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This paper presents a fully unsupervised deep change detection approach for mobile robots with 3D LiDAR. In unstructured environments, it is infeasible to define a closed set of semantic classes. Instead, semantic segmentation is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Alexander Krawciw , Jordy Sehn , Timothy D. Barfoot

Analyzing scenes thoroughly is crucial for mobile robots acting in different environments. Semantic segmentation can enhance various subsequent tasks, such as (semantically assisted) person perception, (semantic) free space detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Daniel Seichter , Mona Köhler , Benjamin Lewandowski , Tim Wengefeld , Horst-Michael Gross

Artificial intelligence for autonomous driving must meet strict requirements on safety and robustness, which motivates the thorough validation of learned models. However, current validation approaches mostly require ground truth data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Laura von Rueden , Tim Wirtz , Fabian Hueger , Jan David Schneider , Nico Piatkowski , Christian Bauckhage

Accurate and reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous vehicles to use map information in higher-level tasks such as navigation or planning. In this paper, we present a novel approach to vehicle localization in dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Markus Herb , Matthias Lemberger , Marcel M. Schmitt , Alexander Kurz , Tobias Weiherer , Nassir Navab , Federico Tombari

Semantic segmentation in bird's eye view (BEV) plays a crucial role in autonomous driving. Previous methods usually follow an end-to-end pipeline, directly predicting the BEV segmentation map from monocular RGB inputs. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Tianhao Zhao , Yongcan Chen , Yu Wu , Tianyang Liu , Bo Du , Peilun Xiao , Shi Qiu , Hongda Yang , Guozhen Li , Yi Yang , Yutian Lin

The ascension of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in various fields necessitates effective UAV image segmentation, which faces challenges due to the dynamic perspectives of UAV-captured images. Traditional segmentation algorithms falter as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Deyi Ji , Wenwei Jin , Hongtao Lu , Feng Zhao

Classical and more recently deep computer vision methods are optimized for visible spectrum images, commonly encoded in grayscale or RGB colorspaces acquired from smartphones or cameras. A more uncommon source of images exploited in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Caio C. V. da Silva , Keiller Nogueira , Hugo N. Oliveira , Jefersson A. dos Santos

To autonomously navigate and plan interactions in real-world environments, robots require the ability to robustly perceive and map complex, unstructured surrounding scenes. Besides building an internal representation of the observed scene…

With the increasing demand of autonomous systems, pixelwise semantic segmentation for visual scene understanding needs to be not only accurate but also efficient for potential real-time applications. In this paper, we propose Context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Michael Ying Yang , Saumya Kumaar , Ye Lyu , Francesco Nex

In this paper, we propose an efficient semantic segmentation framework for indoor scenes, tailored to the application on a mobile robot. Semantic segmentation can help robots to gain a reasonable understanding of their environment, but to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-24 Daniel Wolf , Markus Bajones , Johann Prankl , Markus Vincze

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Visual inspection is the predominant technique for evaluating the condition of civil infrastructure. The recent advances in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and artificial intelligence have made the visual inspections faster, safer, and more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-25 Kareem Eltouny , Seyedomid Sajedi , Xiao Liang

Semantic segmentation methods have achieved outstanding performance thanks to deep learning. Nevertheless, when such algorithms are deployed to new contexts not seen during training, it is necessary to collect and label scene-specific data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Daniele Di Mauro , Antonino Furnari , Giuseppe Patanè , Sebastiano Battiato , Giovanni Maria Farinella

Reliable assessment of safe landing sites in unstructured environments is essential for deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in real-world applications such as delivery, inspection, and surveillance. Existing learning-based approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Weixian Qian , Tianyi Yang , Sebastian Schroder , Yao Deng , Jiaohong Yao , Xiao Cheng , Richard Han , Xi Zheng

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tasks such as visual perception in autonomous driving. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Giulio Rossolini , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Saasha Nair , Alessandro Biondi , Giorgio Buttazzo

In this paper, we present a novel neural network using multi scale feature fusion at various scales for accurate and efficient semantic image segmentation. We used ResNet based feature extractor, dilated convolutional layers in downsampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Abhinav Sagar , RajKumar Soundrapandiyan

Images of spacecraft photographed from other spacecraft operating in outer space are difficult to come by, especially at a scale typically required for deep learning tasks. Semantic image segmentation, object detection and localization, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 William S. Armstrong , Spencer Drakontaidis , Nicholas Lui

In the field of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization And Mapping) for robot navigation, mapping the environment is an important task. In this regard the Lidar sensor can produce near accurate 3D map of the environment in the format of point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Aritra Mukherjee , Sourya Dipta Das , Jasorsi Ghosh , Ananda S. Chowdhury , Sanjoy Kumar Saha

Attacks on sensing and perception threaten the safe deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Security-aware sensor fusion helps mitigate threats but requires accurate field of view (FOV) estimation which has not been evaluated autonomy. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 R. Spencer Hallyburton , David Hunt , Yiwei He , Judy He , Miroslav Pajic

Semantic segmentation from aerial views is a crucial task for autonomous drones, as they rely on precise and accurate segmentation to navigate safely and efficiently. However, aerial images present unique challenges such as diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Benedikt Kolbeinsson , Krystian Mikolajczyk