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LiDAR sensor is essential to the perception system in autonomous vehicles and intelligent robots. To fulfill the real-time requirements in real-world applications, it is necessary to efficiently segment the LiDAR scans. Most of previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Song Wang , Jianke Zhu , Ruixiang Zhang

Deployment of deep learning models in robotics as sensory information extractors can be a daunting task to handle, even using generic GPU cards. Here, we address three of its most prominent hurdles, namely, i) the adaptation of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Vladimir Nekrasov , Thanuja Dharmasiri , Andrew Spek , Tom Drummond , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Environmental perception is an important aspect within the field of autonomous vehicles that provides crucial information about the driving domain, including but not limited to identifying clear driving areas and surrounding obstacles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Senay Cakir , Marcel Gauß , Kai Häppeler , Yassine Ounajjar , Fabian Heinle , Reiner Marchthaler

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds has been widely studied in recent years, with most existing methods focusing on tackling this task using a single scan of the environment. However, leveraging the temporal stream of observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun

LiDAR sensors are an integral part of modern autonomous vehicles as they provide an accurate, high-resolution 3D representation of the vehicle's surroundings. However, it is computationally difficult to make use of the ever-increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marc Uecker , Tobias Fleck , Marcel Pflugfelder , J. Marius Zöllner

LIDAR semantic segmentation, which assigns a semantic label to each 3D point measured by the LIDAR, is becoming an essential task for many robotic applications such as autonomous driving. Fast and efficient semantic segmentation methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Iñigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yi Chen , Tianchen Deng , Wentao Zhao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont

Comprehensive scene understanding is a critical enabler of robot autonomy. Semantic segmentation is one of the key scene understanding tasks which is pivotal for several robotics applications including autonomous driving, domestic service…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Juana Valeria Hurtado , Abhinav Valada

Understanding and interpreting a 3d environment is a key challenge for autonomous vehicles. Semantic segmentation of 3d point clouds combines 3d information with semantics and thereby provides a valuable contribution to this task. In many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Fabian Duerr , Mario Pfaller , Hendrik Weigel , Juergen Beyerer

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

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

In autonomous driving, the novel objects and lack of annotations challenge the traditional 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation based on deep learning. Few-shot learning is a feasible way to solve these issues. However, currently few-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilin Mei , Junbao Zhou , Yu Hu

Semantic segmentation of point clouds is an essential task for understanding the environment in autonomous driving and robotics. Recent range-based works achieve real-time efficiency, while point- and voxel-based methods produce better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Daniel Fusaro , Simone Mosco , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Autonomous robotic systems and self driving cars rely on accurate perception of their surroundings as the safety of the passengers and pedestrians is the top priority. Semantic segmentation is one the essential components of environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ran Cheng , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Enxu Li , Bingbing Liu

In this paper, we propose PointSeg, a real-time end-to-end semantic segmentation method for road-objects based on spherical images. We take the spherical image, which is transformed from the 3D LiDAR point clouds, as input of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Yuan Wang , Tianyue Shi , Peng Yun , Lei Tai , Ming Liu

The autonomous car must recognize the driving environment quickly for safe driving. As the Light Detection And Range (LiDAR) sensor is widely used in the autonomous car, fast semantic segmentation of LiDAR point cloud, which is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jaehyun Park , Chansoo Kim , Kichun Jo

Semantic understanding of scenes in three-dimensional space (3D) is a quintessential part of robotics oriented applications such as autonomous driving as it provides geometric cues such as size, orientation and true distance of separation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Kartik Srivastava , Akash Kumar Singh , Guruprasad M. Hegde

The ability to detect and segment moving objects in a scene is essential for building consistent maps, making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of moving object segmentation…