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Integrated sensing and communications is a key enabler for the 6G wireless communication systems. The multiple sensing modalities will allow the base station to have a more accurate representation of the environment, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Mohammad Farzanullah , Han Zhang , Akram Bin Sediq , Ali Afana , Melike Erol-Kantarci

Computer vision techniques play a central role in the perception stack of autonomous vehicles. Such methods are employed to perceive the vehicle surroundings given sensor data. 3D LiDAR sensors are commonly used to collect sparse 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Recent advancements in lidar technology have led to improved point cloud resolution as well as the generation of 360 degrees, low-resolution images by encoding depth, reflectivity, or near-infrared light within each pixel. These images…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sier Ha , Honghao Du , Xianjia Yu , Tomi Westerlund

3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving has been making remarkable strides in recent years. Among the state-of-the-art methodologies, encoding point clouds into a bird's eye view (BEV) has been demonstrated to be both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yantao Lu , Xuetao Hao , Yilan Li , Weiheng Chai , Shiqi Sun , Senem Velipasalar

LiDAR-camera extrinsic calibration is essential for multi-modal data fusion in robotic perception systems. However, existing approaches typically rely on handcrafted calibration targets (e.g., checkerboards) or specific, static scene types,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Zhiwei Huang , Yanwei Fu , Yi Zhou , Xieyuanli Chen , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

General requirements for radar digital signal processing are ionospheric distortion and Doppler dispersion correction, which has historically required radar-specific hardware to implement in real time. Although analog solutions are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Daniel J. Vickers , A. H. Mack , Idahosa A. Osaretin

Using 3D point clouds in odometry estimation in robotics often requires finding a set of correspondences between points in subsequent scans. While there are established methods for point clouds of sufficient quality, state-of-the-art still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jan Michalczyk , Stephan Weiss , Jan Steinbrener

Accurate 3D object detection is critical for autonomous driving, necessitating reliable, cost-effective sensors capable of operating in adverse weather conditions. Camera and millimeter-wave radar fusion has emerged as a promising solution;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Bingyi Liu , Chuanhui Zhu , Hongfei Xue , Jian Teng , Jipeng Liu , Enshu Wang , Penglin Dai , Pu Wang

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

Even though many existing 3D object detection algorithms rely mostly on camera and LiDAR, camera and LiDAR are prone to be affected by harsh weather and lighting conditions. On the other hand, radar is resistant to such conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Seungjun Lee

While automotive radar sensors are widely adopted and have been used for automatic cruise control and collision avoidance tasks, their application outside of vehicles is still limited. As they have the ability to resolve multiple targets in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Alexander Tsaregorodtsev , Michael Buchholz , Vasileios Belagiannis

Radar sensors play a crucial role for perception systems in automated driving but suffer from a high level of noise. In the past, this could be solved by strict filters, which remove most false positives at the expense of undetected…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Tim Brühl , Jenny Glönkler , Robin Schwager , Tin Stribor Sohn , Tim Dieter Eberhardt , Sören Hohmann

In recent times, there has been a notable surge in multimodal approaches that decorates raw LiDAR point clouds with camera-derived features to improve object detection performance. However, we found that these methods still grapple with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Sudip Dhakal , Dominic Carrillo , Deyuan Qu , Michael Nutt , Qing Yang , Song Fu

In view of contemporary panoramic camera-laser scanner system, the traditional calibration method is not suitable for panoramic cameras whose imaging model is extremely nonlinear. The method based on statistical optimization has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Mingwei Cao , Ming Yang , Chunxiang Wang , Yeqiang Qian , Bing Wang

In this paper, we present a novel approach to reconstruct a unique image of an observed scene with widely distributed radar sensors. The problem is posed as a constrained optimization problem in which the global image which represents the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ahmed Murtada , Ruizhi Hu , Bhavani Shankar Mysore Rama Rao , Udo Schroeder

The inherent noisy and sparse characteristics of radar data pose challenges in finding effective representations for 3D object detection. In this paper, we propose RadarDistill, a novel knowledge distillation (KD) method, which can improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Geonho Bang , Kwangjin Choi , Jisong Kim , Dongsuk Kum , Jun Won Choi

Changing facial expressions, gestures, or background details may dramatically alter the meaning conveyed by an image. Notably, recent advances in diffusion models greatly improve the quality of image manipulation while also opening the door…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Alex Costanzino , Woody Bayliss , Juil Sock , Marc Gorriz Blanch , Danijela Horak , Ivan Laptev , Philip Torr , Fabio Pizzati

3D LiDAR sensors are indispensable for the robust vision of autonomous mobile robots. However, deploying LiDAR-based perception algorithms often fails due to a domain gap from the training environment, such as inconsistent angular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Kazuto Nakashima , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

LiDAR sensors play an important role in the perception stack of modern autonomous driving systems. Adverse weather conditions such as rain, fog and dust, as well as some (occasional) LiDAR hardware fault may cause the LiDAR to produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chiyu Zhang , Ji Han , Yao Zou , Kexin Dong , Yujia Li , Junchun Ding , Xiaoling Han

This paper introduces a novel framework for jointly estimating unknown radar channels and transmit signals in millimeter-wave (mmWave) Joint Radar-Communication (JRC) systems, a problem often referred to as dual-blind deconvolution. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Anis Hamadouche , Mathini Sellathurai