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In this paper, we introduce a novel method to capture visual trajectories for navigating an indoor robot in dynamic settings using streaming image data. First, an image processing pipeline is proposed to accurately segment trajectories from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Aditya Rajguru , Christopher Collander , William J. Beksi

A robust 3D object tracker which continuously tracks surrounding objects and estimates their trajectories is key for self-driving vehicles. Most existing tracking methods employ a tracking-by-detection strategy, which usually requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Jieqi Shi , Peiliang Li , Shaojie Shen

We consider the following positioning problem where several base stations (BS) try to locate a user equipment (UE): The UE sends a positioning signal to several BS. Each BS performs Angle of Arrival (AoA) measurements on the received…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Viet-Hoa Nguyen , Vincent Corlay , Nicolas Gresset , Cristina Ciochina

This work develops novel algorithms for high-performance networking in the presence of obstacles based on a method for communicating via ultrasonic rays reflected at the obstacles. The rays are curves determined by the variable speed of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Kamen Lozev

We propose a novel online, point-based 3D reconstruction method from posed monocular RGB videos. Our model maintains a global point cloud representation of the scene, continuously updating the features and 3D locations of points as new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Chen Ziwen , Zexiang Xu , Li Fuxin

Radio frequency (RF) propagation modeling poses unique electromagnetic simulation challenges. While recent neural representations have shown success in visible spectrum rendering, the fundamentally different scales and physics of RF signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-02 Xingyu Chen , Zihao Feng , Kun Qian , Xinyu Zhang

Millimeter waves is one of 5G networks strategies to achieve high bit rates. Measurement campaigns with these signals are difficult and require expensive equipment. In order to generate realistic data this paper refines a methodology for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-28 Ailton Oliveira , Marcus Dias , Isabela Trindade , Aldebaro Klautau

We present $\texttt{moes}$, a ray tracing software package that computes the path of rays through echelle spectrographs. Our algorithm is based on sequential direct tracing with Seidel aberration corrections applied at the detector plane.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-01 Marcelo Tala Pinto , Adrian Kaminski , Andreas Quirrenbach , Mathias Zechmeister

In this paper we consider the problem of developing a computational model for emulating an RF channel. The motivation for this is that an accurate and scalable emulator has the potential to minimize the need for field testing, which is…

This paper explores a machine learning approach for generating high resolution point clouds from a single-chip mmWave radar. Unlike lidar and vision-based systems, mmWave radar can operate in harsh environments and see through occlusions…

The rapid expansion of oceanic applications such as underwater surveillance and mineral exploration is driving the need for real-time wireless backhaul of massive observational data. Such demands are challenging to meet using the narrowband…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Jiayue Liu , Tianqi Mao , Leyu Cao , Weijie Liu , Dezhi Zheng , Julian Cheng , Zhaocheng Wang

Network simulators are indispensable tools for the advancement of wireless network technologies, offering a cost-effective and controlled environment to simulate real-world network behavior. However, traditional simulators, such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Anatolij Zubow , Yannik Pilz , Sascha Rösler , Falko Dressler

We present RadarGen, a diffusion model for synthesizing realistic automotive radar point clouds from multi-view camera imagery. RadarGen adapts efficient image-latent diffusion to the radar domain by representing radar measurements in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tomer Borreda , Fangqiang Ding , Sanja Fidler , Shengyu Huang , Or Litany

For autonomous driving, radar sensors provide superior reliability regardless of weather conditions as well as a significantly high detection range. State-of-the-art algorithms for environment perception based on radar scans build up on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Marco Braun , Alessandro Cennamo , Markus Schoeler , Kevin Kollek , Anton Kummert

This paper explores a rapid, optimal smooth path-planning algorithm for robots (e.g., autonomous vehicles) in point cloud environments. Derivative maps such as dense point clouds, mesh maps, Octomaps, etc. are frequently used for path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zhaoliang Zheng , Thomas R. Bewley , Falko Kuester , Jiaqi Ma

We present a light and fast, public available, ray-tracer {\tt Splotch} software tool which supports the effective visualization of cosmological simulations data. We describe the algorithm it relies on, which is designed in order to deal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Dolag , M. Reinecke , C. Gheller , S. Imboden

Recent machine learning-based multi-object tracking (MOT) frameworks are becoming popular for 3-D point clouds. Most traditional tracking approaches use filters (e.g., Kalman filter or particle filter) to predict object locations in a time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Sukai Wang , Yuxiang Sun , Chengju Liu , Ming Liu

Simulating realistic sensors is a challenging part in data generation for autonomous systems, often involving carefully handcrafted sensor design, scene properties, and physics modeling. To alleviate this, we introduce a pipeline for…

Radio channel modeling is one of the most fundamental aspects in the process of designing, optimizing, and simulating wireless communication networks. In this field, long-established approaches such as analytical channel models and ray…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Benjamin Sliwa , Melina Geis , Caner Bektas , Melisa Lopéz , Preben Mogensen , Christian Wietfeld

A technique is presented for producing synthetic images from numerical simulations whereby the image resolution is adapted around prominent features. In so doing, adaptive image ray-tracing (AIR) improves the efficiency of a calculation by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 E. R. Parkin