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Environment prediction frameworks are critical for the safe navigation of autonomous vehicles (AVs) in dynamic settings. LiDAR-generated occupancy grid maps (L-OGMs) offer a robust bird's-eye view for the scene representation, enabling…

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This paper introduces a visual-based localization method for autonomous vehicles (AVs) that operate in the absence of any complicated hardware system but a single camera. Visual localization refers to techniques that aim to find the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Sara Zahedian , Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi , Amir Nohekhan

Localization is a fundamental capability for autonomous robots, enabling them to operate effectively in dynamic environments. In Robocon 2025, accurate and reliable localization is crucial for improving shooting precision, avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Naren Medarametla , Sreejon Mondal

A vehicle detection plays an important role in the traffic control at signalised intersections. This paper introduces a vision-based algorithm for vehicles presence recognition in detection zones. The algorithm uses linguistic variables to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-20 Bartłomiej Płaczek

Accurate and timely determination of a vehicle's current lane within a map is a critical task in autonomous driving systems. This paper utilizes an Early Time Series Classification (ETSC) method to achieve precise and rapid ego-lane…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Yuchuan Jin , Theodor Stenhammar , David Bejmer , Axel Beauvisage , Yuxuan Xia , Junsheng Fu

As the trend of moving away from high-precision maps gradually emerges in the autonomous driving industry,traditional planning algorithms are gradually exposing some problems. To address the high real-time, high precision, and high…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yuxuan Zhao

Navigation signs and maps, such as floor plans and street maps, are widely available and serve as ubiquitous aids for way-finding in human environments. Yet, they are rarely used by robot systems. This paper presents SignLoc, a global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nicky Zimmerman , Joel Loo , Ayush Agrawal , David Hsu

For the purpose of achieving a more precise definition and data analysis of images, this study conducted a research on vectorization and rasterization storage of electronic maps, focusing on a large underground parking garage map. During…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Nan Dou , Qi Shi , Zhigang Lian

This paper proposes a novel method for geo-tracking, i.e. continuous metric self-localization in outdoor environments by registering a vehicle's sensor information with aerial imagery of an unseen target region. Geo-tracking methods offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

An accurate understanding of a self-driving vehicle's surrounding environment is crucial for its navigation system. To enhance the effectiveness of existing algorithms and facilitate further research, it is essential to provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Abtin Mahyar , Hossein Motamednia , Dara Rahmati

The self-localization capability is a crucial component for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) in farming applications. Approaches based solely on visual cues or on low-cost GPS are easily prone to fail in such scenarios. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Marco Imperoli , Ciro Potena , Daniele Nardi , Giorgio Grisetti , Alberto Pretto

Autonomous parking is a crucial task in the intelligent driving field. Traditional parking algorithms are usually implemented using rule-based schemes. However, these methods are less effective in complex parking scenarios due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Changze Li , Ziheng Ji , Zhe Chen , Tong Qin , Ming Yang

Motion planning for safe autonomous driving requires learning how the environment around an ego-vehicle evolves with time. Ego-centric perception of driveable regions in a scene not only changes with the motion of actors in the environment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Tarasha Khurana , Peiyun Hu , Achal Dave , Jason Ziglar , David Held , Deva Ramanan

Autonomous parking is a key technology in modern autonomous driving systems, requiring high precision, strong adaptability, and efficiency in complex environments. This paper proposes a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) framework based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zheyu Zhang , Yutong Luo , Yongzhou Chen , Haopeng Zhao , Zhichao Ma , Hao Liu

As the number of vehicles continues to grow, parking spaces are at a premium in city streets. Additionally, due to the lack of knowledge about street parking spaces, heuristic circling the blocks not only costs drivers' time and fuel, but…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-03-02 Ruizhi Liao , Cristian Roman , Peter Ball , Shumao Ou , Liping Chen

The auto-management of vehicle entrance and parking in any organization is a complex challenge encompassing record-keeping, efficiency, and security concerns. Manual methods for tracking vehicles and finding parking spaces are slow and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Muhammad Umer Ramzan , Usman Ali , Syed Haider Abbas Naqvi , Zeeshan Aslam , Tehseen , Husnain Ali , Muhammad Faheem

In this paper, we infer the statuses of a taxi, consisting of occupied, non-occupied and parked, in terms of its GPS trajectory. The status information can enable urban computing for improving a city's transportation systems and land use…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Yin Zhu , Yu Zheng , Liuhang Zhang , Darshan Santani , Xing Xie , Qiang Yang

Existing counting methods often adopt regression-based approaches and cannot precisely localize the target objects, which hinders the further analysis (e.g., high-level understanding and fine-grained classification). In addition, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-04 Meng-Ru Hsieh , Yen-Liang Lin , Winston H. Hsu

In order for autonomous vehicles to become a part of the Intelligent Transportation Ecosystem, they are required to guarantee a particular level of safety. For that to happen a safe vehicle control algorithms need to be developed, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Vladislav Kibalov , Oleg Shipitko

As autonomous driving continues to advance, automated parking is becoming increasingly essential. However, significant challenges arise when implementing path velocity decomposition (PVD) trajectory planning for automated parking. The…

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