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Robust cross-seasonal localization is one of the major challenges in long-term visual navigation of autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we exploit recent advances in semantic segmentation of images, i.e., where each pixel is assigned a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-05 Erik Stenborg , Carl Toft , Lars Hammarstrand

Pedestrian detection is a critical problem in computer vision with significant impact on safety in urban autonomous driving. In this work, we explore how semantic segmentation can be used to boost pedestrian detection accuracy while having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Garrick Brazil , Xi Yin , Xiaoming Liu

Scene understanding plays a critical role in enabling intelligence and autonomy in robotic systems. Traditional approaches often face challenges, including occlusions, ambiguous boundaries, and the inability to adapt attention based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Guodong Sun , Junjie Liu , Gaoyang Zhang , Bo Wu , Yang Zhang

Multi-sensor fusion in autonomous vehicles is becoming more common to offer a more robust alternative for several perception tasks. This need arises from the unique contribution of each sensor in collecting data: camera-radar fusion offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Ruan Bispo , Tim Brophy , Reenu Mohandas , Anthony Scanlan , Ciarán Eising

As a rising task, panoptic segmentation is faced with challenges in both semantic segmentation and instance segmentation. However, in terms of speed and accuracy, existing LiDAR methods in the field are still limited. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jinke Li , Xiao He , Yang Wen , Yuan Gao , Xiaoqiang Cheng , Dan Zhang

Panoptic segmentation assigns semantic and instance ID labels to every pixel of an image. As permutations of instance IDs are also valid solutions, the task requires learning of high-dimensional one-to-many mapping. As a result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Ting Chen , Lala Li , Saurabh Saxena , Geoffrey Hinton , David J. Fleet

Range-View(RV)-based 3D point cloud segmentation is widely adopted due to its compact data form. However, RV-based methods fall short in providing robust segmentation for the occluded points and suffer from distortion of projected RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Shiqi Tan , Hamidreza Fazlali , Yixuan Xu , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu

Automotive radar systems have evolved to provide not only range, azimuth and Doppler velocity, but also elevation data. This additional dimension allows for the representation of 4D radar as a 3D point cloud. As a result, existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Alexander Musiat , Laurenz Reichardt , Michael Schulze , Oliver Wasenmüller

Existing state-of-the-art 3D point clouds understanding methods only perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework which simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kangcheng Liu

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

With the development of range sensors such as LIDAR and time-of-flight cameras, 3D point cloud scans have become ubiquitous in computer vision applications, the most prominent ones being gesture recognition and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Or Litany , Tal Remez , Alex Bronstein

Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

We present a deep learning framework for probabilistic pixel-wise semantic segmentation, which we term Bayesian SegNet. Semantic segmentation is an important tool for visual scene understanding and a meaningful measure of uncertainty is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-12 Alex Kendall , Vijay Badrinarayanan , Roberto Cipolla

Radar is an important sensor for autonomous driving (AD) systems due to its robustness to adverse weather and different lighting conditions. Novel view synthesis using neural radiance fields (NeRFs) has recently received considerable…

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Autonomous vehicles are the next revolution in the automobile industry and they are expected to revolutionize the future of transportation. Understanding the scenario in which the autonomous vehicle will operate is critical for its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Naveen Mathews Renji , Kruthika K , Manasa Keshavamurthy , Pooja Kumari , S. Rajarajeswari

Dense 3D visual mapping estimates as many as possible pixel depths, for each image. This results in very dense point clouds that often contain redundant and noisy information, especially for surfaces that are roughly planar, for instance,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Luca Morreale , Andrea Romanoni , Matteo Matteucci

Accurate 3D scene motion perception significantly enhances the safety and reliability of an autonomous driving system. Benefiting from its all-weather operational capability and unique perceptual properties, 4D mmWave radar has emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruiqi Cheng , Huijun Di , Jian Li , Feng Liu , Wei Liang

Semantic image segmentation is an essential component of modern autonomous driving systems, as an accurate understanding of the surrounding scene is crucial to navigation and action planning. Current state-of-the-art approaches in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Tobias Pohlen , Alexander Hermans , Markus Mathias , Bastian Leibe

LiDAR Semantic Segmentation is a fundamental task in autonomous driving perception consisting of associating each LiDAR point to a semantic label. Fully-supervised models have widely tackled this task, but they require labels for each scan,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xavier Timoneda , Markus Herb , Fabian Duerr , Daniel Goehring , Fisher Yu

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR data presents considerable challenges, particularly when dealing with diverse sensor types and configurations. However, incorporating semantic information can significantly enhance the accuracy and robustness…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Sven Ochs , Philip Schörner , Marc René Zofka , J. Marius Zöllner