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Methods for object detection and segmentation rely on large scale instance-level annotations for training, which are difficult and time-consuming to collect. Efforts to alleviate this look at varying degrees and quality of supervision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Siddhesh Khandelwal , Raghav Goyal , Leonid Sigal

In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving, the sensor portfolio including multi-modality and single-modality is diverse and complex. Since the multi-modal methods have system complexity while the accuracy of single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Shengchao Zhou , Weizhou Liu , Chen Hu , Shuchang Zhou , Chao Ma

Place recognition is an important technique for autonomous cars to achieve full autonomy since it can provide an initial guess to online localization algorithms. Although current methods based on images or point clouds have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shuhang Zheng , Yixuan Li , Zhu Yu , Beinan Yu , Si-Yuan Cao , Minhang Wang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Weihao Gu , Lun Luo , Hui-Liang Shen

Despite the great success of face recognition techniques, recognizing persons under unconstrained settings remains challenging. Issues like profile views, unfavorable lighting, and occlusions can cause substantial difficulties. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Qingqiu Huang , Yu Xiong , Dahua Lin

We propose UniSeg3D, a unified 3D scene understanding framework that achieves panoptic, semantic, instance, interactive, referring, and open-vocabulary segmentation tasks within a single model. Most previous 3D segmentation approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Wei Xu , Chunsheng Shi , Sifan Tu , Xin Zhou , Dingkang Liang , Xiang Bai

In this work we present a novel approach to joint semantic localisation and scene understanding. Our work is motivated by the need for localisation algorithms which not only predict 6-DoF camera pose but also simultaneously recognise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ignas Budvytis , Marvin Teichmann , Tomas Vojir , Roberto Cipolla

We propose a unified representation learning framework to address the Cross Model Compatibility (CMC) problem in the context of visual search applications. Cross compatibility between different embedding models enables the visual search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Chien-Yi Wang , Ya-Liang Chang , Shang-Ta Yang , Dong Chen , Shang-Hong Lai

This paper presents Vision-Language Global Localization (VLG-Loc), a novel global localization method that uses human-readable labeled footprint maps containing only names and areas of distinctive visual landmarks in an environment. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Mizuho Aoki , Kohei Honda , Yasuhiro Yoshimura , Takeshi Ishita , Ryo Yonetani

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables coarse localization by comparing query images to a reference database of geo-tagged images. Recent breakthroughs in deep learning architectures and training regimes have led to methods with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Connor Malone , Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Place recognition plays a crucial role in re-localization and loop closure detection tasks for robots and vehicles. This paper seeks a well-defined global descriptor for LiDAR-based place recognition. Compared to local descriptors, global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Yongzhi Fan , Xin Du , Lun Luo , Jizhong Shen

With growing real-world demands, efficient tracking has received increasing attention. However, most existing methods are limited to RGB inputs and struggle in multi-modal scenarios. Moreover, current multi-modal tracking approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Ben Kang , Jie Zhao , Xin Chen , Wanting Geng , Bin Zhang , Lu Zhang , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Developing a universal model that can effectively harness heterogeneous resources and respond to a wide range of personalized needs has been a longstanding community aspiration. Our daily choices, especially in domains like fashion and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Tianxin Wei , Bowen Jin , Ruirui Li , Hansi Zeng , Zhengyang Wang , Jianhui Sun , Qingyu Yin , Hanqing Lu , Suhang Wang , Jingrui He , Xianfeng Tang

Person identification systems often rely on audio, visual, or behavioral cues, but real-world conditions frequently present with missing or degraded modalities. To address this challenge, we propose a multimodal person identification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Aref Farhadipour , Teodora Vukovic , Volker Dellwo , Petr Motlicek , Srikanth Madikeri

Cross-modal Thermal Geo-localization (TG) provides a robust, all-weather solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. However, profound thermal-visible modality gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoran Zhang , Yu Liu , Jinyu Liang , Kangqiushi Li , Zhiwei Huang , Huaxin Xiao

Cross-view geo-localization aims at establishing location correspondences between different viewpoints. Existing approaches typically learn cross-view correlations through direct feature similarity matching, often overlooking semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Zhenyu Kuang

Multi-modal learning has achieved remarkable success by integrating information from various modalities, achieving superior performance in tasks like recognition and retrieval compared to uni-modal approaches. However, real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Zhuo Huang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

Multimodal learning, which integrates data from diverse sensory modes, plays a pivotal role in artificial intelligence. However, existing multimodal learning methods often struggle with challenges where some modalities appear more dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Xiaohui Zhang , Jaehong Yoon , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Point cloud-based object/place recognition remains a problem of interest in applications such as autonomous driving, scene reconstruction, and localization. Extracting a meaningful global descriptor from a query point cloud that can be…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Anirban Ghosh , Iliya Kulbaka , Ian Dahlin , Ayan Dutta

Multimodal learning, integrating histology images and genomics, promises to enhance precision oncology with comprehensive views at microscopic and molecular levels. However, existing methods may not sufficiently model the shared or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Huahui Yi , Xiaofei Wang , Kang Li , Chao Li

Navigation signs and maps, such as floor plans and street maps, are widely available and serve as ubiquitous aids for way-finding in human environments. Yet, they are rarely used by robot systems. This paper presents SignLoc, a global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Nicky Zimmerman , Joel Loo , Ayush Agrawal , David Hsu