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Object Goal Navigation (ObjectNav) task is to navigate an agent to an object category in unseen environments without a pre-built map. In this paper, we solve this task by predicting the distance to the target using semantically-related…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Minzhao Zhu , Binglei Zhao , Tao Kong

The ability to predict the future movements of other vehicles is a subconscious and effortless skill for humans and key to safe autonomous driving. Therefore, trajectory prediction for autonomous cars has gained a lot of attention in recent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Benedikt Mersch , Thomas Höllen , Kun Zhao , Cyrill Stachniss , Ribana Roscher

This paper presents a novel obstacle avoidance system for road robots equipped with RGB-D sensor that captures scenes of its way forward. The purpose of the system is to have road robots move around autonomously and constantly without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Minjie Hua , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely applied for nowadays 3D surface reconstruction tasks and such methods can be further divided into two categories, which respectively warp templates explicitly by moving vertices or represent 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xianghui Yang , Guosheng Lin , Zhenghao Chen , Luping Zhou

In this paper, we present an innovative technique for the path planning of flying robots in a 3D environment in Rough Mereology terms. The main goal was to construct the algorithm that would generate the mereological potential fields in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Aleksandra Szpakowska , Piotr Artiemjew

Annually, a large number of injuries and deaths around the world are related to motor vehicle accidents. This value has recently been reduced to some extent, via the use of driver-assistance systems. Developing driver-assistance systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Zahra Salahshoori Nejad , Hamed Heravi , Ali Rahimpour Jounghani , Abdollah Shahrezaie , Afshin Ebrahimi

This paper describes a method of estimating the traversability of plant parts covering a path and navigating through them for mobile robots operating in plant-rich environments. Conventional mobile robots rely on scene recognition methods…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Shigemichi Matsuzaki , Hiroaki Masuzawa , Jun Miura

Dynamic locomotion in rough terrain requires accurate foot placement, collision avoidance, and planning of the underactuated dynamics of the system. Reliably optimizing for such motions and interactions in the presence of imperfect and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Ruben Grandia , Fabian Jenelten , Shaohui Yang , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

The real-time dynamic environment perception has become vital for autonomous robots in crowded spaces. Although the popular voxel-based mapping methods can efficiently represent 3D obstacles with arbitrarily complex shapes, they can hardly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhefan Xu , Xiaoyang Zhan , Baihan Chen , Yumeng Xiu , Chenhao Yang , Kenji Shimada

Autonomous off-road navigation requires robots to estimate terrain traversability from onboard sensors and plan motion accordingly. Conventional approaches typically rely on sampling-based planners such as MPPI to generate short-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yixuan Jia , Qingyuan Li , Jonathan P. How

Perceiving humans in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) often relies on multiple cameras or expensive LiDAR sensors. In this work, we present a new cost-effective vision-based method that perceives humans' locations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Lorenzo Bertoni , Sven Kreiss , Alexandre Alahi

Temporal prediction is inherently uncertain, but representing the ambiguity in natural image sequences is a challenging high-dimensional probabilistic inference problem. For natural scenes, the curse of dimensionality renders explicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Pierre-Étienne H. Fiquet , Eero P. Simoncelli

Estimating terrain traversability in off-road environments requires reasoning about complex interaction dynamics between the robot and these terrains. However, it is challenging to create informative labels to learn a model in a supervised…

Environment perception, including object detection and distance estimation, is one of the most crucial tasks for autonomous driving. Many attentions have been paid on the object detection task, but distance estimation only arouse few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Jing Zhu , Yi Fang , Husam Abu-Haimed , Kuo-Chin Lien , Dongdong Fu , Junli Gu

We present a method to map 2D image observations of a scene to a persistent 3D scene representation, enabling novel view synthesis and disentangled representation of the movable and immovable components of the scene. Motivated by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Prafull Sharma , Ayush Tewari , Yilun Du , Sergey Zakharov , Rares Ambrus , Adrien Gaidon , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Vincent Sitzmann

Reliable estimation of terrain traversability is critical for the successful deployment of autonomous systems in wild, outdoor environments. Given the lack of large-scale annotated datasets for off-road navigation, strictly-supervised…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sanghun Jung , JoonHo Lee , Xiangyun Meng , Byron Boots , Alexander Lambert

Drone racing is a recreational sport in which the goal is to pass through a sequence of gates in a minimum amount of time while avoiding collisions. In autonomous drone racing, one must accomplish this task by flying fully autonomously in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Theo Morales , Andriy Sarabakha , Erdal Kayacan

From just a glance, humans can make rich predictions about the future state of a wide range of physical systems. On the other hand, modern approaches from engineering, robotics, and graphics are often restricted to narrow domains and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Nicholas Watters , Andrea Tacchetti , Theophane Weber , Razvan Pascanu , Peter Battaglia , Daniel Zoran

Estimation of optical aberrations from volumetric intensity images is a key step in sensorless adaptive optics for 3D microscopy. Recent approaches based on deep learning promise accurate results at fast processing speeds. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-28 Debayan Saha , Uwe Schmidt , Qinrong Zhang , Aurelien Barbotin , Qi Hu , Na Ji , Martin J. Booth , Martin Weigert , Eugene W. Myers

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. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Peide Cai , Yuxiang Sun , Hengli Wang , Ming Liu