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An efficient 3D point cloud learning architecture, named EfficientLO-Net, for LiDAR odometry is first proposed in this paper. In this architecture, the projection-aware representation of the 3D point cloud is proposed to organize the raw 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Guangming Wang , Xinrui Wu , Shuyang Jiang , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

With the rapid proliferation of autonomous driving, there has been a heightened focus on the research of lidar-based 3D semantic segmentation and object detection methodologies, aiming to ensure the safety of traffic participants. In recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jiahua Xu , Si Zuo , Chenfeng Wei , Wei Zhou

Scene coordinate regression achieves impressive results in outdoor LiDAR localization but requires days of training. Since training needs to be repeated for each new scene, long training times make these methods impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Wen Li , Chen Liu , Shangshu Yu , Dunqiang Liu , Yin Zhou , Siqi Shen , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging technique to solve mathematical optimization problems with learning-based methods. Although with great success in many real-world scenarios such as wireless communications, computer networks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qingyu Song , Wei Lin , Juncheng Wang , Hong Xu

Images captured from low-light scenes often suffer from severe degradations, including low visibility, color cast and intensive noises, etc. These factors not only affect image qualities, but also degrade the performance of downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Risheng Liu , Long Ma , Tengyu Ma , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

Beam alignment - the process of finding an optimal directional beam pair - is a challenging procedure crucial to millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. We propose a novel beam alignment method that learns a site-specific probing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-29 Yuqiang Heng , Jianhua Mo , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Learning to Optimize (L2O) is a subfield of machine learning (ML) in which ML models are trained to solve parametric optimization problems. The general goal is to learn a fast approximator of solutions to constrained optimization problems,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-04 James Kotary , Himanshu Sharma , Ethan King , Draguna Vrabie , Ferdinando Fioretto , Jan Drgona

Owing to the capability for reliable and all-weather long-range sensing, the fusion of LiDAR and Radar has been widely applied to autonomous vehicles for robust perception. In practical operation, well manually calibrated extrinsic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Weimin Wang , Yu Du , Ting Yang , Yu Liu

Localization is one of the core parts of modern robotics. Classic localization methods typically follow the retrieve-then-register paradigm, achieving remarkable success. Recently, the emergence of end-to-end localization approaches has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ziyue Wang , Chenghao Shi , Neng Wang , Qinghua Yu , Xieyuanli Chen , Huimin Lu

We propose a novel real-time LiDAR intensity image-based simultaneous localization and mapping method , which addresses the geometry degeneracy problem in unstructured environments. Traditional LiDAR-based front-end odometry mostly relies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Wenqiang Du , Giovanni Beltrame

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) are fast emerging sensors in the field of Earth Observation. It is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser beams to measure distances and create detailed three-dimensional representations of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Saad Ahmed Jamal

Map-based LiDAR localization, while widely used in autonomous systems, faces significant challenges in degraded environments due to lacking distinct geometric features. This paper introduces SuperLoc, a robust LiDAR localization package…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Shibo Zhao , Honghao Zhu , Yuanjun Gao , Beomsoo Kim , Yuheng Qiu , Aaron M. Johnson , Sebastian Scherer

In this paper, we developed the solution of roadside LiDAR object detection using a combination of two unsupervised learning algorithms. The 3D point clouds are firstly converted into spherical coordinates and filled into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Tianya Zhang , Peter J. Jin

This article presents a novel framework for real-time Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data transmission that leverages rate-adaptive technologies and point cloud encoding methods to ensure low-latency, and low-loss data streaming. The…

Object detection and classification in 3D is a key task in Automated Driving (AD). LiDAR sensors are employed to provide the 3D point cloud reconstruction of the surrounding environment, while the task of 3D object bounding box detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Waleed Ali , Sherif Abdelkarim , Mohamed Zahran , Mahmoud Zidan , Ahmad El Sallab

With the advent of powerful, light-weight 3D LiDARs, they have become the hearth of many navigation and SLAM algorithms on various autonomous systems. Pointcloud registration methods working with unstructured pointclouds such as ICP are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Dominic Streiff , Lukas Bernreiter , Florian Tschopp , Marius Fehr , Roland Siegwart

Training a deep object detector for autonomous driving requires a huge amount of labeled data. While recording data via on-board sensors such as camera or LiDAR is relatively easy, annotating data is very tedious and time-consuming,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Di Feng , Xiao Wei , Lars Rosenbaum , Atsuto Maki , Klaus Dietmayer

In this paper, we develop a deep learning (DL)-guided hybrid beam and power allocation approach for multiuser millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks, which facilitates swift beamforming at the base station (BS). The following persisting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Yuwen Cao , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Setareh Maghsudi , Tony Q. S. Quek

Calibration is an essential prerequisite for the accurate data fusion of LiDAR and camera sensors. Traditional calibration techniques often require specific targets or suitable scenes to obtain reliable 2D-3D correspondences. To tackle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Shujuan Huang , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao

In this work, we study optimal transmit strategies for minimizing the positioning error bound in a line-of-sight scenario, under different levels of prior knowledge of the channel parameters. For the case of perfect prior knowledge, we…