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Safety is paramount for mobile robotic platforms such as self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles. This work is devoted to a task that is indispensable for safety yet was largely overlooked in the past -- detecting obstacles that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chen Zhou , Jiaolong Yang , Chunshui Zhao , Gang Hua

Depth estimation is one of the key technologies in some fields such as autonomous driving and robot navigation. However, the traditional method of using a single sensor is inevitably limited by the performance of the sensor. Therefore, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Guangyao Xu , Junfeng Fan , En Li , Xiaoyu Long , Rui Guo

Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Felix Nobis , Ehsan Shafiei , Phillip Karle , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision and has many applications in image processing. This paper proposes a new approach for object detection by applying scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) in an automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Reza Oji , Farshad Tajeripour

Recent advances in 4D imaging radar have enabled robust perception in adverse weather, while camera sensors provide dense semantic information. Fusing the these complementary modalities has great potential for cost-effective 3D perception.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Xiaozhi Li , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

An autonomous system's perception engine must provide an accurate understanding of the environment for it to make decisions. Deep learning based object detection networks experience degradation in the performance and robustness for small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hemant Kumawat , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

Real time outdoor navigation in highly dynamic environments is an crucial problem. The recent literature on real time static SLAM don't scale up to dynamic outdoor environments. Most of these methods assume moving objects as outliers or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-04 N Dinesh Reddy , Iman Abbasnejad , Sheetal Reddy , Amit Kumar Mondal , Vindhya Devalla

The goal of this paper is to perform 3D object detection in the context of autonomous driving. Our method first aims at generating a set of high-quality 3D object proposals by exploiting stereo imagery. We formulate the problem as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Xiaozhi Chen , Kaustav Kundu , Yukun Zhu , Huimin Ma , Sanja Fidler , Raquel Urtasun

Comprehensive environment perception is essential for autonomous vehicles to operate safely. It is crucial to detect both dynamic road users and static objects like traffic signs or lanes as these are required for safe motion planning.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jörg Gamerdinger , Sven Teufel , Georg Volk , Oliver Bringmann

Potholes are one of the most common forms of road damage, which can severely affect driving comfort, road safety and vehicle condition. Pothole detection is typically performed by either structural engineers or certified inspectors. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Rui Fan , Umar Ozgunalp , Yuan Wang , Ming Liu , Ioannis Pitas

Multi-focus image fusion is a technique for obtaining an all-in-focus image in which all objects are in focus to extend the limited depth of field (DoF) of an imaging system. Different from traditional RGB-based methods, this paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Hang Liu , Hengyu Li , Jun Luo , Shaorong Xie , Yu Sun

This paper presents Camera-LiDAR Fusion Transformer (CLFT) models for traffic object segmentation, which leverage the fusion of camera and LiDAR data using vision transformers. Building on the methodology of visual transformers that exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Toomas Tahves , Junyi Gu , Mauro Bellone , Raivo Sell

Pothole detection is one of the most important tasks for road maintenance. Computer vision approaches are generally based on either 2D road image analysis or 3D road surface modeling. However, these two categories are always used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Rui Fan , Umar Ozgunalp , Brett Hosking , Ming Liu , Ioannis Pitas

As a major type of transportation equipments, bicycles, including electrical bicycles, are distributed almost everywhere in China. The accidents caused by bicycles have become a serious threat to the public safety. So bicycle detection is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Yicheng Zhang , Qiang Ling

For intelligent vehicles, sensing the 3D environment is the first but crucial step. In this paper, we build a real-time advanced driver assistance system based on a low-power mobile platform. The system is a real-time multi-scheme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Qiwei Xie , Qian Long , Liming Zhang , Zhao Sun

The segmentation of video sequences into foreground and background regions is a low-level process commonly used in video content analysis and smart surveillance applications. Using a multispectral camera setup can improve this process by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Pierre-Luc St-Charles , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Robert Bergevin

Consecutive frames in a video contain redundancy, but they may also contain relevant complementary information for the detection task. The objective of our work is to leverage this complementary information to improve detection. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Noreen Anwar , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Wassim Bouachir

More and more research works fuse the LiDAR and camera information to improve the 3D object detection of the autonomous driving system. Recently, a simple yet effective fusion framework has achieved an excellent detection performance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Yun Zhao , Zhan Gong , Peiru Zheng , Hong Zhu , Shaohua Wu

This paper presents a novel obstacle avoidance system for road robots equipped with RGB-D sensor that captures scenes of its way forward. The purpose of the system is to have road robots move around autonomously and constantly without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Minjie Hua , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

In this paper, we introduce a novel fusion method that can enhance object detection performance by fusing decisions from two different types of computer vision tasks: object detection and image classification. In the proposed work, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Yilun Cao , Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon