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We discuss the main features of a new optical system capable of laser action: the active complex optical network, or lasing network (LANER). The system is experimentally realized with optical fibers linked each other with suitable optical…

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With the increasing popularity of human-computer interaction applications, there is also growing interest in generating sufficiently large and diverse data sets for automatic radar-based recognition of hand poses and gestures. Radar…

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Upcoming HI surveys will deliver such large datasets that automated processing using the full 3-D information to find and characterize HI objects is unavoidable. Full 3-D visualization is an essential tool for enabling qualitative and…

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Due to the increasing availability and functionality of image editing tools, many forensic techniques such as digital image authentication, source identification and tamper detection are important for forensic image analysis. In this paper,…

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This paper proposes LONER, the first real-time LiDAR SLAM algorithm that uses a neural implicit scene representation. Existing implicit mapping methods for LiDAR show promising results in large-scale reconstruction, but either require…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Seth Isaacson , Pou-Chun Kung , Mani Ramanagopal , Ram Vasudevan , Katherine A. Skinner

We present LASER, an image-based Monte Carlo Localization (MCL) framework for 2D floor maps. LASER introduces the concept of latent space rendering, where 2D pose hypotheses on the floor map are directly rendered into a…

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Physical representations of data offer physical and spatial ways of looking at, navigating, and interacting with data. While digital fabrication has facilitated the creation of objects with data-driven geometry, rendering data as a…

Designing and validating sensor applications and algorithms in simulation is an important step in the modern development process. Furthermore, modern open-source multi-sensor simulation frameworks are moving towards the usage of video-game…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Wouter Jansen , Nico Huebel , Jan Steckel

We present a Python-based renderer built on NVIDIA's OptiX ray tracing engine and the OptiX AI denoiser, designed to generate high-quality synthetic images for research in computer vision and deep learning. Our tool enables the description…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Nathan Morrical , Jonathan Tremblay , Yunzhi Lin , Stephen Tyree , Stan Birchfield , Valerio Pascucci , Ingo Wald

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images contain a huge amount of information, however, the number of practical use-cases is limited due to the presence of speckle noise in them. In recent years, deep learning based techniques have brought…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Shrey Dabhi , Kartavya Soni , Utkarsh Patel , Priyanka Sharma , Manojkumar Parmar

As mobile robot capabilities improve and deployment times increase, tools to analyze the growing volume of data are becoming necessary. Current state-of-the-art logging, playback, and exploration systems are insufficient for practitioners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Samer B. Nashed

Laser scanning can provide timely assessments of mine sites despite adverse challenges in the operational environment. Although there are several published articles on laser scanning, there is a need to review them in the context of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Sarvesh Kumar Singh , Bikram Pratap Banerjee , Simit Raval

Man-made environments such as households, offices, or factory floors are typically composed of linear structures. Accordingly, polylines are a natural way to accurately represent their geometry. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Alexander Schaefer , Daniel Büscher , Lukas Luft , Wolfram Burgard

We are living in the big data age: An ever increasing amount of data is being produced through data acquisition and computer simulations. While large scale analysis and simulations have received significant attention for cloud and…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Stefan Eilemann

3D Visual Grounding (3DVG) aims to localize target objects within a 3D scene based on natural language queries. To alleviate the reliance on costly 3D training data, recent studies have explored zero-shot 3DVG by leveraging the extensive…

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Accurate barcode detection and decoding in Identity documents is crucial for applications like security, healthcare, and education, where reliable data extraction and verification are essential. However, building robust detection models is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Amit Agarwal , Bhargava Kumar , Karan Gupta , Priyaranjan Pattnayak

The capability to detect boulders on the surface of small bodies is beneficial for vision-based applications such as navigation and hazard detection during critical operations. This task is challenging due to the wide assortment of…

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Lens flare occurs when shooting towards strong light sources, significantly degrading the visual quality of images. Due to the difficulty in capturing flare-corrupted and flare-free image pairs in the real world, existing datasets are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Lishen Qu , Zhihao Liu , Jinshan Pan , Shihao Zhou , Jinglei Shi , Duosheng Chen , Jufeng Yang

We develop a scannerless non-line-of-sight three dimensional imaging system based on a commercial 32x32 SPAD camera combined with a 70 ps pulsed laser. In our experiment, 1024 time histograms can be achieved synchronously in 3s with an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-11 Chenfei Jin , Meng Tang , Legeng Jia , Xiaorui Tian , Jie Yang , Kai Qiao , Siqi Zhang

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

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