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State estimation or filtering serves as a fundamental task to enable intelligent decision-making in applications such as autonomous vehicles, robotics, healthcare monitoring, smart grids, intelligent transportation, and predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Aamir Hussain Chughtai

Fast contact detection is crucial for safe human-robot collaboration. Observers based on proprioceptive information can be used for contact detection but have first-order error dynamics, which results in delays. Sensor fusion based on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Aran Mohammad , Jan Piosik , Dustin Lehmann , Thomas Seel , Moritz Schappler

This paper deals with the problem of inferential (soft) sensor design. The nonlinear character of industrial processes is usually the main limitation to designing simple linear inferential sensors with sufficient accuracy. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Martin Mojto , Karol Lubušký , Miroslav Fikar , Radoslav Paulen

The essential of navigation, perception, and decision-making which are basic tasks for intelligent robots, is to estimate necessary system states. Among them, navigation is fundamental for other upper applications, providing precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Feng Zhu , Zhuo Xu , Xveqing Zhang , Yuantai Zhang , Weijie Chen , Xiaohong Zhang

The Rapid Iterative FiTting (RIFT) parameter inference algorithm provides a simulation-based inference approach to efficient, highly-parallelized parameter inference for GW sources. Previous editions of RIFT have conservatively optimized…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Katelyn J. Wagner , R. O'Shaughnessy , A. Yelikar , N. Manning , D. Fernando , J. Lange , V. Tiwari , A. Fernando , D. Williams

Robotic manipulation tasks often rely on static cameras for perception, which can limit flexibility, particularly in scenarios like robotic surgery and cluttered environments where mounting static cameras is impractical. Ideally, robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Xiatao Sun , Francis Fan , Yinxing Chen , Daniel Rakita

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang

Machine learning offers an intriguing alternative to first-principles analysis for discovering new physics from experimental data. However, to date, purely data-driven methods have only proven successful in uncovering physical laws…

In the context of visual perception, the optical signal from a scene is transferred into the electronic domain by detectors in the form of image data, which are then processed for the extraction of visual information. In noisy and…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-07 Jungmin Kim , Nanfang Yu , Zongfu Yu

This paper discusses an innovative adaptive heterogeneous fusion algorithm based on estimation of the mean square error of all variables used in real time processing. The algorithm is designed for a fusion between derivative and absolute…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Dusan Nemec , Ales Janota , Marian Hrubos , Vojtech Simak

We propose a novel approach to multimodal sensor fusion for Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) which takes advantage of learning using privileged information (LUPI). We address two major shortcomings of standard multimodal approaches, limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Alessandro Masullo , Toby Perrett , Tilo Burghardt , Ian Craddock , Dima Damen , Majid Mirmehdi

As a result of several successful applications in computer vision and image processing, sparse representation (SR) has attracted significant attention in multi-sensor image fusion. Unlike the traditional multiscale transforms (MSTs) that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Qiang Zhang , Yi Liu , Rick S. Blum , Jungong Han , Dacheng Tao

Visuotactile sensing offers rich contact information that can help mitigate performance bottlenecks in imitation learning, particularly under vision-limited conditions, such as ambiguous visual cues or occlusions. Effectively fusing visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shulong Jiang , Shiqi Zhao , Yuxuan Fan , Peng Yin

A novel approach for the fusion of heterogeneous object detection methods is proposed. In order to effectively integrate the outputs of multiple detectors, the level of ambiguity in each individual detection score is estimated using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Hyungtae Lee , Heesung Kwon , Ryan M. Robinson , William d. Nothwang , Amar M. Marathe

Automotive traffic scenes are complex due to the variety of possible scenarios, objects, and weather conditions that need to be handled. In contrast to more constrained environments, such as automated underground trains, automotive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Felix Nobis , Ehsan Shafiei , Phillip Karle , Johannes Betz , Markus Lienkamp

Image feature matching is to seek, localize and identify the similarities across the images. The matched local features between different images can indicate the similarities of their content. Resilience of image feature matching to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Biao Zhao , Shigang Yue

As cameras and inertial sensors are becoming ubiquitous in mobile devices and robots, it holds great potential to design visual-inertial navigation systems (VINS) for efficient versatile 3D motion tracking which utilize any (multiple)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Kevin Eckenhoff , Patrick Geneva , Guoquan Huang

Robust multisensor fusion of multi-modal measurements such as IMUs, wheel encoders, cameras, LiDARs, and GPS holds great potential due to its innate ability to improve resilience to sensor failures and measurement outliers, thereby enabling…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Woosik Lee , Patrick Geneva , Chuchu Chen , Guoquan Huang

A key challenge in visual place recognition (VPR) is recognizing places despite drastic visual appearance changes due to factors such as time of day, season, weather or lighting conditions. Numerous approaches based on deep-learnt image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Timothy L. Molloy , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford , Girish N. Nair

We introduce a novel framework of continuous-time ultra-wideband-inertial sensor fusion for online motion estimation. Quaternion-based cubic cumulative B-splines are exploited for parameterizing motion states continuously over time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Kailai Li , Ziyu Cao , Uwe D. Hanebeck