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Purpose: Intraoperative ultrasound (US) can enhance real-time visualization in transoral robotic surgery. The surgeon creates a mental map with a pre-operative scan. Then, a surgical assistant performs freehand US scanning during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Wanwen Chen , Adam Schmidt , Eitan Prisman , Septimiu E. Salcudean

Localization is one of the most crucial tasks for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems (UAVs) directly impacting overall performance, which can be achieved with various sensors and applied to numerous tasks related to search and rescue…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Thanh Nguyen Canh , Huy-Hoang Ngo , Xiem HoangVan , Nak Young Chong

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been considered for telecommunications purposes as relays, caches, or IoT data collectors. In addition to being easy to deploy, their maneuverability allows them to adjust their location…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Enes Krijestorac , Samer Hanna , Danijela Cabric

Recent advances in cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) methods have shown strong potential for supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in GNSS-denied environments. However, existing work predominantly focuses on matching UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kejia Liu , Haoyang Zhou , Ruoyu Xu , Peicheng Wang , Mingli Song , Haofei Zhang

Small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely investigated for use in a variety of applications such as remote sensing and aerial surveying. Direct three-dimensional (3D) mapping using a small-sized UAV equipped with a laser…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Taro Suzuki , Daichi Inoue , Yoshiharu Amano

Cross-view object geo-localization enables high-precision object localization through cross-view matching, with critical applications in autonomous driving, urban management, and disaster response. However, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuhan Hu , Yiru Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yingying Zhu

This paper addresses the problem of active collaborative localization in heterogeneous robot teams with unknown data association. It involves positioning a small number of identical unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) at desired positions so…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Igor Spasojevic , Xu Liu , Ankit Prabhu , Alejandro Ribeiro , George J. Pappas , Vijay Kumar

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

Trust region optimization-based received signal strength indicator (RSSI) interference source localization methods have been widely used in low-altitude research. However, these methods often converge to local optima in complex…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Guochen Gu , Zhipeng Lin , Qiuming Zhu , Junchang Chen , Qihui Wu , Hongtao Duan , Yang Huang , Weizhi Zhong

Regression-based LiDAR relocalization has recently emerged as a promising solution for high-precision positioning in GNSS-denied environments. However, these methods are primarily tailored to autonomous driving, exhibiting significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hengyu Mu , Jianshi Wu , Yuxin Guo , XianLian Lin , Qingyong Hu , Sheng Ao , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

To address the challenge of autonomous UGV localization in GNSS-denied off-road environments,this study proposes a matching-based localization method that leverages BEV perception image and satellite map within a road similarity space to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Zhenping Sun , Chuang Yang , Yafeng Bu , Bokai Liu , Jun Zeng , Xiaohui Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Coverage Path Planning (CPP) is critical for applications such as precision agriculture and search and rescue. While traditional methods rely on discrete grid-based representations, real-world UAV operations…

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are suited as cost-effective and adaptable platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs). Implementing aerial networks in disaster management scenarios and crowded areas…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Kamran Shafafi , Manuel Ricardo , Rui Campos

This paper describes how advanced deep learning based computer vision algorithms are applied to enable real-time on-board sensor processing for small UAVs. Four use cases are considered: target detection, classification and localization,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Alessandro Palmas , Pietro Andronico

Object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is fundamentally challenged by a prevalence of small, densely packed, and occluded objects within cluttered backgrounds. Conventional detectors struggle with this domain, as they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hongxing Peng , Lide Chen , Hui Zhu , Yan Chen

Distance estimation plays an important role for path planning and collision avoidance of swarm UAVs. However, the lack of annotated data seriously hinders the related studies. In this work, we build and present a UAVDE dataset for UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jiafan Zhuang , Duan Yuan , Rihong Yan , Weixin Huang , Wenji Li , Zhun Fan

For applications such as autonomous driving, self-localization/camera pose estimation and scene parsing are crucial technologies. In this paper, we propose a unified framework to tackle these two problems simultaneously. The uniqueness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Peng Wang , Ruigang Yang , Binbin Cao , Wei Xu , Yuanqing Lin

Vision-based pose estimation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in unknown environments is a rapidly growing research area in the field of robot vision. The task becomes more complex when the only available sensor is a static single camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ram Prasad Padhy , Shahzad Ahmad , Sachin Verma , Pankaj Kumar Sa , Sambit Bakshi

The capabilities of autonomous flight with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significantly increased in recent times. However, basic problems such as fast and robust geo-localization in GPS-denied environments still remain unsolved.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shuxiao Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Mark W. Mueller , Koushil Sreenath

In this paper, we consider an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled relaying system where multiple UAVs are deployed as aerial relays to support simultaneous communications from a set of source nodes to their destination nodes on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Zhenyu Kang , Changsheng You , Rui Zhang