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Recent advancements in lidar technology have led to improved point cloud resolution as well as the generation of 360 degrees, low-resolution images by encoding depth, reflectivity, or near-infrared light within each pixel. These images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

LiDAR-based vision systems are integral for 3D object detection, which is crucial for autonomous navigation. However, they suffer from performance degradation in adverse weather conditions due to the quality deterioration of LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xun Huang , Ziyu Xu , Hai Wu , Jinlong Wang , Qiming Xia , Yan Xia , Jonathan Li , Kyle Gao , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Fast and efficient semantic segmentation of large-scale LiDAR point clouds is a fundamental problem in autonomous driving. To achieve this goal, the existing point-based methods mainly choose to adopt Random Sampling strategy to process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 XianFeng Han , Huixian Cheng , Hang Jiang , Dehong He , Guoqiang Xiao

This work studies the semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR data in dynamic scenes for autonomous driving applications. A system of semantic segmentation using 3D LiDAR data, including range image segmentation, sample generation, inter-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jilin Mei , Biao Gao , Donghao Xu , Wen Yao , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

LiDAR semantic segmentation provides 3D semantic information about the environment, an essential cue for intelligent systems during their decision making processes. Deep neural networks are achieving state-of-the-art results on large public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Inigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

When using LiDAR semantic segmentation models for safety-critical applications such as autonomous driving, it is essential to understand and improve their robustness with respect to a large range of LiDAR corruptions. In this paper, we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Xu Yan , Chaoda Zheng , Ying Xue , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui , Dengxin Dai

LiDAR semantic segmentation frameworks predominantly use geometry-based features to differentiate objects within a scan. Although these methods excel in scenarios with clear boundaries and distinct shapes, their performance declines in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Kasi Viswanath , Peng Jiang , Srikanth Saripalli

Computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation perform very well in good weather conditions, but if the weather turns bad, they have problems to achieve this performance in these conditions. One possibility to obtain more robust and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Andreas Pfeuffer , Klaus Dietmayer

This report presents our solution for the WeatherProof Dataset Challenge, namely CVPR 2026 8th UG2+ Challenge Track 2: Semantic Segmentation in Adverse Weather. For the semantic segmentation task under adverse weather conditions, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jinming Chai , Libo Yan , Licheng Jiao , Fang Liu

Adverse conditions like snow, rain, nighttime, and fog, pose challenges for autonomous driving perception systems. Existing methods have limited effectiveness in improving essential computer vision tasks, such as semantic segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Chenghao Qian , Mahdi Rezaei , Saeed Anwar , Wenjing Li , Tanveer Hussain , Mohsen Azarmi , Wei Wang

Autonomous driving datasets are often skewed and in particular, lack training data for objects at farther distances from the ego vehicle. The imbalance of data causes a performance degradation as the distance of the detected objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Jordan S. K. Hu , Steven L. Waslander

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on environment perception and behavior prediction to reason about agents in their surroundings. These perception systems must be robust to adverse weather such as rain, fog, and snow. However, validation of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Harrison Delecki , Masha Itkina , Bernard Lange , Ransalu Senanayake , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

To improve the robustness to rain, we present a physically-based rain rendering pipeline for realistically inserting rain into clear weather images. Our rendering relies on a physical particle simulator, an estimation of the scene lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Shirsendu Sukanta Halder , Jean-François Lalonde , Raoul de Charette

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

3D object detection is a central task for applications such as autonomous driving, in which the system needs to localize and classify surrounding traffic agents, even in the presence of adverse weather. In this paper, we address the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Martin Hahner , Christos Sakaridis , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide , Fisher Yu , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

Complementary to prevalent LiDAR and camera systems, millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar is robust to adverse weather conditions like fog, rainstorms, and blizzards but offers sparse point clouds. Current techniques enhance the point cloud by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Cong Fan , Shengkai Zhang , Kezhong Liu , Shuai Wang , Zheng Yang , Wei Wang

This paper presents a novel weakly supervised semantic segmentation method for radar segmentation, where the existing LiDAR semantic segmentation models are employed to generate semantic labels, which then serve as supervision signals for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Siru Li , Ziyang Hong , Yushuai Chen , Liang Hu , Jiahu Qin

LiDAR sensors are used in autonomous driving applications to accurately perceive the environment. However, they are affected by adverse weather conditions such as snow, fog, and rain. These everyday phenomena introduce unwanted noise into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Aldi Piroli , Vinzenz Dallabetta , Johannes Kopp , Marc Walessa , Daniel Meissner , Klaus Dietmayer

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