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Autonomous cars have to navigate in dynamic environment which can be full of uncertainties. The uncertainties can come either from sensor limitations such as occlusions and limited sensor range, or from probabilistic prediction of other…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Liting Sun , Wei Zhan , Ching-Yao Chan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In order to anticipate dangerous events, like a collision, an agent needs to make long-term predictions. However, those are challenging due to uncertainties in internal and external variables and environment dynamics. A sensorimotor model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Arturo Ribes , Jesús Cerquides , Yiannis Demiris , Ramón López de Mántaras

Generative models that can model and predict sequences of future events can, in principle, learn to capture complex real-world phenomena, such as physical interactions. However, a central challenge in video prediction is that the future is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Manoj Kumar , Mohammad Babaeizadeh , Dumitru Erhan , Chelsea Finn , Sergey Levine , Laurent Dinh , Durk Kingma

Robust autonomy stacks require tight integration of perception, motion planning, and control layers, but these layers often inadequately incorporate inherent perception and prediction uncertainties, either ignoring them altogether or making…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Venkatraman Renganathan , Sleiman Safaoui , Aadi Kothari , Benjamin Gravell , Iman Shames , Tyler Summers

The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Given this, we devise an optical flow algorithm specifically for human motion and show that it is superior to generic flow methods. Designing a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Anurag Ranjan , Javier Romero , Michael J. Black

Temporal coherence is a valuable source of information in the context of optical flow estimation. However, finding a suitable motion model to leverage this information is a non-trivial task. In this paper we propose an unsupervised online…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Daniel Maurer , Andrés Bruhn

Machine learning methods for computational imaging require uncertainty estimation to be reliable in real settings. While Bayesian models offer a computationally tractable way of recovering uncertainty, they need large data volumes to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Francesco Tonolini , Jack Radford , Alex Turpin , Daniele Faccio , Roderick Murray-Smith

Cross-modal representation learning has become a new normal for bridging the semantic gap between text and visual data. Learning modality agnostic representations in a continuous latent space, however, is often treated as a black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jiaxin Wu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing-Kwong Chan , Zhijian Hou

The fusion of raw sensor data to create a Bird's Eye View (BEV) representation is critical for autonomous vehicle planning and control. Despite the growing interest in using deep learning models for BEV semantic segmentation, anticipating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Linlin Yu , Bowen Yang , Tianhao Wang , Kangshuo Li , Feng Chen

Mobile biometric approaches provide the convenience of secure authentication with an omnipresent technology. However, this brings an additional challenge of recognizing biometric patterns in unconstrained environment including variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Rishabh Garg , Yashasvi Baweja , Soumyadeep Ghosh , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh , Nalini Ratha

Fire outbreaks pose critical threats to human life and infrastructure, necessitating high-fidelity early-warning systems that detect combustion precursors such as smoke. However, smoke plumes exhibit complex spatiotemporal dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Nitish Kumar Mahala , Muzammil Khan , Pushpendra Kumar

Many modern robotic systems operate autonomously, however they often lack the ability to accurately analyze the environment and adapt to changing external conditions, while teleoperation systems often require special operator skills. In the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Maria Makarova , Daria Trinitatova , Qian Liu , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

When interacting with highly dynamic environments, scene flow allows autonomous systems to reason about the non-rigid motion of multiple independent objects. This is of particular interest in the field of autonomous driving, in which many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Himangi Mittal , Brian Okorn , David Held

In recent years, the LiDAR images, as a 2D compact representation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, are widely applied in various tasks, e.g., 3D semantic segmentation, LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Among these works, the optical flow…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-31 Xuezhou Guo , Xuhu Lin , Lili Zhao , Zezhi Zhu , Jianwen Chen

Visual localization is an essential modern technology for robotics and computer vision. Popular approaches for solving this task are image-based methods. Nowadays, these methods have low accuracy and a long training time. The reasons are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Mikhail Kurenkov , Ivan Kalinov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Predicting the motion of a driver's vehicle is crucial for advanced driving systems, enabling detection of potential risks towards shared control between the driver and automation systems. In this paper, we propose a variational neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Xin Huang , Stephen McGill , Brian C. Williams , Luke Fletcher , Guy Rosman

Robust and accurate six degree-of-freedom tracking on portable devices remains a challenging problem, especially on small hand-held devices such as smartphones. For improved robustness and accuracy, complementary movement information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Lassi Meronen , William J. Wilkinson , Arno Solin

In this paper, we give a double twist to the problem of planning under uncertainty. State-of-the-art planners seek to minimize the localization uncertainty by only considering the geometric structure of the scene. In this paper, we argue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Gabriele Costante , Christian Forster , Jeffrey Delmerico , Paolo Valigi , Davide Scaramuzza

Scene flow estimation is an extremely important task in computer vision to support the perception of dynamic changes in the scene. For robust scene flow, learning-based approaches have recently achieved impressive results using either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Rajai Alhimdiat , Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker , Wesam Ashour

Despite the remarkable success of sampling-based generative models such as flow matching, they can still produce samples of inconsistent or degraded quality. To assess sample reliability and generate higher-quality outputs, we propose…

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