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We present a review of 3D point cloud processing and learning for autonomous driving. As one of the most important sensors in autonomous vehicles, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors collect 3D point clouds that precisely record the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Siheng Chen , Baoan Liu , Chen Feng , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez , Carl Wellington

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

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) heavily rely on LiDAR perception for environment understanding and navigation. LiDAR intensity provides valuable information about the reflected laser signals and plays a crucial role in enhancing the perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Vivek Anand , Bharat Lohani , Gaurav Pandey , Rakesh Mishra

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While most prevalent methods progressively downscale the 3D point clouds and camera images and then fuse the high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

Cameras and LiDARs are both important sensors for autonomous driving, playing critical roles in 3D object detection. Camera-LiDAR Fusion has been a prevalent solution for robust and accurate driving perception. In contrast to the vast…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ye Li , Hanjiang Hu , Zuxin Liu , Xiaohao Xu , Xiaonan Huang , Ding Zhao

Autonomous vehicles rely on a variety of sensors to gather information about their surrounding. The vehicle's behavior is planned based on the environment perception, making its reliability crucial for safety reasons. The active LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Mariella Dreissig , Dominik Scheuble , Florian Piewak , Joschka Boedecker

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

Lidar point cloud distortion from moving object is an important problem in autonomous driving, and recently becomes even more demanding with the emerging of newer lidars, which feature back-and-forth scanning patterns. Accurately estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen Yang , Zheng Gong , Baifu Huang , Xiaoping Hong

LiDAR is crucial for robust 3D scene perception in autonomous driving. LiDAR perception has the largest body of literature after camera perception. However, multi-task learning across tasks like detection, segmentation, and motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Sambit Mohapatra , Senthil Yogamani , Varun Ravi Kumar , Stefan Milz , Heinrich Gotzig , Patrick Mäder

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

Training autonomous driving and navigation systems requires large and diverse point cloud datasets that capture complex edge case scenarios from various dynamic urban settings. Acquiring such diverse scenarios from real-world point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Suchetan G. Uppur , Hemant Kumar , Vaibhav Kumar

Static LiDAR scanners produce accurate, dense, colored point clouds, but often contain obtrusive artifacts which makes them ill-suited for direct display. We propose an efficient method to render photorealistic images of such scans without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Joni Vanherck , Brent Zoomers , Tom Mertens , Lode Jorissen , Nick Michiels

The increasing applications of autonomous driving systems necessitates large-scale, high-quality datasets to ensure robust performance across diverse scenarios. Synthetic data has emerged as a viable solution to augment real-world datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Enes Özeren , Arka Bhowmick

This paper presents a simulation workflow for generating synthetic LiDAR datasets to support autonomous vehicle perception, robotics research, and sensor security analysis. Leveraging the CoppeliaSim simulation environment and its Python…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Abhishek Phadke , Shakib Mahmud Dipto , Pratip Rana

We present INDOOR-LIDAR, a comprehensive hybrid dataset of indoor 3D LiDAR point clouds designed to advance research in robot perception. Existing indoor LiDAR datasets often suffer from limited scale, inconsistent annotation formats, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haichuan Li , Changda Tian , Panos Trahanias , Tomi Westerlund

LiDAR sensors are widely used in autonomous driving due to the reliable 3D spatial information. However, the data of LiDAR is sparse and the frequency of LiDAR is lower than that of cameras. To generate denser point clouds spatially and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Xudong Huang , Chunyu Lin , Haojie Liu , Lang Nie , Yao Zhao

A powerful simulator highly decreases the need for real-world tests when training and evaluating autonomous vehicles. Data-driven simulators flourished with the recent advancement of conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGANs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Saeed Saadatnejad , Siyuan Li , Taylor Mordan , Alexandre Alahi

Sensor fusion is crucial for a performant and robust Perception system in autonomous vehicles, but sensor staleness, where data from different sensors arrives with varying delays, poses significant challenges. Temporal misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Meng Fan , Yifan Zuo , Patrick Blaes , Harley Montgomery , Subhasis Das

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to revolutionize transportation by improving efficiency and safety. Their success relies on 3D vision systems that effectively sense the environment and detect traffic agents. Among sensors AVs use to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Amirhesam Aghanouri , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

For the validation and verification of automotive radars, datasets of realistic traffic scenarios are required, which, how ever, are laborious to acquire. In this paper, we introduce radar scene synthesis using GANs as an alternative to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Muhammad Saad Nawaz , Thomas Dallmann , Torsten Schoen , Dirk Heberling