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Increasing the density of the 3D LiDAR point cloud is appealing for many applications in robotics. However, high-density LiDAR sensors are usually costly and still limited to a level of coverage per scan (e.g., 128 channels). Meanwhile,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Kaicheng Zhang , Ziyang Hong , Shida Xu , Sen Wang

Automatic processing of 3D Point Cloud data for object detection, tracking and segmentation is the latest trending research in the field of AI and Data Science, which is specifically aimed at solving different challenges of autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Mohammed Javed , MD Meraz , Pavan Chakraborty

LiDAR sensors are an integral part of modern autonomous vehicles as they provide an accurate, high-resolution 3D representation of the vehicle's surroundings. However, it is computationally difficult to make use of the ever-increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marc Uecker , Tobias Fleck , Marcel Pflugfelder , J. Marius Zöllner

LiDAR Upsampling is a challenging task for the perception systems of robots and autonomous vehicles, due to the sparse and irregular structure of large-scale scene contexts. Recent works propose to solve this problem by converting LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Bin Yang , Patrick Pfreundschuh , Roland Siegwart , Marco Hutter , Peyman Moghadam , Vaishakh Patil

LiDAR sensors are often considered essential for autonomous driving, but high-resolution sensors remain expensive while affordable low-resolution sensors produce sparse point clouds that miss critical details. LiDAR super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 June Moh Goo , Zichao Zeng , Jan Boehm

In this paper, we will present p roposed enhance process of image compression by using RLE algorithm. This proposed yield to decrease the size of compressing image, but the original method used primarily for compressing a binary images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Ali H. Husseen Al-nuaimi , Shyamaa Shakir Al-juboori , R. J. Mohammed

We present a novel deep compression algorithm to reduce the memory footprint of LiDAR point clouds. Our method exploits the sparsity and structural redundancy between points to reduce the bitrate. Towards this goal, we first encode the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 Lila Huang , Shenlong Wang , Kelvin Wong , Jerry Liu , Raquel Urtasun

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is an essential and widely adopted sensor for autonomous vehicles, particularly for those vehicles operating at higher levels (L4-L5) of autonomy. Recent work has demonstrated the promise of deep-learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Bernie Wang , Virginia Wu , Bichen Wu , Kurt Keutzer

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily on sensors such as camera and LiDAR, which provide real-time information about their surroundings for the tasks of perception, planning and control. Typically a LiDAR can only provide sparse point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sabir Hossain , Xianke Lin

LiDARs are usually more accurate than cameras in distance measuring. Hence, there is strong interest to apply LiDARs in autonomous driving. Different existing approaches process the rich 3D point clouds for object detection, tracking and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-15 You Li , Clément Le Bihan , Txomin Pourtau , Thomas Ristorcelli

LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms are extensively studied to providing robust and accurate positioning for autonomous driving vehicles (ADV) in the past decades. Satisfactory performance can be obtained using high-grade 3D LiDAR with 64 channels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jiang Yue , Weisong Wen , Jing Han , Li-Ta Hsu

Lidar has become an essential sensor for autonomous driving as it provides reliable depth estimation. Lidar is also the primary sensor used in building 3D maps which can be used even in the case of low-cost systems which do not use Lidar.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 B Ravi Kiran , Luis Roldão , Benat Irastorza , Renzo Verastegui , Sebastian Suss , Senthil Yogamani , Victor Talpaert , Alexandre Lepoutre , Guillaume Trehard

LiDAR are increasingly being used in intelligent vehicles (IV) or intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Storage and transmission of data generated by LiDAR sensors are one of the most challenging aspects of their deployment. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Paul Caillet , Yohan Dupuis

Three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement devices and techniques are being rapidly adopted within a variety of industries and applications. As acquiring 3D range data becomes faster and more accurate it becomes more challenging to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Matthew G. Finley , Tyler Bell

An autonomous vehicle can generate several terabytes of sensor data per day. A significant portion of this data consists of 3D point clouds produced by depth sensors such as LiDARs. This data must be transferred to cloud storage, where it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Ali Khalid , Jaiaid Mobin , Sumanth Rao Appala , Avinash Maurya , Stephany Berrio Perez , M. Mustafa Rafique , Fawad Ahmad

In the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), efficient data compression is crucial for managing large-scale point cloud data acquired by roadside LiDAR sensors. The demand for efficient storage, streaming, and real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Walter Zimmer , Ramandika Pranamulia , Xingcheng Zhou , Mingyu Liu , Alois C. Knoll

In this paper, we introduce Cirrus, a new long-range bi-pattern LiDAR public dataset for autonomous driving tasks such as 3D object detection, critical to highway driving and timely decision making. Our platform is equipped with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ze Wang , Sihao Ding , Ying Li , Jonas Fenn , Sohini Roychowdhury , Andreas Wallin , Lane Martin , Scott Ryvola , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

LiDAR provides accurate geometric measurements of the 3D world. Unfortunately, dense LiDARs are very expensive and the point clouds captured by low-beam LiDAR are often sparse. To address these issues, we present UltraLiDAR, a data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuwen Xiong , Wei-Chiu Ma , Jingkang Wang , Raquel Urtasun

We present INDOOR-LIDAR, a comprehensive hybrid dataset of indoor 3D LiDAR point clouds designed to advance research in robot perception. Existing indoor LiDAR datasets often suffer from limited scale, inconsistent annotation formats, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund