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In this paper, we develop an online active mapping system to enable a quadruped robot to autonomously survey large physical structures. We describe the perception, planning and control modules needed to scan and reconstruct an object of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Yiduo Wang , Milad Ramezani , Maurice Fallon

Markov Random Fields (MRFs), a formulation widely used in generative image modeling, have long been plagued by the lack of expressive power. This issue is primarily due to the fact that conventional MRFs formulations tend to use simplistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Zhirong Wu , Dahua Lin , Xiaoou Tang

Due to the ability to synthesize high-quality novel views, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have been recently exploited to improve visual localization in a known environment. However, the existing methods mostly utilize NeRFs for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Boming Zhao , Luwei Yang , Mao Mao , Hujun Bao , Zhaopeng Cui

Noninvasive medical neuroimaging has yielded many discoveries about the brain connectivity. Several substantial techniques mapping morphological, structural and functional brain connectivities were developed to create a comprehensive road…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Alaa Bessadok , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub , Islem Rekik

We present NeRF-Det, a novel method for indoor 3D detection with posed RGB images as input. Unlike existing indoor 3D detection methods that struggle to model scene geometry, our method makes novel use of NeRF in an end-to-end manner to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Chenfeng Xu , Bichen Wu , Ji Hou , Sam Tsai , Ruilong Li , Jialiang Wang , Wei Zhan , Zijian He , Peter Vajda , Kurt Keutzer , Masayoshi Tomizuka

NeRF aims to learn a continuous neural scene representation by using a finite set of input images taken from various viewpoints. A well-known limitation of NeRF methods is their reliance on data: the fewer the viewpoints, the higher the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Matteo Bortolon , Alessio Del Bue , Fabio Poiesi

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have achieved remarkable progress in neural rendering. Extracting geometry from NeRF typically relies on the Marching Cubes algorithm, which uses a hand-crafted threshold to define the level set. However, this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yi Gu , Zhaorui Wang , Dongjun Ye , Renjing Xu

To address the challenge of efficient coverage by multi-robot systems in non-convex regions with multiple obstacles, this paper proposes a coverage control method based on the Generalized Voronoi Graph (GVG), which has two phases:…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zuyi Guo , Ronghao Zheng , Meiqin Liu , Senlin Zhang

Reconstructing category-specific objects using Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) from a single image is a promising yet challenging task. Existing approaches predominantly rely on projection-based feature retrieval to associate 3D points in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Kun Wang , Zhiqiang Yan , Zhenyu Zhang , Xiang Li , Jun Li , Jian Yang

In this paper, a novel approach is introduced which utilizes a Rapidly-exploring Random Graph to improve sampling-based autonomous exploration of unknown environments with unmanned ground vehicles compared to the current state of the art.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Marco Steinbrink , Philipp Koch , Bernhard Jung , Stefan May

Effective robotic autonomy in unknown environments demands proactive exploration and precise understanding of both geometry and semantics. In this paper, we propose ActiveSGM, an active semantic mapping framework designed to predict the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Liyan Chen , Huangying Zhan , Hairong Yin , Yi Xu , Philippos Mordohai

Semantic labelling is highly correlated with geometry and radiance reconstruction, as scene entities with similar shape and appearance are more likely to come from similar classes. Recent implicit neural reconstruction techniques are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Shuaifeng Zhi , Tristan Laidlow , Stefan Leutenegger , Andrew J. Davison

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) presented a novel way to represent scenes, allowing for high-quality 3D reconstruction from 2D images. Following its remarkable achievements, global localization within NeRF maps is an essential task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mangyu Kong , Seongwon Lee , Jaewon Lee , Euntai Kim

The continuous expansion of digital learning environments has catalyzed the demand for intelligent systems capable of providing personalized educational content. While current exercise recommendation frameworks have made significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Rong Fu , Zijian Zhang , Haiyun Wei , Jiekai Wu , Kun Liu , Xianda Li , Haoyu Zhao , Yang Li , Yongtai Liu , Ziming Wang , Rui Lu , Simon Fong

Currently, state-of-the-art exploration methods maintain high-resolution map representations in order to optimize exploration goals in each step that maximizes information gain. However, during exploring, those "optimal" selections could…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Fan Yang , Dung-Han Lee , John Keller , Sebastian Scherer

This work investigates the use of Neural implicit representations, specifically Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), for geometrical queries and motion planning. We show that by adding the capacity to infer occupancy in a radius to a pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Michael Pantic , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lionel Ott

Recent efforts in Neural Rendering Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive results on novel view synthesis by utilizing implicit neural representation to represent 3D scenes. Due to the process of volumetric rendering, the inference speed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Junli Cao , Huan Wang , Pavlo Chemerys , Vladislav Shakhrai , Ju Hu , Yun Fu , Denys Makoviichuk , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

We provide the first step toward developing a hierarchical control-estimation framework to actively plan robot trajectories for anomaly detection in confined spaces. The space is represented globally using a directed region graph, where a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Benjamin Wong , Tyler M. Paine , Santosh Devasia , Ashis G. Banerjee

Exploring an unknown environment without colliding with obstacles is one of the essentials of autonomous vehicles to perform diverse missions such as structural inspections, rescues, deliveries, and so forth. Therefore, unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Eungchang Mason Lee , Junho Choi , Hyungtae Lim , Hyun Myung

Most neural methods for Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs) are limited to Euclidean settings or simple graphs. In this work, we instead consider multigraphs, where parallel edges represent distinct travel options with varying trade-offs (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Filip Rydin , Morteza Haghir Chehreghani , Balázs Kulcsár