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Autonomous robots that assist humans in day to day living tasks are becoming increasingly popular. Autonomous mobile robots operate by sensing and perceiving their surrounding environment to make accurate driving decisions. A combination of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Varuna De Silva , Jamie Roche , Ahmet Kondoz

Visual SLAM is essential for mobile robots, drone navigation, and VR/AR, but traditional RGB camera systems struggle in low-light conditions, driving interest in thermal SLAM, which excels in such environments. However, thermal imaging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Yangfan Xu , Qu Hao , Lilian Zhang , Jun Mao , Xiaofeng He , Wenqi Wu , Changhao Chen

4D radar is recognized for its resilience and cost-effectiveness under adverse weather conditions, thus playing a pivotal role in autonomous driving. While cameras and LiDAR are typically the primary sensors used in perception modules for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qiao Yan , Yihan Wang

This paper reports a visible and thermal drone monitoring system that integrates deep-learning-based detection and tracking modules. The biggest challenge in adopting deep learning methods for drone detection is the paucity of training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ye Wang , Yueru Chen , Jongmoo Choi , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Autonomous vehicles face significant challenges in navigating adverse weather, particularly rain, due to the visual impairment of camera-based systems. In this study, we leveraged contemporary deep learning techniques to mitigate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Mark A. Seferian , Jidong J. Yang

Camera localization is a fundamental and crucial problem for many robotic applications. In recent years, using deep-learning for camera-based localization has become a popular research direction. However, they lack robustness to large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jialu Wang , Muhamad Risqi U. Saputra , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Niki Trigon , Andrew Markham

Accurate environmental perception is critical for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) systems play a crucial role in ADAS; they can reliably detect obstacles and help ensure traffic safety.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Federico Scarì , Nitin Jonathan Myers , Chen Quan , Arkady Zgonnikov

Depth estimation in complex real-world scenarios is a challenging task, especially when relying solely on a single modality such as visible light or thermal infrared (THR) imagery. This paper proposes a novel multimodal depth estimation…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Zelin Meng , Takanori Fukao

Adverse weather conditions often impair the quality of captured images, inevitably inducing cutting-edge object detection models for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous driving. In this paper, we raise an intriguing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yihua Fan , Yongzhen Wang , Mingqiang Wei , Fu Lee Wang , Haoran Xie

Object detection with multimodal inputs can improve many safety-critical systems such as autonomous vehicles (AVs). Motivated by AVs that operate in both day and night, we study multimodal object detection with RGB and thermal cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Yi-Ting Chen , Jinghao Shi , Zelin Ye , Christoph Mertz , Deva Ramanan , Shu Kong

One of the many Autonomous Systems (ASs), such as autonomous driving cars, performs various safety-critical functions. Many of these autonomous systems take advantage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to perceive their environment.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Nour Habib , Yunsu Cho , Abhishek Buragohain , Andreas Rausch

Data-driven RANS modeling is emerging as a promising methodology to exploit the information provided by high-fidelity data. However, its widespread application is limited by challenges in generalization and robustness to inconsistencies…

Recently, the scientific progress of Advanced Driver Assistance System solutions (ADAS) has played a key role in enhancing the overall safety of driving. ADAS technology enables active control of vehicles to prevent potentially risky…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Francesco Rundo , Concetto Spampinato , Michael Rundo

The usage of both off-the-shelf and end-to-end trained deep networks have significantly improved performance of visual tracking on RGB videos. However, the lack of large labeled datasets hampers the usage of convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-26 Lichao Zhang , Abel Gonzalez-Garcia , Joost van de Weijer , Martin Danelljan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

With the rapid advancements of sensor technology and deep learning, autonomous driving systems are providing safe and efficient access to intelligent vehicles as well as intelligent transportation. Among these equipped sensors, the radar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shanliang Yao , Runwei Guan , Zitian Peng , Chenhang Xu , Yilu Shi , Weiping Ding , Eng Gee Lim , Yong Yue , Hyungjoon Seo , Ka Lok Man , Jieming Ma , Xiaohui Zhu , Yutao Yue

The potentials of automotive radar for autonomous driving have not been fully exploited. We present a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar transmit and receive signal processing chain, a knowledge-aided approach exploiting the radar domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , David Scharff , Teresa Wu

Novel vision sensors such as thermal, hyperspectral, polarization, and event cameras provide information that is not available from conventional intensity cameras. An obstacle to using these sensors with current powerful deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yuhuang Hu , Tobi Delbruck , Shih-Chii Liu

In recent years, RGB-T salient object detection (SOD) has attracted continuous attention, which makes it possible to identify salient objects in environments such as low light by introducing thermal image. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Runmin Cong , Kepu Zhang , Chen Zhang , Feng Zheng , Yao Zhao , Qingming Huang , Sam Kwong

Thermal imaging provides a practical sensing modality for visual SLAM in visually degraded environments such as low illumination, smoke, or adverse weather. However, thermal imagery often exhibits low texture, low contrast, and high noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Anastasiia Kornilova , Ivan Moskalenko , Arabella Gromova , Gonzalo Ferrer , Alexander Menshchikov

Utilizing the sensor characteristics of the audio, visible camera, and thermal camera, the robustness of person recognition can be enhanced. Existing multimodal person recognition frameworks are primarily formulated assuming that multimodal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Vijay John , Yasutomo Kawanishi