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Autonomous navigation in off-road conditions requires an accurate estimation of terrain traversability. However, traversability estimation in unstructured environments is subject to high uncertainty due to the variability of numerous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Junwon Seo , Taekyung Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Kiho Kwak

Road detection or traversability analysis has been a key technique for a mobile robot to traverse complex off-road scenes. The problem has been mainly formulated in early works as a binary classification one, e.g. associating pixels with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Biao Gao , Shaochi Hu , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

Achieving reliable and safe autonomous driving in off-road environments requires accurate and efficient terrain traversability analysis. However, this task faces several challenges, including the scarcity of large-scale datasets tailored…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yafeng Bu , Zhenping Sun , Xiaohui Li , Jun Zeng , Xin Zhang , Hui Shen

The rapid development of 3D object detection systems for self-driving cars has significantly improved accuracy. However, these systems struggle to generalize across diverse driving environments, which can lead to safety-critical failures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Travis Zhang , Katie Luo , Cheng Perng Phoo , Yurong You , Wei-Lun Chao , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger

Current 3D semi-supervised segmentation methods face significant challenges such as limited consideration of contextual information and the inability to generate reliable pseudo-labels for effective unsupervised data use. To address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Sanaz Karimijafarbigloo , Reza Azad , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

We propose a method for off-road drivable area extraction using 3D LiDAR data with the goal of autonomous driving application. A specific deep learning framework is designed to deal with the ambiguous area, which is one of the main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Biao Gao , Anran Xu , Yancheng Pan , Xijun Zhao , Wen Yao , Huijing Zhao

This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance specialized on unpaved roads and off-road environments. In this research, the authors have investigated the behavior of Deep Learning algorithms…

Robust road segmentation in all road conditions is required for safe autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems. Supervised deep learning methods provide accurate road segmentation in the domain of their training data but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Eerik Alamikkotervo , Henrik Toikka , Kari Tammi , Risto Ojala

We present a self-supervised approach for learning to predict traversable paths for wheeled mobile robots that require good traction to navigate. Our algorithm, termed WayFAST (Waypoint Free Autonomous Systems for Traversability), uses RGB…

Autonomous navigation in extreme mountainous terrains poses challenges due to the presence of mobility-stressing elements and undulating surfaces, making it particularly difficult compared to conventional off-road driving scenarios. In such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Se-Wook Yoo , E In Son , Seung-Woo Seo

In this study, we address the off-road traversability estimation problem, that predicts areas where a robot can navigate in off-road environments. An off-road environment is an unstructured environment comprising a combination of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Yurim Jeon , E In Son , Seung-Woo Seo

Semi-supervised 3D object detection is a common strategy employed to circumvent the challenge of manually labeling large-scale autonomous driving perception datasets. Pseudo-labeling approaches to semi-supervised learning adopt a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Philip Jacobson , Yichen Xie , Mingyu Ding , Chenfeng Xu , Masayoshi Tomizuka , Wei Zhan , Ming C. Wu

Traversing terrain with good traction is crucial for achieving fast off-road navigation. Instead of manually designing costs based on terrain features, existing methods learn terrain properties directly from data via self-supervision to…

Instance segmentation of unknown objects from images is regarded as relevant for several robot skills including grasping, tracking and object sorting. Recent results in computer vision have shown that large hand-labeled datasets enable high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Andreas Eitel , Nico Hauff , Wolfram Burgard

Automatic road extraction from satellite imagery using deep learning is a viable alternative to traditional manual mapping. Therefore it has received considerable attention recently. However, most of the existing methods are supervised and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Shiqiao Meng , Zonglin Di , Siwei Yang , Yin Wang

Knowing when a trained segmentation model is encountering data that is different to its training data is important. Understanding and mitigating the effects of this play an important part in their application from a performance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 David S. W. Williams , Daniele De Martini , Matthew Gadd , Paul Newman

Mobile robots operating in unknown urban environments encounter a wide range of complex terrains to which they must adapt their planned trajectory for safe and efficient navigation. Most existing approaches utilize supervised learning to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Off-road environments remain significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles, due to the lack of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zitong Chen , Chao Sun , Shida Nie , Chen Min , Changjiu Ning , Haoyu Li , Bo Wang

Deep neural networks for aerial image segmentation require large amounts of labeled data, but high-quality aerial datasets with precise annotations are scarce and costly to produce. To address this limitation, we propose a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Rupert Polley , Sai Vignesh Abishek Deenadayalan , J. Marius Zöllner

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for safe navigation in agricultural robotics. As global environmental challenges intensify, robotics offers a powerful solution to reduce chemical usage while meeting the increasing demands for…