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Target tracking using observations from multiple sensors can achieve better estimation performance than a single sensor. The most famous estimation tool in target tracking is Kalman filter. There are several mathematical approaches to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Mohammad Reza Ashraf

Combining multiple sensors enables a robot to maximize its perceptual awareness of environments and enhance its robustness to external disturbance, crucial to robotic navigation. This paper proposes the FusionPortable benchmark, a complete…

Cameras and 2D laser scanners, in combination, are able to provide low-cost, light-weight and accurate solutions, which make their fusion well-suited for many robot navigation tasks. However, correct data fusion depends on precise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Michelle Valente , Cyril Joly , Arnaud de La Fortelle

In this paper we introduce Co-Fusion, a dense SLAM system that takes a live stream of RGB-D images as input and segments the scene into different objects (using either motion or semantic cues) while simultaneously tracking and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Martin Rünz , Lourdes Agapito

In remote sensing, each sensor can provide complementary or reinforcing information. It is valuable to fuse outputs from multiple sensors to boost overall performance. Previous supervised fusion methods often require accurate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xiaoxiao Du , Alina Zare

Individuals who are differently-able in vision cannot proceed with their day-to-day activities as smoothly as other people do. Especially independent walking is a hard target to achieve with their visual impairment. Assistive electronic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Chathurika S. Silva , Prasad Wimalaratne

Robust semantic perception for autonomous vehicles relies on effectively combining multiple sensors with complementary strengths and weaknesses. State-of-the-art sensor fusion approaches to semantic perception often treat sensor data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tim Broedermannn , Christos Sakaridis , Luigi Piccinelli , Wim Abbeloos , Luc Van Gool

The combination of data from multiple sensors, also known as sensor fusion or data fusion, is a key aspect in the design of autonomous robots. In particular, algorithms able to accommodate sensor fusion techniques enable increased accuracy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Li Qingqing , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tuan Nguyen Gia , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Multi-sensor fusion is central to robust robotic perception, yet most existing systems operate under static sensor configurations, collecting all modalities at fixed rates and fidelity regardless of their situational utility. This rigidity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Yanchen Liu , Yuang Fan , Minghui Zhao , Xiaofan Jiang

Lidars and cameras are critical sensors that provide complementary information for 3D detection in autonomous driving. While prevalent multi-modal methods simply decorate raw lidar point clouds with camera features and feed them directly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yingwei Li , Adams Wei Yu , Tianjian Meng , Ben Caine , Jiquan Ngiam , Daiyi Peng , Junyang Shen , Bo Wu , Yifeng Lu , Denny Zhou , Quoc V. Le , Alan Yuille , Mingxing Tan

Multi-modal sensor data fusion takes advantage of complementary or reinforcing information from each sensor and can boost overall performance in applications such as scene classification and target detection. This paper presents a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Hersh Vakharia , Xiaoxiao Du

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

This paper presents the design and implementation of a perceptual system for the mobile robot using modern sensors and multi-point communication channels. The data extracted from the perceptual system is processed by a sensor fusion model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-30 T. T. Hoang , P. M. Duong , N. T. T. Van , D. A. Viet , T. Q. Vinh

Radars, due to their robustness to adverse weather conditions and ability to measure object motions, have served in autonomous driving and intelligent agents for years. However, Radar-based perception suffers from its unintuitive sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Liu Liu , Shuaifeng Zhi , Zhenhua Du , Li Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Kai Huo , Weidong Jiang

This paper presents the implementation of a perceptual system for a mobile robot. The system is designed and installed with modern sensors and multi-point communication channels. The goal is to equip the robot with a high level of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-01-05 T. T. Hoang , P. M. Duong , N. T. T. Van , D. A. Viet , T. Q. Vinh

In this paper, we present an extension to LaserNet, an efficient and state-of-the-art LiDAR based 3D object detector. We propose a method for fusing image data with the LiDAR data and show that this sensor fusion method improves the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Gregory P. Meyer , Jake Charland , Darshan Hegde , Ankit Laddha , Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez

We consider multi-sensor fusion estimation for clustered sensor networks. Both sequential measurement fusion and state fusion estimation methods are presented. It is shown that the proposed sequential fusion estimation methods achieve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

In this work, we propose a new approach that combines data from multiple sensors for reliable obstacle avoidance. The sensors include two depth cameras and a LiDAR arranged so that they can capture the whole 3D area in front of the robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Truong Son Nguyen , Cong Hoang Quach , Xiem HoangVan , Manh Duong Phung

Image fusion technology is widely used to fuse the complementary information between multi-source remote sensing images. Inspired by the frontier of deep learning, this paper first proposes a heterogeneous-integrated framework based on a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Menghui Jiang , Huanfeng Shen , Jie Li , Liangpei Zhang

Data fusion has become an active research topic in recent years. Growing computational performance has allowed the use of redundant sensors to measure a single phenomenon. While Bayesian fusion approaches are common in general applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Andres F. Echeverri , Henry Medeiros , Ryan Walsh , Yevgeniy Reznichenko , Richard Povinelli