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Multi-robot target tracking is a fundamental problem that requires coordinated monitoring of dynamic entities in applications such as precision agriculture, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and security surveillance. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiaofan Yu , Yuwei Wu , Katherine Mao , Ye Tian , Vijay Kumar , Tajana Rosing

In this paper, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method is proposed to address the problem of UAV navigation in an unknown environment. However, DRL algorithms are limited by the data efficiency problem as they typically require a huge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Lei He , Nabil Aouf , James F. Whidborne , Bifeng Song

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have recently shown great performance collecting visual data through autonomous exploration and mapping in building inspection. Yet, the number of studies is limited considering the post processing of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Fatih Kucuksubasi , Arzu Sorguc

In many robotic tasks, such as autonomous drone racing, the goal is to travel through a set of waypoints as fast as possible. A key challenge for this task is planning the time-optimal trajectory, which is typically solved by assuming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yunlong Song , Mats Steinweg , Elia Kaufmann , Davide Scaramuzza

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are frequently used for aerial mapping and general monitoring tasks. Recent progress in deep learning enabled automated semantic segmentation of imagery to facilitate the interpretation of large-scale complex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Julius Rückin , Federico Magistri , Cyrill Stachniss , Marija Popović

Recent progress of self-supervised visual representation learning has achieved remarkable success on many challenging computer vision benchmarks. However, whether these techniques can be used for domain adaptation has not been explored. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Jiaolong Xu , Liang Xiao , Antonio M. Lopez

It has been shown that learning radiance fields with depth rendering and depth supervision can effectively promote the quality and convergence of view synthesis. However, this paradigm requires input RGB-D sequences to be synchronized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Yuxin Huang , Andong Yang , Zirui Wu , Yuantao Chen , Runyi Yang , Zhenxin Zhu , Chao Hou , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

Self-supervised feature learning enables perception systems to benefit from the vast raw data recorded by vehicle fleets worldwide. While video-level self-supervised learning approaches have shown strong generalizability on classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Christopher Lang , Alexander Braun , Lars Schillingmann , Karsten Haug , Abhinav Valada

Inference speed and tracking performance are two critical evaluation metrics in the field of visual tracking. However, high-performance trackers often suffer from slow processing speeds, making them impractical for deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Guijie Wang , Tong Lin , Yifan Bai , Anjia Cao , Shiyi Liang , Wangbo Zhao , Xing Wei

Visual object tracking is a fundamental and time-critical vision task. Recent years have seen many shallow tracking methods based on real-time pixel-based correlation filters, as well as deep methods that have top performance but need a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Chen Huang , Simon Lucey , Deva Ramanan

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Online selection of optimal waveforms for target tracking with active sensors has long been a problem of interest. Many conventional solutions utilize an estimation-theoretic interpretation, in which a waveform-specific Cram\'{e}r-Rao lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Charles E. Thornton , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Anthony F. Martone

Applications from manipulation to autonomous vehicles rely on robust and general object tracking to safely perform tasks in dynamic environments. We propose the first certifiably optimal category-level approach for simultaneous shape…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Lorenzo Shaikewitz , Samuel Ubellacker , Luca Carlone

Sparse representation has been widely studied in visual tracking, which has shown promising tracking performance. Despite a lot of progress, the visual tracking problem is still a challenging task due to appearance variations over time. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Xue Yang , Fei Han , Hua Wang , Hao Zhang

With the advent of Transformer-based one-stream trackers that possess strong capability in inter-frame relation modeling, recent research has increasingly focused on how to introduce spatio-temporal context. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Wenrui Cai , Zhenyi Lu , Yuzhe Li , Yongchao Feng , Jinqing Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Popular representation learning methods encourage feature invariance under transformations applied at the input. However, in 3D perception tasks like object localization and segmentation, outputs are naturally equivariant to some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Deepti Hegde , Suhas Lohit , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Michael J. Jones , Vishal M. Patel

Path planning methods for autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are typically designed for one specific type of mission. This work presents a method for autonomous UAV path planning based on deep reinforcement learning (DRL) that can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Mirco Theile , Harald Bayerlein , Richard Nai , David Gesbert , Marco Caccamo

In this paper, we propose a novel on-line visual tracking framework based on the Siamese matching network and meta-learner network, which run at real-time speeds. Conventional deep convolutional feature-based discriminative visual tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-19 Janghoon Choi , Junseok Kwon , Kyoung Mu Lee

Visual navigation requires the robot to reach a specified goal such as an image, based on a sequence of first-person visual observations. While recent learning-based approaches have made significant progress, they often focus on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Hao Ren , Zetong Bi , Yiming Zeng , Zhaoliang Wan , Lu Qi , Hui Cheng

This paper proposes a systematic solution that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to aggressively and safely track an agile target. The solution properly handles the challenging situations where the intent of the target and the dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Zhichao Han , Ruibin Zhang , Neng Pan , Chao Xu , Fei Gao