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This paper introduces a large-scale multi-modal dataset captured in and around well-known landmarks in Oxford using a custom-built multi-sensor perception unit as well as a millimetre-accurate map from a Terrestrial LiDAR Scanner (TLS). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifu Tao , Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón , Lintong Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Lanke Frank Tarimo Fu , Maurice Fallon

3D point clouds of natural environments relevant to problems in geomorphology often require classification of the data into elementary relevant classes. A typical example is the separation of riparian vegetation from ground in fluvial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Nicolas Brodu , Dimitri Lague

LiDAR-based localization and mapping is one of the core components in many modern robotic systems due to the direct integration of range and geometry, allowing for precise motion estimation and generation of high quality maps in real-time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Julian Nubert , Etienne Walther , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

An optimal solution to the localization problem is essential for developing autonomous robotic systems. Apart from autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture is one of the elds that can bene t most from these systems. Although LiDAR place…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Judith Vilella-Cantos , Mónica Ballesta , David Valiente , María Flores , Luis Payá

We present an efficient, elastic 3D LiDAR reconstruction framework which can reconstruct up to maximum LiDAR ranges (60 m) at multiple frames per second, thus enabling robot exploration in large-scale environments. Our approach only…

The 3D structure of living and non-living components in ecosystems plays a critical role in determining ecological processes and feedbacks from both natural and human-driven disturbances. Anticipating the effects of wildfire, drought,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Juan Castorena , E. Louise Loudermilk , Scott Pokswinski , Rodman Linn

While mobile LiDAR sensors are increasingly used to scan in ecology and forestry applications, reconstruction and characterisation are typically carried out offline (to the best of our knowledge). Motivated by this, we present an online…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-04 Alexander Proudman , Milad Ramezani , Maurice Fallon

This paper presents an autonomous approach to tree detection and segmentation in high resolution airborne LiDAR that utilises state-of-the-art region-based CNN and 3D-CNN deep learning algorithms. If the number of training examples for a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Lloyd Windrim , Mitch Bryson

Safe motion planning in robotics requires planning into space which has been verified to be free of obstacles. However, obtaining such environment representations using lidars is challenging by virtue of the sparsity of their depth…

This paper presents a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data set that targets complex urban environments. Urban environments with high-rise buildings and congested traffic pose a significant challenge for many robotics applications. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Jinyong Jeong , Younggun Cho , Young-Sik Shin , Hyunchul Roh , Ayoung Kim

Our previous works have demonstrated that visually realistic 3D meshes can be automatically reconstructed with low-cost, off-the-shelf unmanned aerial systems (UAS) equipped with capable cameras, and efficient photogrammetric software…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Meida Chen , Andrew Feng , Kyle McCullough , Pratusha Bhuvana Prasad , Ryan McAlinden , Lucio Soibelman , Mike Enloe

In this study, we present a novel LiDAR-based semantic segmentation framework tailored for autonomous forklifts operating in complex outdoor environments. Central to our approach is the integration of a dual LiDAR system, which combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Benjamin Serfling , Hannes Reichert , Lorenzo Bayerlein , Konrad Doll , Kati Radkhah-Lens

Laser scanning (also known as Light Detection And Ranging) has been widely applied in various application. As part of that, aerial laser scanning (ALS) has been used to collect topographic data points for a large area, which triggers to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-13 V-H Cao , K-X Chu , Nhien-An Le-Khac , M-T Kechadi , Debra F. Laefer , Linh Truong-Hong

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

As mobile robot capabilities improve and deployment times increase, tools to analyze the growing volume of data are becoming necessary. Current state-of-the-art logging, playback, and exploration systems are insufficient for practitioners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Samer B. Nashed

Mapping field environments into point clouds using a 3D LIDAR has the ability to become a new approach for online estimation of crop biomass in the field. The estimation of crop biomass in agriculture is expected to be closely correlated to…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with LiDAR, electro-optical and infrared cameras, SAR and atmospheric sensors have transformed the way we acquire high spatio-temporal resolution data. For example, UAVs equipped with these sensors…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-09-20 M. Ani Hsieh , Srikanth Saripalli , Gaurav Sukhatme , Vijay Kumar

Synthetic aperture radar tomographic imaging reconstructs the three-dimensional reflectivity of a scene from a set of coherent acquisitions performed in an interferometric configuration. In forest areas, a large number of elements…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Zoé Berenger , Loïc Denis , Florence Tupin , Laurent Ferro-Famil , Yue Huang

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task for agricultural robots to understand the surrounding environments in natural orchards. The recent development of the LiDAR techniques enables the robot to acquire accurate range measurements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang

We present a remote sensing pipeline that processes LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) data through machine & deep learning for the application of archeological feature detection on big geo-spatial data platforms such as e.g. IBM PAIRS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Conrad M Albrecht , Chris Fisher , Marcus Freitag , Hendrik F Hamann , Sharathchandra Pankanti , Florencia Pezzutti , Francesca Rossi