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Next-generation wireless systems such as 6G operate at higher frequency bands, making signal propagation highly sensitive to environmental factors such as buildings and vege- tation. Accurate Radio Environment Map (REM) estimation is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ljupcho Milosheski , Fedja Močnik , Mihael Mohorčič , Carolina Fortuna

Learning effective visuomotor policies for robots purely from data is challenging, but also appealing since a learning-based system should not require manual tuning or calibration. In the case of a robot operating in a real environment the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Zihan Wang , Yoshua Bengio , Liam Paull

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is one of the essential techniques and functionalities used by robots to perform autonomous navigation tasks. Inspired by the rodent hippocampus, this paper presents a biologically inspired SLAM…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Genghang Zhuang , Zhenshan Bing , Yuhong Huang , Kai Huang , Alois Knoll

Radio frequency (RF)-based indoor localization offers significant promise for applications such as indoor navigation, augmented reality, and pervasive computing. While deep learning has greatly enhanced localization accuracy and robustness,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guosheng Wang , Shen Wang , Lei Yang

Localization of radio frequency (RF) sources has critical applications, including search and rescue, jammer detection, and monitoring of hostile activities. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer significant advantages for RF source…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-21 Saad Masrur , Ismail Guvenc

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

In Ultrasound Localization Microscopy (ULM), achieving high-resolution images relies on the precise localization of contrast agent particles across a series of beamformed frames. However, our study uncovers an enormous potential: The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Christopher Hahne , Georges Chabouh , Arthur Chavignon , Olivier Couture , Raphael Sznitman

Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been utilized for optimizing wireless communications due to its ability to detect the environment. This paper explores the use of LiDAR in channel estimation for wideband multi-user…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Haotian Zhang , Shijian Gao , Xiang Cheng , Liuqing Yang

Machine learning techniques have shown remarkable accuracy in localization tasks, but their dependency on vast amounts of labeled data, particularly Channel State Information (CSI) and corresponding coordinates, remains a bottleneck.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Ankan Dash , Jingyi Gu , Guiling Wang , Nirwan Ansari

In this work we present a novel end-to-end framework for tracking and classifying a robot's surroundings in complex, dynamic and only partially observable real-world environments. The approach deploys a recurrent neural network to filter an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Peter Ondruska , Julie Dequaire , Dominic Zeng Wang , Ingmar Posner

Traditional simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) methods focus on improvement in the robot's localization under environment and sensor uncertainty. This paper, however, focuses on mitigating the need for exact localization of a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Pranay Mathur , Rajesh Kumar , Sarthak Upadhyay

We propose a dense neural simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) approach for monocular RGBD input which anchors the features of a neural scene representation in a point cloud that is iteratively generated in an input-dependent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Erik Sandström , Yue Li , Luc Van Gool , Martin R. Oswald

This paper demonstrates that spatial information can be used to learn interpretable representations in medical images using Self-Supervised Learning (SSL). Our proposed method, ISImed, is based on the observation that medical images exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nabil Jabareen , Dongsheng Yuan , Sören Lukassen

Overcoming the visual barrier and developing "see-through vision" has been one of mankind's long-standing dreams. Unlike visible light, Radio Frequency (RF) signals penetrate opaque obstructions and reflect highly off humans. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Kevin Meng , Yu Meng

Successful visual navigation depends upon capturing images that contain sufficient useful information. In this letter, we explore a data-driven approach to account for environmental lighting changes, improving the quality of images for use…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Tomasi , Brandon Wagstaff , Steven L. Waslander , Jonathan Kelly

We propose a novel end-to-end RGB-D SLAM, iDF-SLAM, which adopts a feature-based deep neural tracker as the front-end and a NeRF-style neural implicit mapper as the back-end. The neural implicit mapper is trained on-the-fly, while though…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yuhang Ming , Weicai Ye , Andrew Calway

Localizing users and mapping the environment using radio signals is a key task in emerging applications such as low-latency communications and safety-critical navigation. Recently introduced multipath-based SLAM methods can jointly localize…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Xuhong Li , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Erik Leitinger , Florian Meyer

Semantic communication (SemCom) systems aim to learn the mapping from low-dimensional semantics to high-dimensional ground-truth. While this is more akin to a "domain translation" problem, existing frameworks typically emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mehdi Letafati , Samad Ali , Matti Latva-aho

Machine learning (ML) facilitates rapid channel modeling for 5G and beyond wireless communication systems. Many existing ML techniques utilize a city map to construct the radio map; however, an updated city map may not always be available.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-04 Wangqian Chen , Junting Chen