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This paper presents a novel approach for the Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) task in continuous 3D environments, which requires an autonomous agent to follow natural language instructions in unseen environments. Existing end-to-end…

In autonomous driving, the novel objects and lack of annotations challenge the traditional 3D LiDAR semantic segmentation based on deep learning. Few-shot learning is a feasible way to solve these issues. However, currently few-shot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Jilin Mei , Junbao Zhou , Yu Hu

Text-to-LiDAR generation can customize 3D data with rich structures and diverse scenes for downstream tasks. However, the scarcity of Text-LiDAR pairs often causes insufficient training priors, generating overly smooth 3D scenes. Moreover,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Wentao Qu , Guofeng Mei , Yang Wu , Yongshun Gong , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging plays an important role in numerous applications. However, long acquisition times and significant data volumes present a challenge to LiDAR imaging. This paper proposes a task-optimized adaptive sampling…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen McLaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Understanding foggy image sequence in the driving scenes is critical for autonomous driving, but it remains a challenging task due to the difficulty in collecting and annotating real-world images of adverse weather. Recently, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Liang Liao , Wenyi Chen , Jing Xiao , Zheng Wang , Chia-Wen Lin , Shin'ichi Satoh

We introduce LiDAR-UDA, a novel two-stage self-training-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (UDA) method for LiDAR segmentation. Existing self-training methods use a model trained on labeled source data to generate pseudo labels for target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Amirreza Shaban , JoonHo Lee , Sanghun Jung , Xiangyun Meng , Byron Boots

Recent advances show that semi-supervised implicit representation learning can be achieved through physical constraints like Eikonal equations. However, this scheme has not yet been successfully used for LiDAR point cloud data, due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Pengfei Li , Yongliang Shi , Tianyu Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Ya-Qin Zhang

Remote zero-shot object recognition, i.e., offloading zero-shot object recognition task from one mobile device to remote mobile edge computing (MEC) server or another mobile device, has become a common and important task to solve for 6G. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yaping Sun , Hao Chen , Xiaodong Xu , Ping Zhang , Shuguang Cui

Single-photon lidar has become a prominent tool for depth imaging in recent years. At the core of the technique, the depth of a target is measured by constructing a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Michael P. Sheehan , Julián Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has the potential to benefit many applications, particularly those where manually annotating data is cumbersome. One such situation is the semantic segmentation of point clouds. In this context, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yanhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

We present a self-supervised learning approach for the semantic segmentation of lidar frames. Our method is used to train a deep point cloud segmentation architecture without any human annotation. The annotation process is automated with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Hugues Thomas , Ben Agro , Mona Gridseth , Jian Zhang , Timothy D. Barfoot

Time-resolved single photon imaging is a promising imaging modality characterized by the unique capability of timestamping the arrivals of single photons. Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are the leading technology for implementing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Aleksi Suonsivu , Lauri Salmela , Edoardo Peretti , Leevi Uosukainen , Radu Ciprian Bilcu , Giacomo Boracchi

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Signal Temporal Logic (STL) offers verifiable task specifications and is crucial for safety-critical control. Yet STL planning remains challenging: exact optimization-based methods are often too slow, and learning-based methods struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bowen Ye , Ancheng Hou , Junyue Huang , Ruijia Liu , Xiang Yin

Single Image Super-Resolution is a classic computer vision problem that involves estimating high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) ones. Although deep neural networks (DNNs), especially Transformers for super-resolution, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Leheng Zhang , Yawei Li , Xingyu Zhou , Xiaorui Zhao , Shuhang Gu

Semantic and goal-oriented (SGO) communication is an emerging technology that only transmits significant information for a given task. Semantic communication encounters many challenges, such as computational complexity at end users,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Eslam Eldeeb , Mohammad Shehab , Hirley Alves , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

LiDAR semantic segmentation provides 3D semantic information about the environment, an essential cue for intelligent systems during their decision making processes. Deep neural networks are achieving state-of-the-art results on large public…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Inigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Semantic communication (SC) is an emerging intelligent paradigm, offering solutions for various future applications like metaverse, mixed reality, and the Internet of Everything. However, in current SC systems, the construction of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Feibo Jiang , Yubo Peng , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan , Xiaohu You

Visual tokenizers play a central role in latent image generation by bridging high-dimensional images and tractable generative modeling. However, most existing tokenizers are still trained with reconstruction-dominated objectives, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Qingfeng Li , Haoxian Zhang , Xu He , Songlin Tang , Zhixue Fang , Xiaoqiang Liu , Pengfei Wan Guoqi Li

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller