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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

We present TransLPC, a novel detection model for large point clouds that is based on a transformer architecture. While object detection with transformers has been an active field of research, it has proved difficult to apply such models to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Felicia Ruppel , Florian Faion , Claudius Gläser , Klaus Dietmayer

Many point-based semantic segmentation methods have been designed for indoor scenarios, but they struggle if they are applied to point clouds that are captured by a LiDAR sensor in an outdoor environment. In order to make these methods more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shijie Li , Yun Liu , Juergen Gall

We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Carlos Becker , Nicolai Häni , Elena Rosinskaya , Emmanuel d'Angelo , Christoph Strecha

LiDAR and photogrammetry are active and passive remote sensing techniques for point cloud acquisition, respectively, offering complementary advantages and heterogeneous. Due to the fundamental differences in sensing mechanisms, spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Chen Wang , Yanfeng Gu , Xian Li

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

Existing LiDAR-Camera fusion methods have achieved strong results in 3D object detection. To address the sparsity of point clouds, previous approaches typically construct spatial pseudo point clouds via depth completion as auxiliary input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jijun Wang , Yan Wu , Yujian Mo , Junqiao Zhao , Jun Yan , Yinghao Hu

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

3D object detection using LiDAR data is an indispensable component for autonomous driving systems. Yet, only a few LiDAR-based 3D object detection methods leverage segmentation information to further guide the detection process. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Hamidreza Fazlali , Yixuan Xu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

In the past few years, we have seen great progress in perception algorithms, particular through the use of deep learning. However, most existing approaches focus on a few categories of interest, which represent only a small fraction of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Kelvin Wong , Shenlong Wang , Mengye Ren , Ming Liang , Raquel Urtasun

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

In this paper, we present LaserNet, a computationally efficient method for 3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving. The efficiency results from processing LiDAR data in the native range view of the sensor, where the input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Gregory P. Meyer , Ankit Laddha , Eric Kee , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl K. Wellington

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale driving-scene LiDAR segmentation often project the point clouds to 2D space and then process them via 2D convolution. Although this corporation shows the competitiveness in the point cloud, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinge Zhu , Hui Zhou , Tai Wang , Fangzhou Hong , Yuexin Ma , Wei Li , Hongsheng Li , Dahua Lin

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein

In this paper, we propose an algorithm to generate a static point cloud map based on LiDAR point cloud data. Our proposed pipeline detects dynamic objects using 3D object detectors and projects points of dynamic objects onto the ground.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Soojin Woo , Donghwi Jung , Seong-Woo Kim

A unified neural network structure is presented for joint 3D object detection and point cloud segmentation in this paper. We leverage rich supervision from both detection and segmentation labels rather than using just one of them. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuanxin Zhong , Minghan Zhu , Huei Peng

We present TOPGN, a novel method for real-time transparent obstacle detection for robot navigation in unknown environments. We use a multi-layer 2D grid map representation obtained by summing the intensities of lidar point clouds that lie…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Kasun Weerakoon , Adarsh Jagan Sathyamoorthy , Mohamed Elnoor , Anuj Zore , Dinesh Manocha

Autonomous driving requires the inference of actionable information such as detecting and classifying objects, and determining the drivable space. To this end, we present Multi-View LidarNet (MVLidarNet), a two-stage deep neural network for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Ke Chen , Ryan Oldja , Nikolai Smolyanskiy , Stan Birchfield , Alexander Popov , David Wehr , Ibrahim Eden , Joachim Pehserl

Within the past decade, the rise of applications based on artificial intelligence (AI) in general and machine learning (ML) in specific has led to many significant contributions within different domains. The applications range from robotics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Christoph Sager , Patrick Zschech , Niklas Kühl

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross