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This work presents a density-based framework for safe navigation in dynamic environments characterized by time-varying obstacle sets and time-varying target regions. We propose an analytical construction of time-varying density functions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sriram S. K. S Narayanan , Joseph Moyalan , Umesh Vaidya

Visual navigation in unknown environments based solely on natural language descriptions is a key capability for intelligent robots. In this work, we propose a navigation framework built upon off-the-shelf Visual Language Models (VLMs),…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weifan Zhang , Tingguang Li , Yuzhen Liu

Multimodal fusion of remote sensing images serves as a core technology for overcoming the limitations of single-source data and improving the accuracy of surface information extraction, which exhibits significant application value in fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Siyu Zhang , Lianlei Shan , Runhe Qiu

Surface defect inspection is an important task in industrial inspection. Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated promising performance in this domain. Nevertheless, these methods still suffer from misjudgment when encountering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Xiaoheng Jiang , Shilong Tian , Zhiwen Zhu , Yang Lu , Hao Liu , Li Chen , Shupan Li , Mingliang Xu

The fusion between an inertial navigation system and global navigation satellite systems is regularly used in many platforms such as drones, land vehicles, and marine vessels. The fusion is commonly carried out in a model-based extended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Barak Or , Itzik Klein

Multimodal object detection leveraging RGB and Infrared (IR) images is pivotal for robust perception in all-weather scenarios. While recent adapter-based approaches efficiently transfer RGB-pretrained foundation models to this task, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xiantai Xiang , Guangyao Zhou , Zixiao Wen , Wenshuai Li , Ben Niu , Feng Wang , Lijia Huang , Qiantong Wang , Yuhan Liu , Zongxu Pan , Yuxin Hu

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

High-precision navigation and positioning systems are critical for applications in autonomous vehicles and mobile mapping, where robust and continuous localization is essential. To test and enhance the performance of algorithms, some…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Feng Zhu , Zihang Zhang , Kangcheng Teng , Abduhelil Yakup , Xiaohong Zhang

Large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved notable progress in aligning visual inputs with text. However, their ability to deeply understand the unique physical properties of non-RGB vision sensor images remains limited. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sangyun Chung , Youngjoon Yu , Se Yeon Kim , Youngchae Chee , Yong Man Ro

Detecting water-surface targets for Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) is challenging due to wave clutter, specular reflections, and weak appearance cues in long-range observations. Although 4D millimeter-wave radar complements cameras under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yuting Wan , Liguo Sun , Jiuwu Hao , Zao Zhang , Pin LV

Panoptic Driving Perception (PDP) is critical for the autonomous navigation of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs). A PDP model typically integrates multiple tasks, necessitating the simultaneous and robust execution of various perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Runwei Guan , Shanliang Yao , Xiaohui Zhu , Ka Lok Man , Yong Yue , Jeremy Smith , Eng Gee Lim , Yutao Yue

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) is evolving from single-point pathfinding toward the more challenging Multi-Goal VLN. This task requires agents to accurately identify multiple entities while collaboratively reasoning over their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Ling Luo , Qiangian Bai

Object Goal Navigation-requiring an agent to locate a specific object in an unseen environment-remains a core challenge in embodied AI. Although recent progress in Vision-Language Model (VLM)-based agents has demonstrated promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Dujun Nie , Xianda Guo , Yiqun Duan , Ruijun Zhang , Long Chen

Vision-and-Language navigation (VLN) requires an agent to navigate in unseen environment by following natural language instruction. For task completion, the agent needs to align and integrate various navigation modalities, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Mengfei Du , Binhao Wu , Jiwen Zhang , Zhihao Fan , Zejun Li , Ruipu Luo , Xuanjing Huang , Zhongyu Wei

Vision-based object tracking is a critical component for achieving autonomous aerial navigation, particularly for obstacle avoidance. Neuromorphic Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) or event cameras, inspired by biological vision, offer a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Sourav Sanyal , Amogh Joshi , Manish Nagaraj , Rohan Kumar Manna , Kaushik Roy

Navigation is a critical aspect of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating in complex underwater environments. Since global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals are unavailable underwater, navigation relies on inertial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-10 Rajini Makam , Nadav Cohen , Sumukh Shadakshari , Srinivasa Puranika Bhatta , Itzik Klein , Suresh Sundaram

Autonomous driving requires accurate scene understanding, including road geometry, traffic agents, and their semantic relationships. In online HD map generation scenarios, raster-based representations are well-suited to vision models but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhigang Sun , Yiru Wang , Anqing Jiang , Shuo Wang , Yu Gao , Yuwen Heng , Shouyi Zhang , An He , Hao Jiang , Jinhao Chai , Zichong Gu , Wang Jijun , Shichen Tang , Lavdim Halilaj , Juergen Luettin , Hao Sun

Autonomous drones capable of interpreting and executing high-level language instructions in unstructured environments remain a long-standing goal. Yet existing approaches are constrained by their dependence on hand-crafted skills, extensive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qianzhong Chen , Naixiang Gao , Suning Huang , JunEn Low , Timothy Chen , Jiankai Sun , Mac Schwager

In robotics, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models that integrate diverse multimodal signals from multi-view inputs have emerged as an effective approach. However, most prior work adopts static fusion that processes all visual inputs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Young-Chae Son , Jung-Woo Lee , Yoon-Ji Choi , Dae-Kwan Ko , Soo-Chul Lim

Navigating unseen, large-scale environments based on complex and abstract human instructions remains a formidable challenge for autonomous mobile robots. Addressing this requires robots to infer implicit semantics and efficiently explore…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yi Du , Taimeng Fu , Zhipeng Zhao , Shaoshu Su , Zitong Zhan , Qiwei Du , Zhuoqun Chen , Bowen Li , Chen Wang