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Modeling traffic dynamics is a critical challenge for urban computing, with applications from real-time traffic management to infrastructure planning. However, progress in this area is fundamentally constrained by a lack of large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Fedor Velikonivtsev , Oleg Platonov , Ekaterina Alimaskina , Gleb Bazhenov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

With the continuous improvement in the spatial resolution of optical remote sensing imagery, accurate road extraction has become increasingly important for applications such as urban planning, traffic monitoring, and disaster management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zongyang He , Xiangli Yang , Xian Gao , Zhiguo Wang

It's important to monitor road issues such as bumps and potholes to enhance safety and improve road conditions. Smartphones are equipped with various built-in sensors that offer a cost-effective and straightforward way to assess road…

Autonomous exploration in structured and complex indoor environments remains a challenging task, as existing methods often struggle to appropriately model unobserved space and plan globally efficient paths. To address these limitations, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Zijun Che , Yinghong Zhang , Shengyi Liang , Boyu Zhou , Jun Ma , Jinni Zhou

Roads are critically important infrastructure to societal and economic development, with huge investments made by governments every year. However, methods for monitoring those investments tend to be time-consuming, laborious, and expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Gabriel Cadamuro , Aggrey Muhebwa , Jay Taneja

There is a recent surge in the development of spatio-temporal forecasting models in the transportation domain. Long-range traffic forecasting, however, remains a challenging task due to the intricate and extensive spatio-temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zibo Liu , Parshin Shojaee , Chandan K Reddy

This paper proposes a novel heterogeneous grid convolution that builds a graph-based image representation by exploiting heterogeneity in the image content, enabling adaptive, efficient, and controllable computations in a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Ryuhei Hamaguchi , Yasutaka Furukawa , Masaki Onishi , Ken Sakurada

Creating high definition maps that contain precise information of static elements of the scene is of utmost importance for enabling self driving cars to drive safely. In this paper, we tackle the problem of drivable road boundary extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Justin Liang , Namdar Homayounfar , Wei-Chiu Ma , Shenlong Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Identification of road networks and optimal routes directly from remote sensing is of critical importance to a broad array of humanitarian and commercial applications. Yet while identification of road pixels has been attempted before,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Adam Van Etten , Jacob Shermeyer , Daniel Hogan , Nicholas Weir , Ryan Lewis

Satellites are capable of capturing high-resolution videos. It makes vehicle perception from satellite become possible. Compared to street surveillance, drive recorder or other equipments, satellite videos provide a much broader city-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Bin Zhao , Pengfei Han , Xuelong Li

Freespace detection is an essential component of autonomous driving technology and plays an important role in trajectory planning. In the last decade, deep learning-based free space detection methods have been proved feasible. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Chen Min , Weizhong Jiang , Dawei Zhao , Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Yiming Nie , Bin Dai

The World Health Organization has listed the design of safer intersections as a key intervention to reduce global road trauma. This article presents the first study to systematically analyze the design of all intersections in a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Jasper S. Wijnands , Haifeng Zhao , Kerry A. Nice , Jason Thompson , Katherine Scully , Jingqiu Guo , Mark Stevenson

Autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly, in well-developed nations like America, Europe, and China. Tech giants like Google, Tesla, Audi, BMW, and Mercedes are building highly efficient self-driving vehicles. However, the technology is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Sarita Gautam , Anuj Kumar

Determining the location of an image anywhere on Earth is a complex visual task, which makes it particularly relevant for evaluating computer vision algorithms. Yet, the absence of standard, large-scale, open-access datasets with reliably…

Detecting traversable road areas ahead a moving vehicle is a key process for modern autonomous driving systems. A common approach to road detection consists of exploiting color features to classify pixels as road or background. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Jose M. Alvarez , Theo Gevers , Antonio M. Lopez

Freespace detection is a fundamental component of autonomous driving perception. Recently, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have achieved impressive performance for this task. In particular, SNE-RoadSeg, our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Hengli Wang , Rui Fan , Peide Cai , Ming Liu

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Understanding road structures is crucial for autonomous driving. Intricate road structures are often depicted using lane graphs, which include centerline curves and connections forming a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). Accurate extraction of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Renyuan Peng , Xinyue Cai , Hang Xu , Jiachen Lu , Feng Wen , Wei Zhang , Li Zhang

Interconnected road lanes are a central concept for navigating urban roads. Currently, most autonomous vehicles rely on preconstructed lane maps as designing an algorithmic model is difficult. However, the generation and maintenance of such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Robin Karlsson , David Robert Wong , Simon Thompson , Kazuya Takeda

Road network and building footprint extraction is essential for many applications such as updating maps, traffic regulations, city planning, ride-hailing, disaster response \textit{etc}. Mapping road networks is currently both expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 An Tran , Ali Zonoozi , Jagannadan Varadarajan , Hannes Kruppa