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Benefiting from the great success of deep learning in computer vision, CNN-based object detection methods have drawn significant attentions. Various frameworks have been proposed which show awesome and robust performance for a large range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Yongliang Chen

One of the most important parts of environment perception is the detection of obstacles in the surrounding of the vehicle. To achieve that, several sensors like radars, LiDARs and cameras are installed in autonomous vehicles. The produced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Florian Piewak

Collision avoidance systems can play a vital role in reducing the number of accidents and saving human lives. In this paper, we introduce and validate a novel method for vehicles reactive collision avoidance using evolutionary neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Hesham Eraqi , Youssef EmadEldin , Mohamed Moustafa

Recently, learning-based approaches show promising results in navigation tasks. However, the poor generalization capability and the simulation-reality gap prevent a wide range of applications. We consider the problem of improving the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Wenzhe Cai , Guangran Cheng , Lingyue Kong , Lu Dong , Changyin Sun

Navigating robots safely and efficiently in crowded and complex environments remains a significant challenge. However, due to the dynamic and intricate nature of these settings, planning efficient and collision-free paths for robots to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Zhuanglei Wen , Mingze Dong , Xiai Chen

Object detection is an essential task for autonomous robots operating in dynamic and changing environments. A robot should be able to detect objects in the presence of sensor noise that can be induced by changing lighting conditions for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Oier Mees , Andreas Eitel , Wolfram Burgard

Autonomous driving has been an active area of research and development, with various strategies being explored for decision-making in autonomous vehicles. Rule-based systems, decision trees, Markov decision processes, and Bayesian networks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Haichuan Li , Liguo Zhou , Alois Knoll

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are successfully used for various visual perception tasks including bounding box object detection, semantic segmentation, optical flow, depth estimation and visual SLAM. Generally these tasks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Ganesh Sistu , Isabelle Leang , Senthil Yogamani

Several autonomous driving strategies have been applied to autonomous vehicles, especially in the collision avoidance area. The purpose of collision avoidance is achieved by adjusting the trajectory of autonomous vehicles (AV) to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Haichuan Li , Liguo Zhou , Zhenshan Bing , Marzana Khatun , Rolf Jung , Alois Knoll

Place recognition is one of the most challenging problems in computer vision, and has become a key part in mobile robotics and autonomous driving applications for performing loop closure in visual SLAM systems. Moreover, the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Ruben Gomez-Ojeda , Manuel Lopez-Antequera , Nicolai Petkov , Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez

The device used in this work detects the objects over the surface of the water using two thermal cameras which aid the users to detect and avoid the objects in scenarios where the human eyes cannot (night, fog, etc.). To avoid the obstacle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Ammar N. Abbas , David Moser

Deep Reinforcement Learning has been successfully applied in various computer games [8]. However, it is still rarely used in real-world applications, especially for the navigation and continuous control of real mobile robots [13]. Previous…

Mobile and embedded applications require neural networks-based pattern recognition systems to perform well under a tight computational budget. In contrast to commonly used synchronous, frame-based vision systems and CNNs, asynchronous,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Bodo Rückauer , Nicolas Känzig , Shih-Chii Liu , Tobi Delbruck , Yulia Sandamirskaya

In autonomous driving, navigation through unsignaled intersections with many traffic participants moving around is a challenging task. To provide a solution to this problem, we propose a novel branched network G-CIL for the navigation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Xiaodong Mei , Yuxiang Sun , Yuying Chen , Congcong Liu , Ming Liu

his paper presents a simple approach for drone navigation to follow a predetermined path using visual input only without reliance on a Global Positioning System (GPS). A Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is used to output the steering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-07 M. Samy , K. Amer , M. Shaker , M. ElHelw

Multi-robot navigation in complex environments relies on inter-robot communication and mutual observations for coordination and situational awareness. This paper studies the multi-robot navigation problem in unknown environments with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Ruofei Bai , Shenghai Yuan , Kun Li , Hongliang Guo , Wei-Yun Yau , Lihua Xie

In automotive applications, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is an established technology to determine the distance, velocity and angle of objects in the vicinity of the vehicle. The quality of predictions might be seriously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Christian Oswald , Mate Toth , Paul Meissner , Franz Pernkopf

We study the problem of target stabilization with robust obstacle avoidance in robots and vehicles that have access only to vision-based sensors for the purpose of realtime localization. This problem is particularly challenging due to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Alejandro Murillo-Gonzalez , Jorge I. Poveda

This paper addresses the challenge of perceiving complete object shapes through visual perception. While prior studies have demonstrated encouraging outcomes in segmenting the visible parts of objects within a scene, amodal segmentation, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jinyu Zhang , Yongchong Gu , Jianxiong Gao , Haitao Lin , Qiang Sun , Xinwei Sun , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Navigation and mobility are some of the major problems faced by visually impaired people in their daily lives. Advances in computer vision led to the proposal of some navigation systems. However, most of them require expensive and/or heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Fabricio Breve , Carlos Norberto Fischer