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Obstacle detection plays an important role in unmanned surface vehicles (USV). The USVs operate in highly diverse environments in which an obstacle may be a floating piece of wood, a scuba diver, a pier, or a part of a shoreline, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Matej Kristan , Vildana Sulic , Stanislav Kovacic , Janez Pers

Detecting small obstacles on the road ahead is a critical part of the driving task which has to be mastered by fully autonomous cars. In this paper, we present a method based on stereo vision to reliably detect such obstacles from a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Peter Pinggera , Sebastian Ramos , Stefan Gehrig , Uwe Franke , Carsten Rother , Rudolf Mester

There are few industries which use manually controlled robots for carrying material and this cannot be used all the time in all the places. So, it is very tranquil to have robots which can follow a specific human by following the unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Sai Nikhil Gona , Prithvi Raj Bandhakavi

As we move through the world, the pattern of light projected on our eyes is complex and dynamic, yet we are still able to distinguish between moving and stationary objects. We propose that humans accomplish this by exploiting constraints…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-14 Hope Lutwak , Bas Rokers , Eero P. Simoncelli

Edge detection is a critical component of many vision systems, including object detectors and image segmentation algorithms. Patches of edges exhibit well-known forms of local structure, such as straight lines or T-junctions. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-26 Piotr Dollár , C. Lawrence Zitnick

We present the first static-obstacle avoidance method for quadrotors using just an onboard, monocular event camera. Quadrotors are capable of fast and agile flight in cluttered environments when piloted manually, but vision-based autonomous…

In this work, we propose an efficient and accurate monocular 3D detection framework in single shot. Most successful 3D detectors take the projection constraint from the 3D bounding box to the 2D box as an important component. Four edges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Peixuan Li , Huaici Zhao , Pengfei Liu , Feidao Cao

Detection of pedestrians on embedded devices, such as those on-board of robots and drones, has many applications including road intersection monitoring, security, crowd monitoring and surveillance, to name a few. However, the problem can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Mohamed Afifi , Yara Ali , Karim Amer , Mahmoud Shaker , Mohamed Elhelw

The development of aerial autonomy has enabled aerial robots to fly agilely in complex environments. However, dodging fast-moving objects in flight remains a challenge, limiting the further application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Botao He , Haojia Li , Siyuan Wu , Dong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Qianli Dong , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

Object detection is a crucial task in computer vision that aims to identify and localize objects in images or videos. The recent advancements in deep learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have significantly improved the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Hrishitva Patel

Perception of obstacles remains a critical safety concern for autonomous vehicles. Real-world collisions have shown that the autonomy faults leading to fatal collisions originate from obstacle existence detection. Open source autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-11 Ayoosh Bansal , Hunmin Kim , Simon Yu , Bo Li , Naira Hovakimyan , Marco Caccamo , Lui Sha

This paper presents a state-of-the-art approach in object detection for being applied in future SLAM problems. Although, many SLAM methods are proposed to create suitable autonomy for mobile robots namely ground vehicles, they still face…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Seyed Amir Tafrishi , Vahid E. Kandjani

Detection of road curbs is an essential capability for autonomous driving. It can be used for autonomous vehicles to determine drivable areas on roads. Usually, road curbs are detected on-line using vehicle-mounted sensors, such as video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Zhenhua Xu , Yuxiang Sun , Ming Liu

We present an efficient method for detecting anomalies in videos. Recent applications of convolutional neural networks have shown promises of convolutional layers for object detection and recognition, especially in images. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Yong Shean Chong , Yong Haur Tay

Road obstacle detection is an important problem for vehicle driving safety. In this paper, we aim to obtain robust road obstacle detection based on spatio-temporal context modeling. Firstly, a data-driven spatial context model of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Xiuen Wu , Tao Wang , Lingyu Liang , Zuoyong Li , Fum Yew Ching

Visual intelligence at the edge is becoming a growing necessity for low latency applications and situations where real-time decision is vital. Object detection, the first step in visual data analytics, has enjoyed significant improvements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-15 George Plastiras , Christos Kyrkou , Theocharis Theocharides

Visual odometry techniques typically rely on feature extraction from a sequence of images and subsequent computation of optical flow. This point-to-point correspondence between two consecutive frames can be costly to compute and suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chenqi Zhu , Levi Burner , Yiannis Aloimonos

We present a general framework and method for simultaneous detection and segmentation of an object in a video that moves (or comes into view of the camera) at some unknown time in the video. The method is an online approach based on motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-25 Dong Lao , Ganesh Sundaramoorthi

Reliable perception is essential for autonomous driving systems to operate safely under diverse real-world traffic conditions. However, camera- and LiDAR-based perception systems suffer from performance degradation under adverse weather and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Zhe Wang , Tianhui Li , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Object pose estimation is a core perception task that enables, for example, object grasping and scene understanding. The widely available, inexpensive and high-resolution RGB sensors and CNNs that allow for fast inference based on this…