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Localization in a battlefield environment is increasingly challenging as GPS connectivity is often denied or unreliable, and physical deployment of anchor nodes across wireless networks for localization can be difficult in hostile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ganesh Sapkota , Sanjay Madria

Nowadays, plenty of deep learning technologies are being applied to all aspects of autonomous driving with promising results. Among them, object detection is the key to improve the ability of an autonomous agent to perceive its environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yongxiang Gu , Qianlei Wang , Xiaolin Qin

Object detection is a crucial component in autonomous vehicle systems. It enables the vehicle to perceive and understand its environment by identifying and locating various objects around it. By utilizing advanced imaging and deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Bsher Karbouj , Adam Michael Altenbuchner , Joerg Krueger

Obstacle detection in railway environments is crucial for ensuring safety. However, very few studies address the problem using a complete, modular, and flexible system that can both detect objects in the scene and estimate their distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Enrico Francesco Giannico , Federico Nesti , Gianluca D'Amico , Mauro Marinoni , Edoardo Carosio , Filippo Salotti , Salvatore Sabina , Giorgio Buttazzo

High precision localization is a crucial requirement for the autonomous driving system. Traditional positioning methods have some limitations in providing stable and accurate vehicle poses, especially in an urban environment. Herein, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Zhongyang Xiao , Kun Jiang , Shichao Xie , Tuopu Wen , Chunlei Yu , Diange Yang

Railway detection is critical for the automation of railway systems. Existing models often prioritize either speed or accuracy, but achieving both remains a challenge. To address the limitations of presetting anchor groups that struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hai Ni , Rui Wang , Scarlett Liu

Indoor localization for autonomous micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) requires specific localization techniques, since the Global Positioning System (GPS) is usually not available. We present an efficient onboard computer vision approach that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-10-25 V. Strobel , R. Meertens , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Precise and real-time rail vehicle localization as well as railway environment monitoring is crucial for railroad safety. In this letter, we propose a multi-LiDAR based simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system for railway…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yusheng Wang , Weiwei Song , Yidong Lou , Fei Huang , Zhiyong Tu , Shimin Zhang

This paper proposes a novel framework for real-time localization and egomotion tracking of a vehicle in a reference map. The core idea is to map the semantic objects observed by the vehicle and register them to their corresponding objects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jacqueline Ankenbauer , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

The availability of real-world data is a key element for novel developments in the fields of automotive and traffic research. Aerial imagery has the major advantage of recording multiple objects simultaneously and overcomes limitations such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Friedrich Kruber , Eduardo Sánchez Morales , Samarjit Chakraborty , Michael Botsch

Object detection in 3D with stereo cameras is an important problem in computer vision, and is particularly crucial in low-cost autonomous mobile robots without LiDARs. Nowadays, most of the best-performing frameworks for stereo 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Yuxuan Liu , Lujia Wang , Ming Liu

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

LiDAR-based localization and mapping is one of the core components in many modern robotic systems due to the direct integration of range and geometry, allowing for precise motion estimation and generation of high quality maps in real-time.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Julian Nubert , Etienne Walther , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

Mobile robots navigating in indoor and outdoor environments must be able to identify and avoid unsafe terrain. Although a significant amount of work has been done on the detection of standing obstacles (solid obstructions), not much work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Anish Singhani

Detecting small obstacles on the road ahead is a critical part of the driving task which has to be mastered by fully autonomous cars. In this paper, we present a method based on stereo vision to reliably detect such obstacles from a moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-16 Peter Pinggera , Sebastian Ramos , Stefan Gehrig , Uwe Franke , Carsten Rother , Rudolf Mester

UAVs have been widely used in visual inspections of buildings, bridges and other structures. In either outdoor autonomous or semi-autonomous flights missions strong GPS signal is vital for UAV to locate its own positions. However, strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

Vision based localization is the problem of inferring the pose of the camera given a single image. One solution to this problem is to learn a deep neural network to infer the pose of a query image after learning on a dataset of images with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Carlos Lassance , Yasir Latif , Ravi Garg , Vincent Gripon , Ian Reid

The rapid growth of the low-altitude economy has resulted in a significant increase in the number of Low, slow, and small (LLS) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), raising critical challenges for secure airspace management and reliable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Tianhao Liang , Mu Jia , Tingting Zhang , Junting Chen , Longyu Zhou , Tony Q. S. Quek , Pooi-Yuen Kam

Guaranteeing real-time and accurate object detection simultaneously is paramount in autonomous driving environments. However, the existing object detection neural network systems are characterized by a tradeoff between computation time and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Won Joon Yun , Soohyun Park , Joongheon Kim , David Mohaisen

In this paper, we present a real-time robust multi-view pedestrian detection and tracking system for video surveillance using neural networks which can be used in dynamic environments. The proposed system consists of two phases: multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-24 Md Zahangir Alom , Tarek M. Taha