English
Related papers

Related papers: High Quality Large-Scale 3-D Urban Mapping with Mu…

200 papers

Rooftop 3D reconstruction using UAV-based photogrammetry offers a promising solution for infrastructure assessment, but existing methods often require high percentages of image overlap and extended flight times to ensure model accuracy when…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Nick Chodura , Melissa Greeff , Joshua Woods

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key component of autonomous systems operating in environments that require a consistent map for reliable localization. SLAM has been a widely studied topic for decades with most of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 J. Jorge , T. Barros , C. Premebida , M. Aleksandrov , D. Goehring , U. J. Nunes

Determining the shape of 3D objects from high-frequency radar signals is analytically complex but critical for commercial and aerospace applications. Previous deep learning methods have been applied to radar modeling; however, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Neel Sortur , Justin Goodwin , Purvik Patel , Luis Enrique Martinez , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Robin Walters

This study proposes a new convolutional long short-term memory (ConvLSTM) based architecture for selection of elite pixels (i.e., less noisy) in time series interferometric synthetic aperture radar (TS-InSAR). The model utilizes the spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Ashutosh Tiwari , Nitheshnirmal Sadhashivam , Leonard O. Ohenhen , Jonathan Lucy , Manoochehr Shirzaei

Modeling 3D articulated objects with realistic geometry, textures, and kinematics is essential for a wide range of applications. However, existing optimization-based reconstruction methods often require dense multi-view inputs and expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sylvia Yuan , Ruoxi Shi , Xinyue Wei , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Hao Su , Minghua Liu

We present AutoMerge, a LiDAR data processing framework for assembling a large number of map segments into a complete map. Traditional large-scale map merging methods are fragile to incorrect data associations, and are primarily limited to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Peng Yin , Haowen Lai , Shiqi Zhao , Ruohai Ge , Ji Zhang , Howie Choset , Sebastian Scherer

The interstellar medium (ISM) exhibits complex, multi-scale structures that are challenging to study due to their projection into two-dimensional (2D) column density maps. We present the Volume Density Mapper, a novel algorithm based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-23 Guang-Xing Li , Mengke Zhao

Vertical land motion (VLM) observations obtained from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) have transformed our understanding of crustal deformation processes over the past 3 decades. However, these observations are often…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-16 Mahmoud Reshadati , Manoochehr Shirzaei

Although nowadays advanced dense image matching (DIM) algorithms are able to produce LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) comparable dense point clouds from satellite stereo images, the accuracy and completeness of such point clouds heavily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Rongjun Qin

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…

In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR), random missing entries of the received radar echo matrix deteriorate the imaging quality, compromising target distinction from the background. Compressive sensing techniques or matrix completion…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Necmettin Bayar , Isin Erer , Deniz Kumlu

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography (TomoSAR) has attracted remarkable interest for its ability in achieving three-dimensional reconstruction along the elevation direction from multiple observations. In recent years, compressed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Muhan Wang , Zhe Zhang , Yue Wang , Silin Gao , Xiaolan Qiu

We propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, a SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. Because multi-view images provide a variety of information about the scene,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

This paper introduces a large-scale multi-modal dataset captured in and around well-known landmarks in Oxford using a custom-built multi-sensor perception unit as well as a millimetre-accurate map from a Terrestrial LiDAR Scanner (TLS). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifu Tao , Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón , Lintong Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu , Maurice Fallon

We present a large-scale computational 3D topographic microscope that enables 6-gigapixel profilometric 3D imaging at micron-scale resolution across $>$110 cm$^2$ areas over multi-millimeter axial ranges. Our computational microscope,…

Imaging is a crucial sensing function that finds wide applications in environmental reconstruction, autonomous driving, etc. However, the signal processing methods for existing radio imaging techniques, such as millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yanmo Hu , Shuowen Zhang , Ross Murch , Liang Liu

Small, low-cost radar sensors offer a lighting independent sensing capability for indoor mobile robots that is useful for localization and mapping. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) offers an attractive way to increase the angular resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-02 Yuma E. Ritterbusch , Johannes Fink , Christian Waldschmidt

Accurately estimating forest biomass is crucial for global carbon cycle modelling and climate change mitigation. Tree height, a key factor in biomass calculations, can be measured using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Grace Colverd , Jumpei Takami , Laura Schade , Karol Bot , Joseph A. Gallego-Mejia

Estimating accurate lane lines in 3D space remains challenging due to their sparse and slim nature. Previous works mainly focused on using images for 3D lane detection, leading to inherent projection error and loss of geometry information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yueru Luo , Xu Yan , Chaoda Zheng , Chao Zheng , Shuqi Mei , Tang Kun , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Recently, a new global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) with pixel spacing of 0.4 arcseconds and relative height accuracy finer than 2m for flat areas (slopes < 20%) and better than 4m for rugged terrain (slopes > 20%) was created through the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Hossein Bagheri , Michael Schmitt , Xiao Xiang Zhu