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TASE: Truncation-Aware Semantic Embeddings for 3D Scene Understanding and Editing
Tim-Felix Faasch, Jochen Kall, Lucas Nunes +2
High-fidelity semantic 3D scene representations are crucial for numerous applications, including robotics, autonomous driving, and simulation. Beyond this, the ability to edit such…
DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry
Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18
Covering one third of Earth's land surface, forests are vital to global biodiversity, climate regulation, and human well-being. In Europe, forests and woodlands reach approximately…
SAHA: Supervised Autonomous HArvester for selective forest thinning
Fang Nan, Meher Malladi, Qingqing Li +7
Forestry plays a vital role in our society, creating significant ecological, economic, and recreational value. Efficient forest management involves labor-intensive and complex oper…
Dynamic Visual SLAM using a General 3D Prior
Xingguang Zhong, Liren Jin, Marija Popović +2
Reliable incremental estimation of camera poses and 3D reconstruction is key to enable various applications including robotics, interactive visualization, and augmented reality. Ho…
Register Any Point: Scaling 3D Point Cloud Registration by Flow Matching
Yue Pan, Tao Sun, Liyuan Zhu +4
Point cloud registration aligns multiple unposed point clouds into a common reference frame and is a core step for 3D reconstruction and robot localization without initial guess. I…
Coherent Online Road Topology Estimation and Reasoning with Standard-Definition Maps
Khanh Son Pham, Christian Witte, Jens Behley +2
Most autonomous cars rely on the availability of high-definition (HD) maps. Current research aims to address this constraint by directly predicting HD map elements from onboard sen…
SemRaFiner: Panoptic Segmentation in Sparse and Noisy Radar Point Clouds
Matthias Zeller, Daniel Casado Herraez, Bengisu Ayan +3
Semantic scene understanding, including the perception and classification of moving agents, is essential to enabling safe and robust driving behaviours of autonomous vehicles. Came…
Radar Velocity Transformer: Single-scan Moving Object Segmentation in Noisy Radar Point Clouds
Matthias Zeller, Vardeep S. Sandhu, Benedikt Mersch +3
The awareness about moving objects in the surroundings of a self-driving vehicle is essential for safe and reliable autonomous navigation. The interpretation of LiDAR and camera da…
Radar Tracker: Moving Instance Tracking in Sparse and Noisy Radar Point Clouds
Matthias Zeller, Daniel Casado Herraez, Jens Behley +2
Robots and autonomous vehicles should be aware of what happens in their surroundings. The segmentation and tracking of moving objects are essential for reliable path planning, incl…
Globally Consistent RGB-D SLAM with 2D Gaussian Splatting
Xingguang Zhong, Yue Pan, Liren Jin +3
Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting-based RGB-D SLAM displays remarkable performance of high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. However, the lack of depth rendering consistency and efficient…
Improving Indoor Localization Accuracy by Using an Efficient Implicit Neural Map Representation
Haofei Kuang, Yue Pan, Xingguang Zhong +3
Globally localizing a mobile robot in a known map is often a foundation for enabling robots to navigate and operate autonomously. In indoor environments, traditional Monte Carlo lo…
Towards Generating Realistic 3D Semantic Training Data for Autonomous Driving
Lucas Nunes, Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Jens Behley +1
Semantic scene understanding is crucial for robotics and computer vision applications. In autonomous driving, 3D semantic segmentation plays an important role for enabling safe nav…
3D Hierarchical Panoptic Segmentation in Real Orchard Environments Across Different Sensors
Matteo Sodano, Federico Magistri, Elias Marks +6
Crop yield estimation is a relevant problem in agriculture, because an accurate yield estimate can support farmers' decisions on harvesting or precision intervention. Robots can he…
PINGS: Gaussian Splatting Meets Distance Fields within a Point-Based Implicit Neural Map
Yue Pan, Xingguang Zhong, Liren Jin +4
Robots benefit from high-fidelity reconstructions of their environment, which should be geometrically accurate and photorealistic to support downstream tasks. While this can be ach…
Open-World Panoptic Segmentation
Matteo Sodano, Federico Magistri, Jens Behley +1
Robots need to be able to understand their surroundings in order to operate safely and robustly, and to interact with the surrounding environment. Robots deployed in unconstrained…
Efficient LiDAR Bundle Adjustment for Multi-Scan Alignment Utilizing Continuous-Time Trajectories
Louis Wiesmann, Elias Marks, Saurabh Gupta +3
Constructing precise global maps is a key task in robotics and is required for localization, surveying, monitoring, or constructing digital twins. To build accurate maps, data from…
Epipolar Attention Field Transformers for Bird's Eye View Semantic Segmentation
Christian Witte, Jens Behley, Cyrill Stachniss +1
Spatial understanding of the semantics of the surroundings is a key capability needed by autonomous cars to enable safe driving decisions. Recently, purely vision-based solutions h…
ActiveGS: Active Scene Reconstruction Using Gaussian Splatting
Liren Jin, Xingguang Zhong, Yue Pan +3
Robotics applications often rely on scene reconstructions to enable downstream tasks. In this work, we tackle the challenge of actively building an accurate map of an unknown scene…
Horticultural Temporal Fruit Monitoring via 3D Instance Segmentation and Re-Identification using Colored Point Clouds
Daniel Fusaro, Federico Magistri, Jens Behley +2
Accurate and consistent fruit monitoring over time is a key step toward automated agricultural production systems. However, this task is inherently difficult due to variations in f…
AdaCropFollow: Self-Supervised Online Adaptation for Visual Under-Canopy Navigation
Arun N. Sivakumar, Federico Magistri, Mateus V. Gasparino +3
Under-canopy agricultural robots can enable various applications like precise monitoring, spraying, weeding, and plant manipulation tasks throughout the growing season. Autonomous…
HeLiMOS: A Dataset for Moving Object Segmentation in 3D Point Clouds From Heterogeneous LiDAR Sensors
Hyungtae Lim, Seoyeon Jang, Benedikt Mersch +3
Moving object segmentation (MOS) using a 3D light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensor is crucial for scene understanding and identification of moving objects. Despite the availabi…
A Dataset and Benchmark for Shape Completion of Fruits for Agricultural Robotics
Federico Magistri, Thomas Läbe, Elias Marks +9
As the world population is expected to reach 10 billion by 2050, our agricultural production system needs to double its productivity despite a decline of human workforce in the agr…
3D LiDAR Mapping in Dynamic Environments Using a 4D Implicit Neural Representation
Xingguang Zhong, Yue Pan, Cyrill Stachniss +1
Building accurate maps is a key building block to enable reliable localization, planning, and navigation of autonomous vehicles. We propose a novel approach for building accurate m…
Scaling Diffusion Models to Real-World 3D LiDAR Scene Completion
Lucas Nunes, Rodrigo Marcuzzi, Benedikt Mersch +2
Computer vision techniques play a central role in the perception stack of autonomous vehicles. Such methods are employed to perceive the vehicle surroundings given sensor data. 3D…