5 accepted papers
Safe highway autonomy for heavy trucks remains an open and unsolved challenge: due to long braking distances, scene understanding of hundreds of meters is required for anticipatory planning and to allow safe braking margins. However, existing driving datasets primarily cover urban scenes, with perce
Depth estimation is a cornerstone computer vision application that is critical for scene understanding and autonomous driving. In real-world scenarios, achieving reliable depth perception under adverse weather—e.g. in fog and rain—is crucial to ensure safety and system robustness. However, quantitat
Achieving robust stereo 3D imaging under diverse illumination conditions is an important however challenging task, largely due to the limited dynamic ranges (DRs) of cameras, which are significantly smaller than real world DR. As a result, the accuracy of existing stereo depth estimation methods is…
Outside of urban hubs, autonomous cars and trucks have to master driving on intercity highways. Safe, long-distance highway travel at speeds exceeding 100 km/h demands perception distances of at least 250 m, which is about five times the 50-100m typically addressed in city driving, to allow sufficie…
Gated cameras flood-illuminate a scene and capture the time-gated impulse response of a scene. By employing nanosecond-scale gates existing sensors are capable of capturing mega-pixel gated images delivering dense depth improving on today's LiDAR sensors in spatial resolution and depth precision. Al…