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In industrial automation, radar is a critical sensor in machine perception. However, the angular resolution of radar is inherently limited by the Rayleigh criterion, which depends on both the radar's operating wavelength and the effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanlong Yang , Jianan Liu , Guanxiong Luo , Hao Li , Euijoon Ahn , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Tao Huang

LiDAR is an important method for autonomous driving systems to sense the environment. The point clouds obtained by LiDAR typically exhibit sparse and irregular distribution, thus posing great challenges to the detection of 3D objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Tai Wang , Xinge Zhu , Dahua Lin

Multi-modal depth estimation is one of the key challenges for endowing autonomous machines with robust robotic perception capabilities. There have been outstanding advances in the development of uni-modal depth estimation techniques based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Johan S. Obando-Ceron , Victor Romero-Cano , Sildomar Monteiro

Balancing cost and performance is crucial when choosing high- versus low-resolution point-cloud roadside sensors. For example, LiDAR delivers dense point cloud, while 4D millimeter-wave radar, though spatially sparser, embeds velocity cues…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Shaozu Ding , Yihong Tang , Marco De Vincenzi , Dajiang Suo

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) have emerged as a crucial tool for high-resolution 3D imaging, particularly in autonomous vehicles, remote sensing, and augmented reality. However, the increasing demand for faster acquisition speed and…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-28 Yixiu Shen , Zi Heng Lim , Guangya Zhou

LiDAR-based localization and mapping is one of the core components in many modern robotic systems due to the direct integration of range and geometry, allowing for precise motion estimation and generation of high quality maps in real-time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Julian Nubert , Etienne Walther , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

The strong demand of autonomous driving in the industry has lead to strong interest in 3D object detection and resulted in many excellent 3D object detection algorithms. However, the vast majority of algorithms only model single-frame data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Zhenxun Yuan , Xiao Song , Lei Bai , Wengang Zhou , Zhe Wang , Wanli Ouyang

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Detecting oriented objects along with estimating their rotation information is one crucial step for analyzing remote sensing images. Despite that many methods proposed recently have achieved remarkable performance, most of them directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Yanjie Wang , Xu Zou , Zhijun Zhang , Wenhui Xu , Liqun Chen , Sheng Zhong , Luxin Yan , Guodong Wang

Real-time semantic segmentation of LiDAR data is crucial for autonomously driving vehicles, which are usually equipped with an embedded platform and have limited computational resources. Approaches that operate directly on the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Shijie Li , Xieyuanli Chen , Yun Liu , Dengxin Dai , Cyrill Stachniss , Juergen Gall

Moving object segmentation based on LiDAR is a crucial and challenging task for autonomous driving and mobile robotics. Most approaches explore spatio-temporal information from LiDAR sequences to predict moving objects in the current frame.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Jiexi Zhong , Zheng Fang

Range-view projection provides an efficient method for transforming 3D LiDAR point clouds into 2D range image representations, enabling effective processing with 2D deep learning models. However, a major challenge in this projection is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Seyedali Mousavi , Seyedhamidreza Mousavi , Masoud Daneshtalab

LiDAR has become a standard sensor for autonomous driving applications as they provide highly precise 3D point clouds. LiDAR is also robust for low-light scenarios at night-time or due to shadows where the performance of cameras is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Khaled El Madawy , Hazem Rashed , Ahmad El Sallab , Omar Nasr , Hanan Kamel , Senthil Yogamani

Radar shows great potential for autonomous driving by accomplishing long-range sensing under diverse weather conditions. But radar is also a particularly challenging sensing modality due to the radar noises. Recent works have made enormous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Pou-Chun Kung , Chieh-Chih Wang , Wen-Chieh Lin

We address the problem of estimating the pose and shape of vehicles from LiDAR scans, a common problem faced by the autonomous vehicle community. Recent work has tended to address pose and shape estimation separately in isolation, despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hunter Goforth , Xiaoyan Hu , Michael Happold , Simon Lucey

Fusing data from cameras and LiDAR sensors is an essential technique to achieve robust 3D object detection. One key challenge in camera-LiDAR fusion involves mitigating the large domain gap between the two sensors in terms of coordinates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Yecheol Kim , Konyul Park , Minwook Kim , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Structure from Motion (SfM) often fails to estimate accurate poses in environments that lack suitable visual features. In such cases, the quality of the final 3D mesh, which is contingent on the accuracy of those estimates, is reduced. One…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Victor Amblard , Timothy P. Osedach , Arnaud Croux , Andrew Speck , John J. Leonard

Predicting the pose of objects from a single image is an important but difficult computer vision problem. Methods that predict a single point estimate do not predict the pose of objects with symmetries well and cannot represent uncertainty.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 David M. Klee , Ondrej Biza , Robert Platt , Robin Walters

Recent advancements in 3D object detection have benefited from multi-modal information from the multi-view cameras and LiDAR sensors. However, the inherent disparities between the modalities pose substantial challenges. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Juhan Cha , Minseok Joo , Jihwan Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Injae Kim , Hyunwoo J. Kim

We propose a new system to visualize depth-dependent patterns and images on solid objects with complex geometry using multiple projectors. The system, despite consisting of conventional passive LCD projectors, is able to project different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Takuto Hirukawa , Marco Visentini-Scarzanella , Hiroshi Kawasaki , Ryo Furukawa , Shinsaku Hiura