Search Results for author: Christoph Stiller

Found 36 papers, 5 papers with code

PITA: Physics-Informed Trajectory Autoencoder

no code implementations18 Mar 2024 Johannes Fischer, Kevin Rösch, Martin Lauer, Christoph Stiller

To resolve this issue, we propose the novel Physics-Informed Trajectory Autoencoder (PITA) architecture, whichincorporates a physical dynamics model into the loss functionof the autoencoder.

YOLinO++: Single-Shot Estimation of Generic Polylines for Mapless Automated Diving

no code implementations1 Feb 2024 Annika Meyer, Christoph Stiller

This representation can be used to describe lane borders, markings, but also implicit features such as centerlines of lanes.

Philosophy

Self-supervised pseudo-colorizing of masked cells

2 code implementations12 Feb 2023 Royden Wagner, Carlos Fernandez Lopez, Christoph Stiller

Self-supervised learning, which is strikingly referred to as the dark matter of intelligence, is gaining more attention in biomedical applications of deep learning.

Cell Detection Colorization +3

Deep Geometry-Aware Camera Self-Calibration from Video

1 code implementation ICCV 2023 Annika Hagemann, Moritz Knorr, Christoph Stiller

The self-calibrating bundle adjustment layer optimizes camera intrinsics through classical Gauss-Newton steps and can be adapted to different camera models without re-training.

Space, Time, and Interaction: A Taxonomy of Corner Cases in Trajectory Datasets for Automated Driving

no code implementations17 Oct 2022 Kevin Rösch, Florian Heidecker, Julian Truetsch, Kamil Kowol, Clemens Schicktanz, Maarten Bieshaar, Bernhard Sick, Christoph Stiller

Based on these predictions - and additional contextual information such as the course of the road, (traffic) rules, and interaction with other road users - the highly automated vehicle (HAV) must be able to reliably and safely perform the task assigned to it, e. g., moving from point A to B.

Robust Self-Tuning Data Association for Geo-Referencing Using Lane Markings

no code implementations28 Jul 2022 Miguel Ángel Muñoz-Bañón, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Haohao Hu, Christoph Stiller, Francisco A. Candelas, Fernando Torres

Localization in aerial imagery-based maps offers many advantages, such as global consistency, geo-referenced maps, and the availability of publicly accessible data.

Improving Predictive Performance and Calibration by Weight Fusion in Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations22 Jul 2022 Timo Sämann, Ahmed Mostafa Hammam, Andrei Bursuc, Christoph Stiller, Horst-Michael Groß

Albeit effective, only few works haveimproved the understanding and the performance of weight averaging. Here, we revisit this approach and show that a simple weight fusion (WF)strategy can lead to a significantly improved predictive performance andcalibration.

Semantic Segmentation

Sensor Data Fusion in Top-View Grid Maps using Evidential Reasoning with Advanced Conflict Resolution

no code implementations19 Apr 2022 Sven Richter, Frank Bieder, Sascha Wirges, Christoph Stiller

We present a new method to combine evidential top-view grid maps estimated based on heterogeneous sensor sources.

Mapping LiDAR and Camera Measurements in a Dual Top-View Grid Representation Tailored for Automated Vehicles

no code implementations16 Apr 2022 Sven Richter, Frank Bieder, Sascha Wirges, Christoph Stiller

We present a generic evidential grid mapping pipeline designed for imaging sensors such as LiDARs and cameras.

Fast and Robust Ground Surface Estimation from LIDAR Measurements using Uniform B-Splines

1 code implementation2 Mar 2022 Sascha Wirges, Kevin Rösch, Frank Bieder, Christoph Stiller

We propose a fast and robust method to estimate the ground surface from LIDAR measurements on an automated vehicle.

Large-Scale 3D Semantic Reconstruction for Automated Driving Vehicles with Adaptive Truncated Signed Distance Function

no code implementations28 Feb 2022 Haohao Hu, Hexing Yang, Jian Wu, Xiao Lei, Frank Bieder, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller

Since a 3D surface can be usually observed from multiple camera images with different view poses, an optimal image patch selection for the texturing and an optimal semantic class estimation for the semantic mapping are still challenging.

3D Reconstruction

Modeling dynamic target deformation in camera calibration

no code implementations14 Oct 2021 Annika Hagemann, Moritz Knorr, Christoph Stiller

We demonstrate the effectiveness of modeling dynamic deformations using different calibration targets and show its significance in a structure-from-motion application.

Camera Calibration

MASS: Multi-Attentional Semantic Segmentation of LiDAR Data for Dense Top-View Understanding

1 code implementation1 Jul 2021 Kunyu Peng, Juncong Fei, Kailun Yang, Alina Roitberg, Jiaming Zhang, Frank Bieder, Philipp Heidenreich, Christoph Stiller, Rainer Stiefelhagen

At the heart of all automated driving systems is the ability to sense the surroundings, e. g., through semantic segmentation of LiDAR sequences, which experienced a remarkable progress due to the release of large datasets such as SemanticKITTI and nuScenes-LidarSeg.

3D Object Detection Graph Attention +4

PillarSegNet: Pillar-based Semantic Grid Map Estimation using Sparse LiDAR Data

no code implementations10 May 2021 Juncong Fei, Kunyu Peng, Philipp Heidenreich, Frank Bieder, Christoph Stiller

The recent publication of the SemanticKITTI dataset stimulates the research on semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds in urban scenarios.

2D Semantic Segmentation Segmentation +1

YOLinO: Generic Single Shot Polyline Detection in Real Time

1 code implementation26 Mar 2021 Annika Meyer, Philipp Skudlik, Jan-Hendrik Pauls, Christoph Stiller

Reformulating the problem of polyline detection as a bottom-up composition of small line segments allows to detect bounded, dashed and continuous polylines with a single head.

Line Detection object-detection +1

SemanticVoxels: Sequential Fusion for 3D Pedestrian Detection using LiDAR Point Cloud and Semantic Segmentation

no code implementations25 Sep 2020 Juncong Fei, Wenbo Chen, Philipp Heidenreich, Sascha Wirges, Christoph Stiller

Recently, PointPainting has been presented to eliminate this performance drop by effectively fusing the output of a semantic segmentation network instead of the raw image information.

Pedestrian Detection Semantic Segmentation

Exploiting Multi-Layer Grid Maps for Surround-View Semantic Segmentation of Sparse LiDAR Data

no code implementations13 May 2020 Frank Bieder, Sascha Wirges, Johannes Janosovits, Sven Richter, Zheyuan Wang, Christoph Stiller

This representation allows us to use well-studied deep learning architectures from the image domain to predict a dense semantic grid map using only the sparse input data of a single LiDAR scan.

Semantic Segmentation

Learned Enrichment of Top-View Grid Maps Improves Object Detection

no code implementations2 Mar 2020 Sascha Wirges, Ye Yang, Sven Richter, Haohao Hu, Christoph Stiller

We propose an object detector for top-view grid maps which is additionally trained to generate an enriched version of its input.

Object object-detection +1

Single-Stage Object Detection from Top-View Grid Maps on Custom Sensor Setups

no code implementations3 Feb 2020 Sascha Wirges, Shuxiao Ding, Christoph Stiller

We present our approach to unsupervised domain adaptation for single-stage object detectors on top-view grid maps in automated driving scenarios.

Object object-detection +2

Anytime Lane-Level Intersection Estimation Based on Trajectories of Other Traffic Participants

no code implementations6 Jun 2019 Annika Meyer, Jonas Walter, Martin Lauer, Christoph Stiller

We present our results on an evaluation set of 1000 simulated intersections and achieve 99. 9% accuracy on the topology estimation that takes only 36ms, when utilizing tracked object detections.

Self-Supervised Flow Estimation using Geometric Regularization with Applications to Camera Image and Grid Map Sequences

no code implementations17 Apr 2019 Sascha Wirges, Johannes Gräter, Qiuhao Zhang, Christoph Stiller

We apply our approach to optical flow estimation from camera image sequences, validate on odometry estimation and suggest a method to iteratively increase optical flow estimation accuracy using the generated motion masks.

Optical Flow Estimation Scene Flow Estimation

Accurate Global Trajectory Alignment using Poles and Road Markings

no code implementations25 Mar 2019 Haohao Hu, Marc Sons, Christoph Stiller

To bypass the flaws from direct incorporation of GNSS measurements for geo-referencing, the usage of aerial imagery seems promising.

Capturing Object Detection Uncertainty in Multi-Layer Grid Maps

no code implementations31 Jan 2019 Sascha Wirges, Marcel Reith-Braun, Martin Lauer, Christoph Stiller

Based on the estimated pose and shape uncertainty we approximate object hulls with bounded collision probability which we find helpful for subsequent trajectory planning tasks.

General Classification Object +4

RegNet: Multimodal Sensor Registration Using Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations11 Jul 2017 Nick Schneider, Florian Piewak, Christoph Stiller, Uwe Franke

In this paper, we present RegNet, the first deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to infer a 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) extrinsic calibration between multimodal sensors, exemplified using a scanning LiDAR and a monocular camera.

Translation

Pedestrian Prediction by Planning using Deep Neural Networks

no code implementations19 Jun 2017 Eike Rehder, Florian Wirth, Martin Lauer, Christoph Stiller

Accurate traffic participant prediction is the prerequisite for collision avoidance of autonomous vehicles.

Autonomous Vehicles Collision Avoidance +4

Semantically Guided Depth Upsampling

no code implementations2 Aug 2016 Nick Schneider, Lukas Schneider, Peter Pinggera, Uwe Franke, Marc Pollefeys, Christoph Stiller

We present a novel method for accurate and efficient up- sampling of sparse depth data, guided by high-resolution imagery.

Edge Detection Scene Labeling

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