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Reliable obstacle detection on railways could help prevent collisions that result in injuries and potentially damage or derail the train. Unfortunately, generic object detectors do not have enough classes to account for all possible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Matthias Brucker , Andrei Cramariuc , Cornelius von Einem , Roland Siegwart , Cesar Cadena

Obstacle detection is a safety-critical problem in robot navigation, where stereo matching is a popular vision-based approach. While deep neural networks have shown impressive results in computer vision, most of the previous obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Hongyu Li , Zhengang Li , Neset Unver Akmandor , Huaizu Jiang , Yanzhi Wang , Taskin Padir

This paper introduces the task of "train ego-path detection", a refined approach to railway track detection designed for intelligent onboard vision systems. Whereas existing research lacks precision and often considers all tracks within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Thomas Laurent

Accurately detecting 3D objects from monocular images in dynamic roadside scenarios remains a challenging problem due to varying camera perspectives and unpredictable scene conditions. This paper introduces a two-stage training strategy to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Sondos Mohamed , Walter Zimmer , Ross Greer , Ahmed Alaaeldin Ghita , Modesto Castrillón-Santana , Mohan Trivedi , Alois Knoll , Salvatore Mario Carta , Mirko Marras

Accurate rail location is a crucial part in the railway support driving system for safety monitoring. LiDAR can obtain point clouds that carry 3D information for the railway environment, especially in darkness and terrible weather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Xinyi Yu , Weiqi He , Xuecheng Qian , Yang Yang , Linlin Ou

World wide road traffic fatality and accident rates are high, and this is true even in technologically advanced countries like the USA. Despite the advances in Intelligent Transportation Systems, safe transportation routing i.e., finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Qun Liu , Suman Kumar , Vijay Mago

The dynamic and unpredictable nature of road traffic necessitates effective accident detection methods for enhancing safety and streamlining traffic management in smart cities. This paper offers a comprehensive exploration study of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Victor Adewopo , Nelly Elsayed

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

Precise and real-time rail vehicle localization as well as railway environment monitoring is crucial for railroad safety. In this letter, we propose a multi-LiDAR based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system for railway…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yidong Lou , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Shimin Zhang

To achieve a driverless train operation on mainline railways, actual and potential obstacles for the train's driveway must be detected automatically by appropriate sensor systems. Machine learning algorithms have proven to be powerful tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Rustam Tagiew , Martin Köppel , Karsten Schwalbe , Patrick Denzler , Philipp Neumaier , Tobias Klockau , Martin Boekhoff , Pavel Klasek , Roman Tilly

In Intelligent Transportation System, real-time systems that monitor and analyze road users become increasingly critical as we march toward the smart city era. Vision-based frameworks for Object Detection, Multiple Object Tracking, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-02 Xiaohui Huang , Pan He , Anand Rangarajan , Sanjay Ranka

Railway systems, particularly in Germany, require high levels of automation to address legacy infrastructure challenges and increase train traffic safely. A key component of automation is robust long-range perception, essential for early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Raul David Dominguez Sanchez , Xavier Diaz Ortiz , Xingcheng Zhou , Max Peter Ronecker , Michael Karner , Daniel Watzenig , Alois Knoll

Level crossing accidents remain a significant safety concern in modern railway systems, particularly under adverse weather conditions that degrade sensor performance. This review surveys state-of-the-art sensor technologies and fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Chenyang Yan , Mats Bengtsson

Although deep learning has significantly advanced the perception capabilities of intelligent transportation systems, railway applications continue to suffer from a scarcity of high-quality, annotated data for safety-critical tasks like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Mauro Marinoni , Giorgio Buttazzo

Rail detection is one of the key factors for intelligent train. In the paper, motivated by the anchor line-based lane detection methods, we propose a rail detection network called DALNet based on dynamic anchor line. Aiming to solve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Zichen Yu , Quanli Liu , Wei Wang , Liyong Zhang , Xiaoguang Zhao

Recent trend of railway train development can be characterized in several aspects : high speed, infortainment, intelligence in driving, and so on. In particular, trend of high speed in driving is prominent and competition for high speed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Hanul Yeon , Dongsoo Har

Detecting pedestrians and predicting future trajectories for them are critical tasks for numerous applications, such as autonomous driving. Previous methods either treat the detection and prediction as separate tasks or simply add a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Zhishuai Zhang , Jiyang Gao , Junhua Mao , Yukai Liu , Dragomir Anguelov , Congcong Li

Object detection and object tracking are usually treated as two separate processes. Significant progress has been made for object detection in 2D images using deep learning networks. The usual tracking-by-detection pipeline for object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Chenge Li , Gregory Dobler , Xin Feng , Yao Wang

Obstacle avoidance is essential for ensuring the safety of autonomous vehicles. Accurate perception and motion planning are crucial to enabling vehicles to navigate complex environments while avoiding collisions. In this paper, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Van-Hoang-Anh Phan , Chi-Tam Nguyen , Doan-Trung Au , Thanh-Danh Phan , Minh-Thien Duong , My-Ha Le

With the railway transportation Industry moving actively towards automation, accurate location and inventory of wayside track assets like traffic signals, crossings, switches, mileposts, etc. is of extreme importance. With the new Positive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-19 S Ritika , Shruti Mittal , Dattaraj Rao