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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

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein

Point cloud segmentation (PCS) is to classify each point in point clouds. The task enables robots to parse their 3D surroundings and run autonomously. According to different point cloud representations, existing PCS models can be roughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bike Chen , Antti Tikanmäki , Juha Röning

Autonomous driving is a safety-critical application, and it is therefore a top priority that the accompanying assistance systems are able to provide precise information about the surrounding environment of the vehicle. Tasks such as 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Dan Halperin , Niklas Eisl

Semantic segmentation metrics for 3D point clouds, such as mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) and Overall Accuracy (OA), present two key limitations in the context of aerial LiDAR data. First, they treat all misclassifications equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Alex Salvatierra , José Antonio Sanz , Christian Gutiérrez , Mikel Galar

Road information extraction from 3D point clouds is useful for urban planning and traffic management. Existing methods often rely on local features and the refraction angle of lasers from kerbs, which makes them sensitive to variable kerb…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Xinyu Wang , Muhammad Ibrahim , Atif Mansoor , Hasnein Tareque , Ajmal Mian

The increasing number of Photovoltaic (PV) systems connected to the power grid are vulnerable to the projection of shadows from moving clouds. Global Solar Irradiance (GSI) forecasting allows smart grids to optimize the energy dispatch,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Guillermo Terrén-Serrano , Manel Martínez-Ramón

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Semantic segmentation of aerial point cloud data can be utilised to differentiate which points belong to classes such as ground, buildings, or vegetation. Point clouds generated from aerial sensors mounted to drones or planes can utilise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Matthew Howe , Boris Repasky , Timothy Payne

In this study, we present a novel LiDAR-based semantic segmentation framework tailored for autonomous forklifts operating in complex outdoor environments. Central to our approach is the integration of a dual LiDAR system, which combines…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Benjamin Serfling , Hannes Reichert , Lorenzo Bayerlein , Konrad Doll , Kati Radkhah-Lens

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

3D LiDAR point cloud data is crucial for scene perception in computer vision, robotics, and autonomous driving. Geometric and semantic scene understanding, involving 3D point clouds, is essential for advancing autonomous driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Li Li

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Perception of traversable regions and objects of interest from a 3D point cloud is one of the critical tasks in autonomous navigation. A ground vehicle needs to look for traversable terrains that are explorable by wheels. Then, to make safe…

This paper presents a novel and fast approach for ground plane segmentation in a LiDAR point cloud, specifically optimized for processing speed and hardware efficiency on FPGA hardware platforms. Our approach leverages a channel-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Xiao Zhang , Zhanhong Huang , Garcia Gonzalez Antony , Witek Jachimczyk , Xinming Huang

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds is an important task in autonomous driving. However, training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large datasets which are costly to label. It is critical to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minghua Liu , Yin Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Boqing Gong , Hao Su , Dragomir Anguelov

Accurate pose estimation is a fundamental ability that all mobile robots must posses in order to traverse robustly in a given environment. Much like a human, this ability is dependent on the robot's understanding of a given scene. For…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Stephen Ninan , Sivakumar Rathinam

LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Sujit PB , Srikanth Saripalli

In the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), efficient data compression is crucial for managing large-scale point cloud data acquired by roadside LiDAR sensors. The demand for efficient storage, streaming, and real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Walter Zimmer , Ramandika Pranamulia , Xingcheng Zhou , Mingyu Liu , Alois C. Knoll

The field of autonomous driving technology is rapidly advancing, with deep learning being a key component. Particularly in the field of sensing, 3D point cloud data collected by LiDAR is utilized to run deep neural network models for 3D…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Taisuke Noguchi , Takuya Azumi