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Accurate distance estimation is a fundamental challenge in robotic perception, particularly in omnidirectional imaging, where traditional geometric methods struggle with lens distortions and environmental variability. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yitong Quan , Benjamin Kiefer , Martin Messmer , Andreas Zell

We propose a robust method for estimating road curb 3D parameters (size, location, orientation) using a calibrated monocular camera equipped with a fisheye lens. Automatic curb detection and localization is particularly important in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Stanislav Panev , Francisco Vicente , Fernando De la Torre , Véronique Prinet

In this paper, we present a subsystem, using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), for search and rescue missions, focusing on people detection, face recognition and tracking of identified individuals. The proposed solution integrates a UAV with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Luka Šiktar , Branimir Ćaran , Bojan Šekoranja , Marko Švaco

Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position. Recently, there have been attacks that target the weaknesses of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junho Choi , Hyun Myung

It is expected that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will play a vital role in future communication systems. Optimum positioning of UAVs, serving as base stations, can be done through extensive field measurements or ray tracing simulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Ibrahim Shoer , Bahadir K. Gunturk , Hasan F. Ates , Tuncer Baykas

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

Reliable backup localization for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied nighttime conditions remains an open challenge due to the severe modality gap between daytime RGB maps and nighttime thermal imagery. This work…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Ryan Allen , Melissa Greeff

Monocular simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is emerging in advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving, because a single camera is cheap and easy to install. Conventional monocular SLAM has two major challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Jinkyu Lee , Muhyun Back , Sung Soo Hwang , Il Yong Chun

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments is a key capability for mobile robots, but it is largely unsolved for robots equipped with only a single monocular camera and no dense range sensors. In this paper, we present a novel approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tomáš Musil , Matěj Petrlík , Martin Saska

The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as a substitute for ordinary vehicles in applications of search and rescue is being studied all over the world due to its flexible mobility and less obstruction, including two main tasks: search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nikite Mesvan

We present an unsupervised simultaneous learning framework for the task of monocular camera re-localization and depth estimation from unlabeled video sequences. Monocular camera re-localization refers to the task of estimating the absolute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Shun Taguchi , Noriaki Hirose

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging is a suitable solution for real-time monitoring different vehicles on the urban scale. Real-time vehicle detection with the use of uncertainty estimation in deep meta-learning for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh , Reza Shah-Hosseini

The field of collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction often focuses on the prediction of human behaviour, while assuming the information about the robot setup and configuration being known. This is often the case with fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Justinas Miseikis , Inka Brijacak , Saeed Yahyanejad , Kyrre Glette , Ole Jakob Elle , Jim Torresen

Ultra-wideband (UWB) technology has shown remarkable potential as a low-cost general solution for robot localization. However, limitations of the UWB signal for precise positioning arise from the disturbances caused by the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Umberto Albertin , Mauro Martini , Alessandro Navone , Marcello Chiaberge

Lightweight long-range mapping is critical for safe navigation of UAV swarms in large-scale unknown environments. Traditional stereo vision systems with fixed short baselines face limited perception ranges. To address this, we propose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zhaoying Wang , Xingxing Zuo , Wei Dong

We present a novel unsupervised learning framework for single view depth estimation using monocular videos. It is well known in 3D vision that enlarging the baseline can increase the depth estimation accuracy, and jointly optimizing a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Lipu Zhou , Jiamin Ye , Montiel Abello , Shengze Wang , Michael Kaess

For a group of cooperating UAVs, localizing each other is often a key task. This paper studies the localization problem for a group of UAVs flying in 3D space with very limited information, i.e., when noisy distance measurements are the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Bomin Jiang , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hatem Hman

Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology has seen an increased penetration in the robotics field as a robust localization method in recent years. UWB enables high accuracy distance estimation from time-of-flight measurements of wireless…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Carmen Martínez Almansa , Wang Shule , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

Inferring the depth of images is a fundamental inverse problem within the field of Computer Vision since depth information is obtained through 2D images, which can be generated from infinite possibilities of observed real scenes. Benefiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Raul de Queiroz Mendes , Eduardo Godinho Ribeiro , Nicolas dos Santos Rosa , Valdir Grassi

This paper presents a vision-only autonomous flight system for small UAVs operating in controlled indoor environments. The system combines semantic segmentation with monocular depth estimation to enable obstacle avoidance, scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Sebastian Mocanu , Emil Slusanschi , Marius Leordeanu