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Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for climate-relevant robotics research, identifying high-impact…

Recently, synthetic data generation and realistic rendering has advanced tasks like target tracking and human pose estimation. Simulations for most robotics applications are obtained in (semi)static environments, with specific sensors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Elia Bonetto , Chenghao Xu , Aamir Ahmad

For semantic segmentation in urban scene understanding, RGB cameras alone often fail to capture a clear holistic topology in challenging lighting conditions. Thermal signal is an informative additional channel that can bring to light the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Siqi Fan , Zhe Wang , Yan Wang , Jingjing Liu

Robots hold promise in many scenarios involving outdoor use, such as search-and-rescue, wildlife management, and collecting data to improve environment, climate, and weather forecasting. However, autonomous navigation of outdoor trails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-27 Michael L. Iuzzolino , Michael E. Walker , Daniel Szafir

Despite significant progress, image saliency detection still remains a challenging task in complex scenes and environments. Integrating multiple different but complementary cues, like RGB and Thermal (RGB-T), may be an effective way for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Chenglong Li , Guizhao Wang , Yunpeng Ma , Aihua Zheng , Bin Luo , Jin Tang

In this paper, we present DSERT-RoLL, a driving dataset that incorporates stereo event, RGB, and thermal cameras together with 4D radar and dual LiDAR, collected across diverse weather and illumination conditions. The dataset provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Hoonhee Cho , Jae-Young Kang , Yuhwan Jeong , Yunseo Yang , Wonyoung Lee , Youngho Kim , Kuk-Jin Yoon

High-resolution data in spatial and temporal contexts is imperative for developing climate resilient cities. Current datasets for monitoring urban parameters are developed primarily using manual inspections, embedded-sensing, remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Akshit Gupta , Joris Timmermans , Filip Biljecki , Remko Uijlenhoet

While RGB-Thermal crowd counting has shown promise, the paradigm faces critical limitations: RGB data raises privacy concerns in public surveillance, and multi-modal misalignment degrades fusion performance. We propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifei Qian , Zhongliang Guo , Chun Tong Lei , Bowen Deng , Chun Pong Lau , Xiaopeng Hong , Michael P. Pound

Recently, many breakthroughs are made in the field of Video Object Detection (VOD), but the performance is still limited due to the imaging limitations of RGB sensors in adverse illumination conditions. To alleviate this issue, this work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Zhengzheng Tu , Qishun Wang , Hongshun Wang , Kunpeng Wang , Chenglong Li

Visual Grounding (VG) aims to localize specific objects in an image according to natural language expressions, serving as a fundamental task in vision-language understanding. However, existing VG benchmarks are mostly derived from datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Tianyi Zhao , Jiawen Xi , Linhui Xiao , Junnan Li , Xue Yang , Maoxun Yuan , Xingxing Wei

We propose a novel framework for creating large-scale photorealistic datasets of indoor scenes, with ground truth geometry, material, lighting and semantics. Our goal is to make the dataset creation process widely accessible, transforming…

Semantic segmentation for uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) is fundamental for aerial scene understanding, yet existing RGB and RGB-T datasets remain limited in scale, diversity, and annotation efficiency due to the high cost of manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Markus Gross , Sai Bharadhwaj Matha , Rui Song , Viswanathan Muthuveerappan , Conrad Christoph , Julius Huber , Daniel Cremers

With the popularity of multi-modal sensors, visible-thermal (RGB-T) object tracking is to achieve robust performance and wider application scenarios with the guidance of objects' temperature information. However, the lack of paired training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Pengyu Zhang , Jie Zhao , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xiang Ruan

The ability to recognize objects is an essential skill for a robotic system acting in human-populated environments. Despite decades of effort from the robotic and vision research communities, robots are still missing good visual perceptual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mohammad Reza Loghmani , Barbara Caputo , Markus Vincze

RGB and thermal source data suffer from both shared and specific challenges, and how to explore and exploit them plays a critical role to represent the target appearance in RGBT tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel challenge-aware…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Chenglong Li , Lei Liu , Andong Lu , Qing Ji , Jin Tang

Perception is an essential component of pipelines in field robotics. In this survey, we quantitatively compare publicly available datasets available in unstructured outdoor environments. We focus on datasets for common perception tasks in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Peter Mortimer , Mirko Maehlisch

Autonomous robot systems have attracted increasing research attention in recent years, where environment understanding is a crucial step for robot navigation, human-robot interaction, and decision. Real-world robot systems usually collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Duy-Tho Le , Chenhui Gou , Stavya Datta , Hengcan Shi , Ian Reid , Jianfei Cai , Hamid Rezatofighi

This study introduces a lightweight perimeter tracking method designed for micro UAV teams operating over wildfire environments under limited bandwidth conditions. Thermal image frames generate coarse hot region masks through adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ercan Erkalkan , Vedat Topuz , Ayça Ak

RGBT tracking receives a surge of interest in the computer vision community, but this research field lacks a large-scale and high-diversity benchmark dataset, which is essential for both the training of deep RGBT trackers and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chenglong Li , Wanlin Xue , Yaqing Jia , Zhichen Qu , Bin Luo , Jin Tang , Dengdi Sun

Onboard sensors, such as cameras and thermal sensors, have emerged as effective alternatives to Global Positioning System (GPS) for geo-localization in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation. Since GPS can suffer from signal loss and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Jiuhong Xiao , Daniel Tortei , Eloy Roura , Giuseppe Loianno