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This paper introduces the BOW Planner, a scalable motion planning algorithm designed to navigate robots through complex environments using constrained Bayesian optimization (CBO). Unlike traditional methods, which often struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Sourav Raxit , Abdullah Al Redwan Newaz , Paulo Padrao , Jose Fuentes , Leonardo Bobadilla

Reliable localization is critical for robot navigation, yet most existing systems implicitly assume that all viewing directions at a location are equally informative. In practice, localization becomes unreliable when the robot observes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Jiajie Li , Boyang Sun , Luca Di Giammarino , Hermann Blum , Marc Pollefeys

Maintaining an up-to-date map to reflect recent changes in the scene is very important, particularly in situations involving repeated traversals by a robot operating in an environment over an extended period. Undetected changes may cause a…

Radio maps are emerging as a popular means to endow next-generation wireless communications with situational awareness. In particular, radio maps are expected to play a central role in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications since they…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-07 Daniel Romero , Raju Shrestha , Yves Teganya , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

In recent years, machine learning has become crucial in remote sensing analysis, particularly in the domain of Land-use/Land-cover (LULC). The synergy of machine learning and satellite imagery analysis has demonstrated significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Mingshi Li , Dusan Grujicic , Steven De Saeger , Stien Heremans , Ben Somers , Matthew B. Blaschko

With the acceleration of the urban expansion, urban change detection (UCD), as a significant and effective approach, can provide the change information with respect to geospatial objects for dynamical urban analysis. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Shiqi Tian , Ailong Ma , Zhuo Zheng , Yanfei Zhong

Spatial intelligence is emerging as a transformative frontier in AI, yet it remains constrained by the scarcity of large-scale 3D datasets. Unlike the abundant 2D imagery, acquiring 3D data typically requires specialized sensors and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Xingyu Miao , Haoran Duan , Quanhao Qian , Jiuniu Wang , Yang Long , Ling Shao , Deli Zhao , Ran Xu , Gongjie Zhang

We present McAssoc, a deep learning approach to the as-sociation of detection bounding boxes in different views ofa multi-camera system. The vast majority of the academiahas been developing single-camera computer vision algo-rithms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Zhongang Cai , Cunjun Yu , Junzhe Zhang , Jiawei Ren , Haiyu Zhao

Ultrasound is a vital imaging modality utilized for a variety of diagnostic and interventional procedures. However, an expert sonographer is required to make accurate maneuvers of the probe over the human body while making sense of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Deepak Raina , SH Chandrashekhara , Richard Voyles , Juan Wachs , Subir Kumar Saha

Remote sensing data is crucial for applications ranging from monitoring forest fires and deforestation to tracking urbanization. Most of these tasks require dense pixel-level annotations for the model to parse visual information from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Shasvat Desai , Debasmita Ghose

Availability of a few, large-size, annotated datasets, like ImageNet, Pascal VOC and COCO, has lead deep learning to revolutionize computer vision research by achieving astonishing results in several vision tasks.We argue that new tools to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Claudio Paternesi , Luca De Luigi , Luigi Lella , Daniele De Gregorio , Luigi Di Stefano

In semantic segmentation, the accuracy of models heavily depends on the high-quality annotations. However, in many practical scenarios, such as medical imaging and remote sensing, obtaining true annotations is not straightforward and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ryu Tadokoro , Tsukasa Takagi , Shin-ichi Maeda

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a part of our daily life with the primary goal of providing geopositioning service. For an unmanned aerial system (UAS), geolocalization ability is an extremely important necessity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jianli Wei , Deniz Karakay , Alper Yilmaz

Accurate pose estimation is fundamental for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, where Visual-Inertial SLAM (VI-SLAM) provides a cost-effective solution for localization and mapping. However, existing VI-SLAM methods mainly rely on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yiyang Wu , Xiaohu Zhang , Yanjin Du , Tongsu Zhang , Chujun Li , Siyang Chen , Guoyi Zhang , Xiangpeng Xu

Hyperspectral sensors enable the study of the chemical properties of scene materials remotely for the purpose of identification, detection, and chemical composition analysis of objects in the environment. Hence, hyperspectral images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Utsav B. Gewali , Sildomar T. Monteiro , Eli Saber

The utility of aerial imagery (Satellite, Drones) has become an invaluable information source for cross-disciplinary applications, especially for crisis management. Most of the mapping and tracking efforts are manual which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Ruchit Rawal , Prabhu Pradhan

Supervised machine learning methods for image analysis require large amounts of labelled training data to solve computer vision problems. The recent rise of deep learning algorithms for recognising image content has led to the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christoph Sager , Christian Janiesch , Patrick Zschech

This paper provides an overview of how recent advances in machine learning and the availability of data from earth observing satellites can dramatically improve our ability to automatically map croplands over long period and over large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Xiaowei Jia , Ankush Khandelwal , Vipin Kumar

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are known for their fast and versatile applicability. With UAVs' growth in availability and applications, they are now of vital importance in serving as technological support in search-and-rescue(SAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaomin Lin , Cheng Liu , Allen Pattillo , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonous

This paper presents a novel pipeline for development of an efficient set of tools for extracting information from the video of a structure, captured by an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to produce as-built documentation to aid inspection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Ahmad Hasan , Ashraf Qadir , Ian Nordeng , Jeremiah Neubert