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We present a new particle tracking software algorithm designed to accurately track the motion of low-contrast particles against a background with large variations in light levels. The method is based on a polynomial fit of the intensity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Salman S. Rogers , Thomas A. Waigh , Xiubo Zhao , Jian R. Lu

In this work, we research and evaluate multiple pose-graph fusion strategies for vehicle localization. We focus on fusing a single absolute localization system, i.e. automotive-grade Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at 1 Hertz,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-22 Anweshan Das , Gijs Dubbelman

Accurately measuring the translations of objects between images is essential in many fields, including biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. One important application is tracking one or more particles by measuring their apparent…

Ghost imaging (GI) is an intriguing imaging technology which achieves the object images through intensity correlation between reference patterns and bucket signal. Here, we propose a probability model to explain the imaging mechanism of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wen-Kai Yu , Jian Leng

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

Ghost imaging incorporating deep learning technology has recently attracted much attention in the optical imaging field. However, deterministic illumination and multiple exposure are still essential in most scenarios. Here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruiguo Zhu , Hong Yu , Zhijie Tan , Ronghua Lu , Shensheng Han , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang

We propose a novel image based localization system using graph neural networks (GNN). The pretrained ResNet50 convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture is used to extract the important features for each image. Following, the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy

Computational temporal ghost imaging (CTGI) allows the reconstruction of a fast signal from a two dimensional detection with no temporal resolution. High speed spatial modulation is implemented to encode temporal detail of the signal into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Wenjie Jiang , Xianye Li , Shan Jiang , Yupeng Wang , Zexin Zhang , Guanbai He , Baoqing Sun

For VSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), localization is a challenging task, especially for some challenging situations: textureless frames, motion blur, etc.. To build a robust exploration and localization system in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Weinan Chen , Lei Zhu , Yisheng Guan , C. Ronald Kube , Hong Zhang

This paper proposes a novel method for geo-tracking, i.e. continuous metric self-localization in outdoor environments by registering a vehicle's sensor information with aerial imagery of an unseen target region. Geo-tracking methods offer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

An algorithm based on compressive sensing (CS) is proposed for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of moving targets. The received SAR echo is decomposed into the sum of basis sub-signals, which are generated by discretizing the target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-07 Jun Wang , Gang Li , Hao Zhang , Xiqin Wang

This paper improves visual-inertial systems to boost the localization accuracy for low-cost rescue robots. When robots traverse on rugged terrain, the performance of pose estimation suffers from big noise on the measurements of the inertial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Xiaoling Long , Qingwen Xu , Yijun Yuan , Zhenpeng He , Sören Schwertfeger

Visual odometry and Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) has been studied as one of the most important tasks in the areas of computer vision and robotics, to contribute to autonomous navigation and augmented reality systems. In case…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Seongwook Yoon , Jaehyun Kim , Sanghoon Sull

Localizing a person from a moving monocular camera is critical for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). To estimate the 3D human position from a 2D image, existing methods either depend on the geometric assumption of a fixed camera or use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yu Zhan , Hanjing Ye , Hong Zhang

Visual tracking fundamentally involves regressing the state of the target in each frame of a video. Despite significant progress, existing regression-based trackers still tend to experience failures and inaccuracies. To enhance the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Zhuang Qi , Junlin Zhang , Xin Qi

Cross-view image geolocalization provides an estimate of an agent's global position by matching a local ground image to an overhead satellite image without the need for GPS. It is challenging to reliably match a ground image to the correct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Lena M. Downes , Dong-Ki Kim , Ted J. Steiner , Jonathan P. How

Noise radars have the same mathematical description as a type of quantum radar known as quantum two-mode squeezing radar. Although their physical implementations are very different, this mathematical similarity allows us to analyze them…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 David Luong , Bhashyam Balaji , Sreeraman Rajan

Human eye gaze detection plays an important role in various fields, including human-computer interaction, virtual reality and cognitive science. Although different relatively accurate systems of eye tracking and gaze detection exist, they…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Ehsan Arbabi , Mohammad Shabani , Ali Yarigholi

Ghost imaging in the time domain allows for reconstructing fast temporal objects using a slow photodetector. The technique involves correlating random or pre-programmed probing temporal intensity patterns with the integrated signal measured…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Han Wu , Bo Hu , Fei Peng , Zinan Wang , Goëry Genty , Houkun Liang

Gaze is a valuable means of communication for impaired people with extremely limited motor capabilities. However, robust gaze-based intent recognition in multi-object environments is challenging due to gaze noise, micro-saccades, viewpoint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuzhi Lai , Shenghai Yuan , Peizheng Li , Andreas Zell