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Drivable free space information is vital for autonomous vehicles that have to plan evasive maneuvers in real-time. In this paper, we present a new efficient method for environmental free space detection with laser scanner based on 2D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Hesham M. Eraqi , Jens Honer , Sebastian Zuther

Autonomous off-road navigation requires an accurate semantic understanding of the environment, often converted into a bird's-eye view (BEV) representation for various downstream tasks. While learning-based methods have shown success in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ohn Kim , Junwon Seo , Seongyong Ahn , Chong Hui Kim

We present a novel mapping framework for robot navigation which features a multi-level querying system capable to obtain rapidly representations as diverse as a 3D voxel grid, a 2.5D height map and a 2D occupancy grid. These are inherently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Daniele De Gregorio , Luigi Di Stefano

In perception for automated vehicles, safety is critical not only for the driver but also for other agents in the scene, particularly vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists. Previous representation methods, such as Bird's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Seamie Hayes , Ganesh Sistu , Tim Brophy , Ciaran Eising

Autonomous driving needs various line-of-sight sensors to perceive surroundings that could be impaired under diverse environment uncertainties such as visual occlusion and extreme weather. To improve driving safety, we explore to wirelessly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

Urban modeling is essential for city planning, scene synthesis, and gaming. Existing image-based methods generate diverse layouts but often lack geometric continuity and scalability, while graph-based methods capture structural relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mengyuan Niu , Xinxin Zhuo , Ruizhe Wang , Yuyue Huang , Junyan Yang , Qiao Wang

Outdoor intelligent autonomous robotic operation relies on a sufficiently expressive map of the environment. Classical geometric mapping methods retain essential structural environment information, but lack a semantic understanding and…

Reliable and accurate localization and mapping are key components of most autonomous systems. Besides geometric information about the mapped environment, the semantics plays an important role to enable intelligent navigation behaviors. In…

High definition (HD) maps have demonstrated their essential roles in enabling full autonomy, especially in complex urban scenarios. As a crucial layer of the HD map, lane-level maps are particularly useful: they contain geometrical and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yiyang Zhou , Yuichi Takeda , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

A detailed environment perception is a crucial component of automated vehicles. However, to deal with the amount of perceived information, we also require segmentation strategies. Based on a grid map environment representation, well-suited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Sascha Wirges , Tom Fischer , Jesus Balado Frias , Christoph Stiller

Autonomous driving requires robust perception across diverse environmental conditions, yet 3D semantic occupancy prediction remains challenging under adverse weather and lighting. In this work, we present the first study combining 4D radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 David Ninfa , Andras Palffy , Holger Caesar

With the great achievement of artificial intelligence, vehicle technologies have advanced significantly from human centric driving towards fully automated driving. An intelligent vehicle should be able to understand the driver's perception…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Yang Zheng , Izzat H. Izzat , John H. L. Hansen

Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang

Autonomous driving is a safety-critical application, and it is therefore a top priority that the accompanying assistance systems are able to provide precise information about the surrounding environment of the vehicle. Tasks such as 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Dan Halperin , Niklas Eisl

Recent breakthroughs in autonomous driving have been propelled by advances in robust world modeling, fundamentally transforming how vehicles interpret dynamic scenes and execute safe decision-making. World models have emerged as a linchpin…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Yi Yang

Over the recent years, there has been an explosion of studies on autonomous vehicles. Many collected large amount of data from human drivers. However, compared to the tedious data collection approach, building a virtual simulation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Zhijing Jin , Tristan Swedish , Ramesh Raskar

In perception tasks of automated vehicles (AVs) data-driven have often outperformed conventional approaches. This motivated us to develop a data-driven methodology to compute occupancy grid maps (OGMs) from lidar measurements. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Raphael van Kempen , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Timo Woopen , Till Beemelmanns , Lutz Eckstein

Accurately predicting the possible behaviors of traffic participants is an essential capability for autonomous vehicles. Since autonomous vehicles need to navigate in dynamically changing environments, they are expected to make accurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yeping Hu , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

Creating accurate spatial representations that take into account uncertainty is critical for autonomous robots to safely navigate in unstructured environments. Although recent LIDAR based mapping techniques can produce robust occupancy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Anthony Tompkins , Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

A real-time semantic 3D occupancy mapping framework is proposed in this paper. The mapping framework is based on the Bayesian kernel inference strategy from the literature. Two novel free space representations are proposed to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Yuanxin Zhong , Huei Peng