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Distribution learning finds probability density functions from a set of data samples, whereas clustering aims to group similar data points to form clusters. Although there are deep clustering methods that employ distribution learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guanfang Dong , Zijie Tan , Chenqiu Zhao , Anup Basu

The operational environments in which a mobile robot executes its missions often exhibit non-flat terrain characteristics, encompassing outdoor and indoor settings featuring ramps and slopes. In such scenarios, the conventional…

The multiple-choice knapsack problem (MCKP) is a classic NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. Motivated by several significant real-world applications, this work investigates a novel variant of MCKP called chance-constrained…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Xuanfeng Li , Shengcai Liu , Jin Wang , Xiao Chen , Yew-Soon Ong , Ke Tang

The ability to infer map variables and estimate pose is crucial to the operation of autonomous mobile robots. In most cases the shared dependency between these variables is modeled through a multivariate Gaussian distribution, but there are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-04 John D. Martin , Kevin Doherty , Caralyn Cyr , Brendan Englot , John Leonard

While existing semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) methods perform well in general scenes, they encounter challenges in handling oriented objects in aerial images. We experimentally find three gaps between general and oriented object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Chenxu Wang , Chunyan Xu , Ziqi Gu , Zhen Cui

Label assignment is a crucial process in object detection, which significantly influences the detection performance by determining positive or negative samples during training process. However, existing label assignment strategies barely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jian Guan , Mingjie Xie , Youtian Lin , Guangjun He , Pengming Feng

This paper presents a novel approach to enhance Model Predictive Control (MPC) for legged robots through Distributed Optimization. Our method focuses on decomposing the robot dynamics into smaller, parallelizable subsystems, and utilizing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Lorenzo Amatucci , Giulio Turrisi , Angelo Bratta , Victor Barasuol , Claudio Semini

We propose Deep Companion Learning (DCL), a novel training method for Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that enhances generalization by penalizing inconsistent model predictions compared to its historical performance. To achieve this, we train a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Ruizhao Zhu , Venkatesh Saligrama

In this paper, we present the Monte-Carlo Compressive Optimization algorithm, a new method to solve a combinatorial optimization problem that is assumed compressible. The method relies on random queries to the objective function in order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Baptiste Chevalier , Shimpei Yamaguchi , Wojciech Roga , Masahiro Takeoka

We present an approach for multi-robot consistent distributed localization and semantic mapping in an unknown environment, considering scenarios with classification ambiguity, where objects' visual appearance generally varies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vladimir Tchuiev , Vadim Indelman

Many computer vision systems require low-cost segmentation algorithms based on deep learning, either because of the enormous size of input images or limited computational budget. Common solutions uniformly downsample the input images to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Chen Jin , Ryutaro Tanno , Thomy Mertzanidou , Eleftheria Panagiotaki , Daniel C. Alexander

Accurate localization is an essential technology for the flexible navigation of robots in large-scale environments. Both SLAM-based and map-based localization will increase the computing load due to the increase in map size, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yixiao Feng , Zhou Jiang , Yongliang Shi , Yunlong Feng , Xiangyu Chen , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

Global localization is essential for robot navigation, of which the first step is to retrieve a query from the map database. This problem is called place recognition. In recent years, LiDAR scan based place recognition has drawn attention…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Xuecheng Xu , Huan Yin , Zexi Chen , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms estimate drone poses and build a 3D map using a single camera. Current algorithms include sparse methods that lack detailed geometry, while learning-driven approaches produce…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jeryes Danial , Yosi Ben Asher , Itzik Klein

We propose a class of convex relaxations to solve the sensor network localization problem, based on a maximum likelihood (ML) formulation. This class, as well as the tightness of the relaxations, depends on the noise probability density…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Andrea Simonetto , Geert Leus

Most unsupervised image anomaly localization methods suffer from overgeneralization because of the high generalization abilities of convolutional neural networks, leading to unreliable predictions. To mitigate the overgeneralization, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yunkang Cao , Xiaohao Xu , Zhaoge Liu , Weiming Shen

Recent work has shown impressive localization performance using only images of ground textures taken with a downward facing monocular camera. This provides a reliable navigation method that is robust to feature sparse environments and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Kyle M. Hart , Brendan Englot , Ryan P. O'Shea , John D. Kelly , David Martinez

Multi-objective Bayesian optimization (MOBO) has shown promising performance on various expensive multi-objective optimization problems (EMOPs). However, effectively modeling complex distributions of the Pareto optimal solutions is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Bingdong Li , Zixiang Di , Yongfan Lu , Hong Qian , Feng Wang , Peng Yang , Ke Tang , Aimin Zhou

Robots deployed in settings such as warehouses and parking lots must cope with frequent and substantial changes when localizing in their environments. While many previous localization and mapping algorithms have explored methods of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Amanda Adkins , Taijing Chen , Joydeep Biswas

The ability of the deep learning model to recognize when a sample falls outside its learned distribution is critical for safe and reliable deployment. Recent state-of-the-art out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods leverage activation…

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