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Controlling a team of robots in a coordinated manner is challenging because centralized approaches (where all computation is performed on a central machine) scale poorly, and globally referenced external localization systems may not always…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Abhishek Goudar , Angela P. Schoellig

Recently, UAVs endowed with high mobility, low cost, and remote control have promoted the development of UAV-assisted real-time video/image acquisition applications, which have a high demand for both transmission rate and image resolution.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tang Xiao-Wei , Huang Xin-Lin Huang

Despite significant progress in global localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments, existing methods remain constrained by the availability of datasets. Current datasets often focus on small-scale scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Rouwan Wu , Xiaoya Cheng , Juelin Zhu , Xuxiang Liu , Maojun Zhang , Shen Yan

Efficient aerial data collection is important in many remote sensing applications. In large-scale monitoring scenarios, deploying a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) offers improved spatial coverage and robustness against individual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jonas Westheider , Julius Rückin , Marija Popović

Dynamic driving scene reconstruction is critical for autonomous driving simulation and closed-loop learning. While recent feed-forward methods have shown promise for 3D reconstruction, they struggle with long-range driving sequences due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kaiyuan Tan , Yingying Shen , Mingfei Tu , Haohui Zhu , Bing Wang , Guang Chen , Hangjun Ye , Haiyang Sun

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) into Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) offers synoptic visibility for traffic monitoring, yet scalable deployment is hindered by trajectory fragmentation, where vehicle identity…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jianlin Ye , Christos Kyrkou , Panayiotis Kolios

Rapid generation of large-scale orthoimages from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has been a long-standing focus of research in the field of aerial mapping. A multi-sensor UAV system, integrating the Global Positioning System (GPS), Inertial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jialei He , Zhihao Zhan , Zhituo Tu , Xiang Zhu , Jie Yuan

Advances in the Internet of Things are revolutionizing data acquisition, enhancing artificial intelligence and quality of service. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) provide an efficient data-gathering solution across varied environments. This…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Priyavrat Dev Sharma , Ibrahim Sorkhoh , Muthucumaru Maheswaran

Sparse and feature SLAM methods provide robust camera pose estimation. However, they often fail to capture the level of detail required for inspection and scene awareness tasks. Conversely, dense SLAM approaches generate richer scene…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Maaz Qureshi , Alexander Werner , Zhenan Liu , Amir Khajepour , George Shaker , William Melek

We present an efficient and automatic approach for accurate reconstruction of instances of big 3D objects from multiple, unorganized and unstructured point clouds, in presence of dynamic clutter and occlusions. In contrast to conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Tolga Birdal , Slobodan Ilic

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely used due to their low cost and versatility, but they also pose security and privacy threats. Therefore, reliable detection for low-altitude UAVs is an important issue. The strong ground clutter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-25 Zeyang Wu , Wenbo Wang , Yuexing Peng

The reliable fusion of depth maps from multiple viewpoints has become an important problem in many 3D reconstruction pipelines. In this work, we investigate its impact on robotic bin-picking tasks such as 6D object pose estimation. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Jun Yang , Dong Li , Steven L. Waslander

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been used for many applications in recent years, from urban search and rescue, to agricultural surveying, to autonomous underground mine exploration. However, deploying UAVs in tight, indoor spaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Stuart Golodetz , Madhu Vankadari , Aluna Everitt , Sangyun Shin , Andrew Markham , Niki Trigoni

Neural surface reconstruction (NSR) has recently shown strong potential for urban 3D reconstruction from multi-view aerial imagery. However, existing NSR methods often suffer from geometric ambiguity and instability, particularly under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Da Li , Chen Yao , Tong Mao , Jiacheng Bao , Houjun Sun

Precisely detection of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs) plays a critical role in UAV defense systems. Deep learning is widely adopted for UAV object detection whereas researches on this topic are limited by the amount of dataset and small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Chen Rui , Guo Youwei , Zheng Huafei , Jiang Hongyu

A key technical challenge in performing 6D object pose estimation from RGB-D image is to fully leverage the two complementary data sources. Prior works either extract information from the RGB image and depth separately or use costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Chen Wang , Danfei Xu , Yuke Zhu , Roberto Martín-Martín , Cewu Lu , Li Fei-Fei , Silvio Savarese

Operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in complex environments that feature dynamic obstacles and external disturbances poses significant challenges, primarily due to the inherent uncertainty in such scenarios. Additionally, inaccurate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tianyu Liu , Fu Zhang , Fei Gao , Jia Pan

We review recent developments related to jet clustering algorithms and jet reconstruction, with particular emphasis on their implications in heavy ion collisions. These developments include fast implementations of sequential recombination…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-09 Juan Rojo

The advancement of UAV technology has enabled efficient, non-contact structural health monitoring. Combined with photogrammetry, UAVs can capture high-resolution scans and reconstruct detailed 3D models of infrastructure. However, a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Siqi Chen , Shanyue Guan

Relative localization is an important ability for multiple robots to perform cooperative tasks in GPS-denied environment. This paper presents a novel autonomous positioning framework for monocular relative localization of multiple tiny…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Shushuai Li , Christophe De Wagter , Guido C. H. E. de Croon