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With the advent of new technologies, Augmented Reality (AR) has become an effective tool in remote collaboration. Narrow field-of-view (FoV) and motion blur can offer an unpleasant experience with limited cognition for remote viewers of AR…
Accurate localization is crucial for effectively operating mobile robots in indoor environments. This paper presents a comprehensive approach to mobile robot localization by integrating an ultrasound-based indoor positioning system (IPS)…
Sensor fusion of camera, LiDAR, and 4-dimensional (4D) Radar has brought a significant performance improvement in autonomous driving. However, there still exist fundamental challenges: deeply coupled fusion methods assume continuous sensor…
We address the problem of localizing multiple sources in 3D by combining sensor array measurements with camera observations. We propose a fusion framework extending the covariance matrix fitting method with an unbalanced optimal transport…
Creating mobile robots which are able to find and manipulate objects in large environments is an active topic of research. These robots not only need to be capable of searching for specific objects but also to estimate their poses often…
In order to mitigate the long processing delay and high energy consumption of mobile augmented reality (AR) applications, mobile edge computing (MEC) has been recently proposed and is envisioned as a promising means to deliver better…
Place recognition is one of the most crucial modules for autonomous vehicles to identify places that were previously visited in GPS-invalid environments. Sensor fusion is considered an effective method to overcome the weaknesses of…
Location-aware applications play an increasingly critical role in everyday life. However, satellite-based localization (e.g., GPS) has limited accuracy and can be unusable in dense urban areas and indoors. We introduce an image-based global…
The use of Augmented Reality (AR) for navigation purposes has shown beneficial in assisting physicians during the performance of surgical procedures. These applications commonly require knowing the pose of surgical tools and patients to…
For handheld smartphone AR interactions, bandwidth is a critical constraint. Streaming techniques have been developed to provide a seamless and high-quality user experience despite these challenges. To optimize streaming performance in…
Markerless Mobile Augmented Reality (AR) aims to anchor digital content in the physical world without using specific 2D or 3D objects. Absolute Pose Regressors (APR) are end-to-end machine learning solutions that infer the device's pose…
Location knowledge in indoor environment using Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) has become very useful and popular in recent years. Indoor wireless localization suffers from severe multi-path fading and non-line-of-sight conditions. This…
The prospect of assistive robots aiding in object organization has always been compelling. In an image-goal setting, the robot rearranges the current scene to match the single image captured from the goal scene. The key to an image-goal…
Robust and accurate localization is an essential component for robotic navigation and autonomous driving. The use of cameras for localization with high definition map (HD Map) provides an affordable localization sensor set. Existing methods…
Visual localization is an essential component of intelligent transportation systems, enabling broad applications that require understanding one's self location when other sensors are not available. It is mostly tackled by image retrieval…
IMUs are regularly used to sense human motion, recognize activities, and estimate full-body pose. Users are typically required to place sensors in predefined locations that are often dictated by common wearable form factors and the machine…
In this work, we research and evaluate multiple pose-graph fusion strategies for vehicle localization. We focus on fusing a single absolute localization system, i.e. automotive-grade Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) at 1 Hertz,…
Metric depth estimation plays an important role in mobile augmented reality (AR). With accurate metric depth, we can achieve more realistic user interactions such as object placement and occlusion detection. While specialized hardware like…
LADARs mounted on mobile platforms produce a wealth of precise range data on the surrounding objects and vehicles. The challenge we address is to infer from these raw LADAR data the location and orientation of nearby vehicles. We propose a…
There exist challenging problems in 3D human pose estimation mission, such as poor performance caused by occlusion and self-occlusion. Recently, IMU-vision sensor fusion is regarded as valuable for solving these problems. However, previous…