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In recent times, the scope of LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor-based technology has spread across numerous fields. It is popularly used to map terrain and navigation information into reliable 3D point cloud data, potentially…

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Accurate rail location is a crucial part in the railway support driving system for safety monitoring. LiDAR can obtain point clouds that carry 3D information for the railway environment, especially in darkness and terrible weather…

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With the objective of improving the registration of LiDAR point clouds produced by kinematic scanning systems, we propose a novel trajectory adjustment procedure that leverages on the automated extraction of selected reliable 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Aurélien Brun , Davide Antonio Cucci , Jan Skaloud

Machine learning for wireless systems is commonly studied using standardized stochastic channel models (e.g., TDL/CDL/UMa) because of their legacy in wireless communication standardization and their ability to generate data at scale.…

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3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) is a process that enables the direct creation of 3D objects from 2D images. This representation offers numerous advantages, including rapid training and rendering. However, a significant limitation of 3DGS is…

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Wireless ray-tracing (RT) is emerging as a key tool for three-dimensional (3D) wireless channel modeling, driven by advances in graphical rendering. Current approaches struggle to accurately model beyond 5G (B5G) network signaling, which…

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This work addresses the problem of point cloud registration using deep neural networks. We propose an approach to predict the alignment between two point clouds with overlapping data content, but displaced origins. Such point clouds…

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The increasing prevalence LEO satellite mega-constellations for global Internet coverage requires new approaches to evaluate the behavior of existing Internet protocols and applications. Traditional discrete event simulators like Hypatia…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Martin Ottens , Kai-Steffen Hielscher , Reinhard German

The multipath-rich wireless environment associated with typical wireless usage scenarios is characterized by a fading channel response that is time-varying, location-sensitive, and uniquely shared by a given transmitter-receiver pair. The…

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Real-time rendering of dynamic line sets is relevant in many visualization tasks, including unsteady flow visualization and interactive white matter reconstruction from Magnetic Resonance Imaging. High-quality global illumination and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Bram Kraaijeveld , Andrei C. Jalba , Anna Vilanova , Maxime Chamberland

Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

Point cloud synthesis, i.e. the generation of novel point clouds from an input distribution, remains a challenging task, for which numerous complex machine learning models have been devised. We develop a novel method that encodes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ernst Röell , Bastian Rieck

Recent years we have witnessed rapid development in NeRF-based image rendering due to its high quality. However, point clouds rendering is somehow less explored. Compared to NeRF-based rendering which suffers from dense spatial sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xiaoyang Huang , Yi Zhang , Bingbing Ni , Teng Li , Kai Chen , Wenjun Zhang

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

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A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

In wireless sensor networks for reusable launchers, the electromagnetic characterization and electromagnetic compatibility analyses are relevant due to the reference operational scenario, which implies a complex, and sometimes dynamic,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Ivan Iudice , Domenico Pascarella , Sonia Zappia , Giovanni Cuciniello , Hernan M. R. Giannetta , Marta Albano , Enrico Cavallini

This letter presents a probabilistic omnidirectional millimeter-wave path loss model based on real-world 28 GHz and 73 GHz measurements collected in New York City. The probabilistic path loss approach uses a free space line-of-sight…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mathew K. Samimi , Theodore S. Rappaport , George R. MacCartney

Data is a fundamental building block for LiDAR perception systems. Unfortunately, real-world data collection and annotation is extremely costly & laborious. Recently, real data based LiDAR simulators have shown tremendous potential to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chenqi Li , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

In this paper, we address the problem of efficient point searching and sampling for volume neural rendering. Within this realm, two typical approaches are employed: rasterization and ray tracing. The rasterization-based methods enable…

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Network planning is a fundamental task in wireless communications, primarily focused on guaranteeing adequate coverage for every network device. In this context, the quality of any planning effort strongly depends on the channel model…

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