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Autonomous perception requires high-quality environment sensing in the form of 3D bounding boxes of dynamic objects. The primary sensors used in automotive systems are light-based cameras and LiDARs. However, they are known to fail in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Kshitiz Bansal , Keshav Rungta , Siyuan Zhu , Dinesh Bharadia

Given the rapid development of 3D scanners, point clouds are becoming popular in AI-driven machines. However, point cloud data is inherently sparse and irregular, causing significant difficulties for machine perception. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

This paper explores a machine learning approach for generating high resolution point clouds from a single-chip mmWave radar. Unlike lidar and vision-based systems, mmWave radar can operate in harsh environments and see through occlusions…

The perception of moving objects is crucial for autonomous robots performing collision avoidance in dynamic environments. LiDARs and cameras tremendously enhance scene interpretation but do not provide direct motion information and face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Matthias Zeller , Vardeep S. Sandhu , Benedikt Mersch , Jens Behley , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Perceiving the environment via cameras is crucial for Reinforcement Learning (RL) in robotics. While images are a convenient form of representation, they often complicate extracting important geometric details, especially with varying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Balázs Gyenes , Nikolai Franke , Philipp Becker , Gerhard Neumann

A reliable perception has to be robust against challenging environmental conditions. Therefore, recent efforts focused on the use of radar sensors in addition to camera and lidar sensors for perception applications. However, the sparsity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Felix Fent , Philipp Bauerschmidt , Markus Lienkamp

We propose a new framework that formulates point cloud registration as a denoising diffusion process from noisy transformation to object transformation. During training stage, object transformation diffuses from ground-truth transformation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yue Wu , Yongzhe Yuan , Xiaolong Fan , Xiaoshui Huang , Maoguo Gong , Qiguang Miao

Recent years we have witnessed rapid development in NeRF-based image rendering due to its high quality. However, point clouds rendering is somehow less explored. Compared to NeRF-based rendering which suffers from dense spatial sampling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xiaoyang Huang , Yi Zhang , Bingbing Ni , Teng Li , Kai Chen , Wenjun Zhang

In radar-camera 3D object detection, the radar point clouds are sparse and noisy, which causes difficulties in fusing camera and radar modalities. To solve this, we introduce a novel query-based detection method named Radar-Camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Yiheng Li , Yang Yang , Zhen Lei

Point cloud segmentation (PCS) is to classify each point in point clouds. The task enables robots to parse their 3D surroundings and run autonomously. According to different point cloud representations, existing PCS models can be roughly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Bike Chen , Antti Tikanmäki , Juha Röning

The worldwide commercialization of fifth generation (5G) wireless networks and the exciting possibilities offered by connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are pushing toward the deployment of heterogeneous sensors for tracking dynamic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-03 Francesco Nardo , Davide Peressoni , Paolo Testolina , Marco Giordani , Andrea Zanella

3D model generation from single 2D RGB images is a challenging and actively researched computer vision task. Various techniques using conventional network architectures have been proposed for the same. However, the body of research work is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Abdul Mueed Hafiz , Rouf Ul Alam Bhat , Shabir Ahmad Parah , M. Hassaballah

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

The 4D millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar, with its robustness in extreme environments, extensive detection range, and capabilities for measuring velocity and elevation, has demonstrated significant potential for enhancing the perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Zeyu Han , Junkai Jiang , Xiaokang Ding , Qingwen Meng , Shaobing Xu , Lei He , Jianqiang Wang

Learning-based point cloud registration methods can handle clean point clouds well, while it is still challenging to generalize to noisy, partial, and density-varying point clouds. To this end, we propose a novel point cloud registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Leida Zhang , Zhengda Lu , Kai Liu , Yiqun Wang

Point clouds have been recognized as a crucial data structure for 3D content and are essential in a number of applications such as virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, cultural heritage, etc. In this paper, we propose a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

We present a new self-supervised paradigm on point cloud sequence understanding. Inspired by the discriminative and generative self-supervised methods, we design two tasks, namely point cloud sequence based Contrastive Prediction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Xiaoxiao Sheng , Zhiqiang Shen , Gang Xiao

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar pointcloud offers attractive potential for 3D sensing, thanks to its robustness in challenging conditions such as smoke and low illumination. However, existing methods failed to simultaneously address the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Ruixu Geng , Yadong Li , Dongheng Zhang , Jincheng Wu , Yating Gao , Yang Hu , Yan Chen

Point cloud filtering is a fundamental problem in geometry modeling and processing. Despite of significant advancement in recent years, the existing methods still suffer from two issues: 1) they are either designed without preserving sharp…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Dongbo Zhang , Xuequan Lu , Hong Qin , Ying He

Real-world environment-derived point clouds invariably exhibit noise across varying modalities and intensities. Hence, point cloud denoising (PCD) is essential as a preprocessing step to improve downstream task performance. Deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chengwei Zhang , Xueyi Zhang , Mingrui Lao , Tao Jiang , Xinhao Xu , Wenjie Li , Fubo Zhang , Longyong Chen