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Among various sensors for assisted and autonomous driving systems, automotive radar has been considered as a robust and low-cost solution even in adverse weather or lighting conditions. With the recent development of radar technologies and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shihong Fang , Haoran Zhu , Devansh Bisla , Anna Choromanska , Satish Ravindran , Dongyin Ren , Ryan Wu

We present an approach for autonomous sensor control for information gathering under partially observable, dynamic and sparsely sampled environments that maximizes information about entities present in that space. We describe our approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-24 J. Brian Burns , Aravind Sundaresan , Pedro Sequeira , Vidyasagar Sadhu

Various autonomous or assisted driving strategies have been facilitated through the accurate and reliable perception of the environment around a vehicle. Among the commonly used sensors, radar has usually been considered as a robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Yizhou Wang , Zhongyu Jiang , Yudong Li , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Guanbin Xing , Hui Liu

The limited and dynamically varied resources on edge devices motivate us to deploy an optimized deep neural network that can adapt its sub-networks to fit in different resource constraints. However, existing works often build sub-networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zhongnan Qu , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Xin Dong , Yuecheng Li , Ekin Sumbul , Barbara De Salvo

Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

4D radar-based object detection has garnered great attention for its robustness in adverse weather conditions and capacity to deliver rich spatial information across diverse driving scenarios. Nevertheless, the sparse and noisy nature of 4D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Fuyang Liu , Jilin Mei , Fangyuan Mao , Chen Min , Yan Xing , Yu Hu

Scene understanding is crucial for autonomous robots in dynamic environments for making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and path planning. Camera and LiDAR perception made tremendous progress in recent years, but face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Matthias Zeller , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Reducing the annotation cost of oriented object detection in remote sensing remains a major challenge. Recently, sparse annotation has gained attention for effectively reducing annotation redundancy in densely remote sensing scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Lin , Jianghang Lin , Kai Ye , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao

In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Felix Fent , Gerhard Rigoll

With the rapid advancements of sensor technology and deep learning, autonomous driving systems are providing safe and efficient access to intelligent vehicles as well as intelligent transportation. Among these equipped sensors, the radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shanliang Yao , Runwei Guan , Zitian Peng , Chenhang Xu , Yilu Shi , Weiping Ding , Eng Gee Lim , Yong Yue , Hyungjoon Seo , Ka Lok Man , Jieming Ma , Xiaohui Zhu , Yutao Yue

Traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods focus on improvement in the robot's localization under environment and sensor uncertainty. This paper, however, focuses on mitigating the need for exact localization of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pranay Mathur , Rajesh Kumar , Sarthak Upadhyay

An autonomous system's perception engine must provide an accurate understanding of the environment for it to make decisions. Deep learning based object detection networks experience degradation in the performance and robustness for small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hemant Kumawat , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Detecting objects efficiently from radar sensors has recently become a popular trend due to their robustness against adverse lighting and weather conditions compared with cameras. This paper presents an efficient object detection model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhiwei Lin , Weicheng Zheng , Yongtao Wang

Multi-modal 3D object detection has exhibited significant progress in recent years. However, most existing methods can hardly scale to long-range scenarios due to their reliance on dense 3D features, which substantially escalate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Yiheng Li , Hongyang Li , Zehao Huang , Hong Chang , Naiyan Wang

In the modern era of Deep Learning, network parameters play a vital role in models efficiency but it has its own limitations like extensive computations and memory requirements, which may not be suitable for real time intelligent robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Priya Shukla , Vandana Kushwaha , G C Nandi

Robust scene representation is essential for autonomous systems to safely operate in challenging low-visibility environments. Radar has a clear advantage over cameras and lidars in these conditions due to its resilience to environmental…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Judith Treffler , Vladimír Kubelka , Henrik Andreasson , Martin Magnusson

In scanning microscopy based imaging techniques, there is a need to develop novel data acquisition schemes that can reduce the time for data acquisition and minimize sample exposure to the probing radiation. Sparse sampling schemes are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-09 Yan Zhang , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Nicola Ferrier , Emine B. Gulsoy , Charles A. Bouman , Charudatta Phatak

Autonomous driving requires a detailed understanding of complex driving scenes. The redundancy and complementarity of the vehicle's sensors provide an accurate and robust comprehension of the environment, thereby increasing the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arthur Ouaknine

The rapid progress of Artificial Intelligence research came with the development of increasingly complex deep learning models, leading to growing challenges in terms of computational complexity, energy efficiency and interpretability. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Yuanrong Wang , Antonio Briola , Tomaso Aste

Occupancy grid mapping is an important component in road scene understanding for autonomous driving. It encapsulates information of the drivable area, road obstacles and enables safe autonomous driving. Radars are an emerging sensor in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Liat Sless , Gilad Cohen , Bat El Shlomo , Shaul Oron