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We introduce the Visual Implicit Geometry Transformer (ViGT), an autonomous driving geometric model that estimates continuous 3D occupancy fields from surround-view camera rigs. ViGT represents a step towards foundational geometric models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Arsenii Shirokov , Mikhail Kuznetsov , Danila Stepochkin , Egor Evdokimov , Daniil Glazkov , Nikolay Patakin , Anton Konushin , Dmitry Senushkin

We propose a novel normal estimation method called HSurf-Net, which can accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous methods focus on learning point weights to fit neighborhoods into a geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Qing Li , Yu-Shen Liu , Jin-San Cheng , Cheng Wang , Yi Fang , Zhizhong Han

LiDAR point clouds have become the most common data source in autonomous driving. However, due to the sparsity of point clouds, accurate and reliable detection cannot be achieved in specific scenarios. Because of their complementarity with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Leichao Cui , Xiuxian Li , Min Meng , Xiaoyu Mo

Multimodal Knowledge Graphs (MKGs), which organize visual-text factual knowledge, have recently been successfully applied to tasks such as information retrieval, question answering, and recommendation system. Since most MKGs are far from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Xiang Chen , Ningyu Zhang , Lei Li , Shumin Deng , Chuanqi Tan , Changliang Xu , Fei Huang , Luo Si , Huajun Chen

Reliable terrain perception is a critical prerequisite for the deployment of humanoid robots in unstructured, human-centric environments. While traditional systems often rely on manually engineered, single-sensor pipelines, this paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Dennis Bank , Joost Cordes , Thomas Seel , Simon F. G. Ehlers

Gait recognition is a remote biometric technology that utilizes the dynamic characteristics of human movement to identify individuals even under various extreme lighting conditions. Due to the limitation in spatial perception capability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Jiaxing Hao , Yanxi Wang , Zhigang Chang , Hongmin Gao , Zihao Cheng , Chen Wu , Xin Zhao , Peiye Fang , Rachmat Muwardi

State-of-the-art methods for driving-scene LiDAR-based perception (including point cloud semantic segmentation, panoptic segmentation and 3D detection, \etc) often project the point clouds to 2D space and then process them via 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xinge Zhu , Hui Zhou , Tai Wang , Fangzhou Hong , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Hongsheng Li , Ruigang Yang , Dahua Lin

Detecting dynamic objects and predicting static road information such as drivable areas and ground heights are crucial for safe autonomous driving. Previous works studied each perception task separately, and lacked a collective quantitative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Di Feng , Yiyang Zhou , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan

Perceiving and reconstructing 3D scene geometry from visual inputs is crucial for autonomous driving. However, there still lacks a driving-targeted dense geometry perception model that can adapt to different scenarios and camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Sicheng Zuo , Zixun Xie , Wenzhao Zheng , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Shengyin Jiang , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Jiwen Lu

3D point cloud-based place recognition is highly demanded by autonomous driving in GPS-challenged environments and serves as an essential component (i.e. loop-closure detection) in lidar-based SLAM systems. This paper proposes a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-24 Zhicheng Zhou , Cheng Zhao , Daniel Adolfsson , Songzhi Su , Yang Gao , Tom Duckett , Li Sun

We propose a methodology for lidar super-resolution with ground vehicles driving on roadways, which relies completely on a driving simulator to enhance, via deep learning, the apparent resolution of a physical lidar. To increase the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Tixiao Shan , Jinkun Wang , Fanfei Chen , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

The fusion of LiDARs and cameras has been increasingly adopted in autonomous driving for perception tasks. The performance of such fusion-based algorithms largely depends on the accuracy of sensor calibration, which is challenging due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuxuan Xiao , Yao Li , Chengzhen Meng , Xingchen Li , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang

Data representation in non-Euclidean spaces has proven effective for capturing hierarchical and complex relationships in real-world datasets. Hyperbolic spaces, in particular, provide efficient embeddings for hierarchical structures. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Ethan Feng , Minh Pham

3D object detection is an essential task in autonomous driving. Recent techniques excel with highly accurate detection rates, provided the 3D input data is obtained from precise but expensive LiDAR technology. Approaches based on cheaper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yan Wang , Wei-Lun Chao , Divyansh Garg , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

High-resolution imagery is essential for accurate 3D reconstruction, as many geometric details only emerge at fine spatial scales. Recent feed-forward approaches, such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Tianrun Chen , Yuanqi Hu , Yidong Han , Hanjie Xu , Deyi Ji , Qi Zhu , Chunan Yu , Xin Zhang , Cheng Chen , Chaotao Ding , Ying Zang , Xuanfu Li , Jin Ma , Lanyun Zhu

How should representations from complementary sensors be integrated for autonomous driving? Geometry-based sensor fusion has shown great promise for perception tasks such as object detection and motion forecasting. However, for the actual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Aditya Prakash , Kashyap Chitta , Andreas Geiger

Autonomous driving vehicles and robotic systems rely on accurate perception of their surroundings. Scene understanding is one of the crucial components of perception modules. Among all available sensors, LiDARs are one of the essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ryan Razani , Ran Cheng , Ehsan Taghavi , Liu Bingbing

Hydrometric forecasting is crucial for managing water resources, flood prediction, and environmental protection. Water stations are interconnected, and this connectivity influences the measurements at other stations. However, the dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Naghmeh Shafiee Roudbari , Ursula Eicker , Charalambos Poullis , Zachary Patterson

Multimodal remote sensing data, including spectral and lidar or photogrammetry, is crucial for achieving satisfactory land-use / land-cover classification results in urban scenes. So far, most studies have been conducted in a 2D context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Aldino Rizaldy , Richard Gloaguen , Fabian Ewald Fassnacht , Pedram Ghamisi

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller