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This paper studies 3D LiDAR mapping with a focus on developing an updatable and localizable map representation that enables continuity, compactness and consistency in 3D maps. Traditional LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaicheng Zhang , Shida Xu , Yining Ding , Xianwen Kong , Sen Wang

The rapid development of autonomous driving and mobile mapping calls for off-the-shelf LiDAR SLAM solutions that are adaptive to LiDARs of different specifications on various complex scenarios. To this end, we propose MULLS, an efficient,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Yue Pan , Pengchuan Xiao , Yujie He , Zhenlei Shao , Zesong Li

Monocular 3D scene understanding tasks, such as object size estimation, heading angle estimation and 3D localization, is challenging. Successful modern day methods for 3D scene understanding require the use of a 3D sensor. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Xinshuo Weng , Kris Kitani

In this paper we propose an approach to mitigate shadowing errors in Lidar scan matching, by introducing a preprocessing step based on spherical gridding. Because the grid aligns with the Lidar beam, it is relatively easy to eliminate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Matthew McDermott , Jason Rife

Novel view synthesis has made significant progress in the field of 3D computer vision. However, the rendering of view-consistent novel views from imperfect camera poses remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yanan Guo , Ying Xie , Ying Chang , Benkui Zhang , Bo Jia , Lin Cao

Compressing massive LiDAR point clouds in real-time is critical to autonomous machines such as drones and self-driving cars. While most of the recent prior work has focused on compressing individual point cloud frames, this paper proposes a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Yu Feng , Shaoshan Liu , Yuhao Zhu

This study proposes a privacy-preserving Visual SLAM framework for estimating camera poses and performing bundle adjustment with mixed line and point clouds in real time. Previous studies have proposed localization methods to estimate a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Mikiya Shibuya , Shinya Sumikura , Ken Sakurada

Camera and 3D LiDAR sensors have become indispensable devices in modern autonomous driving vehicles, where the camera provides the fine-grained texture, color information in 2D space and LiDAR captures more precise and farther-away distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Lin Zhao , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Hongsheng Li , Wenbing Tao

As camera and LiDAR sensors capture complementary information used in autonomous driving, great efforts have been made to develop semantic segmentation algorithms through multi-modality data fusion. However, fusion-based approaches require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Chaoda Zheng , Chao Zheng , Ruimao Zhang , Shenghui Cui , Zhen Li

A Colored point cloud, as a simple and efficient 3D representation, has many advantages in various fields, including robotic navigation and scene reconstruction. This representation is now commonly used in 3D reconstruction tasks relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Bonan Liu , Guoyang Zhao , Jianhao Jiao , Guang Cai , Chengyang Li , Handi Yin , Yuyang Wang , Ming Liu , Pan Hui

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

Most real-world 3D measurements from depth sensors are incomplete, and to address this issue the point cloud completion task aims to predict the complete shapes of objects from partial observations. Previous works often adapt an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Junming Zhang , Haomeng Zhang , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

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

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar offers robust sensing capabilities in diverse environments, making it a highly promising solution for human body reconstruction due to its privacy-friendly and non-intrusive nature. However, the significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiarui Yang , Songpengcheng Xia , Zengyuan Lai , Lan Sun , Qi Wu , Wenxian Yu , Ling Pei

Bundle Adjustment (BA) has been proven to improve the accuracy of the LiDAR mapping. However, the BA method has not yet been properly employed in a dead-reckoning navigation system. In this paper, we present a frame-to-frame (F2F) BA for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Hailiang Tang , Tisheng Zhang , Liqiang Wang , Man Yuan , Xiaoji Niu

Two major challenges of 3D LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation (PS) are that point clouds of an object are surface-aggregated and thus hard to model the long-range dependency especially for large instances, and that objects are too close to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Shuangjie Xu , Rui Wan , Maosheng Ye , Xiaoyi Zou , Tongyi Cao

LiDAR sensors are a key modality for 3D perception, yet they are typically designed independently of downstream tasks such as point cloud registration. Conventional registration operates on pre-acquired datasets with fixed LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Siddhant Katyan , Marc-André Gardner , Jean-François Lalonde

LiDAR sensors can provide dependable 3D spatial information at a low frequency (around 10Hz) and have been widely applied in the field of autonomous driving and UAV. However, the camera with a higher frequency (around 20Hz) has to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Haojie Liu , Kang Liao , Chunyu Lin , Yao Zhao , Yulan Guo

Recently, the rapid development of Solid-State LiDAR (SSL) enables low-cost and efficient obtainment of 3D point clouds from the environment, which has inspired a large quantity of studies and applications. However, the non-uniformity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jiahe Cui , Jianwei Niu , Zhenchao Ouyang , Yunxiang He , Dian Liu

We often encounter limited FOV situations due to various factors such as sensor fusion or sensor mount in real-world robot navigation. However, the limited FOV interrupts the generation of descriptions and impacts place recognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hogyun Kim , Jiwon Choi , Taehu Sim , Giseop Kim , Younggun Cho