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In this paper, we consider the transformation of laser range measurements into a top-view grid map representation to approach the task of LiDAR-only semantic segmentation. Since the recent publication of the SemanticKITTI data set,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Frank Bieder , Sascha Wirges , Johannes Janosovits , Sven Richter , Zheyuan Wang , Christoph Stiller

Lidars are depth measuring sensors widely used in autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, the large volume of data produced by lidars can lead to high costs in data storage and transmission. While lidar data can be represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xuanyu Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

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

The worldwide commercialization of fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and the exciting possibilities offered by connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are pushing toward the deployment of heterogeneous sensors for tracking dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Francesco Nardo , Davide Peressoni , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Andrea Zanella

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 recent years, with the development of computing resources and LiDAR, point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted many researchers. For the sparsity of point clouds, although there is already a way to deal with sparse convolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yunzheng Su , Lei Jiang , Jie Cao

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

Semantic segmentation on LiDAR imaging is increasingly gaining attention, as it can provide useful knowledge for perception systems and potential for autonomous driving. However, collecting and labeling real LiDAR data is an expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Javier Montalvo , Pablo Carballeira , Álvaro García-Martín

An accurate and rapid-response perception system is fundamental for autonomous vehicles to operate safely. 3D object detection methods handle point clouds given by LiDAR sensors to provide accurate depth and position information for each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Guidong Yang , Simone Mentasti , Mattia Bersani , Yafei Wang , Francesco Braghin , Federico Cheli

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller

Due to its robust and precise distance measurements, LiDAR plays an important role in scene understanding for autonomous driving. Training deep neural networks (DNNs) on LiDAR data requires large-scale point-wise annotations, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Sicheng Zhao , Yezhen Wang , Bo Li , Bichen Wu , Yang Gao , Pengfei Xu , Trevor Darrell , Kurt Keutzer

The current state of the art of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, or SLAM, on low power embedded systems is about sparse localisation and mapping with low resolution results in the name of efficiency. Meanwhile, research in this field…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Konstantinos Boikos , Christos-Savvas Bouganis

Existing LiDAR-Camera fusion methods have achieved strong results in 3D object detection. To address the sparsity of point clouds, previous approaches typically construct spatial pseudo point clouds via depth completion as auxiliary input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Jijun Wang , Yan Wu , Yujian Mo , Junqiao Zhao , Jun Yan , Yinghao Hu

3D pedestrian detection is a challenging task in automated driving because pedestrians are relatively small, frequently occluded and easily confused with narrow vertical objects. LiDAR and camera are two commonly used sensor modalities for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Juncong Fei , Wenbo Chen , Philipp Heidenreich , Sascha Wirges , Christoph Stiller

Recently most popular tracking frameworks focus on 2D image sequences. They seldom track the 3D object in point clouds. In this paper, we propose PointIT, a fast, simple tracking method based on 3D on-road instance segmentation. Firstly, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Yuan Wang , Yang Yu , Ming Liu

This paper presents a novel method for ground segmentation in Velodyne point clouds. We propose an encoding of sparse 3D data from the Velodyne sensor suitable for training a convolutional neural network (CNN). This general purpose approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Martin Velas , Michal Spanel , Michal Hradis , Adam Herout

Sky/cloud images captured by ground-based cameras (a.k.a. whole sky imagers) are increasingly used nowadays because of their applications in a number of fields, including climate modeling, weather prediction, renewable energy generation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Soumyabrata Dev , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

LiDARs and cameras are the two main sensors that are planned to be included in many announced autonomous vehicles prototypes. Each of the two provides a unique form of data from a different perspective to the surrounding environment. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Amr S. Mohamed , Ali Abdelkader , Mohamed Anany , Omar El-Behady , Muhammad Faisal , Asser Hangal , Hesham M. Eraqi , Mohamed N. Moustafa

Accurate and consistent construction of point clouds from LiDAR scanning data is fundamental for 3D modeling applications. Current solutions, such as multiview point cloud registration and LiDAR bundle adjustment, predominantly depend on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jianping Li , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

Ground surface detection in point cloud is widely used as a key module in autonomous driving systems. Different from previous approaches which are mostly developed for lidars with high beam resolution, e.g. Velodyne HDL-64, this paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Bo Li