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This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross

Labeling LiDAR point clouds for training autonomous driving is extremely expensive and difficult. LiDAR simulation aims at generating realistic LiDAR data with labels for training and verifying self-driving algorithms more efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Junge Zhang , Feihu Zhang , Shaochen Kuang , Li Zhang

3D point cloud generation by the deep neural network from a single image has been attracting more and more researchers' attention. However, recently-proposed methods require the objects be captured with relatively clean backgrounds, fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Yan Xia , Yang Zhang , Dingfu Zhou , Xinyu Huang , Cheng Wang , Ruigang Yang

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

The objective of this work is to develop a data processing system that can automatically generate waypoints for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to inspect surfaces of structures like buildings and bridges. The input includes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-14 M. D. Phung , C. H. Quach , D. T. Chu , N. Q. Nguyen , T. H. Dinh , Q. P. Ha

Radar is ubiquitous in autonomous driving systems due to its low cost and good adaptability to bad weather. Nevertheless, the radar detection performance is usually inferior because its point cloud is sparse and not accurate due to the poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yang Liu , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

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

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

Mobile autonomy relies on the precise perception of dynamic environments. Robustly tracking moving objects in 3D world thus plays a pivotal role for applications like trajectory prediction, obstacle avoidance, and path planning. While most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhijun Pan , Fangqiang Ding , Hantao Zhong , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

The millimeter-wave radar sensor maintains stable performance under adverse environmental conditions, making it a promising solution for all-weather perception tasks, such as outdoor mobile robotics. However, the radar point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Kai Luan , Chenghao Shi , Neng Wang , Yuwei Cheng , Huimin Lu , Xieyuanli Chen

4D radar measurements offer an affordable and weather-robust solution for 3D perception. However, the inherent sparsity and noise of radar point clouds present significant challenges for accurate 3D object detection, underscoring the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xiaokai Bai , Jiahao Cheng , Songkai Wang , Yixuan Luo , Lianqing Zheng , Xiaohan Zhang , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

To realize low-latency spatial transmission system for immersive telepresence, there are two major problems: capturing dynamic 3D scene densely and processing them in real time. LiDAR sensors capture 3D in real time, but produce sparce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kazuhiko Murasaki , Shunsuke Konagai , Masakatsu Aoki , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

LiDAR's dense, sharp point cloud (PC) representations of the surrounding environment enable accurate perception and significantly improve road safety by offering greater scene awareness and understanding. However, LiDAR's high cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 William Muckelroy , Mohammed Alsakabi , John Dolan , Ozan Tonguz

Rigid Point Cloud Registration (PCR) algorithms aim to estimate the 6-DOF relative motion between two point clouds, which is important in various fields, including autonomous driving. Recent years have seen a significant improvement in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Amnon Drory , Shai Avidan , Raja Giryes

LiDAR sensors provide rich 3D information about their surrounding{s} and are becoming increasingly important for autonomous vehicles tasks such as {localization}, semantic segmentation, object detection, and tracking. {Simulation}…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Jean Pierre Richa , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud , François Goulette , Nicolas Dalmasso

LiDAR has become one of the primary sensors in robotics and autonomous system for high-accuracy situational awareness. In recent years, multi-modal LiDAR systems emerged, and among them, LiDAR-as-a-camera sensors provide not only 3D point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Ha Sier , Xianjia Yu , Iacopo Catalano , Jorge Pena Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Capturing real-world 3D spaces as point clouds is efficient and descriptive, but it comes with sensor errors and lacks object parametrization. These limitations render point clouds unsuitable for various real-world applications, such as…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Krzysztof Zieliński , Bruce Blumberg , Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard

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

We present LiDARGen, a novel, effective, and controllable generative model that produces realistic LiDAR point cloud sensory readings. Our method leverages the powerful score-matching energy-based model and formulates the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Vlas Zyrianov , Xiyue Zhu , Shenlong Wang