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Road detection or traversability analysis has been a key technique for a mobile robot to traverse complex off-road scenes. The problem has been mainly formulated in early works as a binary classification one, e.g. associating pixels with…

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The growing complexity of intelligent transportation systems and their applications in public spaces has increased the demand for expressive and versatile knowledge representation. While various mapping efforts have achieved widespread…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Simon Kohaut , Benedict Flade , Julian Eggert , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Robots navigating indoor environments often have access to architectural plans, which can serve as prior knowledge to enhance their localization and mapping capabilities. While some SLAM algorithms leverage these plans for global…

In this paper, we present the Circular Accessible Depth (CAD), a robust traversability representation for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) to learn traversability in various scenarios containing irregular obstacles. To predict CAD, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Shikuan Xie , Ran Song , Yuenan Zhao , Xueqin Huang , Yibin Li , Wei Zhang

Remote sensing question answering (RS-QA) often requires more than direct semantic prediction, especially in large-scale forest scenes where ecological analysis involves multi-step filtering, numerical aggregation, neighborhood reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zihang Cheng , Duanchu Wang , Cheng Li , Jing Huang , Huanzhao Fu , Di Wang

This paper proposes a novel heterogeneous grid convolution that builds a graph-based image representation by exploiting heterogeneity in the image content, enabling adaptive, efficient, and controllable computations in a convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Ryuhei Hamaguchi , Yasutaka Furukawa , Masaki Onishi , Ken Sakurada

Autonomous robots operating in dynamic environments must maintain beliefs over a hypothesis space that is rich enough to represent the activities of interest at different scales. This is important both in order to accommodate the…

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To achieve autonomy in unknown and unstructured environments, we propose a method for semantic-based planning under perceptual uncertainty. This capability is crucial for safe and efficient robot navigation in environment with…

Off-road semantic segmentation with fine-grained labels is necessary for autonomous vehicles to understand driving scenes, as the coarse-grained road detection can not satisfy off-road vehicles with various mechanical properties.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Biao Gao , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

Getting precise aspects of road through segmentation from remote sensing imagery is useful for many real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, urban development and planning, and achieving sustainable development goals. Roads are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Javed Iqbal , Aliza Masood , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

Large-scale semantic mapping is crucial for outdoor autonomous agents to fulfill high-level tasks such as planning and navigation. This paper proposes a novel method for large-scale 3D semantic reconstruction through implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Jianyuan Zhang , Zhiliu Yang , Meng Zhang

Fast and accurate path planning is important for ground robots to achieve safe and efficient autonomous navigation in unstructured outdoor environments. However, most existing methods exploiting either 2D or 2.5D maps struggle to balance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jiayang Liu , Xieyuanli Chen , Junhao Xiao , Sichao Lin , Zhiqiang Zheng , Huimin Lu

In recent years, the number of remote satellites orbiting the Earth has grown significantly, streaming vast amounts of high-resolution visual data to support diverse applications across civil, public, and military domains. Among these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Muhammad Kamran , Mohammad Moein Sheikholeslami , Andreas Wichmann , Gunho Sohn

Road extraction is an essential step in building autonomous navigation systems. Detecting road segments is challenging as they are of varying widths, bifurcated throughout the image, and are often occluded by terrain, cloud, or other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Wele Gedara Chaminda Bandara , Jeya Maria Jose Valanarasu , Vishal M. Patel

In the efforts for safer roads, ensuring adequate vertical clearance above roadways is of great importance. Frequently, trees or other vegetation is growing above the roads, blocking the sight of traffic signs and lights and posing danger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Miriam Louise Carnot , Eric Peukert , Bogdan Franczyk

Accurate 3D lane segment detection and topology reasoning are critical for structured online map construction in autonomous driving. Recent transformer-based approaches formulate this task as query-based set prediction, yet largely inherit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Danny Abraham , Nikhil Kamalkumar Advani , Arun Das , Nikil Dutt

Off-road image semantic segmentation is challenging due to the presence of uneven terrains, unstructured class boundaries, irregular features and strong textures. These aspects affect the perception of the vehicle from which the information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kasi Viswanath , Kartikeya Singh , Peng Jiang , Sujit P. B. , Srikanth Saripalli

Reliable long-range flight of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in GNSS-denied environments is challenging: integrating odometry leads to drift, loop closures are unavailable in previously unseen areas and embedded platforms provide limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Michal Werner , David Čapek , Tomáš Musil , Ondřej Franěk , Tomáš Báča , Martin Saska

Road surface reconstruction plays a vital role in autonomous driving systems, enabling road lane perception and high-precision mapping. Recently, neural implicit encoding has achieved remarkable results in scene representation, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Wenhua Wu , Qi Wang , Guangming Wang , Junping Wang , Tiankun Zhao , Yang Liu , Dongchao Gao , Zhe Liu , Hesheng Wang

Robots should exist anywhere humans do: indoors, outdoors, and even unmapped environments. In contrast, the focus of recent advancements in Object Goal Navigation(OGN) has targeted navigating in indoor environments by leveraging spatial and…

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