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Modern LiDARs are rapidly transitioning from bulky, mechanically scanned systems to ultra-compact, low-cost, solid-state arrays. This miniaturization-while enabling scalability, affordability, and camera-like data structures-introduces a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Avery Gump , Connor Henley , Sungjin Cheong , Akarsh Prabhakara , Mohit Gupta

Collaborative filtering (CF) recommendation has been significantly advanced by integrating Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL). However, (i) random edge perturbations often distort critical structural signals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yixuan Huang , Jiawei Chen , Shengfan Zhang , Zongsheng Cao

By enabling capturing of 3D point clouds that reflect the geometry of the immediate environment, LiDAR has emerged as a primary sensor for autonomous systems. If a LiDAR scan is too sparse, occluded by obstacles, or too small in range,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Anh-Dzung Doan , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

3D laser scanning by LiDAR sensors plays an important role for mobile robots to understand their surroundings. Nevertheless, not all systems have high resolution and accuracy due to hardware limitations, weather conditions, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kazuto Nakashima , Ryo Kurazume

High-resolution LiDAR data plays a critical role in 3D semantic segmentation for autonomous driving, but the high cost of advanced sensors limits large-scale deployment. In contrast, low-cost sensors such as 16-channel LiDAR produce sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexandros Gkillas , Nikos Piperigkos , Aris S. Lalos

Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yi Chen , Tianchen Deng , Wentao Zhao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Storing and transmitting LiDAR point cloud data is essential for many AV applications, such as training data collection, remote control, cloud services or SLAM. However, due to the sparsity and unordered structure of the data, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Till Beemelmanns , Yuchen Tao , Bastian Lampe , Lennart Reiher , Raphael van Kempen , Timo Woopen , Lutz Eckstein

3D detection is a critical task that enables machines to identify and locate objects in three-dimensional space. It has a broad range of applications in several fields, including autonomous driving, robotics and augmented reality. Monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Aakash Kumar , Chen Chen , Ajmal Mian , Neils Lobo , Mubarak Shah

Point-pixel registration between LiDAR point clouds and camera images is a fundamental yet challenging task in autonomous driving and robotic perception. A key difficulty lies in the modality gap between unstructured point clouds and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yu Han , Zhiwei Huang , Yanting Zhang , Fangjun Ding , Shen Cai , Rui Fan

This paper addresses the limitations of existing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods, particularly their reliance on adaptive density control, which can lead to floating artifacts and inefficient resource usage. We propose a novel densify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Phurtivilai Patt , Leyang Huang , Yinqiang Zhang , Yang Lei

This work proposes a method for depth completion of sparse LiDAR data using a convolutional neural network which can be used to generate semi-dense depth maps and "almost" full 3D point-clouds with significantly lower root mean squared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Hamid Hekmatian , Jingfu Jin , Samir Al-Stouhi

Building models capable of generating structured output is a key challenge for AI and robotics. While generative models have been explored on many types of data, little work has been done on synthesizing lidar scans, which play a key role…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Lucas Caccia , Herke van Hoof , Aaron Courville , Joelle Pineau

Conventional SLAM systems using visual or LiDAR data often struggle in poor lighting and severe weather. Although 4D radar is suited for such environments, its sparse and noisy point clouds hinder accurate odometry estimation, while the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Zhiheng Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Shen , Yichen Zhao , Zheng Fang

The complementary fusion of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and image data is a promising but challenging task for generating high-precision and high-density point clouds. This study proposes an innovative LiDAR-guided stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yongjun Zhang , Siyuan Zou , Xinyi Liu , Xu Huang , Yi Wan , Yongxiang Yao

Recently, Gaussian Splatting (GS) has shown great potential for urban scene reconstruction in the field of autonomous driving. However, current urban scene reconstruction methods often depend on multimodal sensors as inputs, \textit{i.e.}…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Kejing Xia , Jidong Jia , Ke Jin , Yucai Bai , Li Sun , Dacheng Tao , Youjian Zhang

LiDAR is widely used to capture accurate 3D outdoor scene structures. However, LiDAR produces many undesirable noise points in snowy weather, which hamper analyzing meaningful 3D scene structures. Semantic segmentation with snow labels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Gwangtak Bae , Byungjun Kim , Seongyong Ahn , Jihong Min , Inwook Shim

Lidar point cloud synthesis based on generative models offers a promising solution to augment deep learning pipelines, particularly when real-world data is scarce or lacks diversity. By enabling flexible object manipulation, this synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhengkang Xiang , Zizhao Li , Amir Khodabandeh , Kourosh Khoshelham

Semantic grids are a useful representation of the environment around a robot. They can be used in autonomous vehicles to concisely represent the scene around the car, capturing vital information for downstream tasks like navigation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Manuel Alejandro Diaz-Zapata , Özgür Erkent , Christian Laugier , Jilles Dibangoye , David Sierra González

Depth Completion can produce a dense depth map from a sparse input and provide a more complete 3D description of the environment. Despite great progress made in depth completion, the sparsity of the input and low density of the ground truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Jiaqi Gu , Zhiyu Xiang , Yuwen Ye , Lingxuan Wang