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Involuntary motion during weight-bearing cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scans of the knee causes artifacts in the reconstructed volumes making them unusable for clinical diagnosis. Currently, image-based or marker-based methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Jennifer Maier , Marlies Nitschke , Jang-Hwan Choi , Garry Gold , Rebecca Fahrig , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Andreas Maier

This paper presents a novel framework for estimating the position and orientation of flexible manipulators undergoing vertical motion using multiple inertial measurement units (IMUs), optimized and calibrated with ground truth data. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Amir Hossein Barjini , Jouni Mattila

This paper introduces a novel proprioceptive state estimator for legged robots based on a learned displacement measurement from IMU data. Recent research in pedestrian tracking has shown that motion can be inferred from inertial data using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Russell Buchanan , Marco Camurri , Frank Dellaert , Maurice Fallon

Legged robots carry an IMU, but the inertial solution drifts because consumer-grade IMUs are noisy. However, the feet create intermittent contacts with the environment that can be used to mitigate that drift. This report develops a sequence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Frank Dellaert , Chiyun Noh , Varun Agrawal , Ayoung Kim

This paper presents a novel approach to vehicle positioning that operates without reliance on the global navigation satellite system (GNSS). Traditional GNSS approaches are vulnerable to interference in certain environments, rendering them…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Barak Or , Nimrod Segol , Areej Eweida , Maxim Freydin

Baseline generation for tracking applications is a difficult task when working with real world radar data. Data sparsity usually only allows an indirect way of estimating the original tracks as most objects' centers are not represented in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Nicolas Scheiner , Stefan Haag , Nils Appenrodt , Bharanidhar Duraisamy , Jürgen Dickmann , Martin Fritzsche , Bernhard Sick

Pedestrian dead reckoning is a challenging task due to the low-cost inertial sensor error accumulation. Recent research has shown that deep learning methods can achieve impressive performance in handling this issue. In this letter, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Boxuan Chen , Ruifeng Zhang , Shaochu Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Yu Liu

Gait is a unique biometric feature that can be recognized at a distance; thus, it has broad applications in crime prevention, forensic identification, and social security. To portray a gait, existing gait recognition methods utilize either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Hanqing Chao , Kun Wang , Yiwei He , Junping Zhang , Jianfeng Feng

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is a prevalent orthopedic condition in clinical practice. Inertial measurement unit sensors (IMUs) are an effective tool for monitoring and assessing gait impairment in patients with lumbar disc herniation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Yongsong Wang , Zhixin Li , Zhaohui Guo , Yin Ding , Zhan Huan , Lin Chen

Gait has been considered as a promising and unique biometric for person identification. Traditionally, gait data are collected using either color sensors, such as a CCD camera, depth sensors, such as a Microsoft Kinect, or inertial sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Qin Zou , Lihao Ni , Qian Wang , Qingquan Li , Song Wang

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

Event cameras are an interesting visual exteroceptive sensor that reacts to brightness changes rather than integrating absolute image intensities. Owing to this design, the sensor exhibits strong performance in situations of challenging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Runze Yuan , Tao Liu , Zijia Dai , Yi-Fan Zuo , Laurent Kneip

Inertial odometry (IO) using only Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) offers a lightweight and cost-effective solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, yet existing learning-based IO models often fail to generalize to UAVs due…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yuheng Qiu , Can Xu , Yutian Chen , Shibo Zhao , Junyi Geng , Sebastian Scherer

Ankle exoskeletons have garnered considerable interest for their potential to enhance mobility and reduce fall risks, particularly among the aging population. The efficacy of these devices relies on accurate real-time prediction of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Silas Ruhrberg Estévez , Josée Mallah , Dominika Kazieczko , Chenyu Tang , Luigi G. Occhipinti

This paper proposes a unified mathematical framework for inertial measurement unit (IMU) preintegration in inertial-aided navigation system in different frames under different motion condition. The navigation state is precisely discretized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Yarong Luo , Yang Liu , Chi Guo , Jingnan Liu

Real-time object pose estimation and tracking is challenging but essential for emerging augmented reality (AR) applications. In general, state-of-the-art methods address this problem using deep neural networks which indeed yield…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Yo-Chung Lau , Kuan-Wei Tseng , I-Ju Hsieh , Hsiao-Ching Tseng , Yi-Ping Hung

Inertial sensors are crucial for recognizing pedestrian activity. Recent advances in deep learning have greatly improved inertial sensing performance and robustness. Different domains and platforms use deep-learning techniques to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zeev Yampolsky , Ofir Kruzel , Victoria Khalfin Fekson , Itzik Klein

Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Scott Sun , Dennis Melamed , Kris Kitani

Navigation in Global Positioning Systems (GPS)-denied environments requires robust estimators reliant on fusion of inertial sensors able to estimate rigid-body's orientation, position, and linear velocity. Ultra-wideband (UWB) and Inertial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-17 Hashim A. Hashim , Abdelrahman E. E. Eltoukhy , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis , Mohammed I. Abouheaf

In this paper, we develop an integrated markerless gait tracking system with three Kinect v2 sensors. A geometric principle-based trilateration method is proposed for optimizing the accuracy of the measured gait data. To tackle the data…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Lin Yang , Bowen Yang , Haiwei Dong , Abdulmotaleb El Saddik