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Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) are increasingly utilised for diverse applications, ranging from environmental monitoring to security patrols. While USV technology is progressing, it remains clear that full autonomy is not achievable in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Zitian Peng , Shiyao Zhang , Shanliang Yao , Xiaohui Zhu , Mengjie Huang , Prudence Wong , Yong Yue

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are valuable for ocean exploration due to their flexibility and ability to carry communication and detection units. Nevertheless, AUVs alone often face challenges in harsh and extreme sea conditions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jingzehua Xu , Guanwen Xie , Xinqi Wang , Yimian Ding , Shuai Zhang

Artificial Water Bodies (AWBs) are human-made and require continuous monitoring due to their artificial biological processes. These systems necessitate regular maintenance to manage their ecosystems effectively. Unmanned Surface Vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ahmed H. Elsayed , Andrej Lejman , Frederic Stahl

The unsupervised 3D object detection is to accurately detect objects in unstructured environments with no explicit supervisory signals. This task, given sparse LiDAR point clouds, often results in compromised performance for detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Ruiyang Zhang , Hu Zhang , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

Owing to effective and flexible data acquisition, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has recently become a hotspot across the fields of computer vision (CV) and remote sensing (RS). Inspired by recent success of deep learning (DL), many advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xin Wu , Wei Li , Danfeng Hong , Ran Tao , Qian Du

Drones have proven to be useful in many industry segments such as security and surveillance, where e.g. on-board real-time object tracking is a necessity for autonomous flying guards. Tracking and following suspicious objects is therefore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Maarten Vandersteegen , Kristof Vanbeeck , Toon goedeme

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are known for their fast and versatile applicability. With UAVs' growth in availability and applications, they are now of vital importance in serving as technological support in search-and-rescue(SAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Xiaomin Lin , Cheng Liu , Allen Pattillo , Miao Yu , Yiannis Aloimonous

Accurate perception of dynamic obstacles is essential for autonomous robot navigation in indoor environments. Although sophisticated 3D object detection and tracking methods have been investigated and developed thoroughly in the fields of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhefan Xu , Haoyu Shen , Xinming Han , Hanyu Jin , Kanlong Ye , Kenji Shimada

Unsupervised object discovery is commonly interpreted as the task of localizing and/or categorizing objects in visual data without the need for labeled examples. While current object recognition methods have proven highly effective for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 José-Fabian Villa-Vásquez , Marco Pedersoli

This paper proposes an uncertainty-aware marine pollution source tracking framework for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). By integrating high-fidelity marine pollution dispersion simulation with informative path planning techniques, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Song Ma , Yanchao Wang , Richard Bucknall , Yuanchang Liu

Determining accurate bird's eye view (BEV) positions of objects and tracks in a scene is vital for various perception tasks including object interactions mapping, scenario extraction etc., however, the level of supervision required to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Paridhi Singh , Gaurav Singh , Arun Kumar

Recent years have seen tremendous advancements in the area of autonomous payload delivery via unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones. However, most of these works involve delivering the payload at a predetermined location using its GPS…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Aditya Vadduri , Anagh Benjwal , Abhishek Pai , Elkan Quadros , Aniruddh Kammar , Prajwal Uday

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) are pivotal in marine exploration, but their sensors' accuracy is compromised by the dynamic marine environment. Traditional calibration methods fall short in these conditions. This paper introduces a deep…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Yi Shen , Hao Liu , Chang Zhou , Wentao Wang , Zijun Gao , Qi Wang

Autonomous maritime surveillance and target vessel identification in environments where Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are not available is critical for a number of applications such as search and rescue and threat detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Frano Petric , Stjepan Bogdan

Despite the importance of unsupervised object detection, to the best of our knowledge, there is no previous work addressing this problem. One main issue, widely known to the community, is that object boundaries derived only from 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Hao Tian , Yuntao Chen , Jifeng Dai , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Xizhou Zhu

Recently worldwide interest is growing toward commercial, military or scientific Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) and hence there is required to develop their guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) systems. Real USVs are a relatively new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Pouyan Asgharian , Zati Hakim Azizul

Estimating the pose of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone is a challenging task. It is useful for many applications such as navigation, surveillance, tracking objects on the ground, and 3D reconstruction. In this work, we present a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Jan Hausberg , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Menandro Roxas , Takeshi Oishi

In this work, we consider the safety-oriented performance of 3D object detectors in autonomous driving contexts. Specifically, despite impressive results shown by the mass literature, developers often find it hard to ensure the safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Brian Hsuan-Cheng Liao , Chih-Hong Cheng , Hasan Esen , Alois Knoll

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imaging is a suitable solution for real-time monitoring different vehicles on the urban scale. Real-time vehicle detection with the use of uncertainty estimation in deep meta-learning for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mehdi Khoshboresh-Masouleh , Reza Shah-Hosseini

Open World Object Detection (OWOD) is a novel and challenging computer vision task that enables object detection with the ability to detect unknown objects. Existing methods typically estimate the object likelihood with an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulin He , Wei Chen , Yusong Tan , Siqi Wang