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Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoran Xiao , Xiaofei Yang , Shijian Lu , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang

LiDAR panoptic segmentation is a newly proposed technical task for autonomous driving. In contrast to popular end-to-end deep learning solutions, we propose a hybrid method with an existing semantic segmentation network to extract semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yiming Zhao , Xiao Zhang , Xinming Huang

LiDAR scanning for surveying applications acquire measurements over wide areas and long distances, which produces large-scale 3D point clouds with significant local density variations. While existing 3D semantic segmentation models conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds has been widely studied in recent years, with most existing methods focusing on tackling this task using a single scan of the environment. However, leveraging the temporal stream of observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. In recent years, semi-supervised methods have gained popularity due to their significant reduction in annotation labor and time costs. Current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 R. D. Lin , Pengcheng Weng , Yinqiao Wang , Han Ding , Jinsong Han , Fei Wang

Deep neural networks have established themselves as the state-of-the-art methodology in almost all computer vision tasks to date. But their application to processing data lying on non-Euclidean domains is still a very active area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Chaitanya Kaul , Nick Pears , Suresh Manandhar

Multi-view projection methods have demonstrated promising performance on 3D understanding tasks like 3D classification and segmentation. However, it remains unclear how to combine such multi-view methods with the widely available 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Abdullah Hamdi , Silvio Giancola , Bernard Ghanem

Robots are expected to operate autonomously in dynamic environments. Understanding the underlying dynamic characteristics of objects is a key enabler for achieving this goal. In this paper, we propose a method for pointwise semantic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ayush Dewan , Gabriel L. Oliveira , Wolfram Burgard

Pre-training is crucial in 3D-related fields such as autonomous driving where point cloud annotation is costly and challenging. Many recent studies on point cloud pre-training, however, have overlooked the issue of incompleteness, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Hao Yang , Haiyang Wang , Di Dai , Liwei Wang

We tackle the problem of producing realistic simulations of LiDAR point clouds, the sensor of preference for most self-driving vehicles. We argue that, by leveraging real data, we can simulate the complex world more realistically compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Sivabalan Manivasagam , Shenlong Wang , Kelvin Wong , Wenyuan Zeng , Mikita Sazanovich , Shuhan Tan , Bin Yang , Wei-Chiu Ma , Raquel Urtasun

Understanding dynamic 3D environment is crucial for robotic agents and many other applications. We propose a novel neural network architecture called $MeteorNet$ for learning representations for dynamic 3D point cloud sequences. Different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Xingyu Liu , Mengyuan Yan , Jeannette Bohg

Static LiDAR scanners produce accurate, dense, colored point clouds, but often contain obtrusive artifacts which makes them ill-suited for direct display. We propose an efficient method to render photorealistic images of such scans without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Joni Vanherck , Brent Zoomers , Tom Mertens , Lode Jorissen , Nick Michiels

Strong evidence suggests that humans perceive the 3D world by parsing visual scenes and objects into part-whole hierarchies. Although deep neural networks have the capability of learning powerful multi-level representations, they can not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Renjie Liao

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

Predicting the future can significantly improve the safety of intelligent vehicles, which is a key component in autonomous driving. 3D point clouds accurately model 3D information of surrounding environment and are crucial for intelligent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Fan Lu , Guang Chen , Yinlong Liu , Zhijun Li , Sanqing Qu , Tianpei Zou

In this paper, we explore point-cloud based deep learning models to analyze numerical simulations arising from finite element analysis. The objective is to classify automatically the results of the simulations without tedious human…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Meduri Venkata Shivaditya , Francesca Bugiotti , Frederic Magoules

Consecutive LiDAR scans compose dynamic 3D sequences, which contain more abundant information than a single frame. Similar to the development history of image and video perception, dynamic 3D sequence perception starts to come into sight…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Tao Zhong , Wonjik Kim , Masayuki Tanaka , Masatoshi Okutomi

This paper presents a novel scheme to efficiently compress Light Detection and Ranging~(LiDAR) point clouds, enabling high-precision 3D scene archives, and such archives pave the way for a detailed understanding of the corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Akihiro Kuwabara , Sorachi Kato , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Takuya Fujihashi

Panoptic segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task that enables autonomous vehicles to comprehend their vicinity using their highly accurate and reliable LiDAR sensors. Existing top-down approaches tackle this problem by either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kshitij Sirohi , Rohit Mohan , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Perception systems play a crucial role in autonomous driving, incorporating multiple sensors and corresponding computer vision algorithms. 3D LiDAR sensors are widely used to capture sparse point clouds of the vehicle's surroundings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke