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Bagchi, Madhubanti (author)Recently non-image-based data capturing methods such as sensors like RF, ultrasonic or radars, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc for People Counting (PC) applications have gained momentum as an alternative to camera-based systems due to the preference for privacy preservation. Among them mm-wave radars are a strong choice for data capture since they consume...master thesis 2023
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Allemekinders, Emma (author)In this study, we perform human identification using accumulated radar point clouds in an outdoor scene. We employ PointNet as classification network and explore the impact of adding radars' non-spatial features as input, namely doppler velocity and radar cross section (RCS). Furthermore, we encode time as an additional time identity dimension...master thesis 2023
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Onen, Cagan (author)Occupancy grid maps are fundamental to autonomous driving algorithms, offering insights into obstacle distribution and free space within an environment. These maps are used for safe navigation and decision-making in self-driving applications, forming a crucial component of the automotive perception framework. An occupancy map is a discretized...master thesis 2023
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Pegels, Sven (author)The current state of teleoperation in Tactile Internet faces the problem of limited operating distance. To circumvent this limitation, a setup has been proposed which provides Ultra-Low Latency feedback to the operator from a local simulation of the remote environment. To be able to accurately simulate the remote environment and the objects...bachelor thesis 2023
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Bos, Kirsten (author)Unequal deformation of the soil can cause deformation or damage to buildings, like tilted facades or cracks in walls. This research investigates how deformation of a building can be analyzed using Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. Cyclomedia captures LiDAR data yearly in the Netherlands making it possible to analyze either one or...master thesis 2023
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Meinderts, Jens (author)The Dutch highway network contains more than 3.000 kilometers of roads. Along these roads are thousands of overhead objects such as viaducts and traffic sign gantries. It is essential to have recent and accurate data on the clearances under these objects. This data is important for maintenance and routing oversized transports. Obtaining...master thesis 2023
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Yang, Z. (author), Ye, Qin (author), Stoter, J.E. (author), Nan, L. (author)Continuous implicit representations can flexibly describe complex 3D geometry and offer excellent potential for 3D point cloud analysis. However, it remains challenging for existing point-based deep learning architectures to leverage the implicit representations due to the discrepancy in data structures between implicit fields and point...journal article 2023
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Gordon, Matthew (author), Batallé Garcia, A. (author), De Wolf, Catherine (author), Sollazzo, Aldo (author), Dubor, Alexandre (author), Wang, T. (author)To address the need for a shift from a linear to a circular economy in the built environment, this paper develops a semi-automated assistive process for planning building material deconstruction for reuse using sensing and scanning, Scan-to-BIM, and computer vision techniques. These methods are applied and tested in a real-world case study in...journal article 2023
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Liu, Zhenyu (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author), Balado Frías, J. (author), Swart, Arjen (author), Beers, Bart (author)The Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) data inevitably includes dynamic objects because there are always other vehicles (e.g., other cars, motorbikes, bikes, etc.) moving in the area near the MLS data collection vehicle on the road. These dynamic objects need to be removed in advance for many point cloud applications. This paper designs an efficient...journal article 2023
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Chen, Siyu (author), Chen, Can (author), Ma, Tao (author), Han, Chengjia (author), Luo, Haoyuan (author), Wang, Siqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Yaowen (author)Usage of asphalt mixture with poor gradation will most likely lead to pavement deficiency. There is a growing need for rapid and non-destructive methods to extract pavement aggregate gradation. In this study, a deep learning-based method that utilizes point clouds data for gradation extraction was proposed. Firstly, a data enhancement...journal article 2023
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Alexiou, Evangelos (author), Nehmé, Yana (author), Zerman, Emin (author), Viola, Irene (author), Lavoué, Guillaume (author), Ak, Ali (author), Smolic, Aljosa (author), Le Callet, Patrick (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Volumetric video (VV) is a novel form of video that allows recreation of real-world scenes in 3D with users consuming the content from any viewpoint they desire. This makes VV best suited for augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) applications. This freedom necessitates increased user interaction with the VV itself, which brings new...book chapter 2023
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Zhu, S. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)The problem of instantaneous ego-motion estimation with mm-wave automotive radar is studied. DeepEgo, a deep learning-based method, is proposed for achieving robust and accurate ego-motion estimation. A hybrid approach that uses neural networks to extract complex features from input point clouds and applies weighted least squares (WLS) for...journal article 2023
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Ding, Chuanwei (author), Zhang, Li (author), Chen, Haoyu (author), Hong, Hong (author), Zhu, Xiaohua (author), Fioranelli, F. (author)Radar-based solutions have attracted great attention in human activity recognition (HAR) for their advantages in accuracy, robustness, and privacy protection. The conventional approaches transform radar signals into feature maps and then directly process them as visual images. While effective, these image-based methods may not be the best...journal article 2023
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Smitskamp, Gwennan (author), Viola, Irene (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)The development and widespread adoption of immersive XR applications has led to a renewed interest in representations that are capable of reproducing real-world objects and scenes with high fidelity. Among such representations, point clouds have attracted the interest of industry and academia alike, and new compression solutions have been...conference paper 2023
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Yang, Z. (author), Ye, Qin (author), Wang, Xufei (author), Peters, R.Y. (author)Objective Recent advancements in laser scanners and photogrammetry technology have significantly reduced the cost of acquiring 3D point clouds. Consequently, various types of point clouds have gradually become popular data sources for urban applications. The accurate registration of cross-source and multi<sup>-</sup>temporal point clouds must...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xufei (author), Yang, Z. (author), Cheng, Xiaojun (author), Stoter, J.E. (author), Xu, Wenbing (author), Wu, Zhenlun (author), Nan, L. (author)Registering point clouds of forest environments is an essential prerequisite for LiDAR applications in precision forestry. State-of-the-art methods for forest point cloud registration require the extraction of individual tree attributes, and they have an efficiency bottleneck when dealing with point clouds of real-world forests with dense...journal article 2023
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Rossi, Silvia (author), Viola, Irene (author), Toni, Laura (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Immersive reality technologies, such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, have ushered a new era of user-centric systems, in which every aspect of the coding-delivery-rendering chain is tailored to the interaction of the users. Understanding the actual interactivity and behaviour of the users is still an open challenge and a key step to enabling...conference paper 2023
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Bode, Lukas (author), Weinmann, M. (author), Klein, Reinhard (author)Extracting high-level structural information from 3D point clouds is challenging but essential for tasks like urban planning or autonomous driving requiring an advanced understanding of the scene at hand. Existing approaches are still not able to produce high-quality results consistently while being fast enough to be deployed in scenarios...journal article 2023
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Chen, Siyuan (author), Zeng, Xiangding (author), Laefer, Debra F. (author), Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Mangina, Eleni (author)Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can be used to generate three-dimensional (3D) point cloud models. However, final data quality is impacted by the flight altitude, camera angle, overlap rate, and data processing strategies. Typically, both overview images and redundant close-range images are collected, which significantly increases the...journal article 2023
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Kruse, N.C. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Due to numerous benefits, radar is considered as an important sensor for human activity classification. The problem of classifying continuous sequences of activities of unconstrained duration has been studied in this work. To tackle this challenge, a radar data processing method utilizing point transformer networks has been proposed. The method...conference paper 2023