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Robust object detection for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) in complex water environments is essential for reliable navigation and operation. Specifically, water surface object detection faces challenges from blurred edges and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Huilin Yin , Pengyu Wang , Senmao Li , Jun Yan , Daniel Watzenig

In this work, we consider the safety-oriented performance of 3D object detectors in autonomous driving contexts. Specifically, despite impressive results shown by the mass literature, developers often find it hard to ensure the safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao , Chih-Hong Cheng , Hasan Esen , Alois Knoll

With the advantage of high mobility, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are used to fuel numerous important applications in computer vision, delivering more efficiency and convenience than surveillance cameras with fixed camera angle, scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Dawei Du , Yuankai Qi , Hongyang Yu , Yifan Yang , Kaiwen Duan , Guorong Li , Weigang Zhang , Qingming Huang , Qi Tian

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are of crucial importance in search and rescue missions in maritime environments due to their flexible and fast operation capabilities. Modern computer vision algorithms are of great interest in aiding such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Leon Amadeus Varga , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

Accurate perception of dynamic obstacles is essential for autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments. Although sophisticated 3D object detection and tracking methods have been investigated and developed thoroughly in the fields of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhefan Xu , Haoyu Shen , Xinming Han , Hanyu Jin , Kanlong Ye , Kenji Shimada

Multi-modal perception is essential for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations, as it enables a comprehensive understanding of the UAVs' surrounding environment. However, most existing multi-modal UAV datasets are primarily biased toward…

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims at segmenting a particular object throughout the entire video clip sequence. The state-of-the-art VOS methods have achieved excellent performance (e.g., 90+% J&F) on existing datasets. However, since the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Henghui Ding , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

We address Unsupervised Video Object Segmentation (UVOS), the task of automatically generating accurate pixel masks for salient objects in a video sequence and of tracking these objects consistently through time, without any input about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Jonathon Luiten , Idil Esen Zulfikar , Bastian Leibe

This paper proposes an uncertainty-aware marine pollution source tracking framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). By integrating high-fidelity marine pollution dispersion simulation with informative path planning techniques, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Song Ma , Yanchao Wang , Richard Bucknall , Yuanchang Liu

Marine robots, particularly Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), have gained considerable attention for their diverse applications in maritime tasks, including search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and maritime security. This paper…

Mobile robots in unstructured, mapless environments must rely on an obstacle avoidance module to navigate safely. The standard avoidance techniques estimate the locations of obstacles with respect to the robot but are unaware of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jungseok Hong , Karin de Langis , Cole Wyeth , Christopher Walaszek , Junaed Sattar

Underwater Video Object Segmentation (VOS) is essential for marine exploration, yet open-air methods suffer significant degradation due to color distortion, low contrast, and prevalent camouflage. A primary hurdle is the lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hongshen Zhao , Jingkang Tai , Yuhang Wu , Wenkang Zhang , Xi Lan , Shangyan Wang , Tianyu Zhang , Wankou Yang

Obstacle detection by semantic segmentation shows a great promise for autonomous navigation in unmanned surface vehicles (USV). However, existing methods suffer from poor estimation of the water edge in the presence of visual ambiguities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Borja Bovcon , Matej Kristan

Video object segmentation (VOS) is a crucial task in computer vision, but current VOS methods struggle with complex scenes and prolonged object motions. To address these challenges, the MOSE dataset aims to enhance object recognition and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Deshui Miao , Yameng Gu , Xin Li , Zhenyu He , Yaowei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Video object segmentation (VOS) aims to segment specified target objects throughout a video. Although state-of-the-art methods have achieved impressive performance (e.g., 90+% J&F) on benchmarks such as DAVIS and YouTube-VOS, these datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Henghui Ding , Kaining Ying , Chang Liu , Shuting He , Xudong Jiang , Yu-Gang Jiang , Philip H. S. Torr , Song Bai

Road surface classification (RSC) is a key enabler for environment-aware predictive maintenance systems. However, existing RSC techniques often fail to generalize beyond narrow operational conditions due to limited sensing modalities and…

Efficient trajectory generation in complex dynamic environments remains an open problem in the unmanned surface vehicle (USV). The perception of the USV is usually interfered with by the swing of the hull and the ambient weather, making it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Tao Huang , Zhe Chen , Wang Gao , Zhenfeng Xue , Yong Liu

One of the most relevant tasks in an intelligent vehicle navigation system is the detection of obstacles. It is important that a visual perception system for navigation purposes identifies obstacles, and it is also important that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Thiago Rateke , Aldo von Wangenheim

Due to the problem of performance constraints of unsupervised video object detection, its large-scale application is limited. In response to this pain point, we propose another excellent method to solve this problematic point. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu

Embodied agents must detect and localize objects of interest, e.g. traffic participants for self-driving cars. Supervision in the form of bounding boxes for this task is extremely expensive. As such, prior work has looked at unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Yihong Sun , Bharath Hariharan