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Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) combines depth resolution, non-destructive operation, and broad material sensitivity, yet it has seen limited use in diagnosing building envelopes. The compact geometry of wall assemblies, where reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Ahmed Nirjhar Alam , Wesley Reinhart , Rebecca Napolitano

This research proposes a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data processing method for non-destructive detection of tunnel lining internal defects, called defect segmentation. To perform this critical step of automatic tunnel lining detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Senlin Yang , Zhengfang Wang , Jing Wang , Anthony G. Cohn , Jiaqi Zhang , Peng Jiang , Peng Jiang , Qingmei Sui

We address the problem of robot localization using ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensors. Current approaches for localization with GPR sensors require a priori maps of the system's environment as well as access to approximate global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

The performance of 3D object detection models over point clouds highly depends on their capability of modeling local geometric patterns. Conventional point-based models exploit local patterns through a symmetric function (e.g. max pooling)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Jianan Li , Jiashi Feng

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has emerged as a prominent tool for imaging internal defects in cylindrical structures, such as columns, utility poles, and tree trunks. However, accurately reconstructing both the shape and permittivity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-12 Jiwei Qian , Yee Hui Lee , Kaixuan Cheng , Qiqi Dai , Arda Yalcinkaya , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , James Wang , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) based localization has gained significant recognition in robotics due to its ability to detect stable subsurface features, offering advantages in environments where traditional sensors like cameras and LiDAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Pengyu Zhang , Xieyuanli Chen , Yuwei Chen , Beizhen Bi , Zhuo Xu , Tian Jin , Xiaotao Huang , Liang Shen

There has been exciting recent progress in using radar as a sensor for robot navigation due to its increased robustness to varying environmental conditions. However, within these different radar perception systems, ground penetrating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

A DNN architecture referred to as GPRInvNet was proposed to tackle the challenges of mapping the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) B-Scan data to complex permittivity maps of subsurface structures. The GPRInvNet consisted of a trace-to-trace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bin Liu , Yuxiao Ren , Hanchi Liu , Hui Xu , Zhengfang Wang , Anthony G. Cohn , Peng Jiang

Recent research has shown the effectiveness of mmWave radar sensing for object detection in low visibility environments, which makes it an ideal technique in autonomous navigation systems. In this paper, we introduce Radar to Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Yue Sun , Honggang Zhang , Zhuoming Huang , Benyuan Liu

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has emerged as a pivotal tool for non-destructive evaluation of subsurface road defects. However, conventional GPR image interpretation remains heavily reliant on subjective expertise, introducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Haotian Lv , Yuhui Zhang , Jiangbo Dai , Hanli Wu , Jiaji Wang , Dawei Wang

LiDAR-based 3D object detection is an important task for autonomous driving and current approaches suffer from sparse and partial point clouds of distant and occluded objects. In this paper, we propose a novel two-stage approach, namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Yanan Zhang , Di Huang , Yunhong Wang

Forward-looking ground-penetrating radar (FLGPR) has recently been investigated as a remote sensing modality for buried target detection (e.g., landmines). In this context, raw FLGPR data is beamformed into images and then computerized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Joseph A. Camilo , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof

Tree roots detection is a popular application of the Ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Normally, the ground surface above the tree roots is assumed to be flat, and standard processing methods based on hyperbolic fitting are applied to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wenhao Luo , Yee Hui Lee , Lai Fern Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a mature geophysical method that has gained increasing popularity in planetary science over the past decade. GPR has been utilised both for Lunar and Martian missions providing pivotal information regarding…

In this paper we consider the development of algorithms for the automatic detection of buried threats using ground penetrating radar (GPR) measurements. GPR is one of the most studied and successful modalities for automatic buried threat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Jordan M. Malof , Daniel Reichman , Andrew Karem , Hichem Frigui , Dominic K. C. Ho , Joseph N. Wilson , Wen-Hsiung Lee , William Cummings , Leslie M. Collins

In precision agriculture, one of the most important tasks when exploring crop production is identifying individual plant components. There are several attempts to accomplish this task by the use of traditional 2D imaging, 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 J. I. Ruiz-Martinez , A. Mendez-Vazquez , E. Rodriguez-Tello

Accurate estimation of subsurface material properties, such as soil moisture, is critical for wildfire risk assessment and precision agriculture. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a non-destructive geophysical technique widely used to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-22 Zixin Wang , Ishfaq Aziz , Mohamad Alipour

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is widely used as a non-destructive approach to estimate buried utilities. When the GPR's detecting direction is perpendicular to a pipeline, a hyperbolic characteristic would be formed on the GPR B-scan…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Xiren Zhou , Qiuju Chen , Shengfei Lyu , Huanhuan Chen

Ground penetrating radar (GPR) is an efficient technique used for rapidly recognizing embedded rebar in concrete structures. However, due to the difficulty in extracting signals from GPR data and the intrinsic coupling between the rebar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-21 Zhongming Xiang , Ge Ou , Abbas Rashidi

Recent developments and the beginning market introduction of high-resolution imaging 4D (3+1D) radar sensors have initialized deep learning-based radar perception research. We investigate deep learning-based models operating on radar point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Patrick Palmer , Martin Krueger , Richard Altendorfer , Ganesh Adam , Torsten Bertram