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Accurate camera localization is crucial for robotics and Extended Reality (XR), enabling reliable navigation and alignment of virtual and real content. Existing visual methods often suffer from drift, scale ambiguity, and depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Joni Vanherck , Steven Moonen , Brent Zoomers , Kobe Werner , Jeroen Put , Lode Jorissen , Nick Michiels

Fusing LiDAR and camera information is essential for achieving accurate and reliable 3D object detection in autonomous driving systems. This is challenging due to the difficulty of combining multi-granularity geometric and semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Yang Jiao , Zequn Jie , Shaoxiang Chen , Jingjing Chen , Lin Ma , Yu-Gang Jiang

Despite the substantial progress in deep learning, its adoption in industrial robotics projects remains limited, primarily due to challenges in data acquisition and labeling. Previous sim2real approaches using domain randomization require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kaixin Bai , Lei Zhang , Zhaopeng Chen , Fang Wan , Jianwei Zhang

- Both Lidars and Radars are sensors for obstacle detection. While Lidars are very accurate on obstacles positions and less accurate on their velocities, Radars are more precise on obstacles velocities and less precise on their positions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Hatem Hajri , Mohamed-Cherif Rahal

Whole slide image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology presents unique challenges due to the gigapixel resolution of WSIs and the scarcity of dense supervision signals. While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a natural fit for slide-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Sofiène Boutaj , Marin Scalbert , Pierre Marza , Florent Couzinie-Devy , Maria Vakalopoulou , Stergios Christodoulidis

Generative world models have become essential data engines for autonomous driving, yet most existing efforts focus on videos or occupancy grids, overlooking the unique LiDAR properties. Extending LiDAR generation to dynamic 4D world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ao Liang , Youquan Liu , Yu Yang , Dongyue Lu , Linfeng Li , Lingdong Kong , Huaici Zhao , Wei Tsang Ooi

In autonomous driving scenarios, accurate perception is becoming an even more critical task for safe navigation. While LiDAR provides precise spatial data, its inherent sparsity makes it difficult to detect small or distant objects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Minseung Lee , Seokha Moon , Seung Joon Lee , Reza Mahjourian , Jinkyu Kim

Computer vision technologies markedly enhance the automation capabilities of robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) through advanced tool tracking, detection, and localization. However, the limited availability of comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Tianle Zeng , Gerardo Loza Galindo , Junlei Hu , Pietro Valdastri , Dominic Jones

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time LiDAR and camera synthesis in autonomous driving simulation. However, simulating LiDAR with 3DGS remains challenging for extrapolated views beyond the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Huang , Xin Kang , Sipeng Zhang , Hongliang Ren , Weihua Zhang , Junjie Lai

Multi-beam LiDAR sensors, as used on autonomous vehicles and mobile robots, acquire sequences of 3D range scans ("frames"). Each frame covers the scene sparsely, due to limited angular scanning resolution and occlusion. The sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shengyu Huang , Zan Gojcic , Jiahui Huang , Andreas Wieser , Konrad Schindler

Dynamic Novel View Synthesis aims to generate photorealistic views of moving subjects from arbitrary viewpoints. This task is particularly challenging when relying on monocular video, where disentangling structure from motion is ill-posed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Michal Nazarczuk , Sibi Catley-Chandar , Thomas Tanay , Zhensong Zhang , Gregory Slabaugh , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero

Novel view synthesis (NVS) in low-light scenes remains a significant challenge due to degraded inputs characterized by severe noise, low dynamic range (LDR) and unreliable initialization. While recent NeRF-based approaches have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Sun , Fenggen Yu , Huiyao Xu , Tao Zhang , Changqing Zou

The 3D object detection capabilities in urban environments have been enormously improved by recent developments in Light Detection and Range (LiDAR) technology. This paper presents a novel framework that transforms the detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nawfal Guefrachi , Hakim Ghazzai , Ahmad Alsharoa

Synthetic data is emerging as a promising solution to the scalability issue of supervised deep learning, especially when real data are difficult to acquire or hard to annotate. Synthetic data generation, however, can itself be prohibitively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Aayush Prakash , Shoubhik Debnath , Jean-Francois Lafleche , Eric Cameracci , Gavriel State , Stan Birchfield , Marc T. Law

Multi-sensor fusion using LiDAR and RGB cameras significantly enhances 3D object detection task. However, conventional LiDAR sensors perform dense, stateless scans, ignoring the strong temporal continuity in real-world scenes. This leads to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sara Shoouri , Morteza Tavakoli Taba , Hun-Seok Kim

In this paper we propose a novel data augmentation approach for visual content domains that have scarce training datasets, compositing synthetic 3D objects within real scenes. We show the performance of the proposed system in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Francesco Bongini , Lorenzo Berlincioni , Marco Bertini , Alberto Del Bimbo

Recent scene text detection methods are almost based on deep learning and data-driven. Synthetic data is commonly adopted for pre-training due to expensive annotation cost. However, there are obvious domain discrepancies between synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Youhui Guo , Yu Zhou , Xugong Qin , Enze Xie , Weiping Wang

In recent years, the fusion of camera data with LiDAR measurements has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance spatial understanding. This study introduces a novel, hardware-agnostic methodology that generates colourised point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pasindu Ranasinghe , Dibyayan Patra , Bikram Banerjee , Simit Raval

LiDAR-based 3D mapping suffers from cumulative drift causing global misalignment, particularly in GNSS-constrained environments. To address this, we propose a unified framework that fuses LiDAR, GNSS, and IMU data for high-resolution…

Synthetic images are an option for augmenting limited medical imaging datasets to improve the performance of various machine learning models. A common metric for evaluating synthetic image quality is the Fr\'echet Inception Distance (FID)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Thomas Wallace , Ik Siong Heng , Senad Subasic , Chris Messenger