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This study describes a UWB and Machine Learning (ML)-based indoor positioning system. We propose a simple mathematical strategy to create data to reduce the job of measurements for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems. A…
High precision localization is a crucial requirement for the autonomous driving system. Traditional positioning methods have some limitations in providing stable and accurate vehicle poses, especially in an urban environment. Herein, we…
Object localization is an important computer vision problem with a variety of applications. The lack of large scale object-level annotations and the relative abundance of image-level labels makes a compelling case for weak supervision in…
Visual Place Recognition (VPR) is generally concerned with localizing outdoor images. However, localizing indoor scenes that contain part of an outdoor scene can be of large value for a wide range of applications. In this paper, we…
Capturing and labeling camera images in the real world is an expensive task, whereas synthesizing labeled images in a simulation environment is easy for collecting large-scale image data. However, learning from only synthetic images may not…
Illuminating a scene with artificial light is a prerequisite for seeing in dark environments. However, nonuniform and dynamic illumination can deteriorate or even break computer vision approaches, for instance when operating a robot with…
Outdoor positioning systems based on the Global Navigation Satellite System have several shortcomings that have deemed their use for indoor positioning impractical. Location fingerprinting, which utilizes machine learning, has emerged as a…
Computer vision (CV) has achieved great success in interpreting semantic meanings from images, yet CV algorithms can be brittle for tasks with adverse vision conditions and the ones suffering from data/label pair limitation. One of this…
We consider the challenging problem of outdoor lighting estimation for the goal of photorealistic virtual object insertion into photographs. Existing works on outdoor lighting estimation typically simplify the scene lighting into an…
Visible light communications (VLC) is an emerging technology that enables broadband data rates using the visible spectrum. VLC beam steering has been studied in the literature to track mobile users and to improve coverage. However, in some…
Pose estimation is a fundamental building block for robotic applications such as autonomous vehicles, UAV, and large scale augmented reality. It is also a prohibitive factor for those applications to be in mass production, since the…
Pre-trained general-purpose Vision-Language Models (VLM) hold the potential to enhance intuitive human-machine interactions due to their rich world knowledge and 2D object detection capabilities. However, VLMs for 3D coordinates detection…
Background: Loop closure detection is a crucial part in robot navigation and simultaneous location and mapping (SLAM). Appearance-based loop closure detection still faces many challenges, such as illumination changes, perceptual aliasing…
Bluetooth Low Energy systems are one of the most popular solutions used for indoor localization. Unfortunately their accuracy might not be sufficient for some of the applications. One way to reduce localization errors is hybrid positioning,…
Optical wireless technology has the potential to complement the wireless access services provided so far over RF. Apart from the abundant unlicensed bandwidth available for ultra-dense deployments over optical wireless bands, optical…
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Robots and autonomous systems need to know where they are within a map to navigate effectively. Thus, simultaneous localization and mapping or SLAM is a common building block of robot navigation systems. When building a map via a SLAM…
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