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Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for autonomous vehicles as it can be used to segment objects in a class agnostic manner based on their motion cues. It enables the detection of unseen objects during training (e.g., moose or a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Eslam Mohamed , Mahmoud Ewaisha , Mennatullah Siam , Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Waleed Hamdy , Muhammad Helmi , Ahmad El-Sallab

Few-shot semantic segmentation models aim to segment images after learning from only a few annotated examples. A key challenge for them is how to avoid overfitting because limited training data is available. While prior works usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Yinan Zhao , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Danna Gurari

Leveraging multiple sensors is crucial for robust semantic perception in autonomous driving, as each sensor type has complementary strengths and weaknesses. However, existing sensor fusion methods often treat sensors uniformly across all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Tim Broedermann , Christos Sakaridis , Yuqian Fu , Luc Van Gool

Lane detection for autonomous vehicles is an important concept, yet it is a challenging issue of driver assistance systems in modern vehicles. The emergence of deep learning leads to significant progress in self-driving cars. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Seyed Rasoul Hosseini , Hamid Taheri , Mohammad Teshnehlab

Autonomous driving perception faces significant challenges due to occlusions and incomplete scene data in the environment. To overcome these issues, the task of semantic occupancy prediction (SOP) is proposed, which aims to jointly infer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Helin Cao , Sven Behnke

In this paper, we present a complete pipeline for 3D semantic mapping solely based on a stereo camera system. The pipeline comprises a direct sparse visual odometry front-end as well as a back-end for global optimization including GNSS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Qing Cheng , Niclas Zeller , Daniel Cremers

Semantic segmentation is key in autonomous driving. Using deep visual learning architectures is not trivial in this context, because of the challenges in creating suitable large scale annotated datasets. This issue has been traditionally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Emanuele Alberti , Antonio Tavera , Carlo Masone , Barbara Caputo

Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks has been widely explored to generate high-level contextual information for autonomous vehicles. To acquire a complete $180^\circ$ semantic understanding of the forward surroundings, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Wei Zhou , Alex Zyner , Stewart Worrall , Eduardo Nebot

This work investigates learning pixel-wise semantic image segmentation in urban scenes without any manual annotation, just from the raw non-curated data collected by cars which, equipped with cameras and LiDAR sensors, drive around a city.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Antonin Vobecky , David Hurych , Oriane Siméoni , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Josef Sivic

The use of HSI for autonomous navigation is a promising research field aimed at improving the accuracy and robustness of detection, tracking, and scene understanding systems based on vision sensors. Combining advanced computer algorithms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jon Gutiérrez-Zaballa , Koldo Basterretxea , Javier Echanobe

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

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) require reliable traffic sign recognition and robust lane detection capabilities to ensure safe navigation in complex and dynamic environments. This paper introduces an integrated approach combining advanced deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chandan Kumar Sah , Ankit Kumar Shaw , Xiaoli Lian , Arsalan Shahid Baig , Tuopu Wen , Kun Jiang , Mengmeng Yang , Diange Yang

Computational imaging enables compact infrared systems, but deep-learning pipelines that combine image reconstruction and object detection often introduce substantial inference latency. Most existing acceleration strategies compress the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xuquan Wang , Guishuo Yang , Dapeng Yan , Yujie Xing , Xuanyu Qian , Kai Zhang , Xiong Dun , Jiande Sun , Zhanshan Wang , Xinbin Cheng

Intelligent vehicles clearly benefit from the expanded Field of View (FoV) of the 360-degree sensors, but the vast majority of available semantic segmentation training images are captured with pinhole cameras. In this work, we look at this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Chaoxiang Ma , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , Alina Roitberg , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Semantic segmentation serves as a cornerstone of scene understanding in autonomous driving but continues to face significant challenges under complex conditions such as occlusion. Light field and LiDAR modalities provide complementary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jie Luo , Yuxuan Jiang , Xin Jin , Mingyu Liu , Yihui Fan

For autonomous vehicles, driving safely is highly dependent on the capability to correctly perceive the environment in 3D space, hence the task of 3D object detection represents a fundamental aspect of perception. While 3D sensors deliver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Issa Mouawad , Nikolas Brasch , Fabian Manhardt , Federico Tombari , Francesca Odone

Driven by rapid advances in large-scale generative models, synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution for visual understanding. While modern diffusion models achieve remarkable photorealistic image synthesis, their potential in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jinjin Zhang , Xiefan Guo , Yizhou Jin , Nan Zhou , Di Huang

Semi-supervised remote sensing (RS) image semantic segmentation offers a promising solution to alleviate the burden of exhaustive annotation, yet it fundamentally struggles with pseudo-label drift, a phenomenon where confirmation bias leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yi Zhou , Xuechao Zou , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Jingming Chen , Congyan Lang , Tengfei Cao , Pin Tao , Yuanchun Shi

In autonomous driving, perception systems are piv otal as they interpret sensory data to understand the envi ronment, which is essential for decision-making and planning. Ensuring the safety of these perception systems is fundamental for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Urvishkumar Bharti , Vikram Shahapur

Semantic segmentation aims to robustly predict coherent class labels for entire regions of an image. It is a scene understanding task that powers real-world applications (e.g., autonomous navigation). One important application, the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuxiang Zhang , Sachin Mehta , Anat Caspi