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Depth sensing is a critical component of autonomous driving technologies, but today's LiDAR- or stereo camera-based solutions have limited range. We seek to increase the maximum range of self-driving vehicles' depth perception modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Kai Zhang , Jiaxin Xie , Noah Snavely , Qifeng Chen

Object detection is essential to safe autonomous or assisted driving. Previous works usually utilize RGB images or LiDAR point clouds to identify and localize multiple objects in self-driving. However, cameras tend to fail in bad driving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zangwei Zheng , Xiangyu Yue , Kurt Keutzer , Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli

This work proposes a new method to accurately complete sparse LiDAR maps guided by RGB images. For autonomous vehicles and robotics the use of LiDAR is indispensable in order to achieve precise depth predictions. A multitude of applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Wouter Van Gansbeke , Davy Neven , Bert De Brabandere , Luc Van Gool

Mobile robots require accurate and robust depth measurements to understand and interact with the environment. While existing sensing modalities address this problem to some extent, recent research on monocular depth estimation has leveraged…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Marco Job , Thomas Stastny , Tim Kazik , Roland Siegwart , Michael Pantic

This paper addresses the problem of dense depth predictions from sparse distance sensor data and a single camera image on challenging weather conditions. This work explores the significance of different sensor modalities such as camera,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Sadique Adnan Siddiqui , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

Radars are an ideal complement to cameras: both are inexpensive, solid-state sensors, with cameras offering fine angular resolution, while radars provide metric depth and robustness under adverse weather. However, radar data is more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chuhan Chen , Tianshu Huang , Akarsh Prabhakara , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Zhongxiao Cong , Anthony Rowe , Matthew O'Toole , Deva Ramanan

While radar and video data can be readily fused at the detection level, fusing them at the pixel level is potentially more beneficial. This is also more challenging in part due to the sparsity of radar, but also because automotive radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Yunfei Long , Daniel Morris , Xiaoming Liu , Marcos Castro , Punarjay Chakravarty , Praveen Narayanan

Autonomous driving requires a detailed understanding of complex driving scenes. The redundancy and complementarity of the vehicle's sensors provide an accurate and robust comprehension of the environment, thereby increasing the level of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arthur Ouaknine

We present a cost-effective new approach for generating denser depth maps for Autonomous Driving (AD) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) by integrating the images obtained from deep neural network (DNN) 4D radar detectors with conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mohammed Alsakabi , Aidan Erickson , John M. Dolan , Ozan K. Tonguz

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, celebrated for its high resolution, all-weather capability, and day-night operability, is indispensable for maritime applications. However, ship detection in SAR imagery faces significant challenges,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Congxia Zhao , Xiongjun Fu , Jian Dong , Shen Cao , Chunyan Zhang

Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Hao Li , Xinqi Liu , Yaoqing Jin

Accurate depth estimation is fundamental to 3D perception in autonomous driving, supporting tasks such as detection, tracking, and motion planning. However, monocular camera-based 3D detection suffers from depth ambiguity and reduced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chen-Chou Lo , Patrick Vandewalle

Traditional radar imaging methods suffer from the problems of low resolution and poor noise suppression. We propose a new radar imaging method based on Self-supervised deep-learning-assisted compressed sensing (SS-DL-CS-Net). The original…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Shaoyin Huang

Narrowband and broadband indoor radar images significantly deteriorate in the presence of target dependent and independent static and dynamic clutter arising from walls. A stacked and sparse denoising autoencoder (StackedSDAE) is proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Shobha Sundar Ram , Shelly Vishwakarma , Akanksha Sneh , Kainat Yasmeen

An accurate depth map of the environment is critical to the safe operation of autonomous robots and vehicles. Currently, either light detection and ranging (LIDAR) or stereo matching algorithms are used to acquire such depth information.…

Robust 3D object detection is critical for safe autonomous driving. Camera and radar sensors are synergistic as they capture complementary information and work well under different environmental conditions. Fusing camera and radar data is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Jyh-Jing Hwang , Henrik Kretzschmar , Joshua Manela , Sean Rafferty , Nicholas Armstrong-Crews , Tiffany Chen , Dragomir Anguelov

Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Radar is a key component of the suite of perception sensors used for safe and reliable navigation of autonomous vehicles. Its unique capabilities include high-resolution velocity imaging, detection of agents in occlusion and over long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Arvind Srivastav , Soumyajit Mandal

In radar-camera 3D object detection, the radar point clouds are sparse and noisy, which causes difficulties in fusing camera and radar modalities. To solve this, we introduce a novel query-based detection method named Radar-Camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zhen Lei

Surround depth estimation provides a cost-effective alternative to LiDAR for 3D perception in autonomous driving. While recent self-supervised methods explore multi-camera settings to improve scale awareness and scene coverage, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Weimin Liu , Jiyuan Qiu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng