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This paper introduces VolMap, a real-time approach for the semantic segmentation of a 3D LiDAR surrounding view system in autonomous vehicles. We designed an optimized deep convolution neural network that can accurately segment the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Hager Radi , Waleed Ali

Volume estimation in large indoor spaces is an important challenge in robotic inspection of industrial warehouses. We propose an approach for volume estimation for autonomous systems using visual features for indoor localization and surface…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Samuel Balula , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Stefan Stevšić , Alisa Rupenyan , John Lygeros

Modern perception systems in the field of autonomous driving rely on 3D data analysis. LiDAR sensors are frequently used to acquire such data due to their increased resilience to different lighting conditions. Although rotating LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Meytal Rapoport-Lavie , Dan Raviv

LiDARs are usually more accurate than cameras in distance measuring. Hence, there is strong interest to apply LiDARs in autonomous driving. Different existing approaches process the rich 3D point clouds for object detection, tracking and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-15 You Li , Clément Le Bihan , Txomin Pourtau , Thomas Ristorcelli

Accurate three-dimensional perception is essential for modern industrial robotic systems that perform manipulation, inspection, and navigation tasks. RGB-D and stereo vision sensors are widely used for this purpose, but the depth maps they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tony Salloom , Dandi Zhou , Xinhai Sun

In robotic applications, a key requirement for safe and efficient motion planning is the ability to map obstacle-free space in unknown, cluttered 3D environments. However, commodity-grade RGB-D cameras commonly used for sensing fail to…

Visual perception plays an important role in autonomous driving. One of the primary tasks is object detection and identification. Since the vision sensor is rich in color and texture information, it can quickly and accurately identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Fei Liu , Zihao Lu , Xianke Lin

This paper addresses the problem of lane detection which is fundamental for self-driving vehicles. Our approach exploits both colour and depth information recorded by a single RGB-D camera to better deal with negative factors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Cong Hoang Quach , Van Lien Tran , Duy Hung Nguyen , Viet Thang Nguyen , Minh Trien Pham , Manh Duong Phung

Wide-range and fine-grained vehicle detection plays a critical role in enabling active safety features in intelligent driving systems. However, existing vehicle detection methods based on rectangular bounding boxes (BBox) often struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhupeng Ye , Yinqi Li , Zejian Yuan

Lidar has become an essential sensor for autonomous driving as it provides reliable depth estimation. Lidar is also the primary sensor used in building 3D maps which can be used even in the case of low-cost systems which do not use Lidar.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-08 B Ravi Kiran , Luis Roldão , Benat Irastorza , Renzo Verastegui , Sebastian Suss , Senthil Yogamani , Victor Talpaert , Alexandre Lepoutre , Guillaume Trehard

Understanding the surrounding environment of the vehicle is still one of the challenges for autonomous driving. This paper addresses 360-degree road scene semantic segmentation using surround view cameras, which are widely equipped in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Liuyuan Deng , Ming Yang , Hao Li , Tianyi Li , Bing Hu , Chunxiang Wang

Our brain has an inner global positioning system which enables us to sense and navigate 3D spaces in real time. Can mobile robots replicate such a biological feat in a dynamic environment? We introduce the first spatial reasoning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengdi Huang , Mingyang Wang , Huan Tian , Minglun Gong , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Depth estimation from images serves as the fundamental step of 3D perception for autonomous driving and is an economical alternative to expensive depth sensors like LiDAR. The temporal photometric constraints enables self-supervised depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yi Wei , Linqing Zhao , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Yongming Rao , Guan Huang , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Point cloud based methods have produced promising results in areas such as 3D object detection in autonomous driving. However, most of the recent point cloud work focuses on single depth sensor data, whereas less work has been done on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Walid Bekhtaoui , Ruhan Sa , Brian Teixeira , Vivek Singh , Klaus Kirchberg , Yao-jen Chang , Ankur Kapoor

Traffic volume data collection is a crucial aspect of transportation engineering and urban planning, as it provides vital insights into traffic patterns, congestion, and infrastructure efficiency. Traditional manual methods of traffic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Linlin Zhang , Xiang Yu , Armstrong Aboah , Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

Estimating the distance to objects is crucial for autonomous vehicles when using depth sensors is not possible. In this case, the distance has to be estimated from on-board mounted RGB cameras, which is a complex task especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Michaël Fonder , Damien Ernst , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

LiDAR-camera fusion is one of the core processes for the perception system of current automated driving systems. The typical sensor fusion process includes a list of coordinate transformation operations following system calibration.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dan Shen , Zhengming Zhang , Renran Tian , Yaobin Chen , Rini Sherony

This paper investigates how the inherent quantization of camera sensors introduces uncertainty in the calculated position of an observed feature during 3-D mapping. It is typically assumed that pixels and scene features are points, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Eleni Bohacek , Andrew J. Coates , David R. Selviah

We propose a 3D object detection method for autonomous driving by fully exploiting the sparse and dense, semantic and geometry information in stereo imagery. Our method, called Stereo R-CNN, extends Faster R-CNN for stereo inputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Peiliang Li , Xiaozhi Chen , Shaojie Shen

Lidars are depth measuring sensors widely used in autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, the large volume of data produced by lidars can lead to high costs in data storage and transmission. While lidar data can be represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xuanyu Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov