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Despite outstanding success in vision amongst other domains, many of the recent deep learning approaches have evident drawbacks for robots. This manuscript surveys recent work in the literature that pertain to applying deep learning systems…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Jay M. Wong

This paper presents a vision-based modularized drone racing navigation system that uses a customized convolutional neural network (CNN) for the perception module to produce high-level navigation commands and then leverages a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Tianqi Wang , Dong Eui Chang

Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation (Aerial VLN) aims to obtain an unmanned aerial vehicle agent to navigate aerial 3D environments following human instruction. Compared to ground-based VLN, aerial VLN requires the agent to decide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Ganlong Zhao , Guanbin Li , Jia Pan , Yizhou Yu

Computer vision has received a significant attention in recent year, which is one of the important parts for robots to obtain information about the external environment. Visual trackers can provide the necessary physical and environmental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Shaoze You , Hua Zhu , Menggang Li , Yutan Li

In this study, we develop a simple daily assistive robot that controls its own vision according to linguistic instructions. The robot performs several daily tasks such as recording a user's face, hands, or screen, and remotely capturing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Kento Kawaharazuka , Naoaki Kanazawa , Yoshiki Obinata , Kei Okada , Masayuki Inaba

Avionics systems of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone are the critical electronic components found onboard that regulate, navigate, and control UAV travel while ensuring public safety. Contemporary UAV avionics work together to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Hashim A. Hashim

Drone-to-drone detection using visual feed has crucial applications, such as detecting drone collisions, detecting drone attacks, or coordinating flight with other drones. However, existing methods are computationally costly, follow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Tushar Sangam , Ishan Rajendrakumar Dave , Waqas Sultani , Mubarak Shah

This review provides a systematic analysis of comprehensive survey of 3D object detection with vision-language models(VLMs) , a rapidly advancing area at the intersection of 3D vision and multimodal AI. By examining over 100 research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I Roumeliotis , Rahul Harsha Cheppally , Marco Flores Calero , Manoj Karkee

The emergence of Vision Language Action (VLA) models marks a paradigm shift from traditional policy-based control to generalized robotics, reframing Vision Language Models (VLMs) from passive sequence generators into active agents for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Dapeng Zhang , Jing Sun , Chenghui Hu , Xiaoyan Wu , Zhenlong Yuan , Rui Zhou , Fei Shen , Qingguo Zhou

Over the past few years, deep learning techniques have achieved tremendous success in many visual understanding tasks such as object detection, image segmentation, and caption generation. Despite this thriving in computer vision and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Anh Nguyen

Object perception is a fundamental sub-field of Computer Vision, covering a multitude of individual areas and having contributed high-impact results. While Machine Learning has been traditionally applied to address related problems, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Filippos Gouidis , Alexandros Vassiliades , Theodore Patkos , Antonis Argyros , Nick Bassiliades , Dimitris Plexousakis

Learning to control robots without requiring engineered models has been a long-term goal, promising diverse and novel applications. Yet, reinforcement learning has only achieved limited impact on real-time robot control due to its high…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Philip Becker-Ehmck , Maximilian Karl , Jan Peters , Patrick van der Smagt

Agentic UAVs represent a new frontier in autonomous aerial intelligence, integrating perception, decision-making, memory, and collaborative planning to operate adaptively in complex, real-world environments. Driven by recent advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ranjan Sapkota , Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Manoj Karkee

This paper proposes a novel framework for autonomous drone navigation through a cluttered environment. Control policies are learnt in a low-level environment during training and are applied to a complex environment during inference. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Praveen Venkatesh , Viraj Shah , Vrutik Shah , Yash Kamble , Joycee Mekie

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications have sparked extraordinary interest in recent years. This achievement can be ascribed in part to advances in AI subfields including Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision (CV), and Natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Rufai Yusuf Zakari , Jim Wilson Owusu , Hailin Wang , Ke Qin , Zaharaddeen Karami Lawal , Yuezhou Dong

Obstacle avoidance in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), as a fundamental capability, has gained increasing attention with the growing focus on spatial intelligence. However, current obstacle-avoidance methods mainly depend on limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Xiangkai Zhang , Dizhe Zhang , WenZhuo Cao , Zhaoliang Wan , Yingjie Niu , Lu Qi , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Large vision-language models have driven remarkable progress in open-vocabulary robot policies, e.g., generalist robot manipulation policies, that enable robots to complete complex tasks specified in natural language. Despite these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Maximilian Adang , JunEn Low , Ola Shorinwa , Mac Schwager

With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and robotics, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with 3D vision is emerging as a transformative approach to enhancing robotic sensing technologies. This convergence enables…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Vinit Mehta , Charu Sharma , Karthick Thiyagarajan

A commercial robot, trained by its manufacturer to recognize a predefined number and type of objects, might be used in many settings, that will in general differ in their illumination conditions, background, type and degree of clutter, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Gabriele Angeletti , Barbara Caputo , Tatiana Tommasi

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered as one of the promising technologies for the next-generation wireless communication networks. Their mobility and their ability to establish line of sight (LOS) links with the users made them…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-27 Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Mustafa A. Kishk , Mohamed-Slim Alouini