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Visual relocalization is crucial for autonomous visual localization and navigation of mobile robotics. Due to the improvement of CNN-based object detection algorithm, the robustness of visual relocalization is greatly enhanced especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Yifan Zhu , Lingjuan Miao , Haitao Wu , Zhiqiang Zhou , Weiyi Chen , Longwen Wu

Robust localization in a given map is a crucial component of most autonomous robots. In this paper, we address the problem of localizing in an indoor environment that changes and where prominent structures have no correspondence in the map…

Localization is an indispensable component of a robot's autonomy stack that enables it to determine where it is in the environment, essentially making it a precursor for any action execution or planning. Although convolutional neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Abhinav Valada , Noha Radwan , Wolfram Burgard

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is considered to be a fundamental capability for intelligent mobile robots. Over the past decades, many impressed SLAM systems have been developed and achieved good performance under certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Chao Yu , Zuxin Liu , Xinjun Liu , Fugui Xie , Yi Yang , Qi Wei , Qiao Fei

Segmenting and recognizing diverse object parts is a crucial ability in applications spanning various computer vision and robotic tasks. While significant progress has been made in object-level Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation (OVSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Meng Wei , Xiaoyu Yue , Wenwei Zhang , Shu Kong , Xihui Liu , Jiangmiao Pang

Collaborative mapping of unknown environments can be done faster and more robustly than a single robot. However, a collaborative approach requires a distributed paradigm to be scalable and deal with communication issues. This work presents…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Mahboubeh Asadi , Kourosh Zareinia , Sajad Saeedi

Visual place recognition is one of the essential and challenging problems in the fields of robotics. In this letter, we for the first time explore the use of multi-modal fusion of semantic and visual modalities in dynamics-invariant space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Lin Wu , Teng Wang , Changyin Sun

This paper addresses object perception applied to mobile robotics. Being able to perceive semantically meaningful objects in unstructured environments is a key capability in order to make robots suitable to perform high-level tasks in home…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-18 Arnau Ramisa , David Aldavert , Shrihari Vasudevan , Ricardo Toledo , Ramon Lopez de Mantaras

In the context of robotic underwater operations, the visual degradations induced by the medium properties make difficult the exclusive use of cameras for localization purpose. Hence, most localization methods are based on expensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Maxime Ferrera , Julien Moras , Pauline Trouvé-Peloux , Vincent Creuze

Recently, learning-based robotic navigation systems have gained extensive research attention and made significant progress. However, the diversity of open-world scenarios poses a major challenge for the generalization of such systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Xingwu Ji , Haochen Niu , Dexin Duan , Rendong Ying , Fei Wen , Peilin Liu

Localization is a fundamental capability for autonomous robots, enabling them to operate effectively in dynamic environments. In Robocon 2025, accurate and reliable localization is crucial for improving shooting precision, avoiding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Naren Medarametla , Sreejon Mondal

Though visual and repeat navigation is a convenient solution for mobile robot self-navigation, achieving balance between efficiency and robustness in task environment still remains challenges. In this paper, we propose a novel visual and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Jikai Wang , Yunqi Cheng , Zonghai Chen

Vision-Language-Action Models (VLAs) have shown remarkable progress towards embodied intelligence. While their architecture partially resembles that of Large Language Models (LLMs), VLAs exhibit higher complexity due to their multi-modal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Hugo Buurmeijer , Carmen Amo Alonso , Aiden Swann , Marco Pavone

Robust long-term visual localization in complex industrial environments is critical for mobile robotic systems. Existing approaches face limitations: handcrafted features are illumination-sensitive, learned features are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yicheng Lin , Yunlong Jiang , Xujia Jiao , Bin Han

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

High precision localization is a crucial requirement for the autonomous driving system. Traditional positioning methods have some limitations in providing stable and accurate vehicle poses, especially in an urban environment. Herein, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhongyang Xiao , Kun Jiang , Shichao Xie , Tuopu Wen , Chunlei Yu , Diange Yang

Warehouse logistics robots will work in different warehouse environments. In order to enable robots to perceive environment and plan path faster without modifying existing warehouses, we uses monocular camera to achieve an efficient robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Ziqiang Wang , Hegen Xu , Youwen Wan

This work focuses on the problem of visual target navigation, which is very important for autonomous robots as it is closely related to high-level tasks. To find a special object in unknown environments, classical and learning-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Bangguo Yu , Hamidreza Kasaei , Ming Cao

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles are often required to function in environments where critical position estimates from sensors such as GPS become uncertain or unreliable. Single image visual place recognition (VPR) provides an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Connor Malone , Ankit Vora , Thierry Peynot , Michael Milford

Cooperative localization is fundamental to autonomous multirobot systems, but most algorithms couple inter-robot communication with observation, making these algorithms susceptible to failures in both communication and observation steps. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Tsang-Kai Chang , Kenny Chen , Ankur Mehta