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Understanding turbulence in a stratified environment requires a detailed picture of both the velocity field and the density field. Experimentally, this represents a significant measurement challenge, especially when full three-dimensional…
Interferometric Vision-Based Navigation (iVisNav) is a novel optoelectronic sensor for autonomous proximity operations. iVisNav employs laser emitting structured beacons and precisely characterizes six degrees of freedom relative motion…
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Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large number of pixels. Capturing and processing camera images requires significant resources. This work presents a minimalist approach to…
We present a Parseval tight wavelet frame for the representation and analysis of velocity vector fields of incompressible fluids. Our wavelets have closed form expressions in the frequency and spatial domains, are divergence free in the…
Event-based cameras are biologically inspired sensors that output events, i.e., asynchronous pixel-wise brightness changes in the scene. Their high dynamic range and temporal resolution of a microsecond makes them more reliable than…
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We explore the strengths and limitations of using a standard Michelson interferometer to sample line-of-sight-averaged temperature in water via two experimental setups: slow-varying temperature in static fluid and fast temperature…
Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) estimates velocities through correlations of particle images within interrogation windows, leading to a spatial modulation of the velocity field. Although in principle Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV)…
This paper proposes an enhancement of convolutional neural networks for object detection in resource-constrained robotics through a geometric input transformation called Visual Mesh. It uses object geometry to create a graph in vision…
Visual motion estimation is a well-studied challenge in autonomous navigation. Recent work has focused on addressing multimotion estimation in highly dynamic environments. These environments not only comprise multiple, complex motions but…
Event cameras are a bio-inspired class of sensors that asynchronously measure per-pixel intensity changes. Under fixed illumination conditions in static or low-motion scenes, rigidly mounted event cameras are unable to generate any events…
The investigation of liquid flow at the nanoscale is a key area of applied research with high relevance to Physics, Chemistry and Biology. We introduce a method and a device that allows to spatially resolve liquid flow by integrating an…
The use of tiny devices capable of low-latency gesture recognition is gaining momentum in everyday human-computer interaction and especially in medical monitoring fields. Embedded solutions such as fall detection, rehabilitation tracking,…
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