A survey on ground segmentation methods for automotive LiDAR sensors

T Gomes, D Matias, A Campos, L Cunha, R Roriz - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the near future, autonomous vehicles with full self-driving features will populate our public
roads. However, fully autonomous cars will require robust perception systems to safely …

Traversability analysis for autonomous driving in complex environment: A LiDAR‐based terrain modeling approach

H Xue, H Fu, L Xiao, Y Fan, D Zhao… - Journal of Field …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For autonomous driving, traversability analysis is one of the most basic and essential tasks.
In this paper, we propose a novel LiDAR‐based terrain modeling approach, which could …

Re-evaluating lidar scene flow for autonomous driving

N Chodosh, D Ramanan, S Lucey - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.02150, 2023 - arxiv.org
Popular benchmarks for self-supervised LiDAR scene flow (stereoKITTI, and
FlyingThings3D) have unrealistic rates of dynamic motion, unrealistic correspondences, and …

[HTML][HTML] An advanced software platform and algorithmic framework for mobile dbh data acquisition

J Zhang, H Liang, S Tong, Y Zhou, J Kan - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Rapid and precise tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) measurement is pivotal in forest
inventories. While the recent advancements in LiDAR and Structure from Motion (SFM) …

DipG-Seg: Fast and Accurate Double Image-Based Pixel-Wise Ground Segmentation

H Wen, S Liu, Y Liu, C Liu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ground segmentation on the 3D point cloud is fundamental to many applications, such as
SLAM and object segmentation. As it is usually a preprocessing module of these …

Contrastive Label Disambiguation for Self-Supervised Terrain Traversability Learning in Off-Road Environments

H Xue, X Hu, R Xie, H Fu, L Xiao, Y Nie… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Discriminating the traversability of terrains is a crucial task for autonomous driving in off-road
environments. However, it is challenging due to the diverse, ambiguous, and platform …

Road classification using 3D LiDAR sensor on vehicle

B Liu, D Zhao, H Zhang - Measurement Science and Technology, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Road classification is essential in outdoor vehicle perception systems to evaluate driving
scenarios. A light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor can provide accurate …

Real-time safe landing zone identification based on airborne LiDAR

A Massoud, A Fahmy, U Iqbal, S Givigi, A Noureldin - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
Over the past two decades, there has been a growing demand for generating digital surface
models (DSMs) in real-time, particularly for aircraft landing in degraded visual environments …

[HTML][HTML] Traversable Region Detection and Tracking for a Sparse 3D Laser Scanner for Off-Road Environments Using Range Images

J An - Sensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study proposes a method for detecting and tracking traversable regions in off-road
conditions for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). Off-road conditions, such as rough terrain …

Efficient and Accurate Object Detection With Simultaneous Classification and Tracking Under Limited Computing Power

X Li, JE Guivant - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interacting with the environment, such as object detection and tracking, is a crucial ability of
mobile robots. Besides high accuracy, efficiency in terms of processing effort and energy …