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We tackle the problem of exploiting Radar for perception in the context of self-driving as Radar provides complementary information to other sensors such as LiDAR or cameras in the form of Doppler velocity. The main challenges of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Bin Yang , Runsheng Guo , Ming Liang , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

mmWave radars offer excellent depth resolution even at very long ranges owing to their high bandwidth. But their angular resolution is at least an order-of-magnitude worse than camera and lidar systems. Hence, mmWave radar is not a capable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Akarsh Prabhakara , Diana Zhang , Chao Li , Sirajum Munir , Aswin Sankanaryanan , Anthony Rowe , Swarun Kumar

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars are indispensable for perception tasks of autonomous vehicles, thanks to their resilience in challenging weather conditions. Yet, their deployment is often limited by insufficient spatial resolution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Holger Caesar , Honglei Chen , Jian Li

Autonomous systems require a continuous and dependable environment perception for navigation and decision-making, which is best achieved by combining different sensor types. Radar continues to function robustly in compromised circumstances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Carsten Ditzel , Klaus Dietmayer

Determining the shape of 3D objects from high-frequency radar signals is analytically complex but critical for commercial and aerospace applications. Previous deep learning methods have been applied to radar modeling; however, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Neel Sortur , Justin Goodwin , Purvik Patel , Luis Enrique Martinez , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Robin Walters

Precise scene understanding is key for most robot monitoring and intervention tasks in agriculture. In this work we present PAg-NeRF which is a novel NeRF-based system that enables 3D panoptic scene understanding. Our representation is…

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) are fast emerging sensors in the field of Earth Observation. It is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser beams to measure distances and create detailed three-dimensional representations of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Saad Ahmed Jamal

With their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure speeds, radar sensors have been part of the automotive landscape for more than two decades. Recent progress toward High Definition (HD) Imaging radar has driven the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Julien Rebut , Arthur Ouaknine , Waqas Malik , Patrick Pérez

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jiuxuan Zhao , Ashley Lyons , Arin Can Ulku , Hugo Defienne , Daniele Faccio , Edoardo Charbon

Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong

Photoacoustic Microscopy (PAM) images integrating the advantages of optical contrast and acoustic resolution have been widely used in brain studies. However, there exists a trade-off between scanning speed and image resolution. Compared…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-06 Kai Pan , Linyang Li , Li Lin , Pujin Cheng , Junyan Lyu , Lei Xi , Xiaoyin Tang

mmWave radar has been shown as an effective sensing technique in low visibility, smoke, dusty, and dense fog environment. However tapping the potential of radar sensing to reconstruct 3D object shapes remains a great challenge, due to the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yue Sun , Zhuoming Huang , Honggang Zhang , Zhi Cao , Deqiang Xu

Due to the robustness in sensing, radar has been highlighted, overcoming harsh weather conditions such as fog and heavy snow. In this paper, we present a novel radar-only place recognition that measures the similarity score by utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hyesu Jang , Minwoo Jung , Ayoung Kim

Coherent LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) is a promising 3D imaging technology that provides significant advantages over more traditional LiDAR systems. In addition to being immune to ambient light, it directly measures the velocity of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Alexander Y. Piggott

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces several challenges due to imaging in high noise environments and with sensors having limited resolution. This paper presents a deep learning algorithm based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Abderrahim Halimi , Jakeoung Koo , Stephen McLaughlin

We demonstrate the imaging capability of a frequency modulated continuous wave lidar based on a fiber bundle. The lidar constructs velocity and range images for hard targets at a rate of 60 Hz. The sensing range is up to 30 m with 20 mW of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-10-28 Iskander Gazizov , Sergei Zenevich , Alexander Rodin

Achieving an immersive experience enabling users to explore virtual environments with six degrees of freedom (6DoF) is essential for various applications such as virtual reality (VR). Wide-baseline panoramas are commonly used in these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Zheng Chen , Yan-Pei Cao , Yuan-Chen Guo , Chen Wang , Ying Shan , Song-Hai Zhang

Remote sensing provides valuable information about objects or areas from a distance in either active (e.g., RADAR and LiDAR) or passive (e.g., multispectral and hyperspectral) modes. The quality of data acquired by remotely sensed imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Benhood Rasti , Yi Chang , Emanuele Dalsasso , Loïc Denis , Pedram Ghamisi

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely used in autonomous driving and large-scale manufacturing. Although state-of-the-art scanning LiDAR can perform long-range three-dimensional imaging, the frame rate is limited by both…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-10 Zihan Zang , Zhi Li , Yi Luo , Yanjun Han , Xuanyi Liu , H. Y. Fu

Far-field characterization of small objects is severely constrained by the diffraction limit. Existing tools achieving sub-diffraction resolution often utilize point-by-point image reconstruction via scanning or labelling. Here, we present…