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Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 Benjamin Missaoui , Maxime Noizet , Philippe Xu

Over the past few years, there has been remarkable progress in research on 3D point clouds and their use in autonomous driving scenarios has become widespread. However, deep learning methods heavily rely on annotated data and often face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Jingjing Zhao , Chenming Wu , Chulin Tang , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Liangjun Zhang

The human brain can effortlessly recognize and localize objects, whereas current 3D object detection methods based on LiDAR point clouds still report inferior performance for detecting occluded and distant objects: the point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Liang Du , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Edward Johns , Bo Chen , Errui Ding , Xiangyang Xue , Jianfeng Feng

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

Recently, the advancement of deep learning in discriminative feature learning from 3D LiDAR data has led to rapid development in the field of autonomous driving. However, automated processing uneven, unstructured, noisy, and massive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Ying Li , Lingfei Ma , Zilong Zhong , Fei Liu , Dongpu Cao , Jonathan Li , Michael A. Chapman

Detecting anomalies from 3D point clouds has received increasing attention in the field of computer vision, with some group-based or point-based methods achieving impressive results in recent years. However, learning accurate point-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haibo Xiao , Hanzhe Liang , Jie Zhou , Jinbao Wang , Can Gao

For 3D object detection, labeling lidar point cloud is difficult, so data augmentation is an important module to make full use of precious annotated data. As a widely used data augmentation method, GT-sample effectively improves detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Xuzhong Hu , Zaipeng Duan , Jie Ma

Object detection using LiDAR point clouds relies on a large amount of human-annotated samples when training the underlying detectors' deep neural networks. However, generating 3D bounding box annotation for a large-scale dataset could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xiaohu Lu , Hayder Radha

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data often comes with high annotation costs. Active learning automates the process of selecting which data to annotate, reducing the total amount of annotation needed to achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Johannes Meyer , Jasper Hoffmann , Felix Schulz , Dominik Merkle , Daniel Buescher , Alexander Reiterer , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Automation can play a prominent role in improving efficiency, accuracy, and scalability in infrastructure surveying and assessing construction and compliance standards. This paper presents a framework for automation of geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Amin Ghafourian , Andrew Lee , Dechen Gao , Tyler Beer , Kin Yen , Iman Soltani

Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) have successfully integrated learning-based techniques into vehicle perception and decision-making. However, their application in 3D lane detection for effective driving environment perception is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Runkai Zhao , Yuwen Heng , Heng Wang , Yuanda Gao , Shilei Liu , Changhao Yao , Jiawen Chen , Weidong Cai

We propose a robust method for estimating road curb 3D parameters (size, location, orientation) using a calibrated monocular camera equipped with a fisheye lens. Automatic curb detection and localization is particularly important in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Stanislav Panev , Francisco Vicente , Fernando De la Torre , Véronique Prinet

Detecting pedestrians is a crucial task in autonomous driving systems to ensure the safety of drivers and pedestrians. The technologies involved in these algorithms must be precise and reliable, regardless of environment conditions. Relying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Òscar Lorente , Josep R. Casas , Santiago Royo , Ivan Caminal

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Road curb detection is important for autonomous driving. It can be used to determine road boundaries to constrain vehicles on roads, so that potential accidents could be avoided. Most of the current methods detect road curbs online using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxiang Sun , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

In this work, we address the problem of 3D object detection from point cloud data in real time. For autonomous vehicles to work, it is very important for the perception component to detect the real world objects with both high accuracy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Abhinav Sagar

This paper presents a novel architecture for point cloud road user detection, which is based on a classical point cloud proposal generator approach, that utilizes simple geometrical rules. New methods are coupled with this technique to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Alvari Seppänen , Eerik Alamikkotervo , Risto Ojala , Giacomo Dario , Kari Tammi

Point cloud data labeling is considered a time-consuming and expensive task in autonomous driving, whereas annotation-free learning training can avoid it by learning point cloud representations from unannotated data. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Boyi Sun , Yuhang Liu , Xingxia Wang , Bin Tian , Long Chen , Fei-Yue Wang

Lidars and cameras play essential roles in autonomous driving, offering complementary information for 3D detection. The state-of-the-art fusion methods integrate them at the feature level, but they mostly rely on the learned soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Zixuan Yin , Han Sun , Ningzhong Liu , Huiyu Zhou , Jiaquan Shen

Automatic extraction of road curbs from uneven, unorganized, noisy and massive 3D point clouds is a challenging task. Existing methods often project 3D point clouds onto 2D planes to extract curbs. However, the projection causes loss of 3D…

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