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Detecting diverse objects within complex indoor 3D point clouds presents significant challenges for robotic perception, particularly with varied object shapes, clutter, and the co-existence of static and dynamic elements where traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

Detecting obstacles is crucial for safe and efficient autonomous driving. To this end, we present NVRadarNet, a deep neural network (DNN) that detects dynamic obstacles and drivable free space using automotive RADAR sensors. The network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexander Popov , Patrik Gebhardt , Ke Chen , Ryan Oldja , Heeseok Lee , Shane Murray , Ruchi Bhargava , Nikolai Smolyanskiy

The technology of vehicle and driver detection in Intelligent Transportation System(ITS) is a hot topic in recent years. In particular, the driver detection is still a challenging problem which is conductive to supervising traffic order and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Yang Zhang , Changhui Hu , Xiaobo Lu

Monocular Visual Odometry (MVO) provides a cost-effective, real-time positioning solution for autonomous vehicles. However, MVO systems face the common issue of lacking inherent scale information from monocular cameras. Traditional methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yufei Wei , Sha Lu , Wangtao Lu , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

With the rapid advancement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and computer vision technologies, object detection from UAV perspectives has emerged as a prominent research area. However, challenges for detection brought by the extremely small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Liugang Lu , Dabin He , Congxiang Liu , Zhixiang Deng

Accurate vehicle detection is essential for the development of intelligent transportation systems, autonomous driving, and traffic monitoring. This paper presents a detailed analysis of YOLO11, the latest advancement in the YOLO series of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mujadded Al Rabbani Alif

Object Detection is the task of identifying the existence of an object class instance and locating it within an image. Difficulties in handling high intra-class variations constitute major obstacles to achieving high performance on standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Osama Khalil , Andrew Habib

On-board 3D object detection in autonomous vehicles often relies on geometry information captured by LiDAR devices. Albeit image features are typically preferred for detection, numerous approaches take only spatial data as input. Exploiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Alejandro Barrera , Carlos Guindel , Jorge Beltrán , Fernando García

There has been a rapid growth in the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various applications ranging from vital safety-of-life such as surveillance and reconnaissance at nuclear power plants to entertainment and hobby…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Alireza Famili , Angelos Stavrou , Haining Wang , Jung-Min , Park , Ryan Gerdes

Recent advances in camera equipped drone applications and their widespread use increased the demand on vision based object detection algorithms for aerial images. Object detection process is inherently a challenging task as a generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Berat Mert Albaba , Sedat Ozer

Within the field of robotics, computer vision remains a significant barrier to progress, with many tasks hindered by inefficient vision systems. This research proposes a generalized vision module leveraging YOLOv9, a state-of-the-art…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Nicolas Pottier , Meng Cheng Lau

Real time vehicle detection is a challenging task for urban traffic surveillance. Increase in urbanization leads to increase in accidents and traffic congestion in junction areas resulting in delayed travel time. In order to solve these…

Bird's-Eye View (BEV) features are popular intermediate scene representations shared by the 3D backbone and the detector head in LiDAR-based object detectors. However, little research has been done to investigate how to incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Haitao Yang , Zaiwei Zhang , Xiangru Huang , Min Bai , Chen Song , Bo Sun , Li Erran Li , Qixing Huang

Airplane detection from satellite imagery is a challenging task due to the complex backgrounds in the images and differences in data acquisition conditions caused by the sensor geometry and atmospheric effects. Deep learning methods provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Tolga Bakirman , Elif Sertel

Drones operating in complex environments face a significant threat from thin obstacles, such as steel wires and kite strings at the submillimeter level, which are notoriously difficult for conventional sensors like RGB cameras, LiDAR, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Zhengli Zhang , Xinyu Luo , Yucheng Sun , Wenhua Ding , Dongyue Huang , Xinlei Chen

This paper Traffic sign recognition plays a crucial role in the development of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Despite significant advances in deep learning and object detection, accurately detecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Baba Ibrahim , Zhou Kui

Detecting objects in real-world scenes is a complex task due to various challenges, including the vast range of object categories, and potential encounters with previously unknown or unseen objects. The challenges necessitate the…

This study investigates the application of single and two-stage 2D-object detection algorithms like You Only Look Once (YOLO), Real-Time DEtection TRansformer (RT-DETR) algorithm for automated object detection to enhance road safety for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Stefan Schoder

The bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation allows robust learning of multiple tasks for autonomous driving including road layout estimation and 3D object detection. However, contemporary methods for unified road layout estimation and 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Curie Kim , Ue-Hwan Kim

Drones or UAVs, equipped with different sensors, have been deployed in many places especially for urban traffic monitoring or last-mile delivery. It provides the ability to control the different aspects of traffic given real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 George Adaimi , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi