English
Related papers

Related papers: Multisensor Data Fusion for Reliable Obstacle Avoi…

200 papers

We present a system for multi-level scene awareness for robotic manipulation. Given a sequence of camera-in-hand RGB images, the system calculates three types of information: 1) a point cloud representation of all the surfaces in the scene,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Yunzhi Lin , Jonathan Tremblay , Stephen Tyree , Patricio A. Vela , Stan Birchfield

To track the 3D locations and trajectories of the other traffic participants at any given time, modern autonomous vehicles are equipped with multiple cameras that cover the vehicle's full surroundings. Yet, camera-based 3D object tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Tobias Fischer , Yung-Hsu Yang , Suryansh Kumar , Min Sun , Fisher Yu

This paper investigates a novel active-sensing-based obstacle avoidance paradigm for flying robots in dynamic environments. Instead of fusing multiple sensors to enlarge the field of view (FOV), we introduce an alternative approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Gang Chen , Wei Dong , Xinjun Sheng , Xiangyang Zhu , Han Ding

With the rapid development of intelligent vehicles and Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS), a new trend is that mixed levels of human driver engagements will be involved in the transportation system. Therefore, necessary visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Yongkang Liu , Ziran Wang , Kyungtae Han , Zhenyu Shou , Prashant Tiwari , John H. L. Hansen

Multi-sensor modal fusion has demonstrated strong advantages in 3D object detection tasks. However, existing methods that fuse multi-modal features require transforming features into the bird's eye view space and may lose certain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chunyong Hu , Hang Zheng , Kun Li , Jianyun Xu , Weibo Mao , Maochun Luo , Lingxuan Wang , Mingxia Chen , Qihao Peng , Kaixuan Liu , Yiru Zhao , Peihan Hao , Minzhe Liu , Kaicheng Yu

The plethora of sensors in our commodity devices provides a rich substrate for sensor-fused tracking. Yet, today's solutions are unable to deliver robust and high tracking accuracies across multiple agents in practical, everyday…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Mallesham Dasari , Ramanujan K Sheshadri , Karthikeyan Sundaresan , Samir R. Das

This paper presents a novel method for reformulating non-differentiable collision avoidance constraints into smooth nonlinear constraints using strong duality of convex optimization. We focus on a controlled object whose goal is to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-12 Xiaojing Zhang , Alexander Liniger , Francesco Borrelli

Fusing different sensor modalities can be a difficult task, particularly if they are asynchronous. Asynchronisation may arise due to long processing times or improper synchronisation during calibration, and there must exist a way to still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Seamie Hayes , Sushil Sharma , Ciarán Eising

Online generation of collision free trajectories is of prime importance for autonomous navigation. Dynamic environments, robot motion and sensing uncertainties adds further challenges to collision avoidance systems. This paper presents an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Antony Thomas , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni , Marco Baglietto

This paper presents a compact and accurate representation of 3D scenes that are observed by a LiDAR sensor and a monocular camera. The proposed method is based on the well-established Stixel model originally developed for stereo vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Florian Piewak , Peter Pinggera , Markus Enzweiler , David Pfeiffer , Marius Zöllner

Obstacle detection is one of the basic tasks of a robot movement in an unknown environment. The use of a LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor allows one to obtain a point cloud in the vicinity of the sensor. After processing this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Kratochvila

The real-time dynamic environment perception has become vital for autonomous robots in crowded spaces. Although the popular voxel-based mapping methods can efficiently represent 3D obstacles with arbitrarily complex shapes, they can hardly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhefan Xu , Xiaoyang Zhan , Baihan Chen , Yumeng Xiu , Chenhao Yang , Kenji Shimada

Autonomous driving systems rely heavily on robust sensor fusion to perceive complex envi- ronments. Traditional setups using RGB cameras and LiDAR often struggle in high-dynamic- range scenes or high-speed scenarios due to motion blur and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Mustafa Sakhaia , Kaung Sithua , Min Khant Soe Okea , Maciej Wielgosza

Enabling autonomous robots to operate robustly in challenging environments is necessary in a future with increased autonomy. For many autonomous systems, estimation and odometry remains a single point of failure, from which it can often be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Morten Nissov , Nikhil Khedekar , Kostas Alexis

Accurate 3D person detection is critical for safety in applications such as robotics, industrial monitoring, and surveillance. This work presents a systematic evaluation of 3D person detection using camera-only, LiDAR-only, and camera-LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Malaz Tamim , Andrea Matic-Flierl , Karsten Roscher

A realistic view of the vehicle's surroundings is generally offered by camera sensors, which is crucial for environmental perception. Affordable radar sensors, on the other hand, are becoming invaluable due to their robustness in variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kavin Chandrasekaran , Sorin Grigorescu , Gijs Dubbelman , Pavol Jancura

4D millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar has been widely adopted in autonomous driving and robot perception due to its low cost and all-weather robustness. However, point-cloud-based radar representations suffer from information loss due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Runwei Guan , Jianan Liu , Shaofeng Liang , Fangqiang Ding , Shanliang Yao , Xiaokai Bai , Daizong Liu , Tao Huang , Guoqiang Mao , Hui Xiong

Fusing Radar and Lidar sensor data can fully utilize their complementary advantages and provide more accurate reconstruction of the surrounding for autonomous driving systems. Surround Radar/Lidar can provide 360-degree view sampling with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Wenjing Xie , Tao Hu , Neiwen Ling , Guoliang Xing , Chun Jason Xue , Nan Guan

Sensor fusion is an essential topic in many perception systems, such as autonomous driving and robotics. Existing multi-modal 3D detection models usually involve customized designs depending on the sensor combinations or setups. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Xuanyao Chen , Tianyuan Zhang , Yue Wang , Yilun Wang , Hang Zhao

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) increasingly depend on Multi-Sensor Fusion (MSF) to combine complementary modalities such as cameras and LiDAR for robust perception. While this redundancy is intended to safeguard against single-sensor failures,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shahriar Rahman Khan , Raiful Hasan