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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

Autonomous driving relies on deriving understanding of objects and scenes through images. These images are often captured by sensors in the visible spectrum. For improved detection capabilities we propose the use of thermal sensors to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Kshitij Agrawal , Anbumani Subramanian

In this paper, an stereo-based traversability analysis approach for all terrains in off-road mobile robotics, e.g. Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is proposed. This approach reformulates the problem of terrain traversability analysis into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Aras R. Dargazany

Level crossing accidents remain a significant safety concern in modern railway systems, particularly under adverse weather conditions that degrade sensor performance. This review surveys state-of-the-art sensor technologies and fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Chenyang Yan , Mats Bengtsson

This paper presents a novel pothole detection approach based on single-modal semantic segmentation. It first extracts visual features from input images using a convolutional neural network. A channel attention module then reweighs the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jiahe Fan , Mohammud J. Bocus , Brett Hosking , Rigen Wu , Yanan Liu , Sergey Vityazev , Rui Fan

Wear and tear detection in fleet and shared vehicle systems is a critical challenge, particularly in rental and car-sharing services, where minor damage, such as dents, scratches, and underbody impacts, often goes unnoticed or is detected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sara Khan , Mehmed Yüksel , Frank Kirchner

The perception system in autonomous vehicles is responsible for detecting and tracking the surrounding objects. This is usually done by taking advantage of several sensing modalities to increase robustness and accuracy, which makes sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ramin Nabati , Hairong Qi

Reliable obstacle detection and classification in rough and unstructured terrain such as agricultural fields or orchards remains a challenging problem. These environments involve large variations in both geometry and appearance, challenging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Mikkel Kragh , James Underwood

In this work, we present SpaRC, a novel Sparse fusion transformer for 3D perception that integrates multi-view image semantics with Radar and Camera point features. The fusion of radar and camera modalities has emerged as an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Philipp Wolters , Johannes Gilg , Torben Teepe , Fabian Herzog , Felix Fent , Gerhard Rigoll

We present DetectFusion, an RGB-D SLAM system that runs in real-time and can robustly handle semantically known and unknown objects that can move dynamically in the scene. Our system detects, segments and assigns semantic class labels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Ryo Hachiuma , Christian Pirchheim , Dieter Schmalstieg , Hideo Saito

Object detection in still images has drawn a lot of attention over past few years, and with the advent of Deep Learning impressive performances have been achieved with numerous industrial applications. Most of these deep learning models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Benjamin Deguerre , Clément Chatelain , Gilles Gasso

This paper presents a multi-sensor fusion strategy for a novel road-matching method designed to support real-time navigational features within advanced driving-assistance systems. Managing multihypotheses is a useful strategy for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-09-10 Cherif Smaili , Maan El Badaoui El Najjar , François Charpillet

Change detection is one of the most challenging issues when analyzing remotely sensed images. Comparing several multi-date images acquired through the same kind of sensor is the most common scenario. Conversely, designing robust, flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Vinicius Ferraris , Nicolas Dobigeon , Qi Wei , Marie Chabert

Bounded by the inherent ambiguity of depth perception, contemporary multi-view 3D object detection methods fall into the performance bottleneck. Intuitively, leveraging temporal multi-view stereo (MVS) technology is the natural knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yinhao Li , Jinrong Yang , Jianjian Sun , Han Bao , Zheng Ge , Li Xiao

Depth estimation is a critical technology in autonomous driving, and multi-camera systems are often used to achieve a 360$^\circ$ perception. These 360$^\circ$ camera sets often have limited or low-quality overlap regions, making multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jialei Xu , Wei Yin , Dong Gong , Junjun Jiang , Xianming Liu

"Background subtraction" is an old technique for finding moving objects in a video sequence for example, cars driving on a freeway. The idea is that subtracting the current image from a timeaveraged background image will leave only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Nir Friedman , Stuart Russell

Majority of the existing robot navigation systems, which facilitate the use of laser range finders, sonar sensors or artificial landmarks, has the ability to locate itself in an unknown environment and then build a map of the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Arjun B. Krishnan , Jayaram Kollipara

Stereo superpixel segmentation aims at grouping the discretizing pixels into perceptual regions through left and right views more collaboratively and efficiently. Existing superpixel segmentation algorithms mostly utilize color and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hua Li , Junyan Liang , Ruiqi Wu , Runmin Cong , Junhui Wu , Sam Tak Wu Kwong

Pedestrian Detection is the most critical module of an Autonomous Driving system. Although a camera is commonly used for this purpose, its quality degrades severely in low-light night time driving scenarios. On the other hand, the quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Kinjal Dasgupta , Arindam Das , Sudip Das , Ujjwal Bhattacharya , Senthil Yogamani

3D object detection based on monocular camera data is a key enabler for autonomous driving. The task however, is ill-posed due to lack of depth information in 2D images. Recent deep learning methods show promising results to recover depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Felix Nobis , Fabian Brunhuber , Simon Janssen , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp