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High-definition (HD) map is a fundamental component of autonomous driving systems, as it can provide precise environmental information about driving scenes. Recent work on vectorized map generation could produce merely 65% local map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Miao Fan , Yi Yao , Jianping Zhang , Xiangbo Song , Daihui Wu

Data across modalities such as images, text, and graphs often contains hierarchical and relational structures, which are challenging to model within Euclidean geometry. Hyperbolic geometry provides a natural framework for representing such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Haya Alyoussef , Ahmad Bdeir , Diego Coello de Portugal Mecke , Tom Hanika , Niels Landwehr , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

In this paper, we introduce Hi-Map, a novel monocular dense mapping approach based on Neural Radiance Field (NeRF). Hi-Map is exceptional in its capacity to achieve efficient and high-fidelity mapping using only posed RGB inputs. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Tongyan Hua , Haotian Bai , Zidong Cao , Ming Liu , Dacheng Tao , Lin Wang

Scene-level point cloud registration is very challenging when considering dynamic foregrounds. Existing indoor datasets mostly assume rigid motions, so the trained models cannot robustly handle scenes with non-rigid motions. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Keyu Du , Hao Xu , Haipeng Li , Hong Qu , Chi-Wing Fu , Shuaicheng Liu

Transformer-based detectors have advanced small-object detection, but they often remain inefficient and vulnerable to background-induced query noise, which motivates deep decoders to refine low-quality queries. We present HELP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yangchen Zeng , Zhenyu Yu , Dongming Jiang , Wenbo Zhang , Yifan Hong , Zhanhua Hu , Jiao Luo , Kangning Cui

Constructing high-definition (HD) maps is a crucial requirement for enabling autonomous driving. In recent years, several map segmentation algorithms have been developed to address this need, leveraging advancements in Bird's-Eye View (BEV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Peijin Jia , Tuopu Wen , Ziang Luo , Mengmeng Yang , Kun Jiang , Zhiquan Lei , Xuewei Tang , Ziyuan Liu , Le Cui , Bo Zhang , Long Huang , Diange Yang

The proliferation of complex, multimodal datasets has exposed a critical gap between the capabilities of specialized vector databases and traditional graph databases. While vector databases excel at semantic similarity search, they lack the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Joydeep Chandra , Satyam Kumar Navneet , Yong Zhang

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems provide convenient and relevant ways to analyze, model, and simulate complex systems composed of a large number of entities that interact at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ahmad Esmaeili , John C. Gallagher , John A. Springer , Eric T. Matson

Representations are crucial for a robot to learn effective navigation policies. Recent work has shown that mid-level perceptual abstractions, such as depth estimates or 2D semantic segmentation, lead to more effective policies when provided…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Zachary Ravichandran , Lisa Peng , Nathan Hughes , J. Daniel Griffith , Luca Carlone

Robotic systems demand accurate and comprehensive 3D environment perception, requiring simultaneous capture of photo-realistic appearance (optical), precise layout shape (geometric), and open-vocabulary scene understanding (semantic).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yinan Deng , Yufeng Yue , Jianyu Dou , Jingyu Zhao , Jiahui Wang , Yujie Tang , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

Autonomous driving perceives surroundings with line-of-sight sensors that are compromised under environmental uncertainties. To achieve real time global information in high definition map, we investigate to share perception information…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Qiang Liu , Tao Han , Jiang , Xie , BaekGyu Kim

High-definition (HD) semantic map generation of the environment is an essential component of autonomous driving. Existing methods have achieved good performance in this task by fusing different sensor modalities, such as LiDAR and camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Hao Dong , Weihao Gu , Xianjing Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Huimin Lu , Juho Kannala , Xieyuanli Chen

We present the first active learning tool for fine-grained 3D part labeling, a problem which challenges even the most advanced deep learning (DL) methods due to the significant structural variations among the small and intricate parts. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Fenggen Yu , Yiming Qian , Francisca Gil-Ureta , Brian Jackson , Eric Bennett , Hao Zhang

Academic networks in the real world can usually be portrayed as heterogeneous information networks (HINs) with multi-type, universally connected nodes and multi-relationships. Some existing studies for the representation learning of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Junfu Wang , Yawen Li , Meiyu Liang , Ang Li

Multimodal datasets contain an enormous amount of relational information, which grows exponentially with the introduction of new modalities. Learning representations in such a scenario is inherently complex due to the presence of multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Devanshu Arya , Stevan Rudinac , Marcel Worring

Patch-to-point matching has become a robust way of point cloud registration. However, previous patch-matching methods employ superpoints with poor localization precision as nodes, which may lead to ambiguous patch partitions. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yiheng Li , Canhui Tang , Runzhao Yao , Aixue Ye , Feng Wen , Shaoyi Du

Fast and accurate path planning is important for ground robots to achieve safe and efficient autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. However, most existing methods exploiting either 2D or 2.5D maps struggle to balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiayang Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Sichao Lin , Zhiqiang Zheng , Huimin Lu

This work uses visual knowledge discovery in parallel coordinates to advance methods of interpretable machine learning. The graphic data representation in parallel coordinates made the concepts of hypercubes and hyperblocks (HBs) simple to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Dustin Hayes , Boris Kovalerchuk

Knowledge Graphs, such as Wikidata, comprise structural and textual knowledge in order to represent knowledge. For each of the two modalities dedicated approaches for graph embedding and language models learn patterns that allow for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mojtaba Nayyeri , Zihao Wang , Mst. Mahfuja Akter , Mirza Mohtashim Alam , Md Rashad Al Hasan Rony , Jens Lehmann , Steffen Staab

Despite the good results that have been achieved in unimodal segmentation, the inherent limitations of individual data increase the difficulty of achieving breakthroughs in performance. For that reason, multi-modal learning is increasingly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Yameng Wang , Yi Wan , Yongjun Zhang , Bin Zhang , Zhi Gao