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In Autonomous Driving (AD), detection and tracking of obstacles on the roads is a critical task. Deep-learning based methods using annotated LiDAR data have been the most widely adopted approach for this. Unfortunately, annotating 3D point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jin Fang , Dingfu Zhou , Feilong Yan , Tongtong Zhao , Feihu Zhang , Yu Ma , Liang Wang , Ruigang Yang

LiDAR-based perception in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) relies on deep neural networks trained with large-scale labeled datasets. However, creating such datasets is expensive, time-consuming, and labor-intensive, limiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Muhammad Shahbaz , Shaurya Agarwal

As perception models continue to develop, the need for large-scale datasets increases. However, data annotation remains far too expensive to effectively scale and meet the demand. Synthetic datasets provide a solution to boost model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Arpit Jadon , Haoran Wang , Phillip Thomas , Michael Stanley , S. Nathaniel Cibik , Rachel Laurat , Omar Maher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai

Realistic vehicle sensor simulation is an important element in developing autonomous driving. As physics-based implementations of visual sensors like LiDAR are complex in practice, data-based approaches promise solutions. Using pairs of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Richard Marcus , Felix Gabel , Niklas Knoop , Marc Stamminger

Generative modeling of 3D LiDAR data is an emerging task with promising applications for autonomous mobile robots, such as scalable simulation, scene manipulation, and sparse-to-dense completion of LiDAR point clouds. While existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Kazuto Nakashima , Ryo Kurazume

An automated vehicle operating in an urban environment must be able to perceive and recognise object/obstacles in a three-dimensional world while navigating in a constantly changing environment. In order to plan and execute accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Julie Stephany Berrio , Mao Shan , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

The generation of realistic LiDAR point clouds plays a crucial role in the development and evaluation of autonomous driving systems. Although recent methods for 3D LiDAR point cloud generation have shown significant improvements, they still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Kaiwen Cai , Xinze Liu , Xia Zhou , Hengtong Hu , Jie Xiang , Luyao Zhang , Xueyang Zhang , Kun Zhan , Yifei Zhan , Xianpeng Lang

High-definition (HD) semantic map generation of the environment is an essential component of autonomous driving. Existing methods have achieved good performance in this task by fusing different sensor modalities, such as LiDAR and camera.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Hao Dong , Weihao Gu , Xianjing Zhang , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Huimin Lu , Juho Kannala , Xieyuanli Chen

In a fully autonomous driving framework, where vehicles operate without human intervention, information sharing plays a fundamental role. In this context, new network solutions have to be designed to handle the large volumes of data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Andrea Varischio , Francesco Mandruzzato , Marcello Bullo , Marco Giordani , Paolo Testolina , Michele Zorzi

We present LidarDM, a novel LiDAR generative model capable of producing realistic, layout-aware, physically plausible, and temporally coherent LiDAR videos. LidarDM stands out with two unprecedented capabilities in LiDAR generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Vlas Zyrianov , Henry Che , Zhijian Liu , Shenlong Wang

In this paper, we present synthetic data generation framework for flood hazard detection system. For high fidelity and quality, we characterize several real-world properties into virtual world and simulate the flood situation by controlling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 YoonJe Kang , Yonghoon Jung , Wonseop Shin , Bumsoo Kim , Sanghyun Seo

Deep vision models are now mature enough to be integrated in industrial and possibly critical applications such as autonomous navigation. Yet, data collection and labeling to train such models requires too much efforts and costs for a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Estelle Chigot , Dennis G. Wilson , Meriem Ghrib , Fabrice Jimenez , Thomas Oberlin

Semantic segmentation on LiDAR imaging is increasingly gaining attention, as it can provide useful knowledge for perception systems and potential for autonomous driving. However, collecting and labeling real LiDAR data is an expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Javier Montalvo , Pablo Carballeira , Álvaro García-Martín

Labeling LiDAR point clouds for training autonomous driving is extremely expensive and difficult. LiDAR simulation aims at generating realistic LiDAR data with labels for training and verifying self-driving algorithms more efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Junge Zhang , Feihu Zhang , Shaochen Kuang , Li Zhang

In autonomous driving scenarios, the collected LiDAR point clouds can be challenged by occlusion and long-range sparsity, limiting the perception of autonomous driving systems. Scene completion methods can infer the missing parts of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Andrea Matteazzi , Dietmar Tutsch

Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF) addresses sensor performance limitations and deep learning-based object detection insufficiencies to ensure the intended functionality of Automated Driving Systems (ADS). This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Milin Patel , Rolf Jung

We present a novel synthetically generated multi-modal dataset, SCaRL, to enable the training and validation of autonomous driving solutions. Multi-modal datasets are essential to attain the robustness and high accuracy required by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Avinash Nittur Ramesh , Aitor Correas-Serrano , María González-Huici

In the autonomous driving domain, data collection and annotation from real vehicles are expensive and sometimes unsafe. Simulators are often used for data augmentation, which requires realistic sensor models that are hard to formulate and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Ahmad El Sallab , Ibrahim Sobh , Mohamed Zahran , Nader Essam

Recent research has begun exploring novel view synthesis (NVS) for LiDAR point clouds, aiming to generate realistic LiDAR scans from unseen viewpoints. However, most existing approaches do not reconstruct semantic labels, which are crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Yi Chen , Tianchen Deng , Wentao Zhao , Xiaoning Wang , Wenqian Xi , Weidong Chen , Jingchuan Wang

Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sabir Hossain , Xianke Lin