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In recent years, computer vision has transformed fields such as medical imaging, object recognition, and geospatial analytics. One of the fundamental tasks in computer vision is semantic image segmentation, which is vital for precise object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Dinar Sharafutdinov , Stanislav Kuskov , Saian Protasov , Alexey Voropaev

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Lidar sensors are widely used in various applications, ranging from scientific fields over industrial use to integration in consumer products. With an ever growing number of different driver assistance systems, they have been introduced to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Frederik Hasecke , Lukas Hahn , Anton Kummert

In this paper, we introduce Cirrus, a new long-range bi-pattern LiDAR public dataset for autonomous driving tasks such as 3D object detection, critical to highway driving and timely decision making. Our platform is equipped with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Ze Wang , Sihao Ding , Ying Li , Jonas Fenn , Sohini Roychowdhury , Andreas Wallin , Lane Martin , Scott Ryvola , Guillermo Sapiro , Qiang Qiu

Semantic segmentation of indoor point clouds has found various applications in the creation of digital twins for robotics, navigation and building information modeling (BIM). However, most existing datasets of labeled indoor point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Maxime Mérizette , Nicolas Audebert , Pierre Kervella , Jérôme Verdun

Large-scale LiDAR-based point cloud semantic segmentation is a critical task in autonomous driving perception. Almost all of the previous state-of-the-art LiDAR semantic segmentation methods are variants of sparse 3D convolution. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chuanyu Luo , Nuo Cheng , Sikun Ma , Han Li , Xiaohan Li , Shengguang Lei , Pu Li

LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has become an essential part of the remote sensing toolbox used for biosphere monitoring. In particular, LiDAR provides the opportunity to map forest leaf area with unprecedented accuracy, while leaf area…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Yuchen Bai , Jean-Baptiste Durand , Grégoire Vincent , Florence Forbes

In recent years considerable research in LiDAR semantic segmentation was conducted, introducing several new state of the art models. However, most research focuses on single-scan point clouds, limiting performance especially in long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Andrea Matteazzi , Pascal Colling , Michael Arnold , Dietmar Tutsch

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

3D vehicle detection based on point cloud is a challenging task in real-world applications such as autonomous driving. Despite significant progress has been made, we observe two aspects to be further improved. First, the semantic context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Hongwei Yi , Shaoshuai Shi , Mingyu Ding , Jiankai Sun , Kui Xu , Hui Zhou , Zhe Wang , Sheng Li , Guoping Wang

The light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology allows to sense surrounding objects with fine-grained resolution in a large areas. Their data (aka point clouds), generated continuously at very high rates, can provide information to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Hannaneh Najdataei , Yiannis Nikolakopoulos , Vincenzo Gulisano , Marina Papatriantafilou

Within a perception framework for autonomous mobile and robotic systems, semantic analysis of 3D point clouds typically generated by LiDARs is key to numerous applications, such as object detection and recognition, and scene reconstruction.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Samir Abou Haidar , Alexandre Chariot , Mehdi Darouich , Cyril Joly , Jean-Emmanuel Deschaud

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Panoptic segmentation of point clouds is a crucial task that enables autonomous vehicles to comprehend their vicinity using their highly accurate and reliable LiDAR sensors. Existing top-down approaches tackle this problem by either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Kshitij Sirohi , Rohit Mohan , Daniel Büscher , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

The precise point cloud ground segmentation is a crucial prerequisite of virtually all perception tasks for LiDAR sensors in autonomous vehicles. Especially the clustering and extraction of objects from a point cloud usually relies on an…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Nicolai Steinke , Daniel Göhring , Raùl Rojas

The autonomous car must recognize the driving environment quickly for safe driving. As the Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) sensor is widely used in the autonomous car, fast semantic segmentation of LiDAR point cloud, which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jaehyun Park , Chansoo Kim , Kichun Jo

Understanding the complex urban infrastructure with centimeter-level accuracy is essential for many applications from autonomous driving to mapping, infrastructure monitoring, and urban management. Aerial images provide valuable information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Seyed Majid Azimi , Corentin Henry , Lars Sommer , Arne Schumann , Eleonora Vig

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth

We present a powerful method to extract per-point semantic class labels from aerialphotogrammetry data. Labeling this kind of data is important for tasks such as environmental modelling, object classification and scene understanding. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Carlos Becker , Nicolai Häni , Elena Rosinskaya , Emmanuel d'Angelo , Christoph Strecha

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale driving-scene LiDAR segmentation often project the point clouds to 2D space and then process them via 2D convolution. Although this corporation shows the competitiveness in the point cloud, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Xinge Zhu , Hui Zhou , Tai Wang , Fangzhou Hong , Yuexin Ma , Wei Li , Hongsheng Li , Dahua Lin