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Accurately estimating high-resolution carbon emissions is crucial for effective emission governance and mitigation planning. While conventional methods for precise carbon accounting are hindered by substantial data collection efforts, the…

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In this study, we address the challenge of obstacle avoidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) through an innovative composite imitation learning approach that combines Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) with Behavior Cloning (BC) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Harsh Bansal , Vyom Goyal , Bhaskar Joshi , Akhil Gupta , Harikumar Kandath

Designing robust machine learning systems remains an open problem, and there is a need for benchmark problems that cover both environmental changes and evaluation on a downstream task. In this work, we introduce AVOIDDS, a realistic object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Elysia Q. Smyers , Sydney M. Katz , Anthony L. Corso , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

Methodical aerial population surveys monitoring critically endangered species in Canadian North Atlantic waters are instrumental in influencing government policies both in economic and conservational efforts. The primary factor hindering…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Joshua Power , Derek Jacoby , Marc-Antoine Drouin , Guillaume Durand , Yvonne Coady , Julian Meng

This article is devoted to addressing the cloud control of connected vehicles, specifically focusing on analyzing the effect of bi-directional communication-induced delays. To mitigate the adverse effects of such delays, a novel…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Ji-An Pan , Qing Xu , Keqiang Li , Chunying Yang , Jianqiang Wang

Remote sensing and automatic earth monitoring are key to solve global-scale challenges such as disaster prevention, land use monitoring, or tackling climate change. Although there exist vast amounts of remote sensing data, most of it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Oscar Mañas , Alexandre Lacoste , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto , David Vazquez , Pau Rodriguez

Aviation's non-CO$_2$ effects, especially the impact of aviation-induced contrails, drive atmospheric changes and can influence climate dynamics. Although contrails are believed to contribute to global warming through their net warming…

A numerical framework is developed to model contrail formation in the near-field exhaust of aircraft engines, resolving non-equilibrium phase transitions in compressible, multi-component, non-ideal fluid flows. The approach combines…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-30 Katharina Tegethoff , Andrew P. S. Wheeler

With the rise of autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), ensuring reliable object detection in all weather conditions is crucial for safety and efficiency. Adverse weather like snow, rain, and fog presents major…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Shivank Garg , Abhishek Baghel , Amit Agarwal , Durga Toshniwal

Understanding road scenes for visual perception remains crucial for intelligent self-driving cars. In particular, it is desirable to detect unexpected small road hazards reliably in real-time, especially under varying adverse conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Jongoh Jeong , Taek-Jin Song , Jong-Hwan Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Human trajectory forecasting is crucial in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and surveillance. Accurate forecasting requires models to consider various factors, including social interactions, multi-modal predictions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Giacomo Rosin , Muhammad Rameez Ur Rahman , Sebastiano Vascon

In applied machine learning, concept drift, which is either gradual or abrupt changes in data distribution, can significantly reduce model performance. Typical detection methods,such as statistical tests or reconstruction-based models,are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 N Harshit , K Mounvik

LiDAR point clouds collected from a moving vehicle are functions of its trajectories, because the sensor motion needs to be compensated to avoid distortions. When autonomous vehicles are sending LiDAR point clouds to deep networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yiming Li , Congcong Wen , Felix Juefei-Xu , Chen Feng

Clouds play a critical role in the Earth's energy budget and their potential changes are one of the largest uncertainties in future climate projections. However, the use of satellite observations to understand cloud feedbacks in a warming…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Takuya Kurihana , James Franke , Ian Foster , Ziwei Wang , Elisabeth Moyer

Several popular computer vision (CV) datasets, specifically employed for Object Detection (OD) in autonomous driving tasks exhibit biases due to a range of factors including weather and lighting conditions. These biases may impair a model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Aboli Marathe , Rahee Walambe , Ketan Kotecha

We introduce Constellation, a dataset of 13K images suitable for research on detection of objects in dense urban streetscapes observed from high-elevation cameras, collected for a variety of temporal conditions. The dataset addresses the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Mehmet Kerem Turkcan , Sanjeev Narasimhan , Chengbo Zang , Gyung Hyun Je , Bo Yu , Mahshid Ghasemi , Javad Ghaderi , Gil Zussman , Zoran Kostic

Aircraft taxiing conflict is a threat to the safety of airport operations, mainly due to the human error in control command infor-mation. In order to solve the problem, The aircraft taxiing deduction and conflict early warning method based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Jingchang Zhuge , Huiyuan Liang , Yiming Zhang , Shichao Li , Xinyu Yang , Jun Wu

Automated maritime collision avoidance will rely on human supervision for the foreseeable future. This necessitates transparency into how the system perceives a scenario and plans a maneuver. However, the causal logic behind avoidance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Joel Jose , Andreas Madsen , Andreas Brandsæter , Tor A. Johansen , Erlend M. Coates

In recent years, several progressive works promote the development of aerial tracking. One of the representative works is our previous work Fast-tracker which is applicable to various challenging tracking scenarios. However, it suffers from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Neng Pan , Ruibin Zhang , Tiankai Yang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

This paper addresses the challenges of complex dependencies and diverse anomaly patterns in cloud service environments by proposing a dependency modeling and anomaly detection method that integrates contrastive learning. The method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Yue Xing , Yingnan Deng , Heyao Liu , Ming Wang , Yun Zi , Xiaoxuan Sun