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Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is used to predict the dynamic motion path of a moving platform based on the location coordinates and the precise mapping of the physical environment. SLAM has great potential in augmented…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Thangarajah Akilan , Edna Johnson , Japneet Sandhu , Ritika Chadha , Gaurav Taluja

A principal barrier to large-scale deployment of urban autonomous driving systems lies in the prevalence of complex scenarios and edge cases. Existing systems fail to effectively interpret semantic information within traffic contexts and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yuhang Zhang , Jiaqi Liu , Chengkai Xu , Peng Hang , Jian Sun

Off-road environments present unique challenges for autonomous navigation due to their complex and unstructured nature. Traditional global path-planning methods, which typically aim to minimize path length and travel time, perform poorly on…

Building and maintaining High-Definition (HD) maps represents a large barrier to autonomous vehicle deployment. This, along with advances in modern online map detection models, has sparked renewed interest in the online mapping problem.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Samuel M. Bateman , Ning Xu , H. Charles Zhao , Yael Ben Shalom , Vince Gong , Greg Long , Will Maddern

High Definition (HD) maps play an important role in modern traffic scenes. However, the development of HD maps coverage grows slowly because of the cost limitation. To efficiently model HD maps, we proposed a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dun Liang , Yuanchen Guo , Shaokui Zhang , Song-Hai Zhang , Peter Hall , Min Zhang , Shimin Hu

LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) is essential for global localization and loop-closure detection in large-scale SLAM systems. Existing methods typically construct global descriptors from Range Images or BEV representations for matching.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Shuyuan Li , Zihang Wang , Xieyuanli Chen , Wenkai Zhu , Xiaoteng Fang , Peizhou Ni , Junhao Yang , Dong Kong

Achieving both high accuracy and topological continuity in road segmentation from satellite imagery is a critical goal for applications ranging from urban planning to disaster response. State-of-the-art methods often rely on Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jules Decaestecker , Nicolas Vigne

Robust and accurate localization is critical for autonomous driving. Traditional GNSS-based localization methods suffer from signal occlusion and multipath effects in urban environments. Meanwhile, methods relying on high-definition (HD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zijie Zhou , Zhangshuo Qi , Luqi Cheng , Guangming Xiong

Seeing clearly with high resolution is a foundation of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), which has been proven to be vital for visual perception and reasoning. Existing works usually employ a straightforward resolution upscaling method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoyou Fu , Xue Wang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

Precise and timely traffic flow prediction plays a critical role in developing intelligent transportation systems and has attracted considerable attention in recent decades. Despite the significant progress in this area brought by deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Wenzheng Zhao

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) is a critical task in computational intelligence. While Transformer-based models effectively capture long-range dependencies, they often suffer from quadratic complexity and overfitting due to data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Li Qianyang , Zhang Xingjun , Wang Shaoxun , Wei Jia

We present LatentAM, an online 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) mapping framework that builds scalable latent feature maps from streaming RGB-D observations for open-vocabulary robotic perception. Instead of distilling high-dimensional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Junwoon Lee , Yulun Tian

We advance the field of HDR environment map estimation from a single-view image by establishing a novel approach leveraging the Latent Diffusion Model (LDM) to produce high-quality environment maps that can plausibly light mirror-reflective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jack Hilliard , Adrian Hilton , Jean-Yves Guillemaut

Conventional algorithms in autonomous exploration face challenges due to their inability to accurately and efficiently identify the spatial distribution of convex regions in the real-time map. These methods often prioritize navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Qiming Wang , Yulong Gao , Yang Wang , Xiongwei Zhao , Yijiao Sun , Xiangyan Kong

Planning a safe and feasible trajectory for autonomous vehicles in real-time by fully utilizing perceptual information in complex urban environments is challenging. In this paper, we propose a spatio-temporal trajectory planning method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Shan He , Yalong Ma , Tao Song , Yongzhi Jiang , Xinkai Wu

Multi-view learning has progressed rapidly in recent years. Although many previous studies assume that each instance appears in all views, it is common in real-world applications for instances to be missing from some views, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Pengfei Zhu , Xinjie Yao , Yu Wang , Meng Cao , Binyuan Hui , Shuai Zhao , Qinghua Hu

Long-term and Large-scale Wireless Traffic Forecasting (LL-WTF) is pivotal for strategic network management and comprehensive planning on a macro scale. However, LL-WTF poses greater challenges than short-term ones due to the pronounced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Daojun Liang , Haixia Zhang , Dongfeng Yuan

Topological maps are favorable for their small storage compared to geometric map. However, they are limited in relocalization and path planning capabilities. To solve this problem, a feature-based hierarchical topological map (FHT-Map) is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kun Song , Wenhang Liu , Gaoming Chen , Xiang Xu , Zhenhua Xiong

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To address this challenge, some works use LLMs and VLMs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Yang Zhou , Yuxuan Hu , Zhuofan Zong , Steven L. Waslander , Wei Zhan , Hongsheng Li

This paper presents a novel approach, TeFS (Temporal-controlled Frame Swap), to generate synthetic stereo driving data for visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) tasks. TeFS is designed to overcome the lack of native stereo…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Yedi Luo , Xiangyu Bai , Le Jiang , Aniket Gupta , Eric Mortin , Hanumant Singh , Sarah Ostadabbas