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Localization is a fundamental task in robotics for autonomous navigation. Existing localization methods rely on a single input data modality or train several computational models to process different modalities. This leads to stringent…

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With predictive models becoming prevalent, companies are expanding the types of data they gather. As a result, the collected datasets consist not only of simple numerical features but also more complex objects such as time series, images,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sebastian Chwilczyński , Dariusz Brzezinski

Exploration of unknown, unstructured environments, such as in search and rescue, cave exploration, and planetary missions,presents significant challenges due to their unpredictable nature. This unpredictability can lead to inefficient path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Riana Gagnon Souleiman , Vivek Shankar Varadharajan , Giovanni Beltrame

Video anomaly detection is a challenging task because of diverse abnormal events. To this task, methods based on reconstruction and prediction are wildly used in recent works, which are built on the assumption that learning on normal data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Hongyong Wang , Xinjian Zhang , Su Yang , Weishan Zhang

Autonomous mobile robots are increasingly used in pedestrian-rich environments where safe navigation and appropriate human interaction are crucial. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) enables socially integrated robot behavior,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Daniel Flögel , Marcos Gómez Villafañe , Joshua Ransiek , Sören Hohmann

Visual anomaly detection in real-world industrial settings faces two major limitations. First, most existing methods are trained on purely normal data or on unlabeled datasets assumed to be predominantly normal, presuming the absence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Anindya Sundar Das , Monowar Bhuyan

Despite advances in object detection, aerial imagery remains a challenging domain, as models often fail to generalize across variations in spatial resolution, scene composition, and semantic label coverage. Differences in geographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Michael Felsberg , Nick Pears , Yue Lu

It is important for robots to be able to decide whether they can go through a space or not, as they navigate through a dynamic environment. This capability can help them avoid injury or serious damage, e.g., as a result of running into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Noriaki Hirose , Amir Sadeghian , Patrick Goebel , Silvio Savarese

Anomaly detection is a core capability for robotic perception and industrial inspection, yet most existing benchmarks are collected under controlled conditions with fixed viewpoints and stable illumination, failing to reflect real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Kaichen Zhou , Xinhai Chang , Taewhan Kim , Jiadong Zhang , Yang Cao , Chufei Peng , Fangneng Zhan , Hao Zhao , Hao Dong , Kai Ming Ting , Ye Zhu

For safety of autonomous driving, vehicles need to be able to drive under various lighting, weather, and visibility conditions in different environments. These external and environmental factors, along with internal factors associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Yu Shen , Laura Zheng , Manli Shu , Weizi Li , Tom Goldstein , Ming C. Lin

Reliably detecting anomalies in a given set of images is a task of high practical relevance for visual quality inspection, surveillance, or medical image analysis. Autoencoder neural networks learn to reconstruct normal images, and hence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Laura Beggel , Michael Pfeiffer , Bernd Bischl

During the operation of industrial robots, unusual events may endanger the safety of humans and the quality of production. When collecting data to detect such cases, it is not ensured that data from all potentially occurring errors is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Jan Thieß Brockmann , Marco Rudolph , Bodo Rosenhahn , Bastian Wandt

Anomaly detection plays a crucial role in quality control for industrial applications. However, ensuring robustness under unseen domain shifts such as lighting variations or sensor drift remains a significant challenge. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jingyi Liao , Xun Xu , Yongyi Su , Rong-Cheng Tu , Yifan Liu , Dacheng Tao , Xulei Yang

It is a challenging task for ground robots to autonomously navigate in harsh environments due to the presence of non-trivial obstacles and uneven terrain. This requires trajectory planning that balances safety and efficiency. The primary…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wei Zhang , Yinchuan Wang , Wangtao Lu , Pengyu Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Yue Wang , Chaoqun Wang

Accurate traversability estimation is essential for safe and effective navigation of outdoor robots operating in complex environments. This paper introduces a novel experience-based method that allows robots to autonomously learn which…

The detection of unknown traffic obstacles is vital to ensure safe autonomous driving. The standard object-detection methods cannot identify unknown objects that are not included under predefined categories. This is because object-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chihiro Noguchi , Toshiaki Ohgushi , Masao Yamanaka

Deep reinforcement learning has great potential to acquire complex, adaptive behaviors for autonomous agents automatically. However, the underlying neural network polices have not been widely deployed in real-world applications, especially…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Tingxiang Fan , Pinxin Long , Wenxi Liu , Jia Pan , Ruigang Yang , Dinesh Manocha

Wet weather makes water film over the road and that film causes lower friction between tire and road surface. When a vehicle passes the low-friction road, the accident can occur up to 35% higher frequency than a normal condition road. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-07 YeongHyeon Park , JongHee Jung

Oversight in medical images is a crucial problem, and timely reporting of medical images is desired. Therefore, an all-purpose anomaly detection method that can detect virtually all types of lesions/diseases in a given image is strongly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 H. Shibata , S. Hanaoka , Y. Nomura , T. Nakao , I. Sato , D. Sato , N. Hayashi , O. Abe

Detecting out-of-distribution examples is important for safety-critical machine learning applications such as detecting novel biological phenomena and self-driving cars. However, existing research mainly focuses on simple small-scale…

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