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Autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations around uncooperative, unknown spacecraft are critical for active debris removal and on-orbit servicing missions. A key component of such operations is the offline reconstruction of a 3D model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Antoine Legrand , Renaud Detry , Christophe De Vleeschouwer

We present a novel optimization algorithm called DroNeRF for the autonomous positioning of monocular camera drones around an object for real-time 3D reconstruction using only a few images. Neural Radiance Fields or NeRF, is a novel view…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dipam Patel , Phu Pham , Aniket Bera

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are a powerful representation for modeling a 3D scene as a continuous function. Though NeRF is able to render complex 3D scenes with view-dependent effects, few efforts have been devoted to exploring its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yifan Jiang , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Dejia Xu , Jonathan T. Barron , Zhangyang Wang , Tianfan Xue

The field of collaborative robotics and human-robot interaction often focuses on the prediction of human behaviour, while assuming the information about the robot setup and configuration being known. This is often the case with fixed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Justinas Miseikis , Inka Brijacak , Saeed Yahyanejad , Kyrre Glette , Ole Jakob Elle , Jim Torresen

Active 3D reconstruction of moving objects requires selecting informative viewpoints while accounting for object motion uncertainty during the decision-to-execution delay. Existing methods address only parts of this problem: next-best-view…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Karen Li , Mattia Mantovani , Robert J. Wood , Lorenzo Sabattini , Stephanie Gil

Multiple cameras can provide comprehensive multi-view video coverage of a person. Fusing this multi-view data is crucial for tasks like behavioral analysis, although it traditionally requires camera calibration, a process that is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yitao Zhu , Sheng Wang , Mengjie Xu , Zixu Zhuang , Zhixin Wang , Kaidong Wang , Han Zhang , Qian Wang

Reliable real-time 3D localization is essential for multi-UAV navigation, collision avoidance, and coordinated flight, yet onboard estimates can degrade under GNSS multipath, non-line-of-sight reception, vertical drift, and intentional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hosam Alamleh , Damir Pulatov

Multi-robot global localization (MR-GL) with unknown initial positions in a large scale environment is a challenging task. The key point is the data association between different robots' viewpoints. It also makes traditional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Yaojie Zhang , Haowen Luo , Weijun Wang , Wei Feng

Robots and other smart devices need efficient object-based scene representations from their on-board vision systems to reason about contact, physics and occlusion. Recognized precise object models will play an important role alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Kentaro Wada , Edgar Sucar , Stephen James , Daniel Lenton , Andrew J. Davison

Current methods for 3D reconstruction and environmental mapping frequently face challenges in achieving high precision, highlighting the need for practical and effective solutions. In response to this issue, our study introduces FlyNeRF, a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Maria Dronova , Vladislav Cheremnykh , Alexey Kotcov , Aleksey Fedoseev , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) use multi-view images for 3D scene representation, demonstrating remarkable performance. As one of the primary sources of multi-view images, multi-camera systems encounter challenges such as varying intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Yu Gao , Lutong Su , Hao Liang , Yufeng Yue , Yi Yang , Mengyin Fu

Ultra-wideband technology has emerged in recent years as a robust solution for localization in GNSS denied environments. In particular, its high accuracy when compared to other wireless localization solutions is enabling a wider range of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Wang Shule , Carmen Martínez Almansa , Jorge Peña Queralta , Zhuo Zou , Tomi Westerlund

Multiresolution image fusion is a key problem for real-time satellite imaging and plays a central role in detecting and monitoring natural phenomena such as floods. It aims to solve the trade-off between temporal and spatial resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Haoqing Li , Ricardo Borsoi , Tales Imbiriba , Pau Closas

Localization of objects is vital for robot-object interaction. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) application in robotics is an emerging and widely used object localization technique due to its accurate distance measurement, long-range,…

Reliable localization is critical for robot navigation in complex indoor environments. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty-aware localization method that enhances the reliability of localization outputs without modifying the prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Hye-Min Won , Jieun Lee , Jiyong Oh

Mutual localization serves as the foundation for collaborative perception and task assignment in multi-robot systems. Effectively utilizing limited onboard sensors for mutual localization between marker-less robots is a worthwhile goal.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Gaoming Chen , Kun Song , Xiang Xu , Wenhang Liu , Zhenhua Xiong

Reliable autonomous driving systems require accurate detection of traffic participants. To this end, multi-modal fusion has emerged as an effective strategy. In particular, 4D radar and LiDAR fusion methods based on multi-frame radar point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xiangyuan Peng , Yu Wang , Miao Tang , Bierzynski Kay , Lorenzo Servadei , Robert Wille

Accurate pose and velocity estimation is essential for effective spatial task planning in robotic manipulators. While centralized sensor fusion has traditionally been used to improve pose estimation accuracy, this paper presents a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mahboubeh Zarei , Robin Chhabra , Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi

Inter-agent relative localization is critical for many multi-robot systems operating in the absence of external positioning infrastructure or prior environmental knowledge. We propose a novel inter-agent relative 3D pose estimation system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Andrew Fishberg , Brian Quiter , Jonathan P. How

In this paper, we present a novel hybrid approach that combines Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Dynamic Window Approach (DWA) for adaptive 3D local navigation of high-degree-of-freedom robotic systems. Our method leverages sparse point…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chiara Castellani , Enrico Turco , Domenico Prattichizzo