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Autonomous navigation at high speeds in off-road environments necessitates robots to comprehensively understand their surroundings using onboard sensing only. The extreme conditions posed by the off-road setting can cause degraded camera…

The segmentation of forest LiDAR 3D point clouds, including both individual tree and semantic segmentation, is fundamental for advancing forest management and ecological research. However, current approaches often struggle with the…

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LiDAR is used in autonomous driving to provide 3D spatial information and enable accurate perception in off-road environments, aiding in obstacle detection, mapping, and path planning. Learning-based LiDAR semantic segmentation utilizes…

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Task-specific data-fusion networks have marked considerable achievements in urban scene parsing. Among these networks, our recently proposed RoadFormer successfully extracts heterogeneous features from RGB images and surface normal maps and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jianxin Huang , Jiahang Li , Ning Jia , Yuxiang Sun , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen , Rui Fan

Semantic segmentation of land cover classes is fundamental for agricultural and economic development work, from sustainable forestry to urban planning, yet existing training datasets have significant limitations. To generate an open and…

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Mobile robots operating in unknown urban environments encounter a wide range of complex terrains to which they must adapt their planned trajectory for safe and efficient navigation. Most existing approaches utilize supervised learning to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Jannik Zürn , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

As acquiring pixel-wise annotations of real-world images for semantic segmentation is a costly process, a model can instead be trained with more accessible synthetic data and adapted to real images without requiring their annotations. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Lukas Hoyer , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

Accurate and robust environmental perception is crucial for robot autonomous navigation. While current methods typically adopt optical sensors (e.g., camera, LiDAR) as primary sensing modalities, their susceptibility to visual occlusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ruibin Zhang , Fei Gao

As a fundamental task in computer vision, semantic segmentation is widely applied in fields such as autonomous driving, remote sensing image analysis, and medical image processing. In recent years, Transformer-based segmentation methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Tai An , Weiqiang Huang , Da Xu , Qingyuan He , Jiacheng Hu , Yujia Lou

Off-road environments remain significant challenges for autonomous ground vehicles, due to the lack of structured roads and the presence of complex obstacles, such as uneven terrain, vegetation, and occlusions. Traditional perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zitong Chen , Chao Sun , Shida Nie , Chen Min , Changjiu Ning , Haoyu Li , Bo Wang

Rapid and accurate damage assessment following natural disasters is critical for effective emergency response. However, identifying fine-grained damage levels (e.g., distinguishing minor from major roof damage) in UAV imagery remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kevin Zhu , William Tang , Raphael Hay Tene , Zesheng Liu , Nhut Le , Maryam Rahnemoonfar

Semantic segmentation of remotely sensed urban scene images is required in a wide range of practical applications, such as land cover mapping, urban change detection, environmental protection, and economic assessment.Driven by rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Libo Wang , Rui Li , Ce Zhang , Shenghui Fang , Chenxi Duan , Xiaoliang Meng , Peter M. Atkinson

Road segmentation is a critical task for autonomous driving systems, requiring accurate and robust methods to classify road surfaces from various environmental data. Our work introduces an innovative approach that integrates LiDAR point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Tao Ni , Xin Zhan , Tao Luo , Wenbin Liu , Zhan Shi , JunBo Chen

Effective use of camera-based vision systems is essential for robust performance in autonomous off-road driving, particularly in the high-speed regime. Despite success in structured, on-road settings, current end-to-end approaches for scene…

The performance of perception systems developed for autonomous driving vehicles has seen significant improvements over the last few years. This improvement was associated with the increasing use of LiDAR sensors and point cloud data to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

Chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers and pressure injuries require accurate tissue-level assessment to guide treatment planning and monitor healing progression. While deep learning methods have advanced automated wound analysis, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Muhammad Ashad Kabir , Rabin Dulal

The field of remote-sensing image classification has seen immense progress with the rise of convolutional neural networks, and more recently, through vision transformers. These models, with their self-attention mechanism, can effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Maitreya Shelare , Neha Shigvan , Atharva Satam , Poonam Sonar

The increasing demand for autonomous machines in construction environments necessitates the development of robust object detection algorithms that can perform effectively across various weather and environmental conditions. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Maghsood Salimi , Mohammad Loni , Sara Afshar , Antonio Cicchetti , Marjan Sirjani

Understanding driving scenarios is crucial to realizing autonomous driving. Previous works such as map learning and BEV lane detection neglect the connection relationship between lane instances, and traffic elements detection tasks usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Mingjie Lu , Yuanxian Huang , Ji Liu , Jinzhang Peng , Lu Tian , Ashish Sirasao

Image segmentation is often ambiguous at the level of individual image patches and requires contextual information to reach label consensus. In this paper we introduce Segmenter, a transformer model for semantic segmentation. In contrast to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Robin Strudel , Ricardo Garcia , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid