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Underexposure regions are vital to construct a complete perception of the surroundings for safe autonomous driving. The availability of thermal cameras has provided an essential alternate to explore regions where other optical sensors lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Farzeen Munir , Shoaib Azam , Muhammd Aasim Rafique , Ahmad Muqeem Sheri , Moongu Jeon , Witold Pedrycz

The ability to measure and record high-resolution depth images at long stand-off distances is important for a wide range of applications, including connected and automotive vehicles, defense and security, and agriculture and mining. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-13 Susan Chan , Abderrahim Halimi , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Robert K. Henderson , Richard Bowman , Steve McLaughlin , Gerald S. Buller , Jonathan Leach

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the central problems in fields such as healthcare, elderly care, and security at home. However, traditional HAR approaches face challenges including data scarcity, difficulties in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xi Chen , Julien Cumin , Fano Ramparany , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Polysomnography (PSG), the current gold standard method for monitoring and detecting sleep disorders, is cumbersome and costly. At-home testing solutions, known as home sleep apnea testing (HSAT), exist. However, they are contact-based, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Kai Del Regno , Alexander Vilesov , Adnan Armouti , Anirudh Bindiganavale Harish , Selim Emir Can , Ashley Kita , Achuta Kadambi

A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Susan Chan , Ryan E. Warburton , Genevieve Gariepy , Jonathan Leach , Daniele Faccio

Scene understanding plays an essential role in enabling autonomous driving and maintaining high standards of performance and safety. To address this task, cameras and laser scanners (LiDARs) have been the most commonly used sensors, with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Yahia Dalbah , Jean Lahoud , Hisham Cholakkal

This work builds on the previous introduction [1] of a coupled experimental-computational system devised to fully characterize the thermal behavior of complex 3D submicron electronic devices. The new system replaces the laser-based surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 Peter E. Raad , Pavel L. Komarov , M. Burzo

Tactile sensing is a essential for skilled manipulation and object perception, but existing devices are unable to capture mechanical signals in the full gamut of regimes that are important for human touch sensing, and are unable to emulate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Yitian Shao , Hui Hu , Yon Visell

Temporal action detection (TAD) is a fundamental video understanding task that aims to identify human actions and localize their temporal boundaries in videos. Although this field has achieved remarkable progress in recent years, further…

Gait recognition aims to identify a person at a distance, serving as a promising solution for long-distance and less-cooperation pedestrian recognition. Recently, significant advancements in gait recognition have achieved inspiring success…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Chuanfu Shen , Shiqi Yu , Jilong Wang , George Q. Huang , Liang Wang

Radar is a key component of the suite of perception sensors used for safe and reliable navigation of autonomous vehicles. Its unique capabilities include high-resolution velocity imaging, detection of agents in occlusion and over long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Arvind Srivastav , Soumyajit Mandal

Facial thermography is one of the most popular research areas in infrared thermal imaging, with diverse applications in medical, surveillance, and environmental monitoring. However, in contrast to facial imagery in the visual spectrum, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Roshanak Ashrafi , Mona Azarbayjania , Hamed Tabkhi

Despite radar's popularity in the automotive industry, for fusion-based 3D object detection, most existing works focus on LiDAR and camera fusion. In this paper, we propose TransCAR, a Transformer-based Camera-And-Radar fusion solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Su Pang , Daniel Morris , Hayder Radha

This study proposes a multi-radar system for non-contact physiological sensing across arbitrary body orientations. In integrating signals obtained from different radar viewpoints, we adopt a multivariate variational mode decomposition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Kimitaka Sumi , Takuya Sakamoto

Existing deep learning-based methods can capture shared features from optical and synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images for spatial alignment. However, optical-SAR registration remains challenging under large geometric deformations, because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zhuoyu Cai , Dou Quan , Ning Huyan , Pei He , Shuang Wang , Licheng Jiao

Reliable people detection is crucial for the safe autonomy of mobile robots and heavy vehicles, both on roads and in industrial settings like mining and construction. However, common sensors like cameras or lidars are prone to failure in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Mikael Skog , Oleksandr Kotlyar , Vladimír Kubelka , Martin Magnusson

Human sensing is significantly improving our lifestyle in many fields such as elderly healthcare and public safety. Research has demonstrated that human activity can alter the passive radio frequency (PRF) spectrum, which represents the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Huaizheng Mu , Liangqi Yuan , Jia Li

Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn sensors enables practical and cost efficient remote monitoring of Activity of DailyLiving (ADL), which are shown to provide clinical insights across multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Maximilien Burq , Niranjan Sridhar

Nowadays, crowd sensing becomes increasingly more popular due to the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices. However, the quality of such human-generated sensory data varies significantly among different users. To better utilize sensory data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yaliang Li , Houping Xiao , Zhan Qin , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Jing Gao , Kui Ren , Bolin Ding

Through-the-Wall radar (TWR) human activity recognition (HAR) is a technology that uses low-frequency ultra-wideband (UWB) signal to detect and analyze indoor human motion. However, the high dependence of existing end-to-end recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Weicheng Gao , Xiaodong Qu , Xiaopeng Yang