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Accurate extrinsic calibration between multiple LiDAR sensors and a GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (GINS) is essential for achieving reliable sensor fusion in intelligent mining environments. Such calibration enables vehicle-road…

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Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal perception and generation, yet their safety alignment remains a critical challenge.Existing defenses and vulnerable to multimodal jailbreaks, as visual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 MingSheng Li , Guangze Zhao , Sichen Liu

With the advent of advanced multi-sensor fusion models, there has been a notable enhancement in the performance of perception tasks within in terms of autonomous driving. Despite these advancements, the challenges persist, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Wei Jong Yang , Guan Cheng Lee

Recent advancements in remote sensing technology, specifically Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensors, provide the data needed to quantify forest characteristics at a fine spatial resolution over large geographic domains. From an…

Applications · Statistics 2016-12-07 Andrew O. Finley , Sudipto Banerjee , Yuzhen Zhou , Bruce D. Cook , Chad Babcock

A DEM of a dunefield in Southern Brazil was generated from 810 photos captured by an RPA in February 2019. Altimetric accuracy of the SfM-MVS DEM was validated by comparison with Terrestrial LiDAR (TLS) data collected during the same…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-08-12 C. H. Grohmann , G. P. B. Garcia , A. A. Affonso , R. W. Albuquerque

Robots navigating indoor environments often have access to architectural plans, which can serve as prior knowledge to enhance their localization and mapping capabilities. While some SLAM algorithms leverage these plans for global…

Timber represents an increasingly valuable and versatile resource. However, forestry operations such as harvesting, handling and measuring logs still require substantial human labor in remote environments posing significant safety risks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Daniel Steininger , Julia Simon , Andreas Trondl , Markus Murschitz

Advancements in foundation models have made it possible to conduct applications in various downstream tasks. Especially, the new era has witnessed a remarkable capability to extend Large Language Models (LLMs) for tackling tasks of 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Yifan Xu , Chao Zhang , Hanqi Jiang , Xiaoyan Wang , Ruifei Ma , Yiwei Li , Zihao Wu , Zeju Li , Xiangde Liu

Image segmentation is a crucial step in various visual applications, including environmental monitoring through remote sensing. In the context of the ForestEyes project, which combines citizen science and machine learning to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hugo Resende , Fabio A. Faria , Eduardo B. Neto , Isabela Borlido , Victor Sundermann , Silvio Jamil F. Guimarães , Álvaro L. Fazenda

Commercial off the shelf (COTS) 3D scanners are capable of generating point clouds covering visible portions of a face with sub-millimeter accuracy at close range, but lack the coverage and specialized anatomic registration provided by more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Maxim Bazik , Daniel Crispell

Access to below-canopy volumetric vegetation data is crucial for understanding ecosystem dynamics. We address the long-standing limitation of remote sensing to penetrate deep into dense canopy layers. LiDAR and radar are currently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Mohamed Youssef , Jian Peng , Oliver Bimber

The creation of precise and high-resolution crop point clouds in agricultural fields has become a key challenge for high-throughput phenotyping applications. This work implements a novel calibration method to calibrate the laser scanning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Felix Esser , Gereon Tombrink , Andre Cornelißen , Lasse Klingbeil , Heiner Kuhlmann

This paper presents FedAlign, a Federated Learning (FL) framework particularly designed for System Identification (SYSID) tasks by aligning state representations. Local workers can learn State-Space Models (SSMs) with equivalent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ertuğrul Keçeci , Müjde Güzelkaya , Tufan Kumbasar

Multiple LiDARs have progressively emerged on autonomous vehicles for rendering a wide field of view and dense measurements. However, the lack of precise calibration negatively affects their potential applications in localization and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Jianhao Jiao , Yang Yu , Qinghai Liao , Haoyang Ye , Ming Liu

Laser scanning (also known as Light Detection And Ranging) has been widely applied in various application. As part of that, aerial laser scanning (ALS) has been used to collect topographic data points for a large area, which triggers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-13 V-H Cao , K-X Chu , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-T Kechadi , Debra F. Laefer , Linh Truong-Hong

Vehicles with prolonged autonomous missions have to maintain environment awareness by simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). Closed loop correction is substituted by interpolation in rigid body transformation space in order to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Paavo Nevalainen , Parisa Movahedi , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund , Jukka Heikkonen

Face alignment consists in aligning a shape model on a face in an image. It is an active domain in computer vision as it is a preprocessing for applications like facial expression recognition, face recognition and tracking, face animation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Estephe Arnaud , Arnaud Dapogny , Kevin Bailly

Co-Registration of aerial imagery and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data is quilt challenging because the different imaging mechanism causes significant geometric and radiometric distortions between such data. To tackle the problem,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Bai Zhu , Yuanxin Ye , Chao Yang , Liang Zhou , Huiyu Liu , Yungang Cao

Aerial remote sensing efficiently surveys large areas, but accurate direct object-level measurement remains difficult in complex natural scenes. Advancements in 3D computer vision, particularly radiance field representations such as NeRF…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Belal Shaheen , Minh-Hieu Nguyen , Bach-Thuan Bui , Shubham , Tim Wu , Michael Fairley , Matthew David Zane , Michael Wu , James Tompkin

In recent years, terrestrial laser scanning technology has been widely used to collect tree point cloud data, aiding in measurements of diameter at breast height, biomass, and other forestry survey data. Since a single scan from terrestrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jing Ren , Pei Wang , Hanlong Li , Yuhan Wu , Yuhang Gao , Wenxin Chen , Mingtai Zhang , Lingyun Zhang