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Autonomous navigation in underwater environments presents challenges due to factors such as light absorption and water turbidity, limiting the effectiveness of optical sensors. Sonar systems are commonly used for perception in underwater…

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Navigation in varied and dynamic indoor environments remains a complex task for autonomous mobile platforms. Especially when conditions worsen, typical sensor modalities may fail to operate optimally and subsequently provide inapt input for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Jan Steckel

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

Underwater automatic target recognition (UATR) has been a challenging research topic in ocean engineering. Although deep learning brings opportunities for target recognition on land and in the air, underwater target recognition techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Xiaoteng Zhou , Changli Yu , Shihao Yuan , Xin Yuan , Hangchi Yu , Citong Luo

Underwater navigation presents several challenges, including unstructured unknown environments, lack of reliable localization systems (e.g., GPS), and poor visibility. Furthermore, good-quality obstacle detection sensors for underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Pengzhi Yang , Haowen Liu , Monika Roznere , Alberto Quattrini Li

Underwater acoustic environment estimation is a challenging but important task for remote sensing scenarios. Current estimation methods require high signal strength and a solution to the fragile echo labeling problem to be effective. In…

Nowadays underwater vision systems are being widely applied in ocean research. However, the largest portion of the ocean - the deep sea - still remains mostly unexplored. Only relatively few image sets have been taken from the deep sea due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifan Song , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Furkan Elibol , Kevin Köser

Underwater target detection using active sonar constitutes a critical research area in marine sciences and engineering. However, traditional signal processing methods face significant challenges in complex underwater environments due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Jichao Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Kunde Yang

This paper focuses on perceiving and navigating 3D environments using echoes and RGB image. In particular, we perform depth estimation by fusing RGB image with echoes, received from multiple orientations. Unlike previous works, we go beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Lingyu Zhu , Esa Rahtu , Hang Zhao

This paper proposes a method that combines the style transfer technique and the learned descriptor to enhance the matching performances of underwater sonar images. In the field of underwater vision, sonar is currently the most effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Xiaoteng Zhou , Changli Yu , Xin Yuan , Citong Luo

Global positioning systems can provide sufficient positioning accuracy for large scale robotic tasks in open environments. However, in underwater environments, these systems cannot be directly used, and measuring the position of underwater…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Vicu-Mihalis Maer , Levente Tamas , Lucian Busoniu

Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important technique that lays the foundation for many common tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Maarten de Backer , Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Ralph Simon , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Object detection in sonar images is crucial for underwater robotics applications including autonomous navigation and resource exploration. However, complex noise patterns inherent in sonar imagery, particularly speckle, reverberation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Ziyu Wang , Tao Xue , Jingyuan Li , Haibin Zhang , Zhiqiang Xu , Gaofei Xu , Zhen Wang , Yanbin Wang , Zhiquan Liu

In recent years, the underwater image formation model has found extensive use in the generation of synthetic underwater data. Although many approaches focus on scenes primarily affected by discoloration, they often overlook the model's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Vasiliki Ismiroglou , Malte Pedersen , Stefan H. Bengtson , Andreas Aakerberg , Thomas B. Moeslund

Forward-looking sonar can capture high resolution images of underwater scenes, but their interpretation is complex. Generic object detection in such images has not been solved, specially in cases of small and unknown objects. In comparison,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Reflective and textureless surfaces such as windows, mirrors, and walls can be a challenge for object and scene reconstruction. These surfaces are often poorly reconstructed and filled with depth discontinuities and holes, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Justin Wilson , Nicholas Rewkowski , Ming C. Lin , Henry Fuchs

Underwater imagery often exhibits distorted coloration as a result of light-water interactions, which complicates the study of benthic environments in marine biology and geography. In this research, we propose an algorithm to restore the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

2D forward-looking sonar is a crucial sensor for underwater robotic perception. A well-known problem in this field is estimating missing information in the elevation direction during sonar imaging. There are demands to estimate 3D…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yusheng Wang , Yonghoon Ji , Chujie Wu , Hiroshi Tsuchiya , Hajime Asama , Atsushi Yamashita

In ultrasound tomography, the speed of sound inside an object is estimated based on acoustic measurements carried out by sensors surrounding the object. An accurate forward model is a prominent factor for high-quality image reconstruction,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-24 Janne Koponen , Timo Lähivaara , Jari Kaipio , Marko Vauhkonen

We address the problem of estimating depth with multi modal audio visual data. Inspired by the ability of animals, such as bats and dolphins, to infer distance of objects with echolocation, some recent methods have utilized echoes for depth…

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