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Dents on the aircraft skin are frequent and may easily go undetected during airworthiness checks, as their inspection process is tedious and extremely subject to human factors and environmental conditions. Nowadays, 3D scanning technologies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Pasquale Lafiosca , Ip-Shing Fan , Nicolas P. Avdelidis

This paper presents a novel method for ground segmentation in Velodyne point clouds. We propose an encoding of sparse 3D data from the Velodyne sensor suitable for training a convolutional neural network (CNN). This general purpose approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Martin Velas , Michal Spanel , Michal Hradis , Adam Herout

In LiDAR-based environment perception systems, ground segmentation is a key preprocessing step supporting various applications such as mapping and navigation. Although extensively studied, problems such as reflection noise and isolated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Li , Volker Schwieger

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

Visual-Spatial Systems has become increasingly essential in concrete crack inspection. However, existing methods often lacks adaptability to diverse scenarios, exhibits limited robustness in image-based approaches, and struggles with curved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pengru Deng , Jiapeng Yao , Chun Li , Su Wang , Xinrun Li , Varun Ojha , Xuhui He

The increasing deployment of small drones as tools of conflict and disruption has amplified their threat, highlighting the urgent need for effective anti-drone measures. However, the compact size of most drones presents a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanfang Liang , Jinming Hu , Xiaohuan Ling , Bing Wang

Occluded and long-range objects are ubiquitous and challenging for 3D object detection. Point cloud sequence data provide unique opportunities to improve such cases, as an occluded or distant object can be observed from different viewpoints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yingwei Li , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Chenxi Liu , Dragomir Anguelov

Center-aligned regression remains dominant in LiDAR-based 3D object detection, yet it suffers from fundamental instability: object centers often fall in sparse or empty regions of the bird's-eye-view (BEV) due to the front-surface-biased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qinghao Meng , Junbo Yin , Jianbing Shen , Yunde Jia

Building change detection is essential for monitoring urbanization, disaster assessment, urban planning and frequently updating the maps. 3D structure information from airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is very effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Ritu Yadav , Andrea Nascetti , Yifang Ban

We present SAGE3D, a hybrid Transformer-based model for corner detection in airborne LiDAR point clouds. We propose a multi-stage solution built on a hierarchical encoder-decoder architecture that progressively downsamples point clouds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Batuhan Arda Bekar , Can Sarı , Hüseyin Can Gülkan , Barış Özcan

LiDAR point clouds contain measurements of complicated natural scenes and can be used to update digital elevation models, glacial monitoring, detecting faults and measuring uplift detecting, forest inventory, detect shoreline and beach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-26 F. Patricia Medina , Randy Paffenroth

3D LiDAR scanners are playing an increasingly important role in autonomous driving as they can generate depth information of the environment. However, creating large 3D LiDAR point cloud datasets with point-level labels requires a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Xiangyu Yue , Bichen Wu , Sanjit A. Seshia , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

This paper presents a very simple but efficient algorithm for 3D line segment detection from large scale unorganized point cloud. Unlike traditional methods which usually extract 3D edge points first and then link them to fit for 3D line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Xiaohu Lu , Yahui Liu , Kai Li

The worldwide commercialization of fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and the exciting possibilities offered by connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are pushing toward the deployment of heterogeneous sensors for tracking dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Francesco Nardo , Davide Peressoni , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Andrea Zanella

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to revolutionize transportation by improving efficiency and safety. Their success relies on 3D vision systems that effectively sense the environment and detect traffic agents. Among sensors AVs use to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Amirhesam Aghanouri , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

We introduce ECLAIR (Extended Classification of Lidar for AI Recognition), a new outdoor large-scale aerial LiDAR dataset designed specifically for advancing research in point cloud semantic segmentation. As the most extensive and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Iaroslav Melekhov , Anand Umashankar , Hyeong-Jin Kim , Vladislav Serkov , Dusty Argyle

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Clustering objects from the LiDAR point cloud is an important research problem with many applications such as autonomous driving. To meet the real-time requirement, existing research proposed to apply the connected-component-labeling (CCL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Yiming Zhao , Xiao Zhang , Xinming Huang

Lidar point cloud distortion from moving object is an important problem in autonomous driving, and recently becomes even more demanding with the emerging of newer lidars, which feature back-and-forth scanning patterns. Accurately estimating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Wen Yang , Zheng Gong , Baifu Huang , Xiaoping Hong

As an essential component of logistics automation, the automated loading system is becoming a critical technology for enhancing operational efficiency and safety. Precise automatic positioning of the truck compartment, which serves as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Guodong Sun , Mingjing Li , Dingjie Liu , Mingxuan Liu , Bo Wu , Yang Zhang