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Reliable obstacle detection and classification in rough and unstructured terrain such as agricultural fields or orchards remains a challenging problem. These environments involve large variations in both geometry and appearance, challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mikkel Kragh , James Underwood

Automatic classification of trees using remotely sensed data has been a dream of many scientists and land use managers. Recently, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been expected to be an easy-to-use, cost-effective tool for remote sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Masanori Onishi , Takeshi Ise

Deep neural networks for aerial image segmentation require large amounts of labeled data, but high-quality aerial datasets with precise annotations are scarce and costly to produce. To address this limitation, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rupert Polley , Sai Vignesh Abishek Deenadayalan , J. Marius Zöllner

The current research interest in autonomous driving is growing at a rapid pace, attracting great investments from both the academic and corporate sectors. In order for vehicles to be fully autonomous, it is imperative that the driver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Kai Li Lim , Thomas Bräunl

With the development of urbanization, the scale of urban road network continues to expand, especially in some Asian countries. Short-term traffic state prediction is one of the bases of traffic management and control. Constrained by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Pengfei Xu , Weifeng Li , Chenjie Xu , Jian Li

We present an approach for road segmentation that only requires image-level annotations at training time. We leverage distant supervision, which allows us to train our model using images that are different from the target domain. Using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Satoshi Tsutsui , Tommi Kerola , Shunta Saito

A modification of the Random Forest algorithm for the categorization of traffic situations is introduced in this paper. The procedure yields an unsupervised machine learning method. The algorithm generates a proximity matrix which contains…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Friedrich Kruber , Jonas Wurst , Michael Botsch

Remote sensing is extensively used in cartography. As transportation networks grow and change, extracting roads automatically from satellite images is crucial to keep maps up-to-date. Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites can provide high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Corentin Henry , Seyed Majid Azimi , Nina Merkle

Low-latency intelligent systems are required for autonomous driving on non-uniform terrain in open-pit mines and developing countries. This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles on unpaved roads and off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto

Automatic detecting anomalous regions in images of objects or textures without priors of the anomalies is challenging, especially when the anomalies appear in very small areas of the images, making difficult-to-detect visual variations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Jie Yang , Yong Shi , Zhiquan Qi

Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jose M. Alvarez , Theo Gevers , Antonio M. Lopez

This paper presents a novel road damage detection algorithm based on unsupervised disparity map segmentation. Firstly, a disparity map is transformed by minimizing an energy function with respect to stereo rig roll angle and road disparity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Rui Fan , Ming Liu

Convolutional autoencoders have emerged as popular methods for unsupervised defect segmentation on image data. Most commonly, this task is performed by thresholding a pixel-wise reconstruction error based on an $\ell^p$ distance. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Paul Bergmann , Sindy Löwe , Michael Fauser , David Sattlegger , Carsten Steger

Vehicle classification is a hot computer vision topic, with studies ranging from ground-view up to top-view imagery. In remote sensing, the usage of top-view images allows for understanding city patterns, vehicle concentration, traffic…

Mobile robots navigating in indoor and outdoor environments must be able to identify and avoid unsafe terrain. Although a significant amount of work has been done on the detection of standing obstacles (solid obstructions), not much work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anish Singhani

In this case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

Image segmentation is a crucial step in various visual applications, including environmental monitoring through remote sensing. In the context of the ForestEyes project, which combines citizen science and machine learning to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hugo Resende , Fabio A. Faria , Eduardo B. Neto , Isabela Borlido , Victor Sundermann , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Álvaro L. Fazenda

Road detection or traversability analysis has been a key technique for a mobile robot to traverse complex off-road scenes. The problem has been mainly formulated in early works as a binary classification one, e.g. associating pixels with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Biao Gao , Shaochi Hu , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

In this work, we introduce a novel Deep Learning-based method to perceive the environment of a vehicle based on radar scans while accounting for uncertainties in its predictions. The environment of the host vehicle is segmented into equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Marco Braun , Moritz Luszek , Jan Siegemund , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

We propose a new approach to image segmentation, which exploits the advantages of both conditional random fields (CRFs) and decision trees. In the literature, the potential functions of CRFs are mostly defined as a linear combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Ruizhi Qiao , Chunhua Shen