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Learning contextual and spatial environmental representations enhances autonomous vehicle's hazard anticipation and decision-making in complex scenarios. Recent perception systems enhance spatial understanding with sensor fusion but often…

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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…

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Tooth image segmentation is a cornerstone of dental digitization. However, traditional image encoders relying on fixed-resolution feature maps often lead to discontinuous segmentation and poor discrimination between target regions and…

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We investigate segmenting and clustering speech into low-bitrate phone-like sequences without supervision. We specifically constrain pretrained self-supervised vector-quantized (VQ) neural networks so that blocks of contiguous feature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Herman Kamper , Benjamin van Niekerk

Fully Convolutional Neural Networks (FCNNs) with contracting and expanding paths have shown prominence for the majority of medical image segmentation applications since the past decade. In FCNNs, the encoder plays an integral role by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Ali Hatamizadeh , Yucheng Tang , Vishwesh Nath , Dong Yang , Andriy Myronenko , Bennett Landman , Holger Roth , Daguang Xu

Towards a safe and comfortable driving, road scene segmentation is a rudimentary problem in camera-based advance driver assistance systems (ADAS). Despite of the great achievement of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Farnoush Zohourian , Jan Siegemund , Mirko Meuter , Josef Pauli

In this work, a deep learning approach has been developed to carry out road detection using only LIDAR data. Starting from an unstructured point cloud, top-view images encoding several basic statistics such as mean elevation and density are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Luca Caltagirone , Samuel Scheidegger , Lennart Svensson , Mattias Wahde

Due to the scarcity and specific imaging characteristics in medical images, light-weighting Vision Transformers (ViTs) for efficient medical image segmentation is a significant challenge, and current studies have not yet paid attention to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-05 Fenghe Tang , Bingkun Nian , Jianrui Ding , Quan Quan , Jie Yang , Wei Liu , S. Kevin Zhou

Most recent semantic segmentation methods adopt a fully-convolutional network (FCN) with an encoder-decoder architecture. The encoder progressively reduces the spatial resolution and learns more abstract/semantic visual concepts with larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Sixiao Zheng , Jiachen Lu , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Zekun Luo , Yabiao Wang , Yanwei Fu , Jianfeng Feng , Tao Xiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Li Zhang

We present a novel method for visual mapping and localization for autonomous vehicles, by extracting, modeling, and optimizing semantic road elements. Specifically, our method integrates cascaded deep models to detect standardized road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Wentao Cheng , Sheng Yang , Maomin Zhou , Ziyuan Liu , Yiming Chen , Mingyang Li

Within a perception framework for autonomous mobile and robotic systems, semantic analysis of 3D point clouds typically generated by LiDARs is key to numerous applications, such as object detection and recognition, and scene reconstruction.…

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Robust road surface estimation is required for autonomous ground vehicles to navigate safely. Despite it becoming one of the main targets for autonomous mobility researchers in recent years, it is still an open problem in which cameras and…

Autonomous robotic systems and self driving cars rely on accurate perception of their surroundings as the safety of the passengers and pedestrians is the top priority. Semantic segmentation is one the essential components of environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Ran Cheng , Ryan Razani , Ehsan Taghavi , Enxu Li , Bingbing Liu

Road scene understanding is a critical component in an autonomous driving system. Although the deep learning-based road scene segmentation can achieve very high accuracy, its complexity is also very high for developing real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Ping-Rong Chen , Hsueh-Ming Hang , Sheng-Wei Chan , Jing-Jhih Lin

Monocular camera systems are prevailing in intelligent transportation systems, but by far they have rarely been used for dimensional purposes such as to accurately estimate the localization information of a vehicle. In this paper, we show…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Shuaijun Li , Yu Meng , Wei Li , Huihuan Qian , Yangsheng Xu

Semantic segmentation has a broad range of applications in a variety of domains including land coverage analysis, autonomous driving, and medical image analysis. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) provide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Hans Thisanke , Chamli Deshan , Kavindu Chamith , Sachith Seneviratne , Rajith Vidanaarachchi , Damayanthi Herath

Semantic segmentation is one of the core tasks in the field of computer vision, and its goal is to accurately classify each pixel in an image. The traditional Unet model achieves efficient feature extraction and fusion through an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xuan Li , Quanchao Lu , Yankaiqi Li , Muqing Li , Yijiashun Qi

Since the generative neural networks have made a breakthrough in the image generation problem, lots of researches on their applications have been studied such as image restoration, style transfer and image completion. However, there has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jeesoo Kim , Jangho Kim , Jaeyoung Yoo , Daesik Kim , Nojun Kwak

Image segmentation is the task of associating pixels in an image with their respective object class labels. It has a wide range of applications in many industries including healthcare, transportation, robotics, fashion, home improvement,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Yuanbo Wang , Unaiza Ahsan , Hanyan Li , Matthew Hagen

In recent years, how to strike a good trade-off between accuracy and inference speed has become the core issue for real-time semantic segmentation applications, which plays a vital role in real-world scenarios such as autonomous driving…

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