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Semantic segmentation in complex environments such as urban driving scenes remains challenging under adverse lighting conditions, where RGB images alone provide insufficient information. RGB-Thermal fusion leverages the complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 İsmail Emre Canıtez , Özgür Erkent

Task-specific data-fusion networks have marked considerable achievements in urban scene parsing. Among these networks, our recently proposed RoadFormer successfully extracts heterogeneous features from RGB images and surface normal maps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jianxin Huang , Jiahang Li , Ning Jia , Yuxiang Sun , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Effective fusion of complementary information captured by multi-modal sensors (visible and infrared cameras) enables robust pedestrian detection under various surveillance situations (e.g. daytime and nighttime). In this paper, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Yanpeng Cao , Dayan Guan , Yulun Wu , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Consecutive frames in a video contain redundancy, but they may also contain relevant complementary information for the detection task. The objective of our work is to leverage this complementary information to improve detection. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Noreen Anwar , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Wassim Bouachir

State-of-the-art pedestrian detectors have achieved significant progress on non-occluded pedestrians, yet they are still struggling under heavy occlusions. The recent occlusion handling strategy of popular two-stage approaches is to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ye He , Chao Zhu , Xu-Cheng Yin

Leveraging multi-modal fusion, especially between camera and LiDAR, has become essential for building accurate and robust 3D object detection systems for autonomous vehicles. Until recently, point decorating approaches, in which point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Philip Jacobson , Yiyang Zhou , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Ming C. Wu

The 3D scene understanding is mainly considered as a crucial requirement in computer vision and robotics applications. One of the high-level tasks in 3D scene understanding is semantic segmentation of RGB-Depth images. With the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Shohreh Kasaei

Robust 3D object detection in extreme weather and illumination conditions is a challenging task. While radars and thermal cameras are known for their resilience to these conditions, few studies have been conducted on radar-thermal fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Qiao Yan , Yihan Wang

Robust semantic perception for autonomous vehicles relies on effectively combining multiple sensors with complementary strengths and weaknesses. State-of-the-art sensor fusion approaches to semantic perception often treat sensor data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tim Broedermannn , Christos Sakaridis , Luigi Piccinelli , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

Pedestrian trajectory modelling in an urban complex is challenging because pedestrians can have many possible destinations, such as shops, escalators, and attractions. Moreover, weather and time-of-day may affect pedestrian behavior. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ho Chun Wu , Esther Hoi Shan Lau , Paul Yuen , Kevin Hung , John Kwok Tai Chui , Andrew Kwok Fai Lui

Reliable detection and tracking of surrounding objects are indispensable for comprehensive motion prediction and planning of autonomous vehicles. Due to the limitations of individual sensors, the fusion of multiple sensor modalities is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Phillip Karle , Felix Fent , Sebastian Huch , Florian Sauerbeck , Markus Lienkamp

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

LiDAR and camera fusion techniques are promising for achieving 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Most multi-modal 3D object detection frameworks integrate semantic knowledge from 2D images into 3D LiDAR point clouds to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Ziying Song , Jin Fang , Sifen Wang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Multispectral image pairs can provide the combined information, making object detection applications more reliable and robust in the open world. To fully exploit the different modalities, we present a simple yet effective cross-modality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Fang Qingyun , Han Dapeng , Wang Zhaokui

Pedestrian detection remains a critical problem in various domains, such as computer vision, surveillance, and autonomous driving. In particular, accurate and instant detection of pedestrians in low-light conditions and reduced visibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Bahareh Ghari , Ali Tourani , Asadollah Shahbahrami , Georgi Gaydadjiev

Accurately localizing 3D objects like pedestrians, cyclists, and other vehicles is essential in Autonomous Driving. To ensure high detection performance, Autonomous Vehicles complement RGB cameras with LiDAR sensors, but effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Carlo Sgaravatti , Riccardo Pieroni , Matteo Corno , Sergio M. Savaresi , Luca Magri , Giacomo Boracchi

As the demand for enabling high-level autonomous driving has increased in recent years and visual perception is one of the critical features to enable fully autonomous driving, in this paper, we introduce an efficient approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Liangfu Chen , Zeng Yang , Jianjun Ma , Zheng Luo

A real-time Deep Learning based method for Pedestrian Detection (PD) is applied to the Human-Aware robot navigation problem. The pedestrian detector combines the Aggregate Channel Features (ACF) detector with a deep Convolutional Neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-20 David Ribeiro , Andre Mateus , Pedro Miraldo , Jacinto C. Nascimento

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard