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The fields of autonomous systems and robotics are receiving considerable attention in civil applications such as construction, logistics, and firefighting. Nevertheless, the widespread adoption of these technologies is hindered by the…
Semantic segmentation is the problem of assigning a class label to every pixel in an image, and is an important component of an autonomous vehicle vision stack for facilitating scene understanding and object detection. However, many of the…
Visual intelligence at the edge is becoming a growing necessity for low latency applications and situations where real-time decision is vital. Object detection, the first step in visual data analytics, has enjoyed significant improvements…
Intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) will be a major component of tomorrow's smart cities. However, realizing the true potential of ITSs requires ultra-low latency and reliable data analytics solutions that can combine, in real-time, a…
In the foreseeable future, autonomous vehicles will require human assistance in situations they can not resolve on their own. In such scenarios, remote assistance from a human can provide the required input for the vehicle to continue its…
Automated vehicles promise to enhance transportation safety and efficiency. However, ensuring their reliability in real-world conditions remains challenging, particularly due to rare and unexpected situations known as edge cases. While…
Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) are integral to intelligent transportation systems, enabling vehicles to offload computational tasks to nearby roadside units (RSUs) and mobile edge computing (MEC) servers for real-time processing.…
Edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI), especially deep learning for nowadays, are gradually intersecting to build a novel system, called edge intelligence. However, the development of edge intelligence systems encounters some…
Robotic arms are widely used in automatic industries. However, with wide applications of deep learning in robotic arms, there are new challenges such as the allocation of grasping computing power and the growing demand for security. In this…
The delivery of high-quality, low-latency video streams is critical for remote autonomous vehicle control, where operators must intervene in real time. However, reliable video delivery over Fourth/Fifth-Generation (4G/5G) mobile networks is…
Autoware is an autonomous driving system implemented on Robot Operation System (ROS) 2, where an end-to-end timing guarantee is crucial to ensure safety. However, existing ROS 2 cause-effect chain models for analyzing end-to-end latency…
Object detection plays a crucial role in smart video analysis, with applications ranging from autonomous driving and security to smart cities. However, achieving real-time object detection on edge devices presents significant challenges due…
Current Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based approaches for time series generation face challenges such as suboptimal convergence, information loss in embedding spaces, and instability. To overcome these challenges, we introduce an…
Mobile edge computing (MEC) is an emerging communication scheme that aims at reducing latency. In this paper, we investigate a green MEC system under the existence of an eavesdropper. We use computation efficiency, which is defined as the…
Grasping in dense clutter is a fundamental skill for autonomous robots. However, the crowdedness and occlusions in the cluttered scenario cause significant difficulties to generate valid grasp poses without collisions, which results in low…
Real-time object detection in AR/VR systems faces critical computational constraints, requiring sub-10\,ms latency within tight power budgets. Inspired by biological foveal vision, we propose a two-stage pipeline that combines…
Pervasive applications are revolutionizing the perception that users have towards the environment. Indeed, pervasive applications perform resource intensive computations over large amounts of stream sensor data collected from multiple…
Today's distributed tracing frameworks are ill-equipped to troubleshoot rare edge-case requests. The crux of the problem is a trade-off between specificity and overhead. On the one hand, frameworks can indiscriminately select requests to…
The success of deep neural networks (DNN) in machine perception applications such as image classification and speech recognition comes at the cost of high computation and storage complexity. Inference of uncompressed large scale DNN models…
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are witnessing increased adoption in multiple domains owing to their high accuracy in solving real-world problems. However, this high accuracy has been achieved by building deeper networks, posing a fundamental…