no code implementations • 17 Sep 2021 • Peide Cai, Sukai Wang, Hengli Wang, Ming Liu
We further use unsupervised contrastive representation learning as an auxiliary task to improve the sample efficiency.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2021 • Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, YuAn Wang, Ming Liu, Ioannis Pitas
Existing road pothole detection approaches can be classified as computer vision-based or machine learning-based.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2021 • Peide Cai, Hengli Wang, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
Autonomous driving in multi-agent dynamic traffic scenarios is challenging: the behaviors of road users are uncertain and are hard to model explicitly, and the ego-vehicle should apply complicated negotiation skills with them, such as yielding, merging and taking turns, to achieve both safe and efficient driving in various settings.
no code implementations • 30 Jul 2021 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Peide Cai, Ming Liu
In particular, SNE-RoadSeg, our previously proposed method based on a surface normal estimator (SNE) and a data-fusion DCNN (RoadSeg), has achieved impressive performance in freespace detection.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2021 • Peide Cai, Hengli Wang, Huaiyang Huang, Yuxuan Liu, Ming Liu
In this work, we present a general deep imitative reinforcement learning approach (DIRL), which successfully achieves agile autonomous racing using visual inputs.
no code implementations • 17 Jul 2021 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Ming Liu
Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based stereo matching approaches generally require a dense cost volume (DCV) for disparity estimation.
no code implementations • 17 Jul 2021 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Ming Liu
Stereo matching is a key component of autonomous driving perception.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2021 • Hengli Wang, Peide Cai, Rui Fan, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
With the recent advancement of deep learning technology, data-driven approaches for autonomous car prediction and planning have achieved extraordinary performance.
no code implementations • 18 Apr 2021 • Hengli Wang, Peide Cai, Yuxiang Sun, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu
To address this problem, we propose an interpretable end-to-end vision-based motion planning approach for autonomous driving, referred to as IVMP.
no code implementations • 12 Mar 2021 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Peide Cai, Ming Liu
Supervised learning with deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) has seen huge adoption in stereo matching.
1 code implementation • 3 Mar 2021 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
Therefore, in this paper, we first build a drivable area and road anomaly detection benchmark for ground mobile robots, evaluating the existing state-of-the-art single-modal and data-fusion semantic segmentation CNNs using six modalities of visual features.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2020 • Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, Peide Cai, Jin Wu, Mohammud Junaid Bocus, Lei Qiao, Ming Liu
Therefore, this paper mainly explores an effective training data augmentation approach that can be employed to improve the overall DCNN performance, when additional images captured from different views are available.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2020 • Peide Cai, Hengli Wang, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
Traditional decision and planning frameworks for self-driving vehicles (SDVs) scale poorly in new scenarios, thus they require tedious hand-tuning of rules and parameters to maintain acceptable performance in all foreseeable cases.
no code implementations • 4 Nov 2020 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Ming Liu
The interpretation of ego motion and scene change is a fundamental task for mobile robots.
1 code implementation • ECCV 2020 • Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, Peide Cai, Ming Liu
Freespace detection is an essential component of visual perception for self-driving cars.
1 code implementation • 26 Aug 2020 • Hengli Wang, Rui Fan, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
Our NIM can be deployed in existing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to refine the segmentation performance.
no code implementations • 21 Aug 2020 • Hengli Wang, Yuxuan Liu, Huaiyang Huang, Yuheng Pan, Wenbin Yu, Jialin Jiang, Dianbin Lyu, Mohammud J. Bocus, Ming Liu, Ioannis Pitas, Rui Fan
In this paper, we introduce a novel suspect-and-investigate framework, which can be easily embedded in a drone for automated parking violation detection (PVD).
1 code implementation • 16 Aug 2020 • Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, Mohammud J. Bocus, Ming Liu
The experimental results demonstrate that, firstly, the transformed disparity (or inverse depth) images become more informative; secondly, AA-UNet and AA-RTFNet, our best performing implementations, respectively outperform all other state-of-the-art single-modal and data-fusion networks for road pothole detection; and finally, the training set augmentation technique based on adversarial domain adaptation not only improves the accuracy of the state-of-the-art semantic segmentation networks, but also accelerates their convergence.
1 code implementation • 12 Jul 2020 • Hengli Wang, Yuxiang Sun, Ming Liu
We develop a pipeline that can automatically generate segmentation labels for drivable areas and road anomalies.
2 code implementations • 17 May 2020 • Rui Fan, Hengli Wang, Bohuan Xue, Huaiyang Huang, YuAn Wang, Ming Liu, Ioannis Pitas
To evaluate the performance of our proposed SNE, we created three large-scale synthetic datasets (easy, medium and hard) using 24 3D mesh models, each of which is used to generate 1800--2500 pairs of depth images (resolution: 480X640 pixels) and the corresponding ground-truth surface normal maps from different views.
1 code implementation • 27 Apr 2020 • Peide Cai, Yuxiang Sun, Hengli Wang, Ming Liu
Traditional methods for autonomous driving are implemented with many building blocks from perception, planning and control, making them difficult to generalize to varied scenarios due to complex assumptions and interdependencies.
no code implementations • 16 Apr 2020 • Tianyu Liu, Qinghai Liao, Lu Gan, Fulong Ma, Jie Cheng, Xupeng Xie, Zhe Wang, Yingbing Chen, Yilong Zhu, Shuyang Zhang, Zhengyong Chen, Yang Liu, Meng Xie, Yang Yu, Zitong Guo, Guang Li, Peidong Yuan, Dong Han, Yuying Chen, Haoyang Ye, Jianhao Jiao, Peng Yun, Zhenhua Xu, Hengli Wang, Huaiyang Huang, Sukai Wang, Peide Cai, Yuxiang Sun, Yandong Liu, Lujia Wang, Ming Liu
Moreover, many countries have imposed tough lockdown measures to reduce the virus transmission (e. g., retail, catering) during the pandemic, which causes inconveniences for human daily life.