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We present a dispersive imaging method for trapped quantum gases based on digital off-axis holography. Both phase delay and intensity of the probe field are determined from the same image. Due to the heterodyne gain inherent to the…
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Estimating the 6-DoF pose of a rigid object from a single RGB image is a crucial yet challenging task. Recent studies have shown the great potential of dense correspondence-based solutions, yet improvements are still needed to reach…
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We demonstrate that laser beam collapse in highly nonlinear media can be described, for a large number of experimental conditions, by the geometrical optics approximation within high accuracy. Taking into account this fact we succeed in…
We consider the multi-target detection problem of recovering a set of signals that appear multiple times at unknown locations in a noisy measurement. In the low noise regime, one can estimate the signals by first detecting occurrences, then…
Robust localization in dense urban scenarios using a low-cost sensor setup and sparse HD maps is highly relevant for the current advances in autonomous driving, but remains a challenging topic in research. We present a novel monocular…
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Accurate and reliable localization is a fundamental requirement for autonomous vehicles to use map information in higher-level tasks such as navigation or planning. In this paper, we present a novel approach to vehicle localization in dense…