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We introduce DualMap, an online open-vocabulary mapping system that enables robots to understand and navigate dynamically changing environments through natural language queries. Designed for efficient semantic mapping and adaptability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jiajun Jiang , Yiming Zhu , Zirui Wu , Jie Song

Achieving full automation in self-driving vehicles remains a challenge, especially in dynamic urban environments where navigation requires real-time adaptability. Existing systems struggle to handle navigation plans when faced with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Augusto Luis Ballardini , Miguel Ángel Sotelo

Map-based methods for autonomous racing estimate the vehicle's location, which is used to follow a high-level plan. While map-based optimisation methods demonstrate high-performance results, they are limited by requiring a map of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Benjamin David Evans , Hendrik Willem Jordaan , Herman Arnold Engelbrecht

In image-based camera localization systems, information about the environment is usually stored in some representation, which can be referred to as a map. Conventionally, most maps are built upon hand-crafted features. Recently, neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Mingpan Guo , Stefan Matthes , Jiaojiao Ye , Hao Shen

Understanding Deep Neural Network (DNN) performance in changing conditions is essential for deploying DNNs in safety critical applications with unconstrained environments, e.g., perception for self-driving vehicles or medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Molly O'Brien , Julia Bukowski , Mathias Unberath , Aria Pezeshk , Greg Hager

We present a novel 3D mapping method leveraging the recent progress in neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. Most existing state-of-the-art neural implicit representation methods are limited to object-level reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Stefan Lionar , Lukas Schmid , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Andrei Cramariuc

Autonomous Driving is now the promising future of transportation. As one basis for autonomous driving, High Definition Map (HD map) provides high-precision descriptions of the environment, therefore it enables more accurate perception and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jinliang Xie , Jie Tang , Shaoshan Liu

This paper introduces a novel approach to urban pathfinding by transforming traditional heuristic-based algorithms into deep learning models that leverage real-time contextual data, such as traffic and weather conditions. We propose two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohamed Hussein Abo El-Ela , Ali Hamdi Fergany

Autonomous driving needs various line-of-sight sensors to perceive surroundings that could be impaired under diverse environment uncertainties such as visual occlusion and extreme weather. To improve driving safety, we explore to wirelessly…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

This paper highlights the significance of including memory structures in neural networks when the latter are used to learn perception-action loops for autonomous robot navigation. Traditional navigation approaches rely on global maps of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Steven W Chen , Nikolay Atanasov , Arbaaz Khan , Konstantinos Karydis , Daniel D. Lee , Vijay Kumar

Robust localization is the cornerstone of autonomous driving, especially in challenging urban environments where GPS signals suffer from multipath errors. Traditional localization approaches rely on high-definition (HD) maps, which consist…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Hang Wu , Zhenghao Zhang , Siyuan Lin , Xiangru Mu , Qiang Zhao , Ming Yang , Tong Qin

Conventional techniques to establish dense correspondences across visually or semantically similar images focused on designing a task-specific matching prior, which is difficult to model. To overcome this, recent learning-based methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

In recent years, the integration of prediction and planning through neural networks has received substantial attention. Despite extensive studies on it, there is a noticeable gap in understanding the operation of such models within a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Jiayu Guo , Mingyue Feng , Pengfei Zhu , Chengjun Li , Jian Pu

The perception of high-definition maps is an integral component of environmental perception in autonomous driving systems. Existing research have often focused on online construction of high-definition maps. For instance, the Maptr[9]…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shiyu Gao , Hao Jiang

Autonomous driving systems require the ability to fully understand and predict the surrounding environment to make informed decisions in complex scenarios. Recent advancements in learning-based systems have highlighted the importance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Haochen Liu , Zhiyu Huang , Wenhui Huang , Haohan Yang , Xiaoyu Mo , Chen Lv

There is extensive literature on perceiving road structures by fusing various sensor inputs such as lidar point clouds and camera images using deep neural nets. Leveraging the latest advance of neural architects (such as transformers) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenchao Ding , Jieru Zhao , Yubin Chu , Haihui Huang , Tong Qin , Chunjing Xu , Yuxiang Guan , Zhongxue Gan

Creating and maintaining an accurate representation of the environment is an essential capability for every service robot. Especially for household robots acting in indoor environments, semantic information is important. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Nils Dengler , Tobias Zaenker , Francesco Verdoja , Maren Bennewitz

Fast, collision-free motion through unknown environments remains a challenging problem for robotic systems. In these situations, the robot's ability to reason about its future motion is often severely limited by sensor field of view (FOV).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Kapil Katyal , Katie Popek , Chris Paxton , Joseph Moore , Kevin Wolfe , Philippe Burlina , Gregory D. Hager

OpenStreetMaps (OSM) is currently studied as the environment representation for autonomous navigation. It provides advantages such as global consistency, a heavy-less map construction process, and a wide variety of road information publicly…

Semantic segmentation of overhead remote sensing imagery enables applications in mapping, urban planning, and disaster response. State-of-the-art segmentation networks are typically developed and tuned on ground-perspective photographs and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 David Huangal , J. Alex Hurt