is essential for many applications from autonomous driving to mapping, infrastructure monitoring, and urban management. Aerial images provide valuable information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Seyed Majid Azimi , Corentin Henry , Lars Sommer , Arne Schumann , Eleonora Vig

With the recent availability and affordability of commercial depth sensors and 3D scanners, an increasing number of 3D (i.e., RGBD, point cloud) datasets have been publicized to facilitate research in 3D computer vision. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Sheikh Khalid , Wen Xiao , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

In this study, we present a novel LiDAR-based semantic segmentation framework tailored for autonomous forklifts operating in complex outdoor environments. Central to our approach is the integration of a dual LiDAR system, which combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Benjamin Serfling , Hannes Reichert , Lorenzo Bayerlein , Konrad Doll , Kati Radkhah-Lens

We present semantic segmentation experiments with a model capable to perform predictions on four benchmark datasets: Cityscapes, ScanNet, WildDash and KITTI. We employ a ladder-style convolutional architecture featuring a modified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Ivan Krešo , Marin Oršić , Petra Bevandić , Siniša Šegvić

Convolutional networks are the de-facto standard for analyzing spatio-temporal data such as images, videos, and 3D shapes. Whilst some of this data is naturally dense (e.g., photos), many other data sources are inherently sparse. Examples…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Benjamin Graham , Martin Engelcke , Laurens van der Maaten

LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous driving and robots to understand their surroundings accurately and robustly. A multitude of methods exist within this domain, including point-based, range-image-based,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rong Li , ShiJie Li , Xieyuanli Chen , Teli Ma , Juergen Gall , Junwei Liang

LiDAR's dense, sharp point cloud (PC) representations of the surrounding environment enable accurate perception and significantly improve road safety by offering greater scene awareness and understanding. However, LiDAR's high cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 William Muckelroy , Mohammed Alsakabi , John Dolan , Ozan Tonguz

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiquan Ngiam , Benjamin Caine , Wei Han , Brandon Yang , Yuning Chai , Pei Sun , Yin Zhou , Xi Yi , Ouais Alsharif , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens , Vijay Vasudevan

Semantic segmentation is fundamental to vision systems requiring pixel-level scene understanding, yet deploying it on resource-constrained devices demands efficient architectures. Although existing methods achieve real-time inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Shi-Chen Zhang , Yunheng Li , Yu-Huan Wu , Qibin Hou , Ming-Ming Cheng

LiDAR provides accurate geometric measurements of the 3D world. Unfortunately, dense LiDARs are very expensive and the point clouds captured by low-beam LiDAR are often sparse. To address these issues, we present UltraLiDAR, a data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuwen Xiong , Wei-Chiu Ma , Jingkang Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Semantic segmentation empowers numerous real-world applications, such as autonomous driving and augmented/mixed reality. These applications often operate on high-resolution images (e.g., 8 megapixels) to capture the fine details. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Zhijian Liu , Zhuoyang Zhang , Samir Khaki , Shang Yang , Haotian Tang , Chenfeng Xu , Kurt Keutzer , Song Han

Visual data in autonomous driving perception, such as camera image and LiDAR point cloud, can be interpreted as a mixture of two aspects: semantic feature and geometric structure. Semantics come from the appearance and context of objects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xia Chen , Jianren Wang , David Held , Martial Hebert

Current methods for LIDAR semantic segmentation are not robust enough for real-world applications, e.g., autonomous driving, since it is closed-set and static. The closed-set assumption makes the network only able to output labels of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jun Cen , Peng Yun , Shiwei Zhang , Junhao Cai , Di Luan , Michael Yu Wang , Ming Liu , Mingqian Tang

Understanding and interpreting a 3d environment is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles. Semantic segmentation of 3d point clouds combines 3d information with semantics and thereby provides a valuable contribution to this task. In many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Fabian Duerr , Mario Pfaller , Hendrik Weigel , Juergen Beyerer

With the rapid development of Remote Sensing acquisition techniques, there is a need to scale and improve processing tools to cope with the observed increase of both data volume and richness. Among popular techniques in remote sensing, Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 A Hamida , A. Benoît , P. Lambert , L Klein , C Amar , N. Audebert , S. Lefèvre