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Traditional systems typically require different models for processing different modalities, such as one model for RGB images and another for depth images. Recent research has demonstrated that a single model for one modality can be adapted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xiaoke Shen , Ioannis Stamos

Multimodal deep sensor fusion has the potential to enable autonomous vehicles to visually understand their surrounding environments in all weather conditions. However, existing deep sensor fusion methods usually employ convoluted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Sri Aditya Deevi , Connor Lee , Lu Gan , Sushruth Nagesh , Gaurav Pandey , Soon-Jo Chung

Hyperspectral (HS) images contain detailed spectral information that has proven crucial in applications like remote sensing, surveillance, and astronomy. However, because of hardware limitations of HS cameras, the captured images have low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Marija Vella , Bowen Zhang , Wei Chen , João F. C. Mota

Multispectral image fusion is a computer vision process that is essential to remote sensing. For applications such as dehazing and object detection, there is a need to offer solutions that can perform in real-time on any type of scene.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Nati Ofir , Jean-Christophe Nebel

The increasing adoption of human-robot interaction presents opportunities for technology to positively impact lives, particularly those with visual impairments, through applications such as guide-dog-like assistive robotics. We present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Adam Scicluna , Cedric Le Gentil , Sheila Sutjipto , Gavin Paul

The advantage of RGB-Thermal (RGB-T) detection lies in its ability to perform modality fusion and integrate cross-modality complementary information, enabling robust detection under diverse illumination and weather conditions. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Chao Tian , Zikun Zhou , Chao Yang , Guoqing Zhu , Fu'an Zhong , Zhenyu He

This work presents a probabilistic deep neural network that combines LiDAR point clouds and RGB camera images for robust, accurate 3D object detection. We explicitly model uncertainties in the classification and regression tasks, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-04 Di Feng , Yifan Cao , Lars Rosenbaum , Fabian Timm , Klaus Dietmayer

Compared to abstract features, significant objects, so-called landmarks, are a more natural means for vehicle localization and navigation, especially in challenging unstructured environments. The major challenge is to recognize landmarks in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Benjamin Naujoks , Patrick Burger , Hans-Joachim Wuensche

Object detection is a basic and important task in the field of aerial image processing and has gained much attention in computer vision. However, previous aerial image object detection approaches have insufficient use of scene semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zhiming Liu , Xuefei Zhang , Chongyang Liu , Hao Wang , Chao Sun , Bin Li , Weifeng Sun , Pu Huang , Qingjun Li , Yu Liu , Haipeng Kuang , Jihong Xiu

Object detection in Remote Sensing Images (RSI) is a critical task for numerous applications in Earth Observation (EO). Differing from object detection in natural images, object detection in remote sensing images faces challenges of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Bissmella Bahaduri , Zuheng Ming , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraou

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard

Object detection in natural scenes can be a challenging task. In many real-life situations, the visible spectrum is not suitable for traditional computer vision tasks. Moving outside the visible spectrum range, such as the thermal spectrum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Md Osman Gani , Somenath Kuiry , Alaka Das , Mita Nasipuri , Nibaran Das

This study proposes a lightweight multimodal adaptation framework to bridge the representation gap between RGB-pretrained VLMs and thermal infrared imagery, and demonstrates its practical utility using a real drone-collected dataset. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hao Chen , Fang Qiu , Fangchao Dong , Defei Yang , Eve Bohnett , Li An

We address the problem of multi-modal object tracking in video and explore various options of fusing the complementary information conveyed by the visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities including pixel-level, feature-level and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Zhangyong Tang , Tianyang Xu , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Xuefeng Zhu , Josef Kittler

Landmines remain a persistent humanitarian threat, with 110 million actively deployed mines across 60 countries, claiming 26,000 casualties annually. This research evaluates adaptive Red-Green-Blue (RGB) and Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 James E. Gallagher , Edward J. Oughton , Jana Kosecka

Drone-based vehicle detection aims at finding the vehicle locations and categories in an aerial image. It empowers smart city traffic management and disaster rescue. Researchers have made mount of efforts in this area and achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yiming Sun , Bing Cao , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu

With the fast growth in the visual surveillance and security sectors, thermal infrared images have become increasingly necessary ina large variety of industrial applications. This is true even though IR sensors are still more expensive than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-24 Feras Almasri , Olivier Debeir

Safety and reliability are crucial for the public acceptance of autonomous driving. To ensure accurate and reliable environmental perception, intelligent vehicles must exhibit accuracy and robustness in various environments. Millimeter-wave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Yue Sun , Yeqiang Qian , Chunxiang Wang , Ming Yang

Background modeling is widely used for intelligent surveillance systems to detect moving targets by subtracting the static background components. Most roadside LiDAR object detection methods filter out foreground points by comparing new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tianya Zhang , Yi Ge , Peter J. Jin

In this paper, a novel approach that uses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-carried intelligent reflector (IR) is proposed to enhance the performance of millimeter wave (mmW) networks. In particular, the UAV-IR is used to intelligently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis