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Open-vocabulary 3D object detection for autonomous driving aims to detect novel objects beyond the predefined training label sets in point cloud scenes. Existing approaches achieve this by connecting traditional 3D object detectors with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Adrian Chow , Evelien Riddell , Yimu Wang , Sean Sedwards , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The increasing use of autonomous robot systems in hazardous environments underscores the need for efficient search and rescue operations. Despite significant advancements, existing literature on object search often falls short in overcoming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Matthew Collins , Jared J. Beard , Nicholas Ohi , Yu Gu

Traditional autonomous UAV search missions rely on geometric coverage patterns that ignore the semantic context of the target, leading to significant time waste in large-scale environments. In this paper we present LMPath, a pipeline for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jonathan A. Diller , Fernando Cladera , Camillo J. Taylor , Vijay Kumar

Exploring an unknown environment without colliding with obstacles is one of the essentials of autonomous vehicles to perform diverse missions such as structural inspections, rescues, deliveries, and so forth. Therefore, unmanned aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Eungchang Mason Lee , Junho Choi , Hyungtae Lim , Hyun Myung

As the uses of augmented reality (AR) become more complex and widely available, AR applications will increasingly incorporate intelligent features that require developers to understand the user's behavior and surrounding environment (e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Erin McGowan , Ethan Brewer , Claudio Silva

Autonomous vehicles rely extensively on perception systems to navigate and interpret their surroundings. Despite significant advancements in these systems recently, challenges persist under conditions like occlusion, extreme lighting, or in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Tianyuan Yuan , Yucheng Mao , Jiawei Yang , Yicheng Liu , Yue Wang , Hang Zhao

Object navigation (ObjectNav) requires an agent to navigate through unseen environments to find queried objects. Many previous methods attempted to solve this task by relying on supervised or reinforcement learning, where they are trained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yuxuan Kuang , Hai Lin , Meng Jiang

To advance the field of autonomous robotics, particularly in object search tasks within unexplored environments, we introduce a novel framework centered around the Probable Object Location (POLo) score. Utilizing a 3D object probability…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jiaming Wang , Harold Soh

Multi-agent systems powered by large language models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across diverse domains, yet existing automated design approaches seek monolithic solutions that fail to adapt resource allocation based on query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Bo Ma , Hang Li , ZeHua Hu , XiaoFan Gui , LuYao Liu , Simon Liu

Executing open-ended natural language queries is a core problem in robotics. While recent advances in imitation learning and vision-language-actions models (VLAs) have enabled promising end-to-end policies, these models struggle when faced…

Autonomous Underwater Vehicle-Manipulator systems (AUVMS) is a new tool for ocean exploration, the AUVMS path planning problem is addressed in this paper. AUVMS is a high dimension system with a large difference in inertia distribution,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xiaoxu Cao , Linyi Gu , JunChen Mu , Qian Zhang , Qi Song , Chunxiao Liu , Cong Qiu

Object-aware reasoning in vision-language tasks poses significant challenges for current models, particularly in handling unseen objects, reducing hallucinations, and capturing fine-grained relationships in complex visual scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Antonio Carlos Rivera , Anthony Moore , Steven Robinson

The demand is to solve the issue of UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) operating autonomously and implementing practical functions such as search and rescue in complex unknown environments. This paper proposes an autonomous search and rescue UAV…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Haobin Chen , Junyu Tao , Bize Zhou , Xiaoyan Liu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled autonomous GUI agents that translate natural language instructions into executable screen coordinates. However, grounding performance degrades in high-resolution interfaces, where dense layouts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Ruilin Yao , Shegnwu Xiong , Tianyu Zou , Shili Xiong , Yi Rong

Vehicle-based mobile sensing is an emerging data collection paradigm that leverages vehicle mobilities to scan a city at low costs. Certain urban sensing scenarios require dedicated vehicles for highly targeted monitoring, such as volatile…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Wen Ji , Ke Han , Qian Ge

Autonomous driving has attracted tremendous attention especially in the past few years. The key techniques for a self-driving car include solving tasks like 3D map construction, self-localization, parsing the driving road and understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Xinyu Huang , Peng Wang , Xinjing Cheng , Dingfu Zhou , Qichuan Geng , Ruigang Yang

Rescue vessels are the main actors in maritime safety and rescue operations. At the same time, aerial drones bring a significant advantage into this scenario. This paper presents the research directions of the AutoSOS project, where we work…

Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in logistics, agricultural automation, urban management, and emergency response are highly dependent on oriented object detection (OOD) to enhance visual perception. Although existing datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kai Ye , Haidi Tang , Bowen Liu , Pingyang Dai , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji

The growing need for autonomous on-orbit services such as inspection, maintenance, and situational awareness calls for intelligent spacecraft capable of complex maneuvers around large orbital targets. Traditional control systems often fall…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Matteo El-Hariry , Andrej Orsula , Matthieu Geist , Miguel Olivares-Mendez

We introduce the task of open-vocabulary visual instance search (OVIS). Given an arbitrary textual search query, Open-vocabulary Visual Instance Search (OVIS) aims to return a ranked list of visual instances, i.e., image patches, that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Sheng Liu , Kevin Lin , Lijuan Wang , Junsong Yuan , Zicheng Liu