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Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

3D object detection from LiDAR data for autonomous driving has been making remarkable strides in recent years. Among the state-of-the-art methodologies, encoding point clouds into a bird's eye view (BEV) has been demonstrated to be both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yantao Lu , Xuetao Hao , Yilan Li , Weiheng Chai , Shiqi Sun , Senem Velipasalar

In industrial automation, radar is a critical sensor in machine perception. However, the angular resolution of radar is inherently limited by the Rayleigh criterion, which depends on both the radar's operating wavelength and the effective…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yanlong Yang , Jianan Liu , Guanxiong Luo , Hao Li , Euijoon Ahn , Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Tao Huang

Recent advancements in Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) have focused heavily on Diffusion Probabilistic Models, which achieve high perceptual quality but suffer from significant computational latency (often exceeding 2-4 seconds per…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yash Thesia , Meera Suthar

The use of machine learning in fluid dynamics is becoming more common to expedite the computation when solving forward and inverse problems of partial differential equations. Yet, a notable challenge with existing convolutional neural…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-05-10 Siming Shan , Pengkai Wang , Song Chen , Jiaxu Liu , Chao Xu , Shengze Cai

Multi-modal 3D object detection is important for reliable perception in robotics and autonomous driving. However, its effectiveness remains limited under adverse weather conditions due to weather-induced distortions and misalignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Zhijian He , Feifei Liu , Yuwei Li , Zhanpeng Luo , Jintao Cheng , Xieyuanli Chen , Xiaoyu Tang

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved impressive results in real-time 3D reconstruction and novel view synthesis. However, these methods struggle in large-scale, unconstrained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Tuan Pham , Qiao Wang , Ben Southall , Kshitij Minhas , Bogdan Matei , Stephan Mandt , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

Learned pointcloud representations do not generalize well with an increase in distance to the sensor. For example, at a range greater than 60 meters, the sparsity of lidar pointclouds reaches to a point where even humans cannot discern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haolin Zhang , Dongfang Yang , Ekim Yurtsever , Keith A. Redmill , Ümit Özgüner

Millimeter-wave radar offers a promising sensing modality for autonomous systems thanks to its robustness in adverse conditions and low cost. However, its utility is significantly limited by the sparsity and low resolution of radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ruijie Zhang , Bixin Zeng , Shengpeng Wang , Fuhui Zhou , Wei Wang

Lidar-based object detectors are critical parts of the 3D perception pipeline in autonomous navigation systems such as self-driving cars. However, they are known to be sensitive to adverse weather conditions such as rain, snow and fog due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Velat Kilic , Deepti Hegde , Vishwanath Sindagi , A. Brinton Cooper , Mark A. Foster , Vishal M. Patel

3D object detection with LiDAR point clouds plays an important role in autonomous driving perception module that requires high speed, stability and accuracy. However, the existing point-based methods are challenging to reach the speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Jiahui Fu , Guanghui Ren , Yunpeng Chen , Si Liu

Training autonomous driving and navigation systems requires large and diverse point cloud datasets that capture complex edge case scenarios from various dynamic urban settings. Acquiring such diverse scenarios from real-world point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Suchetan G. Uppur , Hemant Kumar , Vaibhav Kumar

Adaptive physics-informed super-resolution diffusion is developed for non-invasive virtual diagnostics of the 6D phase space density of charged particle beams. An adaptive variational autoencoder (VAE) embeds initial beam condition images…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Alexander Scheinker

We propose a new approach called LiDAR-Flow to robustly estimate a dense scene flow by fusing a sparse LiDAR with stereo images. We take the advantage of the high accuracy of LiDAR to resolve the lack of information in some regions of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Oliver Wasenmüller , Qing Rao , Didier Stricker

3D point clouds play a pivotal role in outdoor scene perception, especially in the context of autonomous driving. Recent advancements in 3D LiDAR segmentation often focus intensely on the spatial positioning and distribution of points for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

Promising complementarity exists between the texture features of color images and the geometric information of LiDAR point clouds. However, there still present many challenges for efficient and robust feature fusion in the field of 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Chaokang Jiang , Guangming Wang , Jinxing Wu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

Recently, 3D LiDAR has emerged as a promising technique in the field of gait-based person identification, serving as an alternative to traditional RGB cameras, due to its robustness under varying lighting conditions and its ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jeongho Ahn , Kazuto Nakashima , Koki Yoshino , Yumi Iwashita , Ryo Kurazume

3D anomaly detection plays a crucial role in monitoring parts for localized inherent defects in precision manufacturing. Embedding-based and reconstruction-based approaches are among the most popular and successful methods. However, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Zheyuan Zhou , Le Wang , Naiyu Fang , Zili Wang , Lemiao Qiu , Shuyou Zhang

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on LiDAR sensors for environmental perception and decision-making in driving scenarios. However, ensuring the safety and reliability of AVs in complex environments remains a pressing challenge. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Shijun Zheng , Weiquan Liu , Yu Guo , Yu Zang , Siqi Shen , Cheng Wang

Diffusion priors have recently demonstrated strong capability in enhancing the quality of sparse-view 3D reconstruction by augmenting training views at novel viewpoints, but they inevitably introduce hallucinated content -- artifacts…

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