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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) presents significant challenges due to the view discrepancy between oblique UAV images and overhead satellite images. Existing methods heavily rely on the supervision of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Haoyuan Li , Chang Xu , Wen Yang , Li Mi , Huai Yu , Haijian Zhang

LiDAR has become one of the primary 3D object detection sensors in autonomous driving. However, LiDAR's diverging point pattern with increasing distance results in a non-uniform sampled point cloud ill-suited to discretized volumetric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jordan S. K. Hu , Tianshu Kuai , Steven L. Waslander

In the realm of high-resolution (HR), fine-grained image segmentation, the primary challenge is balancing broad contextual awareness with the precision required for detailed object delineation, capturing intricate details and the finest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Qian Yu , Peng-Tao Jiang , Hao Zhang , Jinwei Chen , Bo Li , Lihe Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Haoyuan Li , Wen Yang , Fang Xu , Hong Tan , Haijian Zhang , Shengyang Li , Gui-Song Xia

Drivable Free-space prediction is a fundamental and crucial problem in autonomous driving. Recent works have addressed the problem by representing the entire non-obstacle road regions as the free-space. In contrast our aim is to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Keshav Gupta , Tejas S. Stanley , Pranjal Paul , Arun K. Singh , K. Madhava Krishna

Scene flow estimation is an essential ingredient for a variety of real-world applications, especially for autonomous agents, such as self-driving cars and robots. While recent scene flow estimation approaches achieve a reasonable accuracy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Yushan Zhang , Bastian Wandt , Maria Magnusson , Michael Felsberg

Recent advances in mapping techniques have enabled the creation of highly accurate dense 3D maps during robotic missions, such as point clouds, meshes, or NeRF-based representations. These developments present new opportunities for reusing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Lintong Zhang , Yifu Tao , Jiarong Lin , Fu Zhang , Maurice Fallon

Deep Learning based techniques have been adopted with precision to solve a lot of standard computer vision problems, some of which are image classification, object detection and segmentation. Despite the widespread success of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Vikram Mohanty , Shubh Agrawal , Shaswat Datta , Arna Ghosh , Vishnu Dutt Sharma , Debashish Chakravarty

Considering the accelerated development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications in both industrial and research scenarios, there is an increasing need for localizing these aerial systems in non-urban environments, using GNSS-Free,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Marius-Mihail Gurgu , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Diffusion models have found valuable applications in anomaly detection by capturing the nominal data distribution and identifying anomalies via reconstruction. Despite their merits, they struggle to localize anomalies of varying scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Justin Tebbe , Jawad Tayyub

Diffusion Probabilistic Models have recently shown remarkable performance in generative image modeling, attracting significant attention in the computer vision community. However, while a substantial amount of diffusion-based research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Yijun Yang , Huazhu Fu , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Lei Zhu

Cross-view geo-localization aims to match images of the same target from different platforms, e.g., drone and satellite. It is a challenging task due to the changing appearance of targets and environmental content from different views. Most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Quan Chen , Tingyu Wang , Zihao Yang , Haoran Li , Rongfeng Lu , Yaoqi Sun , Bolun Zheng , Chenggang Yan

Accurate 3D scene understanding in outdoor environments heavily relies on high-quality point clouds. However, LiDAR-scanned data often suffer from extreme sparsity, severely hindering downstream 3D perception tasks. Existing point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Xianjing Cheng , Lintai Wu , Zuowen Wang , Junhui Hou , Jie Wen , Yong Xu

Visual localization, i.e., determining the position and orientation of a vehicle with respect to a map, is a key problem in autonomous driving. We present a multicamera visual inertial localization algorithm for large scale environments. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Marcel Geppert , Peidong Liu , Zhaopeng Cui , Marc Pollefeys , Torsten Sattler

We present a visual localization framework based on novel deep attention aware features for autonomous driving that achieves centimeter level localization accuracy. Conventional approaches to the visual localization problem rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yao Zhou , Guowei Wan , Shenhua Hou , Li Yu , Gang Wang , Xiaofei Rui , Shiyu Song

Single-view novel view synthesis (NVS), the task of generating images from new viewpoints based on a single reference image, is important but challenging in computer vision. Recent advancements in NVS have leveraged Denoising Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Yifeng Xiong , Haoyu Ma , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Hao Tang , Xiaohui Xie

This article introduces BEVPlace++, a novel, fast, and robust LiDAR global localization method for unmanned ground vehicles. It uses lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on Bird's Eye View (BEV) image-like representations of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Lun Luo , Si-Yuan Cao , Xiaorui Li , Jintao Xu , Rui Ai , Zhu Yu , Xieyuanli Chen

Standard spatial convolutions assume input data with a regular neighborhood structure. Existing methods typically generalize convolution to the irregular point cloud domain by fixing a regular "view" through e.g. a fixed neighborhood size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Manxi Lin , Aasa Feragen

Centerline graphs, crucial for path planning in autonomous driving, are traditionally learned using deterministic methods. However, these methods often lack spatial reasoning and struggle with occluded or invisible centerlines. Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zijie Wang , Weiming Zhang , Wei Zhang , Xiao Tan , Hongxing Liu , Yaowei Wang , Guanbin Li

This paper addresses the problem of vehicle-mounted camera localization by matching a ground-level image with an overhead-view satellite map. Existing methods often treat this problem as cross-view image retrieval, and use learned deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yujiao Shi , Hongdong Li