Synthetic datasets for autonomous driving: A survey

Z Song, Z He, X Li, Q Ma, R Ming, Z Mao… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous driving techniques have been flourishing in recent years while thirsting for
huge amounts of high-quality data. However, it is difficult for real-world datasets to keep up …

Software-defined active LiDARs for autonomous driving: A parallel intelligence-based adaptive model

Y Liu, B Sun, Y Tian, X Wang, Y Zhu… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
LiDAR is an indispensable sensor for autonomous driving that can provide precise 3D
information about the environment. Among various types of LiDARs, mechanical LiDARs are …

Investigating the impact of multi-lidar placement on object detection for autonomous driving

H Hu, Z Liu, S Chitlangia… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The past few years have witnessed an increasing interest in improving the perception
performance of LiDARs on autonomous vehicles. While most of the existing works focus on …

Holocurtains: Programming light curtains via binary holography

D Chan, SG Narasimhan… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Light curtain systems are designed for detecting the presence of objects within a user-
defined 3D region of space, which has many applications across vision and robotics …

Energy-Efficient Adaptive 3D Sensing

B Tilmon, Z Sun, SJ Koppal, Y Wu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Active depth sensing achieves robust depth estimation but is usually limited by the sensing
range. Naively increasing the optical power can improve sensing range but induces eye …

Exploiting & refining depth distributions with triangulation light curtains

Y Raaj, S Ancha, R Tamburo, D Held… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Active sensing through the use of Adaptive Depth Sensors is a nascent field, with potential in
areas such as Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). They do however require …

Active velocity estimation using light curtains via self-supervised multi-armed bandits

S Ancha, G Pathak, J Zhang, S Narasimhan, D Held - Autonomous Robots, 2024 - Springer
To navigate in an environment safely and autonomously, robots must accurately estimate
where obstacles are and how they move. Instead of using expensive traditional 3D sensors …

Active safety envelopes using light curtains with probabilistic guarantees

S Ancha, G Pathak, SG Narasimhan, D Held - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
To safely navigate unknown environments, robots must accurately perceive dynamic
obstacles. Instead of directly measuring the scene depth with a LiDAR sensor, we explore …

Robot Safety Monitoring using Programmable Light Curtains

K Ram, S Aggarwal, R Tamburo, S Ancha… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
As factories continue to evolve into collaborative spaces with multiple robots working
together with human supervisors in the loop, ensuring safety for all actors involved becomes …

Towards embodied agents for navigating and recognizing human activity

S Hu - 2024 - summit.sfu.ca
In this dissertation, we aim to make progress toward building embodied agents that coexist
with humans and assist humans to perform various tasks physically. We focus on developing …