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Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

LiDAR semantic segmentation plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous driving and robots to understand their surroundings accurately and robustly. A multitude of methods exist within this domain, including point-based, range-image-based,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Rong Li , ShiJie Li , Xieyuanli Chen , Teli Ma , Juergen Gall , Junwei Liang

Place recognition is an important capability for autonomously navigating vehicles operating in complex environments and under changing conditions. It is a key component for tasks such as loop closing in SLAM or global localization. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Junyi Ma , Jun Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Xieyuanli Chen

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars are indispensable for perception tasks of autonomous vehicles, thanks to their resilience in challenging weather conditions. Yet, their deployment is often limited by insufficient spatial resolution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Holger Caesar , Honglei Chen , Jian Li

A realistic view of the vehicle's surroundings is generally offered by camera sensors, which is crucial for environmental perception. Affordable radar sensors, on the other hand, are becoming invaluable due to their robustness in variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Kavin Chandrasekaran , Sorin Grigorescu , Gijs Dubbelman , Pavol Jancura

Autonomous robotic systems and self driving cars rely on accurate perception of their surroundings as the safety of the passengers and pedestrians is the top priority. Semantic segmentation is one the essential components of environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ran Cheng , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Enxu Li , Bingbing Liu

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation is critical in the fields of robotics and autonomous driving as it provides a comprehensive understanding of the scene. This paper proposes a lightweight and efficient projection-based semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ben Ding

This paper addresses the problem of fast learning of radar detectors with a limited amount of training data. In current data-driven approaches for radar detection, re-training is generally required when the operating environment changes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-06 Wei Jiang , Alexander M. Haimovich , Mark Govoni , Timothy Garner , Osvaldo Simeone

Automotive radar emerges as a crucial sensor for autonomous vehicle perception. As more cars are equipped radars, radar interference is an unavoidable challenge. Unlike conventional approaches such as interference mitigation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Lifan Xu , Shunqiao Sun , A. Lee Swindlehurst

Accurate and robust environmental perception is crucial for robot autonomous navigation. While current methods typically adopt optical sensors (e.g., camera, LiDAR) as primary sensing modalities, their susceptibility to visual occlusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ruibin Zhang , Fei Gao

While recent Transformer-based approaches have shown impressive performances on event-based object detection tasks, their high computational costs still diminish the low power consumption advantage of event cameras. Image-based works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yansong Peng , Hebei Li , Yueyi Zhang , Xiaoyan Sun , Feng Wu

Driver assistance systems as well as autonomous cars have to rely on sensors to perceive their environment. A heterogeneous set of sensors is used to perform this task robustly. Among them, radar sensors are indispensable because of their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Johanna Rock , Mate Toth , Elmar Messner , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

The ability to detect and segment moving objects in a scene is essential for building consistent maps, making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of moving object segmentation…

In autonomous driving, 3D LiDAR plays a crucial role in understanding the vehicle's surroundings. However, the newly emerged, unannotated objects presents few-shot learning problem for semantic segmentation. This paper addresses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Junbao Zhou , Jilin Mei , Pengze Wu , Liang Chen , Fangzhou Zhao , Xijun Zhao , Yu Hu

Due to the difficulty of obtaining ground-truth data for 4D radar scene flow estimation, previous methods typically rely on either self-supervised losses or cross-modal supervision using 3D LiDAR data, 2D images, and odometry. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jingyun Fu , Zhiyu Xiang , Na Zhao

Radar-based perception has gained increasing attention in autonomous driving, yet the inherent sparsity of radars poses challenges. Radar raw data often contains excessive noise, whereas radar point clouds retain only limited information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jialong Wu , Mirko Meuter , Markus Schoeler , Matthias Rottmann

LiDAR semantic segmentation provides 3D semantic information about the environment, an essential cue for intelligent systems during their decision making processes. Deep neural networks are achieving state-of-the-art results on large public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Inigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

With their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure speeds, radar sensors have been part of the automotive landscape for more than two decades. Recent progress toward High Definition (HD) Imaging radar has driven the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Julien Rebut , Arthur Ouaknine , Waqas Malik , Patrick Pérez

For high resolution scene mapping and object recognition, optical technologies such as cameras and LiDAR are the sensors of choice. However, for robust future vehicle autonomy and driver assistance in adverse weather conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Marcel Sheeny , Andrew Wallace , Sen Wang

Scene understanding plays a critical role in enabling intelligence and autonomy in robotic systems. Traditional approaches often face challenges, including occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and the inability to adapt attention based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Gaoyang Zhang , Bo Wu , Yang Zhang