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It has been well recognized that detecting drivable area is central to self-driving cars. Most of existing methods attempt to locate road surface by using lane line, thereby restricting to drivable area on which have a clear lane mark. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Ziyi Liu , Siyu Yu , Xiao Wang , Nanning Zheng

Research on localization and perception for Autonomous Driving is mainly focused on camera and LiDAR datasets, rarely on radar data. Manually labeling sparse radar point clouds is challenging. For a dataset generation, we propose the cross…

Autonomous vehicles require accurate and robust localization and mapping algorithms to navigate safely and reliably in urban environments. We present a novel sensor fusion-based pipeline for offline mapping and online localization based on…

Radar sensors are gradually becoming a wide-spread equipment for road vehicles, playing a crucial role in autonomous driving and road safety. The broad adoption of radar sensors increases the chance of interference among sensors from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Nicolae-Cătălin Ristea , Andrei Anghel , Radu Tudor Ionescu

We address the problem of vehicle self-localization from multi-modal sensor information and a reference map. The map is generated off-line by extracting landmarks from the vehicle's field of view, while the measurements are collected…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Nico Engel , Stefan Hoermann , Markus Horn , Vasileios Belagiannis , Klaus Dietmayer

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be employed in next generation wireless networks to enhance the communication and radio localization services. In this paper, we propose novel localization and tracking algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Somayeh Aghashahi , Zolfa Zeinalpour-Yazdi , Aliakbar Tadaion , Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Ahmed Elzanaty

This paper proposes a fine-grained self-localization method for outdoor robotics that utilizes a flexible number of onboard cameras and readily accessible satellite images. The proposed method addresses limitations in existing cross-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Shan Wang , Yanhao Zhang , Akhil Perincherry , Ankit Vora , Hongdong Li

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

Displaced automotive sensor imaging exploits joint processing of the data acquired from multiple radar units, each of which may have limited individual resources, to enhance the localization accuracy. Prior works either consider perfect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-09 Guohua Wang , Kumar Vijay Mishra

Accurate localization is of crucial importance for autonomous driving tasks. Nowadays, we have seen a lot of sensor-rich vehicles (e.g. Robo-taxi) driving on the street autonomously, which rely on high-accurate sensors (e.g. Lidar and RTK…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Tong Qin , Yuxin Zheng , Tongqing Chen , Yilun Chen , Qing Su

Radar has gained much attention in autonomous driving due to its accessibility and robustness. However, its standalone application for depth perception is constrained by issues of sparsity and noise. Radar-camera depth estimation offers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Fuyi Zhang , Zhu Yu , Chunhao Li , Runmin Zhang , Xiaokai Bai , Zili Zhou , Si-Yuan Cao , Fang Wang , Hui-Liang Shen

Visual Teach-and-Repeat Navigation is a direct solution for mobile robot to be deployed in unknown environments. However, robust trajectory repeat navigation still remains challenged due to environmental changing and dynamic objects. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Jikai Wang , Yunqi Cheng , Kezhi Wang , Zonghai Chen

Publicly available satellite imagery can be an ubiquitous, cheap, and powerful tool for vehicle localisation when a prior sensor map is unavailable. However, satellite images are not directly comparable to data from ground range sensors…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Tim Y. Tang , Daniele De Martini , Shangzhe Wu , Paul Newman

Robustness and safety are crucial properties for the real-world application of autonomous vehicles. One of the most critical components of any autonomous system is localisation. During the last 20 years there has been significant progress…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Siqi Yi , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

Vehicle tracking is an integral part of intelligent traffic management systems. Previous implementations of vehicle tracking used Global Positioning System(GPS) based systems that gave location of the vehicle of an individual on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Lalit Lakshmanan , Yash Vora , Raj Ghate

Inferring the drivable area in a scene is crucial for ensuring a vehicle avoids obstacles and facilitates safe autonomous driving. In this paper, we concentrate on detecting the instantaneous free space surrounding the ego vehicle,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Gao Xiangyu , Ding Sihao , Dasari Harshavardhan Reddy

This paper presents a novel deep-learning-based approach to improve localizing radar measurements against lidar maps. This radar-lidar localization leverages the benefits of both sensors; radar is resilient against adverse weather, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Daniil Lisus , Johann Laconte , Keenan Burnett , Ziyu Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars are indispensable for perception tasks of autonomous vehicles, thanks to their resilience in challenging weather conditions. Yet, their deployment is often limited by insufficient spatial resolution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Holger Caesar , Honglei Chen , Jian Li

High quality perception is essential for autonomous driving (AD) systems. To reach the accuracy and robustness that are required by such systems, several types of sensors must be combined. Currently, mostly cameras and laser scanners…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 A. Ouaknine , A. Newson , J. Rebut , F. Tupin , P. Pérez

This paper presents an novel object type classification method for automotive applications which uses deep learning with radar reflections. The method provides object class information such as pedestrian, cyclist, car, or non-obstacle. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Michael Ulrich , Claudius Gläser , Fabian Timm