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3D laser scanning by LiDAR sensors plays an important role for mobile robots to understand their surroundings. Nevertheless, not all systems have high resolution and accuracy due to hardware limitations, weather conditions, and so on.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Kazuto Nakashima , Ryo Kurazume

LiDAR representation learning has emerged as a promising approach to reducing reliance on costly and labor-intensive human annotations. While existing methods primarily focus on spatial alignment between LiDAR and camera sensors, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Hui Shuai , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Ziwei Liu , Qingshan Liu

This article describes techniques employed in the production of a synthetic dataset of driver telematics emulated from a similar real insurance dataset. The synthetic dataset generated has 100,000 policies that included observations about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-02 Banghee So , Jean-Philippe Boucher , Emiliano A. Valdez

Building LiDAR generative models holds promise as powerful data priors for restoration, scene manipulation, and scalable simulation in autonomous mobile robots. In recent years, approaches using diffusion models have emerged, significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kazuto Nakashima , Xiaowen Liu , Tomoya Miyawaki , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a powerful technique for real-time LiDAR and camera synthesis in autonomous driving simulation. However, simulating LiDAR with 3DGS remains challenging for extrapolated views beyond the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiming Huang , Xin Kang , Sipeng Zhang , Hongliang Ren , Weihua Zhang , Junjie Lai

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Collecting and annotating real-world data for safety-critical physical AI systems, such as Autonomous Vehicle (AV), is time-consuming and costly. It is especially challenging to capture rare edge cases, which play a critical role in…

Reliable 3D dynamic perception requires models that can anticipate motion beyond predefined categories, yet progress is hindered by the scarcity of dense, high-quality motion annotations. While self-supervision on unlabeled real data offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Qingwen Zhang , Xiaomeng Zhu , Chenhan Jiang , Patric Jensfelt

Infrastructure-based sensing and real-time trajectory generation show promise for improving safety in high-risk roadway segments such as work zones, yet practical deployments are hindered by perspective distortion, complex geometry,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Suhala Rabab Saba , Sakib Khan , Minhaj Uddin Ahmad , Jiahe Cao , Mizanur Rahman , Li Zhao , Nathan Huynh , Eren Erman Ozguven

We describe an open-source simulator that creates sensor irradiance and sensor images of typical automotive scenes in urban settings. The purpose of the system is to support camera design and testing for automotive applications. The user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Zhenyi Liu , Minghao Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Shuangting Liu , Henryk Blasinski , Trisha Lian , Brian Wandell

We present a LiDAR-based and real-time capable 3D perception system for automated driving in urban domains. The hierarchical system design is able to model stationary and movable parts of the environment simultaneously and under real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Jens Rieken , Markus Maurer

LiDAR scene generation is increasingly important for scalable simulation and synthetic data creation, especially under diverse sensing conditions that are costly to capture at scale. Typically, diffusion-based LiDAR generators are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Youquan Liu , Weidong Yang , Ao Liang , Xiang Xu , Lingdong Kong , Yang Wu , Dekai Zhu , Xin Li , Runnan Chen , Ben Fei , Tongliang Liu , Wanli Ouyang

For many fundamental scene understanding tasks, it is difficult or impossible to obtain per-pixel ground truth labels from real images. We address this challenge by introducing Hypersim, a photorealistic synthetic dataset for holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Mike Roberts , Jason Ramapuram , Anurag Ranjan , Atulit Kumar , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nathan Paczan , Russ Webb , Joshua M. Susskind

A considerable amount of research is concerned with the generation of realistic sensor data. LiDAR point clouds are generated by complex simulations or learned generative models. The generated data is usually exploited to enable or improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Larissa T. Triess , Christoph B. Rist , David Peter , J. Marius Zöllner

This paper presents a digital-twin platform for active safety analysis in mixed traffic environments. The platform is built using a multi-modal data-enabled traffic environment constructed from drone-based aerial LiDAR, OpenStreetMap, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Hao Zhang , Ximin Yue , Kexin Tian , Sixu Li , Keshu Wu , Zihao Li , Dominique Lord , Yang Zhou

Strategies that include the generation of synthetic data are beginning to be viable as obtaining real data can be logistically complicated, very expensive or slow. Not only the capture of the data can lead to complications, but also its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Paola Natalia Canas , Juan Diego Ortega , Marcos Nieto , Oihana Otaegui

Training autonomous driving and navigation systems requires large and diverse point cloud datasets that capture complex edge case scenarios from various dynamic urban settings. Acquiring such diverse scenarios from real-world point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Suchetan G. Uppur , Hemant Kumar , Vaibhav Kumar

Depth perception is pivotal in many fields, such as robotics and autonomous driving, to name a few. Consequently, depth sensors such as LiDARs rapidly spread in many applications. The 3D point clouds generated by these sensors must often be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andrea Conti , Matteo Poggi , Filippo Aleotti , Stefano Mattoccia

The increasing applications of autonomous driving systems necessitates large-scale, high-quality datasets to ensure robust performance across diverse scenarios. Synthetic data has emerged as a viable solution to augment real-world datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Enes Özeren , Arka Bhowmick

Although various 3D datasets with different functions and scales have been proposed recently, it remains challenging for individuals to complete the whole pipeline of large-scale data collection, sanitization, and annotation. Moreover, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Meida Chen , Qingyong Hu , Zifan Yu , Hugues Thomas , Andrew Feng , Yu Hou , Kyle McCullough , Fengbo Ren , Lucio Soibelman