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Unbounded 3D world generation is emerging as a foundational task for scene modeling in computer vision, graphics, and robotics. In this work, we present WorldFlow3D, a novel method capable of generating unbounded 3D worlds. Building upon a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Amogh Joshi , Julian Ost , Felix Heide

Flow-matching models deliver state-of-the-art fidelity in image and video generation, but the inherent sequential denoising process renders them slower. Existing acceleration methods like distillation, trajectory truncation, and consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Divya Jyoti Bajpai , Dhruv Bhardwaj , Soumya Roy , Tejas Duseja , Harsh Agarwal , Aashay Sandansing , Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Accurate and robust 3D object detection is essential for autonomous driving, where fusing data from sensors like LiDAR and camera enhances detection accuracy. However, sensor malfunctions such as corruption or disconnection can degrade…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Reza Sadeghian , Niloofar Hooshyaripour , Chris Joslin , WonSook Lee

LiDAR scene synthesis is an emerging solution to scarcity in 3D data for robotic tasks such as autonomous driving. Recent approaches employ diffusion or flow matching models to generate realistic scenes, but 3D data remains limited compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Nicolas Sereyjol-Garros , Ellington Kirby , Victor Besnier , Nermin Samet

Autonomous vehicles rely heavily on sensors such as camera and LiDAR, which provide real-time information about their surroundings for the tasks of perception, planning and control. Typically a LiDAR can only provide sparse point cloud…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Lin Bai , Yiming Zhao , Mahdi Elhousni , Xinming Huang

Flow matching has emerged as a powerful generative modeling approach with flexible choices of source distribution. While Gaussian distributions are commonly used, the potential for better alternatives in high-dimensional data generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junho Lee , Kwanseok Kim , Joonseok Lee

Understanding 3D scenes is a critical prerequisite for autonomous agents. Recently, LiDAR and other sensors have made large amounts of data available in the form of temporal sequences of point cloud frames. In this work, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Pan He , Patrick Emami , Sanjay Ranka , Anand Rangarajan

Autonomous driving requires reasoning about interactions with surrounding traffic. A prevailing approach is large-scale imitation learning on expert driving datasets, aimed at generalizing across diverse real-world scenarios. For online…

Recently, the RGB images and point clouds fusion methods have been proposed to jointly estimate 2D optical flow and 3D scene flow. However, as both conventional RGB cameras and LiDAR sensors adopt a frame-based data acquisition mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zhexiong Wan , Yuxin Mao , Jing Zhang , Yuchao Dai

The use of infrastructure sensor technology for traffic detection has already been proven several times. However, extrinsic sensor calibration is still a challenge for the operator. While previous approaches are unable to calibrate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Laurent Kloeker , Christian Kotulla , Lutz Eckstein

Scene flow estimation is a long-standing problem in computer vision, where the goal is to find the 3D motion of a scene from its consecutive observations. Recently, there have been efforts to compute the scene flow from 3D point clouds. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Itai Lang , Dror Aiger , Forrester Cole , Shai Avidan , Michael Rubinstein

Flow matching models have emerged as a powerful method for generative modeling on domains like images or videos, and even on irregular or unstructured data like 3D point clouds or even protein structures. These models are commonly trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yuyang Wang , Anurag Ranjan , Josh Susskind , Miguel Angel Bautista

3D scene understanding is a critical yet challenging task in autonomous driving due to the irregularity and sparsity of LiDAR data, as well as the computational demands of processing large-scale point clouds. Recent methods leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Despite significant progress in image-based 3D scene flow estimation, the performance of such approaches has not yet reached the fidelity required by many applications. Simultaneously, these applications are often not restricted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Aseem Behl , Despoina Paschalidou , Simon Donné , Andreas Geiger

Semantic scene completion is the task of jointly estimating 3D geometry and semantics of objects and surfaces within a given extent. This is a particularly challenging task on real-world data that is sparse and occluded. We propose a scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Christoph B. Rist , David Emmerichs , Markus Enzweiler , Dariu M. Gavrila

We propose GoalFlow, an end-to-end autonomous driving method for generating high-quality multimodal trajectories. In autonomous driving scenarios, there is rarely a single suitable trajectory. Recent methods have increasingly focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Zebin Xing , Xingyu Zhang , Yang Hu , Bo Jiang , Tong He , Qian Zhang , Xiaoxiao Long , Wei Yin

LiDAR provides accurate geometric measurements of the 3D world. Unfortunately, dense LiDARs are very expensive and the point clouds captured by low-beam LiDAR are often sparse. To address these issues, we present UltraLiDAR, a data-driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yuwen Xiong , Wei-Chiu Ma , Jingkang Wang , Raquel Urtasun

Scene flow is a description of real world motion in 3D that contains more information than optical flow. Because of its complexity there exists no applicable variant for real-time scene flow estimation in an automotive or commercial vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-22 René Schuster , Christian Bailer , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

LiDAR and camera are two important sensors for 3D object detection in autonomous driving. Despite the increasing popularity of sensor fusion in this field, the robustness against inferior image conditions, e.g., bad illumination and sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Xuyang Bai , Zeyu Hu , Xinge Zhu , Qingqiu Huang , Yilun Chen , Hongbo Fu , Chiew-Lan Tai

In the field of autonomous driving, self-training is widely applied to mitigate distribution shifts in LiDAR-based 3D object detectors. This eliminates the need for expensive, high-quality labels whenever the environment changes (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Christian Fruhwirth-Reisinger , Michael Opitz , Horst Possegger , Horst Bischof