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Grounding a command to the visual environment is an essential ingredient for interactions between autonomous vehicles and humans. In this work, we study the problem of language grounding for autonomous vehicles, which aims to localize a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Hou Pong Chan , Mingxi Guo , Cheng-Zhong Xu

Autonomous vehicles rely on a variety of sensors to gather information about their surrounding. The vehicle's behavior is planned based on the environment perception, making its reliability crucial for safety reasons. The active LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mariella Dreissig , Dominik Scheuble , Florian Piewak , Joschka Boedecker

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a fundamental problem in statistical signal processing. In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate their actions to accurately…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Autonomous vehicles were experiencing rapid development in the past few years. However, achieving full autonomy is not a trivial task, due to the nature of the complex and dynamic driving environment. Therefore, autonomous vehicles are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yaodong Cui , Ren Chen , Wenbo Chu , Long Chen , Daxin Tian , Ying Li , Dongpu Cao

Camera and LiDAR serve as informative sensors for accurate and robust autonomous driving systems. However, these sensors often exhibit heterogeneous natures, resulting in distributional modality gaps that present significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yiran Yang , Xu Gao , Tong Wang , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi , Xiao Tan , Xiaoqing Ye , Jingdong Wang

Algorithms that fuse multiple input sources benefit from both complementary and shared information. Shared information may provide robustness against faulty or noisy inputs, which is indispensable for safety-critical applications like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Taewan Kim , Joydeep Ghosh

Indoor scene understanding remains a fundamental challenge in robotics, with direct implications for downstream tasks such as navigation and manipulation. Traditional approaches often rely on closed-set recognition or loop closure, limiting…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Hongming Chen , Yiyang Lin , Ziliang Li , Biyu Ye , Yuying Zhang , Ximin Lyu

This paper extends LiDAR-BIND, a modular multi-modal fusion framework that binds heterogeneous sensors (radar, sonar) to a LiDAR-defined latent space, with mechanisms that explicitly enforce temporal consistency. We introduce three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Niels Balemans , Ali Anwar , Jan Steckel , Siegfried Mercelis

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

Object detection in sonar images is crucial for underwater robotics applications including autonomous navigation and resource exploration. However, complex noise patterns inherent in sonar imagery, particularly speckle, reverberation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ziyu Wang , Tao Xue , Jingyuan Li , Haibin Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Gaofei Xu , Zhen Wang , Yanbin Wang , Zhiquan Liu

Navigating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) through cluttered and dynamic environments remains a significant challenge, particularly when dealing with fast-moving or sudden-appearing obstacles. This paper introduces a complete LiDAR-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Huajie Wu , Wenyi Liu , Yunfan Ren , Zheng Liu , Hairuo Wei , Fangcheng Zhu , Haotian Li , Fu Zhang

We consider the problem of safe real-time navigation of a robot in a dynamic environment with moving obstacles of arbitrary smooth geometries and input saturation constraints. We assume that the robot detects and models nearby obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Anusha Srikanthan , Yifan Xue , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni , Nadia Figueroa

This paper presents an approach for navigation and control in unmapped environments under input and state constraints using a composite control barrier function (CBF). We consider the scenario where real-time perception feedback (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Amirsaeid Safari , Jesse B. Hoagg

This paper presents a simulation workflow for generating synthetic LiDAR datasets to support autonomous vehicle perception, robotics research, and sensor security analysis. Leveraging the CoppeliaSim simulation environment and its Python…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Abhishek Phadke , Shakib Mahmud Dipto , Pratip Rana

Obstacle avoidance is crucial for mobile robots' navigation in both known and unknown environments. This research designs, trains, and tests two custom Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), using color and depth images from a depth camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Lamiaa H. Zain , Hossam H. Ammar , Raafat E. Shalaby

This paper proposes a Context Aware Agent based Military Sensor Network (CAMSN) to form an improved infrastructure for multi-sensor image fusion. It considers contexts driven by a node and sink. The contexts such as general and critical…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2011-04-08 Ashok V Sutagundar , Sunilkumar S Manvi

This paper presents the use of multi-sensor measurement system to guide autonomous mobile robot in the house. The system allows the 3D image acquisition to global mapping, and algorithms to reduce the dimensionality of images to 2D global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Thuan Hoang Tran , Manh Duong Phung , Anh Viet Dang , Quang Vinh Tran

Besides standard cameras, autonomous vehicles typically include multiple additional sensors, such as lidars and radars, which help acquire richer information for perceiving the content of the driving scene. While several recent works focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Tim Broedermann , Christos Sakaridis , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Reliable, drift-free global localization presents significant challenges yet remains crucial for autonomous navigation in large-scale dynamic environments. In this paper, we introduce a tightly-coupled Semantic-LiDAR-Inertial-Wheel Odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Haoxuan Jiang , Peicong Qian , Yusen Xie , Linwei Zheng , Xiaocong Li , Ming Liu , Jun Ma

Multimodal deep sensor fusion has the potential to enable autonomous vehicles to visually understand their surrounding environments in all weather conditions. However, existing deep sensor fusion methods usually employ convoluted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sri Aditya Deevi , Connor Lee , Lu Gan , Sushruth Nagesh , Gaurav Pandey , Soon-Jo Chung