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LIDAR is one of the most important sensors for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV). Object detection and classification based on lidar point cloud is a key technology for UGV. In object detection and classification, the mutual occlusion between…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Xiaoxiang Zhang , Hao Fu , Bin Dai

Deep learning models have been shown to be susceptible to adversarial attacks with visually imperceptible perturbations. Even this poses a serious security challenge for the localization of self-driving cars, there has been very little…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yizhen Lao , Yu Zhang , Ziting Wang , Chengbo Wang , Yifei Xue , Wanpeng Shao

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

Dense 3D reconstruction has many applications in automated driving including automated annotation validation, multimodal data augmentation, providing ground truth annotations for systems lacking LiDAR, as well as enhancing auto-labeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Shihao Shen , Louis Kerofsky , Varun Ravi Kumar , Senthil Yogamani

Land use mapping is a fundamental yet challenging task in geographic science. In contrast to land cover mapping, it is generally not possible using overhead imagery. The recent, explosive growth of online geo-referenced photo collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Yi Zhu , Shawn Newsam

Road safety mapping using satellite images is a cost-effective but a challenging problem for smart city planning. The scarcity of labeled data, misalignment and ambiguity makes it hard for supervised deep networks to learn efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Sonu Gupta , Deepak Srivatsav , A. V. Subramanyam , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Localization, or position fixing, is an important problem in robotics research. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for long-term localization in a changing environment using 3D LiDAR. We first create the map of a real environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yilong Zhu , Bohuan Xue , Linwei Zheng , Huaiyang Huang , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

Place recognition is essential to maintain global consistency in large-scale localization systems. While research in urban environments has progressed significantly using LiDARs or cameras, applications in natural forest-like environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yanqing Shen , Turcan Tuna , Marco Hutter , Cesar Cadena , Nanning Zheng

Accurate forest canopy height estimation is essential for evaluating aboveground biomass and carbon stock dynamics, supporting ecosystem monitoring services like timber provisioning, climate change mitigation, and biodiversity conservation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jose B. Castro , Cheryl Rogers , Camile Sothe , Dominic Cyr , Alemu Gonsamo

Place recognition is essential for long-term autonomous navigation, enabling loop closure and consistent mapping. Although deep learning has improved performance, deploying such models on resource-constrained platforms remains challenging.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Pierpaolo Serio , Hetian Wang , Zixiang Wei , Vincenzo Infantino , Lorenzo Gentilini , Lorenzo Pollini , Valentina Donzella

The motivation of this paper is to address the problem of registering airborne LiDAR data and optical aerial or satellite imagery acquired from different platforms, at different times, with different points of view and levels of detail. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sylvie Daniel , Didier Gueriot , Christophe Sintes , Jean-Marc Le Caillec

Accurate 3D object detection is vital for automated driving. While lidar sensors are well suited for this task, they are expensive and have limitations in adverse weather conditions. 3+1D imaging radar sensors offer a cost-effective, robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krüger , Stefan Schütte , Richard Altendorfer , Ganesh Adam , Torsten Bertram

This paper presents a novel deep learning architecture to classify structured objects in datasets with a large number of visually similar categories. We model sequences of images as linear-chain CRFs, and jointly learn the parameters from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Eran Goldman , Jacob Goldberger

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving systems. However, LiDAR point clouds may appear to have sparsity, uneven distribution, and incomplete structures, significantly limiting the detection performance. In road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Wanjing Zhang , Chenxing Wang

Accurate LiDAR simulation is crucial for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather conditions. Existing methods struggle to capture the complex interactions between LiDAR signals and atmospheric phenomena, leading to unrealistic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Vivek Anand , Bharat Lohani , Rakesh Mishra , Gaurav Pandey

We propose two frameworks to deal with problem settings in which both structured and unstructured data are available. Structured data problems are best solved by traditional machine learning models such as boosting and tree-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Andrea Treviño Gavito , Diego Klabjan , Jean Utke

Robust road segmentation in all road conditions is required for safe autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Supervised deep learning methods provide accurate road segmentation in the domain of their training data but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eerik Alamikkotervo , Henrik Toikka , Kari Tammi , Risto Ojala

LiDAR-based 3D object detection has become an essential part of automated driving due to its ability to localize and classify objects precisely in 3D. However, object detectors face a critical challenge when dealing with unknown foreground…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Michael Kösel , Marcel Schreiber , Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein