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The complex driving environment brings great challenges to the visual perception of autonomous vehicles. It's essential to extract clear and explainable information from the complex road and traffic scenarios and offer clues to decision and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Yiyue Zhao , Xinyu Yun , Chen Chai , Zhiyu Liu , Wenxuan Fan , Xiao Luo

Road scene understanding tasks have recently become crucial for self-driving vehicles. In particular, real-time semantic segmentation is indispensable for intelligent self-driving agents to recognize roadside objects in the driving area. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jongoh Jeong , Jong-Hwan Kim

The growing demand for robust scene understanding in mobile robotics and autonomous driving has highlighted the importance of integrating multiple sensing modalities. By combining data from diverse sensors like cameras and LIDARs, fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Depanshu Sani , Saket Anand

RGB-Thermal (T) crowd counting aims to integrate visible-spectrum and thermal infrared information to improve the robustness of crowd density estimation in complex scenes. Although existing studies generally improve counting accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Jinghao Shi , Mengqi Lei , Kunliang He , Yun Li , Wei Bao , Siqi Li

Conventional SLAM algorithms takes a strong assumption of scene motionlessness, which limits the application in real environments. This paper tries to tackle the challenging visual SLAM issue of moving objects in dynamic environments. We…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Handuo Zhang , Karunasekera Hasith , Han Wang

Synthesis of diverse driving scenes serves as a crucial data augmentation technique for validating the robustness and generalizability of autonomous driving systems. Current methods aggregate high-definition (HD) maps and 3D bounding boxes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhechao Wang , Yiming Zeng , Lufan Ma , Zeqing Fu , Chen Bai , Ziyao Lin , Cheng Lu

Autonomous robotic manipulation in clutter is challenging. A large variety of objects must be perceived in complex scenes, where they are partially occluded and embedded among many distractors, often in restricted spaces. To tackle these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Max Schwarz , Anton Milan , Arul Selvam Periyasamy , Sven Behnke

Depth estimation in complex real-world scenarios is a challenging task, especially when relying solely on a single modality such as visible light or thermal infrared (THR) imagery. This paper proposes a novel multimodal depth estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zelin Meng , Takanori Fukao

Motion is a dominant cue in automated driving systems. Optical flow is typically computed to detect moving objects and to estimate depth using triangulation. In this paper, our motivation is to leverage the existing dense optical flow to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Hazem Rashed , Senthil Yogamani , Ahmad El-Sallab , Pavel Krizek , Mohamed El-Helw

Drivers' visual attention provides critical cues for anticipating latent hazards and directly shapes decision-making and control maneuvers, where its absence can compromise traffic safety. To emulate drivers' perception patterns and advance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Weimin Liu , Qingkun Li , Jiyuan Qiu , Wenjun Wang , Joshua H. Meng

Robots operating in unstructured environments require a comprehensive understanding of their surroundings, necessitating geometric and semantic information from sensor data. Traditional RGB-D processing pipelines focus primarily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhiwu Zheng , Lauren Mentzer , Berk Iskender , Michael Price , Colm Prendergast , Audren Cloitre

Vision-language models (VLMs) often fail under low illumination because their visual grounding is learned predominantly from RGB imagery, whereas thermal infrared preserves complementary scene structure when visible cues degrade. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Rusiru Thushara , Yasiru Ranasinghe , Jay Paranjape , Vishal M. Patel

Autonomous driving is a rapidly evolving technology. Autonomous vehicles are capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human input through sensory information such as radar, lidar, GNSS, vehicle odometry, and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Yasamin Alkhorshid , Kamelia Aryafar , Sven Bauer , Gerd Wanielik

Semantic segmentation and stereo matching are two essential components of 3D environmental perception systems for autonomous driving. Nevertheless, conventional approaches often address these two problems independently, employing separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhiyuan Wu , Yi Feng , Chuang-Wei Liu , Fisher Yu , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are transforming the future of transportation through advances in intelligent perception, decision-making, and control systems. However, their success is tied to one core capability, reliable object detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Niloufar Mehrabi , Hazim Alzorgan , Mahlagha Fazeli , Abolfazl Razi

Low-latency intelligent systems are required for autonomous driving on non-uniform terrain in open-pit mines and developing countries. This work proposes a perception system for autonomous vehicles on unpaved roads and off-road…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Nelson Alves Ferreira Neto

Existing optical flow methods make generic, spatially homogeneous, assumptions about the spatial structure of the flow. In reality, optical flow varies across an image depending on object class. Simply put, different objects move…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Laura Sevilla-Lara , Deqing Sun , Varun Jampani , Michael J. Black

Driven by deep learning techniques, perception technology in autonomous driving has developed rapidly in recent years, enabling vehicles to accurately detect and interpret surrounding environment for safe and efficient navigation. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Shanliang Yao , Runwei Guan , Xiaoyu Huang , Zhuoxiao Li , Xiangyu Sha , Yong Yue , Eng Gee Lim , Hyungjoon Seo , Ka Lok Man , Xiaohui Zhu , Yutao Yue

We propose a novel, vision-only object-level SLAM framework for automotive applications representing 3D shapes by implicit signed distance functions. Our key innovation consists of augmenting the standard neural representation by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Li Cui , Yang Ding , Richard Hartley , Zirui Xie , Laurent Kneip , Zhenghua Yu

Object detection in road scenes is necessary to develop both autonomous vehicles and driving assistance systems. Even if deep neural networks for recognition task have shown great performances using conventional images, they fail to detect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Rachel Blin , Samia Ainouz , Stéphane Canu , Fabrice Meriaudeau