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Lidar-based sensing drives current autonomous vehicles. Despite rapid progress, current Lidar sensors still lag two decades behind traditional color cameras in terms of resolution and cost. For autonomous driving, this means that large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Tianwei Yin , Xingyi Zhou , Philipp Krähenbühl

Modern lidar systems can produce not only dense point clouds but also 360 degrees low-resolution images. This advancement facilitates the application of deep learning (DL) techniques initially developed for conventional RGB cameras and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Jian Song , Tomi Westerlund

One key vertical application that will be enabled by 6G is the automation of the processes with the increased use of robots. As a result, sensing and localization of the surrounding environment becomes a crucial factor for these robots to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Madhushanka Padmal , Dileepa Marasinghe , Vijitha Isuru , Nalin Jayaweera , Samad Ali , Nandana Rajatheva

As one of the automotive sensors that have emerged in recent years, 4D millimeter-wave radar has a higher resolution than conventional 3D radar and provides precise elevation measurements. But its point clouds are still sparse and noisy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hongsi Liu , Jun Liu , Guangfeng Jiang , Xin Jin

Millimeter wave communication systems can leverage information from sensors to reduce the overhead associated with link configuration. LIDAR (light detection and ranging) is one sensor widely used in autonomous driving for high resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Aldebaro Klautau , Nuria González-Prelcic , Robert W. Heath

LiDAR and 4D radar are widely used in autonomous driving and robotics. While LiDAR provides rich spatial information, 4D radar offers velocity measurement and remains robust under adverse conditions. As a result, increasing studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiangyuan Peng , Miao Tang , Huawei Sun , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jiuxuan Zhao , Ashley Lyons , Arin Can Ulku , Hugo Defienne , Daniele Faccio , Edoardo Charbon

Accurate lane localization and lane change detection are crucial in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems for safer and more efficient trajectory planning. Conventional localization devices such as Global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Zhensong Wei , Chao Wang , Peng Hao , Matthew Barth

3D perception using sensors under vehicle industrial standard is the rigid demand in autonomous driving. MEMS LiDAR emerges with irresistible trend due to its lower cost, more robust, and meeting the mass-production standards. However, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Jianing Zhang , Wei Li , Honggang Gou , Lu Fang , Ruigang Yang

When localizing and detecting 3D objects for autonomous driving scenes, obtaining information from multiple sensor (e.g. camera, LIDAR) typically increases the robustness of 3D detectors. However, the efficient and effective fusion of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Can Chen , Luca Zanotti Fragonara , Antonios Tsourdos

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

As the perception range of LiDAR increases, LiDAR-based 3D object detection becomes a dominant task in the long-range perception task of autonomous driving. The mainstream 3D object detectors usually build dense feature maps in the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Lue Fan , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

LiDAR-based 3D object detection plays a crucial role in modern autonomous driving systems. LiDAR data often exhibit severe changes in properties across different observation ranges. In this paper, we explore cross-range adaptation for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Ze Wang , Sihao Ding , Ying Li , Minming Zhao , Sohini Roychowdhury , Andreas Wallin , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

Multi-sensor fusion using LiDAR and RGB cameras significantly enhances 3D object detection task. However, conventional LiDAR sensors perform dense, stateless scans, ignoring the strong temporal continuity in real-world scenes. This leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sara Shoouri , Morteza Tavakoli Taba , Hun-Seok Kim

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Localization of objects is vital for robot-object interaction. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) application in robotics is an emerging and widely used object localization technique due to its accurate distance measurement, long-range,…

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) data can be used to capture the depth and intensity profile of a 3D scene. This modality relies on constructing, for each pixel, a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Steve McLaughlin

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR), offering single-photon sensitivity and picosecond time resolution, has been widely adopted for active imaging applications. Long-range active imaging is a great challenge, because the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-31 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Yuan Cao , Jun Zhang , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

Environmental perception with the multi-modal fusion of radar and camera is crucial in autonomous driving to increase accuracy, completeness, and robustness. This paper focuses on utilizing millimeter-wave (MMW) radar and camera sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Taohua Zhou , Yining Shi , Junjie Chen , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang