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Accurate 3D object detection and understanding for self-driving cars heavily relies on LiDAR point clouds, necessitating large amounts of labeled data to train. In this work, we introduce an innovative pre-training approach, Grounded Point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Tai-Yu Pan , Chenyang Ma , Tianle Chen , Cheng Perng Phoo , Katie Z Luo , Yurong You , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Bharath Hariharan , Wei-Lun Chao

We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

In many applications of advanced robotic manipulation, six degrees of freedom (6DoF) object pose estimates are continuously required. In this work, we develop a multi-modality tracker that fuses information from visual appearance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Manuel Stoiber , Mariam Elsayed , Anne E. Reichert , Florian Steidle , Dongheui Lee , Rudolph Triebel

3D multi-object tracking in LiDAR point clouds is a key ingredient for self-driving vehicles. Existing methods are predominantly based on the tracking-by-detection pipeline and inevitably require a heuristic matching step for the detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Chenxu Luo , Xiaodong Yang , Alan Yuille

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a ubiquitous tool to provide precise spatial awareness in various perception environments. A bionic LiDAR that can mimic human-like vision by adaptively gazing at selected regions of interest within a…

In recent years, semi-supervised learning has been widely explored and shows excellent data efficiency for 2D data. There is an emerging need to improve data efficiency for 3D tasks due to the scarcity of labeled 3D data. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Zhimin Chen , Longlong Jing , Yang Liang , YingLi Tian , Bing Li

Training image-based object detectors presents formidable challenges, as it entails not only the complexities of object detection but also the added intricacies of precisely localizing objects within potentially diverse and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chandan Kumar , Jansel Herrera-Gerena , John Just , Matthew Darr , Ali Jannesari

The great success that deep models have achieved in the past is mainly owed to large amounts of labeled training data. However, the acquisition of labeled data for new tasks aside from existing benchmarks is both challenging and costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Clemens-Alexander Brust , Christoph Käding , Joachim Denzler

We propose FutrTrack, a modular camera-LiDAR multi-object tracking framework that builds on existing 3D detectors by introducing a transformer-based smoother and a fusion-driven tracker. Inspired by query-based tracking frameworks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Martha Teiko Teye , Ori Maoz , Matthias Rottmann

LiDAR point clouds have become the most common data source in autonomous driving. However, due to the sparsity of point clouds, accurate and reliable detection cannot be achieved in specific scenarios. Because of their complementarity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Xiaoyu Mo

Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar is a promising sensor for aided inertial navigation, due to its robustness in environments that challenge traditional alternatives, such as LiDAR and vision. However, its widespread adoption…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Morten Nissov , Kostas Alexis

Large driving datasets are a key component in the current development and safeguarding of automated driving functions. Various methods can be used to collect such driving data records. In addition to the use of sensor equipped research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Geller , Amarin Kloeker , Lutz Eckstein

Accurate and robust LiDAR 3D object detection is essential for comprehensive scene understanding in autonomous driving. Despite its importance, LiDAR detection performance is limited by inherent constraints of point cloud data, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Rui Yu , Runkai Zhao , Cong Nie , Heng Wang , HuaiCheng Yan , Meng Wang

The growing demand for intelligent environments unleashes an extraordinary cycle of privacy-aware applications that makes individuals' life more comfortable and safe. Examples of these applications include pedestrian tracking systems in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Masakazu Ohno , Riki Ukyo , Tatsuya Amano , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While prevalent multi-modal methods simply decorate raw lidar point clouds with camera features and feed them directly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yingwei Li , Adams Wei Yu , Tianjian Meng , Ben Caine , Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Junyang Shen , Bo Wu , Yifeng Lu , Denny Zhou , Quoc V. Le , Alan Yuille , Mingxing Tan

Feature fusion and similarity computation are two core problems in 3D object tracking, especially for object tracking using sparse and disordered point clouds. Feature fusion could make similarity computing more efficient by including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yubo Cui , Zheng Fang , Jiayao Shan , Zuoxu Gu , Sifan Zhou

Automated vehicles require an accurate perception of their surroundings for safe and efficient driving. Lidar-based object detection is a widely used method for environment perception, but its performance is significantly affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Raphael van Kempen , Tim Rehbronn , Abin Jose , Johannes Stegmaier , Bastian Lampe , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

This paper presents a long-term object tracking framework with a moving event camera under general tracking conditions. A first of its kind for these revolutionary cameras, the tracking framework uses a discriminative representation for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Bharath Ramesh , Shihao Zhang , Hong Yang , Andres Ussa , Matthew Ong , Garrick Orchard , Cheng Xiang

Highly dynamic environments, with moving objects such as cars or humans, can pose a performance challenge for LiDAR SLAM systems that assume largely static scenes. To overcome this challenge and support the deployment of robots in real…

The awareness about moving objects in the surroundings of a self-driving vehicle is essential for safe and reliable autonomous navigation. The interpretation of LiDAR and camera data achieves exceptional results but typically requires to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Matthias Zeller , Vardeep S. Sandhu , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss