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Probabilistic diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results for image synthesis, inpainting, and text-to-image tasks. However, they are still in the early stages of generating complex 3D shapes. This work proposes Diffusion-SDF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Gene Chou , Yuval Bahat , Felix Heide

Radiation detection has largely been a manual inspection process with point sensors such as Geiger-Muller counters and scintillation spectrometers to date. While their observations of source proximity prove useful, they lack the directional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Michael S. Lee , Matthew Hanczor , Jiyang Chu , Zhong He , Nathan Michael , Red Whittaker

We have developed a CLLBC-based gamma- and neutron-sensitive multi-channel omnidirectional imaging detector, suitable for handheld or vehicle-borne operation and capable of quantitative radiation mapping in 3D. The system comprises 62 CLLBC…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-14 Jayson R. Vavrek , Ryan Pavlovsky , Victor Negut , Daniel Hellfeld , Tenzing H. Y. Joshi , Brian J. Quiter , Joshua W. Cates

As one of the automotive sensors that have emerged in recent years, 4D millimeter-wave radar has a higher resolution than conventional 3D radar and provides precise elevation measurements. But its point clouds are still sparse and noisy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Xin Jin

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

We revisit scene-level 3D object detection as the output of an object-centric framework capable of both localization and mapping using 3D oriented boxes as the underlying geometric primitive. While existing 3D object detection approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Justin Lazarow , Kai Kang , Afshin Dehghan

Robust GNSS positioning in urban environments is still plagued by multipath effects, particularly due to the complex signal propagation induced by ubiquitous surfaces with varied radio frequency reflectivities. Current 3D Mapping Aided…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Shiyao Lv , Xin Zhang , Xingqun Zhan

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Accurate and high-fidelity driving scene reconstruction relies on fully leveraging scene information as conditioning. However, existing approaches, which primarily use 3D bounding boxes and binary maps for foreground and background control,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Haoteng Li , Zhao Yang , Zezhong Qian , Gongpeng Zhao , Yuqi Huang , Jun Yu , Huazheng Zhou , Longjun Liu

We consider the problem of joint three-dimensional (3D) localization and material classification of unresolved space debris using a multispectral rotating point spread function (RPSF). The use of RPSF allows one to estimate the 3D locations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chao Wang , Grey Ballard , Robert Plemmons , Sudhakar Prasad

We propose a feed-forward method for dense Signed Distance Field (SDF) regression from unstructured image collections in less than three seconds, without camera calibration or post-hoc fusion. Our key insight is that the intermediate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Laura Fink , Linus Franke , George Kopanas , Marc Stamminger , Peter Hedman

When searching for radiological sources in an urban area, a vehicle-borne detector system will often measure complex, varying backgrounds primarily from natural gamma-ray sources. Much work has been focused on developing spectral algorithms…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-11-23 M. S. Bandstra , B. J. Quiter , M. Salathe , K. J. Bilton , J. C. Curtis , S. Goldenberg , T. H. Y. Joshi

Airborne gamma-ray surveys are useful for many applications, ranging from geology and mining to public health and nuclear security. In all these contexts, the ability to decompose a measured spectrum into a linear combination of background…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-06-24 M. S. Bandstra , T. H. Y. Joshi , K. J. Bilton , A. Zoglauer , B. J. Quiter

Precise 3D environmental mapping is pivotal in robotics. Existing methods often rely on predefined concepts during training or are time-intensive when generating semantic maps. This paper presents Open-Fusion, a groundbreaking approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Kashu Yamazaki , Taisei Hanyu , Khoa Vo , Thang Pham , Minh Tran , Gianfranco Doretto , Anh Nguyen , Ngan Le

Contextual information can have a substantial impact on the performance of visual tasks such as semantic segmentation, object detection, and geometric estimation. Data stored in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) offers a rich source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Raúl Díaz , Minhaeng Lee , Jochen Schubert , Charless C. Fowlkes

Radiation detectors deployed as part of a large urban network or for homeland security monitoring must maintain reliable energy calibration even when subjected to substantial variations in temperature and ambient background radiation.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-23 Marco Salathe , Nicolas Abgrall , Mark S. Bandstra , Tenzing H. Y. Joshi , Brian J. Quiter , Reynold J. Cooper

We present a statistical technique which can be used to detect the presence and properties of moving sources contributing to a diffuse background. The method is a generalization of the 2-point correlation function to include temporal as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Alex Geringer-Sameth , Savvas M. Koushiappas

This article deals with the fusion of flaw detections from multi-sensor nondestructive materials testing. Because each testing method makes use of different physical effects for defect localization, a multi-method approach is promising to…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 René Heideklang , Parisa Shokouhi

Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques are being increasingly used to create 3D maps from images in many domains including environmental monitoring. However, SfM techniques are often confounded in visually repetitive environments as they…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Brian M. Hopkinson , Suchendra M. Bhandarkar

The emerging applications of next-generation wireless networks demand high-fidelity environmental intelligence. 3D radio maps bridge physical environments and electromagnetic propagation for spectrum planning and environment-aware sensing.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Chaozheng Wen , Jingwen Tong , Zehong Lin , Chenghong Bian , Jun Zhang