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The efficient fusion of depth maps is a key part of most state-of-the-art 3D reconstruction methods. Besides requiring high accuracy, these depth fusion methods need to be scalable and real-time capable. To this end, we present a novel…
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Localization and navigation are basic robotic tasks requiring an accurate and up-to-date map to finish these tasks, with crowdsourced data to detect map changes posing an appealing solution. Collecting and processing crowdsourced data…
Large-scale multi-session LiDAR mapping is crucial for various applications but still faces significant challenges in data redundancy, memory consumption, and efficiency. This paper presents MS-Mapping, a novel multi-session LiDAR mapping…
Robust road segmentation is a key challenge in self-driving research. Though many image-based methods have been studied and high performances in dataset evaluations have been reported, developing robust and reliable road segmentation is…
Traffic speed data imputation is a fundamental challenge for data-driven transport analysis. In recent years, with the ubiquity of GPS-enabled devices and the widespread use of crowdsourcing alternatives for the collection of traffic data,…
Vector maps are essential in autonomous driving for tasks like localization and planning, yet their creation and maintenance are notably costly. While recent advances in online vector map generation for autonomous vehicles are promising,…
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…
We describe a system that builds a high dynamic-range and wide-angle image of the night sky by combining a large set of input images. The method makes use of pixel-rank information in the individual input images to improve a "consensus"…
High-definition road maps play a crucial role in the functionality and verification of highly automated driving functions. These contain precise information about the road network, geometry, condition, as well as traffic signs. Despite…
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) plays a crucial role in enabling autonomous vehicles to navigate previously unknown environments. Semantic SLAM mostly extends visual SLAM, leveraging the higher density information available to…
We present CUBE (Control-based Unified B-spline Encoding), a new geometric representation for human faces that combines B-spline volumes with learned features, and demonstrate its use as a decoder for 3D scan registration and monocular 3D…
Scene flow enables an understanding of the motion characteristics of the environment in the 3D world. It gains particular significance in the long-range, where object-based perception methods might fail due to sparse observations far away.…
Ground-based, high-resolution bolometric (sub)millimeter continuum mapping observations on spatially extended target sources are often subject to significant missing fluxes. This hampers accurate quantitative analyses. Missing flux can be…
Extended Object Tracking (EOT) exploits the high resolution of modern sensors for detailed environmental perception. Combined with decentralized fusion, it contributes to a more scalable and robust perception system. This paper investigates…
High-definition (HD) maps are core artifacts for automated driving systems, but their generation commonly relies on sensor-intensive mobile mapping campaigns, while quality assessment often depends on high-precision reference data. These…
With the emergence of data-driven approaches in science, there is growing interest in their application to manufacturing, particularly in surface precision engineering. However, generating large datasets required for model training is often…
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely used neuroimaging technique that can provide images of different contrasts (i.e., modalities). Fusing this multi-modal data has proven particularly effective for boosting model performance in…
High-fidelity reconstruction of driving scenes is crucial for autonomous driving. While recent feedforward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) methods enable fast reconstruction, their per-pixel Gaussian prediction paradigm often suffers from…
Diffusion models are advancing autonomous driving by enabling realistic data synthesis, predictive end-to-end planning, and closed-loop simulation, with a primary focus on temporally consistent generation. However, large-scale 3D scene…