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Room temperature operation is mandatory for any optoelectronics technology which aims to provide low-cost compact systems for widespread applications. In recent years, an important technological effort in this direction has been made in…

Event cameras are bio-inspired vision sensors that output pixel-level brightness changes instead of standard intensity frames. They offer significant advantages over standard cameras, namely a very high dynamic range, no motion blur, and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Elias Mueggler , Guillermo Gallego , Henri Rebecq , Davide Scaramuzza

Recently, 4D millimetre-wave radar exhibits more stable perception ability than LiDAR and camera under adverse conditions (e.g. rain and fog). However, low-quality radar points hinder its application, especially the odometry task that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Ningyuan Huang , Chenglin Pang , Zheng Fang

Thermal imaging from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) holds significant potential for applications in search and rescue, wildlife monitoring, and emergency response, especially under low-light or obscured conditions. However, the scarcity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Andreja Jurasovic , Stjepan Bogdan

Millimeter-wave radars are being increasingly integrated into commercial vehicles to support new advanced driver-assistance systems by enabling robust and high-performance object detection, localization, as well as recognition - a key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Xiangyu Gao , Guanbin Xing , Sumit Roy , Hui Liu

In recent years, consumer-level depth cameras have been adopted for various applications. However, they often produce depth maps at only a moderately high frame rate (approximately 30 frames per second), preventing them from being used for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ming-Ze Yuan , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu , Shihong Xia

This paper presents a study on the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for camera relocalisation and its application to map compression. We follow state of the art visual relocalisation results and evaluate the response to different data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Luis Contreras , Walterio Mayol-Cuevas

In recent years, significant advances in computer vision have also propelled progress in remote sensing. Concurrently, the use of drones has expanded, with many organizations incorporating them into their operations. Most drones are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Panagiotis Koletsis , Vasilis Efthymiou , Maria Vakalopoulou , Nikos Komodakis , Anastasios Doulamis , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Resistance thermometry provides a time-tested method for taking temperature measurements. However, fundamental limits to resistance-based approaches has produced considerable interest in developing photonic temperature sensors to leverage…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-06 Haitan Xu , Mohammad Hafezi , J. Fan , J. M. Taylor , G. F. Strouse , Zeeshan Ahmed

Camera rotation estimation from a single image is a challenging task, often requiring depth data and/or camera intrinsics, which are generally not available for in-the-wild videos. Although external sensors such as inertial measurement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Aalok Patwardhan , Callum Rhodes , Gwangbin Bae , Andrew J. Davison

To achieve robust motion estimation in visually degraded environments, thermal odometry has been an attraction in the robotics community. However, most thermal odometry methods are purely based on classical feature extractors, which is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Shibo Zhao , Peng Wang , Hengrui Zhang , Zheng Fang , Sebastian Scherer

In the future, extraterrestrial expeditions will not only be conducted by rovers but also by flying robots. The technical demonstration drone Ingenuity, that just landed on Mars, will mark the beginning of a new era of exploration…

Deformable Image Registration (DIR) plays a significant role in quantifying deformation in medical data. Recent Deep Learning methods have shown promising accuracy and speedup for registering a pair of medical images. However, in 4D (3D +…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Xiao Liang , Shan Lin , Fei Liu , Dimitri Schreiber , Michael Yip

Our paper proposes a direct sparse visual odometry method that combines event and RGB-D data to estimate the pose of agile-legged robots during dynamic locomotion and acrobatic behaviors. Event cameras offer high temporal resolution and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Shifan Zhu , Zhipeng Tang , Michael Yang , Erik Learned-Miller , Donghyun Kim

Detecting vulnerable road users (VRUs), particularly children and adolescents, in low light and adverse weather conditions remains a critical challenge in computer vision, surveillance, and autonomous vehicle systems. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Abdullah Jirjees , Ryan Myers , Muhammad Haris Ikram , Mohamed H. Zaki

Drones are increasingly used in fields like industry, medicine, research, disaster relief, defense, and security. Technical challenges, such as navigation in GPS-denied environments, hinder further adoption. Research in visual odometry is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Olivier Brochu Dufour , Abolfazl Mohebbi , Sofiane Achiche

To measure low-temperature thermal fields, we have developed a single-element cooled thermal imaging camera for a spectral range of 8{\div}14 {\mu}m with an internal shutter for radiometric calibration. To improve the accuracy of measuring…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-08-30 E. Gordiyenko , Yu. Fomenko , G. Shustakova , G. Kovalov , S. Shevchenko

Object detection in thermal images is an important computer vision task and has many applications such as unmanned vehicles, robotics, surveillance and night vision. Deep learning based detectors have achieved major progress, which usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Peng Liu , Fuyu Li , Wanyi Li

Rotating FMCW radar odometry methods often assume flat ground conditions. While this assumption is sufficient in many scenarios, including urban environments or flat mining setups, the highly dynamic terrain of subarctic environments poses…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Matěj Boxan , William Larrivée-Hardy , François Pomerleau

There is a rapid growth of applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in traffic management, such as traffic surveillance, monitoring, and incident detection. However, the existing literature lacks solutions to real-time incident…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hualong Tang , Joseph Post , Achilleas Kourtellis , Brian Porter , Yu Zhang