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Typical LiDAR-based 3D object detection models are trained in a supervised manner with real-world data collection, which is often imbalanced over classes (or long-tailed). To deal with it, augmenting minority-class examples by sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mincheol Chang , Siyeong Lee , Jinkyu Kim , Namil Kim

We present INDOOR-LIDAR, a comprehensive hybrid dataset of indoor 3D LiDAR point clouds designed to advance research in robot perception. Existing indoor LiDAR datasets often suffer from limited scale, inconsistent annotation formats, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

We present a review of 3D point cloud processing and learning for autonomous driving. As one of the most important sensors in autonomous vehicles, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors collect 3D point clouds that precisely record the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Siheng Chen , Baoan Liu , Chen Feng , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl Wellington

Although LiDAR sensors are crucial for autonomous systems due to providing precise depth information, they struggle with capturing fine object details, especially at a distance, due to sparse and non-uniform data. Recent advances introduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Tiago Cortinhal , Idriss Gouigah , Eren Erdal Aksoy

Reliable and accurate 3D object detection is a necessity for safe autonomous driving. Although LiDAR sensors can provide accurate 3D point cloud estimates of the environment, they are also prohibitively expensive for many settings.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Rui Qian , Divyansh Garg , Yan Wang , Yurong You , Serge Belongie , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a powerful representation for modeling a 3D scene as a continuous function. Though NeRF is able to render complex 3D scenes with view-dependent effects, few efforts have been devoted to exploring its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yifan Jiang , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Dejia Xu , Jonathan T. Barron , Zhangyang Wang , Tianfan Xue

In this work, a novel learning-based approach has been developed to generate driving paths by integrating LIDAR point clouds, GPS-IMU information, and Google driving directions. The system is based on a fully convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Luca Caltagirone , Mauro Bellone , Lennart Svensson , Mattias Wahde

Recent advances in neural radiance fields (NeRFs) achieve state-of-the-art novel view synthesis and facilitate dense estimation of scene properties. However, NeRFs often fail for large, unbounded scenes that are captured under very sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Alexandra Carlson , Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal , Nathan Tseng , Matthew Johnson-Roberson , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have gained popularity in the autonomous driving (AD) community. Recent methods show NeRFs' potential for closed-loop simulation, enabling testing of AD systems, and as an advanced training data augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Adam Tonderski , Carl Lindström , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Lennart Svensson , Christoffer Petersson

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

This paper presents a unified surface reconstruction and rendering framework for LiDAR-visual systems, integrating Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and Neural Distance Fields (NDF) to recover both appearance and structural information from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jianheng Liu , Chunran Zheng , Yunfei Wan , Bowen Wang , Yixi Cai , Fu Zhang

Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sabir Hossain , Xianke Lin

The popularity of LiDAR devices and sensor technology has gradually empowered users from autonomous driving to forest monitoring, and research on 3D LiDAR has made remarkable progress over the years. Unlike 2D images, whose focused area is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Yawen Lu , Zhuoyang Sun , Jinyuan Shao , Qianyu Guo , Yunhan Huang , Songlin Fei , Yingjie Chen

Neural reconstruction models for autonomous driving simulation have made significant strides in recent years, with dynamic models becoming increasingly prevalent. However, these models are typically limited to handling in-domain objects…

Recently, the advancement of deep learning in discriminative feature learning from 3D LiDAR data has led to rapid development in the field of autonomous driving. However, automated processing uneven, unstructured, noisy, and massive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ying Li , Lingfei Ma , Zilong Zhong , Fei Liu , Dongpu Cao , Jonathan Li , Michael A. Chapman

Automotive radar has shown promising developments in environment perception due to its cost-effectiveness and robustness in adverse weather conditions. However, the limited availability of annotated radar data poses a significant challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jimmie Kwok , Holger Caesar , Andras Palffy

Autonomous vehicles operate in a dynamic environment, where the speed with which a vehicle can perceive and react impacts the safety and efficacy of the system. LiDAR provides a prominent sensory modality that informs many existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Wei Han , Zhengdong Zhang , Benjamin Caine , Brandon Yang , Christoph Sprunk , Ouais Alsharif , Jiquan Ngiam , Vijay Vasudevan , Jonathon Shlens , Zhifeng Chen

Since their introduction in 2020, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have taken the computer vision community by storm. They provide a multi-view representation of a scene or object that is ideal for eXtended Reality (XR) applications and for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Derek Jacoby , Donglin Xu , Weder Ribas , Minyi Xu , Ting Liu , Vishwanath Jayaraman , Mengdi Wei , Emma De Blois , Yvonne Coady