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Most mobile robots for indoor use rely on 2D laser scanners for localization, mapping and navigation. These sensors, however, cannot detect transparent surfaces or measure the full occupancy of complex objects such as tables. Deep Neural…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Francesco Verdoja , Jens Lundell , Ville Kyrki

In this letter, we present an interactive probabilistic mapping framework for a mobile manipulator picking objects from a pile. The aim is to map the scene, actively decide where to go next and which object to pick, make changes to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Liyang Liu , Simon Fryc , Lan Wu , Thanh Vu , Gavin Paul , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has achieved impressive rendering performance in novel view synthesis. However, its efficacy diminishes considerably in sparse image sequences, where inherent data sparsity amplifies geometric uncertainty during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Zhen Tan , Xieyuanli Chen , Jinpu Zhang , Lei Feng , Dewen Hu

Most of the existing robotic exploration schemes use occupancy grid representations and geometric targets known as frontiers. The occupancy grid representation relies on the assumption of independence between grid cells and ignores…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Jaime Valls Miro , Gamini Dissanayake

This article presents GLIM, a 3D range-inertial localization and mapping framework with GPU-accelerated scan matching factors. The odometry estimation module of GLIM employs a combination of fixed-lag smoothing and keyframe-based point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kenji Koide , Masashi Yokozuka , Shuji Oishi , Atsuhiko Banno

Geometric programming (GP) is a well-known optimization tool for dealing with a wide range of nonlinear optimization and engineering problems. In general, it is assumed that the parameters of a GP problem are deterministic and accurate.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-09 Tapas Mondal , Akshay Kumar Ojha , Sabyasachi Pani

Contextual optimization enhances decision quality by leveraging side information to improve predictions of uncertain parameters. However, existing approaches face significant challenges when dealing with multimodal or mixtures of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-19 YoungChul Yoon , Grani A. Hanasusanto , Yijie Wang

Recent advancements in neural rendering techniques have significantly enhanced the fidelity of 3D reconstruction. Notably, the emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has marked a significant milestone by adopting a discrete scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Licheng Shen , Ho Ngai Chow , Lingyun Wang , Tong Zhang , Mengqiu Wang , Yuxing Han

Information gathering algorithms play a key role in unlocking the potential of robots for efficient data collection in a wide range of applications. However, most existing strategies neglect the fundamental problem of the robot pose…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Jen Jen Chung , Juan Nieto , Roland Siegwart

Terrain elevation modeling for off-road navigation aims to accurately estimate changes in terrain geometry in real-time and quantify the corresponding uncertainties. Having precise estimations and uncertainties plays a crucial role in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Sanghun Jung , Daehoon Gwak , Byron Boots , James Hays

Recovering physical properties of objects in motion is a core task across scientific and industrial applications. When the relative motion between the object and the sensing apparatus provides sufficient angular coverage, Computerized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Daniel Burrows , Can Evren Yarman , Ozan Öktem

Gated imaging is an emerging sensor technology for self-driving cars that provides high-contrast images even under adverse weather influence. It has been shown that this technology can even generate high-fidelity dense depth maps with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Stefanie Walz , Tobias Gruber , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer

A new algorithm is developed to tackle the issue of sampling non-Gaussian model parameter posterior probability distributions that arise from solutions to Bayesian inverse problems. The algorithm aims to mitigate some of the hurdles faced…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-19 Leen Alawieh , Jonathan Goodman , John B. Bell

Both in terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments, the precise and informative model of the ground and the surface ahead is crucial for navigation and obstacle avoidance. The ground surface is not always flat and it may be sloped, bumpy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Pouria Mehrabi , Hamid D. Taghirad

Guided depth map super-resolution (GDSR), which aims to reconstruct a high-resolution (HR) depth map from a low-resolution (LR) observation with the help of a paired HR color image, is a longstanding and fundamental problem, it has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Zhiwei Zhong , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Debin Zhao , Xiangyang Ji

In this paper, we develop a high-dimensional map building technique that incorporates raw pixelated semantic measurements into the map representation. The proposed technique uses Gaussian Processes (GPs) multi-class classification for map…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Lu Gan , Steven A. Parkison , Jie Li , Ryan M. Eustice

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) techniques play a key role towards long-term autonomy of mobile robots due to the ability to correct localization errors and produce consistent maps of an environment over time. Contrarily to…

State-of-the-art LiDAR calibration frameworks mainly use non-probabilistic registration methods such as Iterative Closest Point (ICP) and its variants. These methods suffer from biased results due to their pair-wise registration procedure…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Ilir Tahiraj , Felix Fent , Philipp Hafemann , Egon Ye , Markus Lienkamp

In this paper, we provide a novel method for the estimation of unknown parameters of the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) in Positron Emission Tomography (PET). A vast majority of PET imaging methods are based on reconstruction model that is…

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