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Images incorporate a wealth of information from a robot's surroundings. With the widespread availability of compact cameras, visual information has become increasingly popular for addressing the localisation problem, which is then termed as…

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Correspondence pruning aims to find correct matches (inliers) from an initial set of putative correspondences, which is a fundamental task for many applications. The process of finding is challenging, given the varying inlier ratios between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Tangfei Liao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Li Zhao , Tao Wang , Guobao Xiao

Multi-sensor fusion is widely used in the environment perception system of the autonomous vehicle. It solves the interference caused by environmental changes and makes the whole driving system safer and more reliable. In this paper, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Guanyu Zhang , Beichen Sun , Yuehan Qi , Yang Liu

Imitation learning has emerged as a crucial ap proach for acquiring visuomotor skills from demonstrations, where designing effective observation encoders is essential for policy generalization. However, existing methods often struggle to…

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Visuotactile sensing offers rich contact information that can help mitigate performance bottlenecks in imitation learning, particularly under vision-limited conditions, such as ambiguous visual cues or occlusions. Effectively fusing visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shulong Jiang , Shiqi Zhao , Yuxuan Fan , Peng Yin

Infrared and visible light image fusion aims to combine the strengths of both modalities to generate images that are rich in information and fulfill visual or computational requirements. This paper proposes an image fusion method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shuchen Sun , Ligen Shi , Chang Liu , Lina Wu , Jun Qiu

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is a major challenge for robotics and autonomous systems, with the goal of predicting the location of an image based solely on its visual features. State-of-the-art (SOTA) models extract global descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Shanshan Wan , Yingmei Wei , Lai Kang , Tianrui Shen , Haixuan Wang , Yee-Hong Yang

In this work, we present a dense tracking and mapping system named Vox-Fusion, which seamlessly fuses neural implicit representations with traditional volumetric fusion methods. Our approach is inspired by the recently developed implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xingrui Yang , Hai Li , Hongjia Zhai , Yuhang Ming , Yuqian Liu , Guofeng Zhang

One of the central challenges in visual place recognition (VPR) is learning a robust global representation that remains discriminative under large viewpoint changes, illumination variations, and severe domain shifts. While visual foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Hanyu Zhu , Zhihao Zhan , Yuhang Ming , Liang Li , Dibo Hou , Javier Civera , Wanzeng Kong

In this paper, we consider the problem of multi-view clustering on incomplete views. Compared with complete multi-view clustering, the view-missing problem increases the difficulty of learning common representations from different views. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Yiming Wang , Dongxia Chang , Zhiqiang Fu , Yao Zhao

Visual place recognition (VPR) enables autonomous systems to localize themselves within an environment using image information. While VPR techniques built upon a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) backbone dominate state-of-the-art VPR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Bruno Arcanjo , Bruno Ferrarini , Maria Fasli , Michael Milford , Klaus D. McDonald-Maier , Shoaib Ehsan

This paper presents a multi-sensor fusion strategy for a novel road-matching method designed to support real-time navigational features within advanced driving-assistance systems. Managing multihypotheses is a useful strategy for the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-09-10 Cherif Smaili , Maan El Badaoui El Najjar , François Charpillet

Multi-sensor fusion is crucial for accurate 3D object detection in autonomous driving, with cameras and LiDAR being the most commonly used sensors. However, existing methods perform sensor fusion in a single view by projecting features from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Rohit Mohan , Daniele Cattaneo , Florian Drews , Abhinav Valada

Multi-view radar-camera fused 3D object detection provides a farther detection range and more helpful features for autonomous driving, especially under adverse weather. The current radar-camera fusion methods deliver kinds of designs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Zizhang Wu , Guilian Chen , Yuanzhu Gan , Lei Wang , Jian Pu

Image fusion aims to integrate complementary information from multiple source images to produce a more informative and visually consistent representation, benefiting both human perception and downstream vision tasks. Despite recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xingyuan Li , Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , HaoYuan Xu , Zhiying Jiang , Jinyuan Liu

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang

Spatial registration across different visual modalities is a critical but formidable step in multi-modality image fusion for real-world perception. Although several methods are proposed to address this issue, the existing registration-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Congcong Bian , Haolong Ma , Hui Li , Zhongwei Shen , Xiaoqing Luo , Xiaoning Song , Xiao-Jun Wu

Image decomposition is a crucial subject in the field of image processing. It can extract salient features from the source image. We propose a new image decomposition method based on convolutional neural network. This method can be applied…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Yu Fu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Visual Place Recognition (VPR) enables coarse localization by comparing query images to a reference database of geo-tagged images. Recent breakthroughs in deep learning architectures and training regimes have led to methods with improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Connor Malone , Somayeh Hussaini , Tobias Fischer , Michael Milford

Multi-sensor fusion is essential for autonomous vehicle localization, as it is capable of integrating data from various sources for enhanced accuracy and reliability. The accuracy of the integrated location and orientation depends on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Changhong Lin , Jiarong Lin , Zhiqiang Sui , XiaoZhi Qu , Rui Wang , Kehua Sheng , Bo Zhang