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Understanding 3D point cloud models for learning purposes has become an imperative challenge for real-world identification such as autonomous driving systems. A wide variety of solutions using deep learning have been proposed for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Cheng Chen , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Beshoy Morkos , Hamid R. Arabnia

LiDAR-based 3D point cloud recognition has been proven beneficial in various applications. However, the sparsity and varying density pose a significant challenge in capturing intricate details of objects, particularly for medium-range and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zaipeng Duan , Xuzhong Hu , Pei An , Jie Ma

LiDAR point-cloud segmentation is an important problem for many applications. For large-scale point cloud segmentation, the \textit{de facto} method is to project a 3D point cloud to get a 2D LiDAR image and use convolutions to process it.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Chenfeng Xu , Bichen Wu , Zining Wang , Wei Zhan , Peter Vajda , Kurt Keutzer , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. Applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

A fast and accurate panoptic segmentation system for LiDAR point clouds is crucial for autonomous driving vehicles to understand the surrounding objects and scenes. Existing approaches usually rely on proposals or clustering to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Enxu Li , Ryan Razani , Yixuan Xu , Bingbing Liu

Semantic segmentation in autonomous driving has been undergoing an evolution from sparse point segmentation to dense voxel segmentation, where the objective is to predict the semantic occupancy of each voxel in the concerned 3D space. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Sicheng Zuo , Wenzhao Zheng , Yuanhui Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Semantic segmentation of point clouds is an essential task for understanding the environment in autonomous driving and robotics. Recent range-based works achieve real-time efficiency, while point- and voxel-based methods produce better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Daniel Fusaro , Simone Mosco , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation enables the robots to obtain fine-grained semantic information of the surrounding environment. Recently, many works project the point cloud onto the 2D image and adopt the 2D Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yu Zheng , Guangming Wang , Jiuming Liu , Marc Pollefeys , Hesheng Wang

LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving. Existing voxel-based methods for LiDAR semantic segmentation apply uniform partition to the 3D LiDAR point cloud to form a structured representation based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xuzhi Wang , Wei Feng , Lingdong Kong , Liang Wan

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown outstanding performance in the task of semantically segmenting images. However, applying the same methods on 3D data still poses challenges due to the heavy memory requirements and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Radu Alexandru Rosu , Peer Schütt , Jan Quenzel , Sven Behnke

Accurate 3D object detection from point clouds has become a crucial component in autonomous driving. However, the volumetric representations and the projection methods in previous works fail to establish the relationships between the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Qingdong He , Zhengning Wang , Hao Zeng , Yi Zeng , Yijun Liu

Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

Semantic outdoor scene understanding based on 3D LiDAR point clouds is a challenging task for autonomous driving due to the sparse and irregular data structure. This paper takes advantages of the uneven range distribution of different LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Tzu-Hsuan Chen , Tian Sheuan Chang

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Accurate 3D scene understanding in outdoor environments heavily relies on high-quality point clouds. However, LiDAR-scanned data often suffer from extreme sparsity, severely hindering downstream 3D perception tasks. Existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xianjing Cheng , Lintai Wu , Zuowen Wang , Junhui Hou , Jie Wen , Yong Xu

The multi-line LiDAR is widely used in autonomous vehicles, so point cloud-based 3D detectors are essential for autonomous driving. Extracting rich multi-scale features is crucial for point cloud-based 3D detectors in autonomous driving due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Xusheng Li , Chengliang Wang , Shumao Wang , Zhuo Zeng , Ji Liu

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

Most scanning LiDAR sensors generate a sequence of point clouds in real-time. While conventional 3D object detectors use a set of unordered LiDAR points acquired over a fixed time interval, recent studies have revealed that substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Junho Koh , Junhyung Lee , Youngwoo Lee , Jaekyum Kim , Jun Won Choi

Environmental perception is an important aspect within the field of autonomous vehicles that provides crucial information about the driving domain, including but not limited to identifying clear driving areas and surrounding obstacles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Senay Cakir , Marcel Gauß , Kai Häppeler , Yassine Ounajjar , Fabian Heinle , Reiner Marchthaler