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Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang

Segmenting or detecting objects in sparse Lidar point clouds are two important tasks in autonomous driving to allow a vehicle to act safely in its 3D environment. The best performing methods in 3D semantic segmentation or object detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Corentin Sautier , Gilles Puy , Spyros Gidaris , Alexandre Boulch , Andrei Bursuc , Renaud Marlet

Visual data in autonomous driving perception, such as camera image and LiDAR point cloud, can be interpreted as a mixture of two aspects: semantic feature and geometric structure. Semantics come from the appearance and context of objects to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xia Chen , Jianren Wang , David Held , Martial Hebert

In this study, we present a novel LiDAR-based semantic segmentation framework tailored for autonomous forklifts operating in complex outdoor environments. Central to our approach is the integration of a dual LiDAR system, which combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Benjamin Serfling , Hannes Reichert , Lorenzo Bayerlein , Konrad Doll , Kati Radkhah-Lens

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Semantic understanding of the surrounding environment is essential for automated vehicles. The recent publication of the SemanticKITTI dataset stimulates the research on semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds in urban scenarios. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Juncong Fei , Kunyu Peng , Philipp Heidenreich , Frank Bieder , Christoph Stiller

Lidars and cameras play essential roles in autonomous driving, offering complementary information for 3D detection. The state-of-the-art fusion methods integrate them at the feature level, but they mostly rely on the learned soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Within a perception framework for autonomous mobile and robotic systems, semantic analysis of 3D point clouds typically generated by LiDARs is key to numerous applications, such as object detection and recognition, and scene reconstruction.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Samir Abou Haidar , Alexandre Chariot , Mehdi Darouich , Cyril Joly , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud

Semantic grids are a useful representation of the environment around a robot. They can be used in autonomous vehicles to concisely represent the scene around the car, capturing vital information for downstream tasks like navigation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Manuel Alejandro Diaz-Zapata , Özgür Erkent , Christian Laugier , Jilles Dibangoye , David Sierra González

Recently, the advancement of deep learning in discriminative feature learning from 3D LiDAR data has led to rapid development in the field of autonomous driving. However, automated processing uneven, unstructured, noisy, and massive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ying Li , Lingfei Ma , Zilong Zhong , Fei Liu , Dongpu Cao , Jonathan Li , Michael A. Chapman

In self-driving applications, LiDAR data provides accurate information about distances in 3D but lacks the semantic richness of camera data. Therefore, state-of-the-art methods for perception in urban scenes fuse data from both sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Royden Wagner , Marvin Klemp , Carlos Fernandez Lopez

LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While most prevalent methods progressively downscale the 3D point clouds and camera images and then fuse the high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

Outdoor scene completion is a challenging issue in 3D scene understanding, which plays an important role in intelligent robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the sparsity of LiDAR acquisition, it is far more complex for 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xuemeng Yang , Hao Zou , Xin Kong , Tianxin Huang , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang

Robust environment perception for autonomous vehicles is a tremendous challenge, which makes a diverse sensor set with e.g. camera, lidar and radar crucial. In the process of understanding the recorded sensor data, 3D semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hannah Schieber , Fabian Duerr , Torsten Schoen , Jürgen Beyerer

This paper introduces a novel self-supervised learning framework for enhancing 3D perception in autonomous driving scenes. Specifically, our approach, namely NCLR, focuses on 2D-3D neural calibration, a novel pretext task that estimates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou , Siyu Ren , Jinjian Wu , Yixuan Yuan , Guangming Shi

Accurate moving object segmentation is an essential task for autonomous driving. It can provide effective information for many downstream tasks, such as collision avoidance, path planning, and static map construction. How to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Jiadai Sun , Yuchao Dai , Xianjing Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Xieyuanli Chen