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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a widely used Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) technique for subsurface exploration, particularly in infrastructure inspection and maintenance. However, conventional interpretation methods are often limited by…

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We address the problem of robot localization using ground penetrating radar (GPR) sensors. Current approaches for localization with GPR sensors require a priori maps of the system's environment as well as access to approximate global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

There has been exciting recent progress in using radar as a sensor for robot navigation due to its increased robustness to varying environmental conditions. However, within these different radar perception systems, ground penetrating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Alexander Baikovitz , Paloma Sodhi , Michael Dille , Michael Kaess

"This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible." Driver's interaction with a vehicle via automatic gesture recognition is…

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Traditional ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data inversion leverages iterative algorithms which suffer from high computation costs and low accuracy when applied to complex subsurface scenarios. Existing deep learning-based methods focus on…

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This paper introduces a method based on a deep neural network (DNN) that is perfectly capable of processing radar data from extremely thinned radar apertures. The proposed DNN processing can provide both aliasing-free radar imaging and…

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Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is one of the most important non-destructive evaluation (NDE) instruments to detect and locate underground objects (i.e., rebars, utility pipes). Many previous researches focus on GPR image-based feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jinglun Feng , Liang Yang , Ejup Hoxha , Diar Sanakov , Stanislav Sotnikov , Jizhong Xiao

Crack is one of the most common road distresses which may pose road safety hazards. Generally, crack detection is performed by either certified inspectors or structural engineers. This task is, however, time-consuming, subjective and…

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Deep reinforcement learning has achieved great success in laser-based collision avoidance work because the laser can sense accurate depth information without too much redundant data, which can maintain the robustness of the algorithm when…

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RGB-based surface anomaly detection methods have advanced significantly. However, certain surface anomalies remain practically invisible in RGB alone, necessitating the incorporation of 3D information. Existing approaches that employ…

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This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advancements in image processing and deep learning techniques for pavement distress detection and classification, a critical aspect in modern pavement management systems. The conventional…

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LiDAR-based place recognition (LPR) plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving, which assists Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems in reducing accumulated errors and achieving reliable localization. However, existing reviews…

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Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) combines depth resolution, non-destructive operation, and broad material sensitivity, yet it has seen limited use in diagnosing building envelopes. The compact geometry of wall assemblies, where reflections…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Ahmed Nirjhar Alam , Wesley Reinhart , Rebecca Napolitano

Recently, deep learning based single image super-resolution(SR) approaches have achieved great development. The state-of-the-art SR methods usually adopt a feed-forward pipeline to establish a non-linear mapping between low-res(LR) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Jinghui Qin , Ziwei Xie , Yukai Shi , Wushao Wen

In autonomous driving, robust place recognition is critical for global localization and loop closure detection. While inter-modality fusion of camera and LiDAR data in multimodal place recognition (MPR) has shown promise in overcoming the…

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To achieve accurate 3D object detection at a low cost for autonomous driving, many multi-camera methods have been proposed and solved the occlusion problem of monocular approaches. However, due to the lack of accurate estimated depth,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Ching-Yu Tseng , Yi-Rong Chen , Hsin-Ying Lee , Tsung-Han Wu , Wen-Chin Chen , Winston H. Hsu

Synthetic Aperture Radar SAR Automatic Target Recognition ATR is a key technique of remote-sensing image recognition which can be supported by deep neural networks The existing works of SAR ATR mostly focus on improving the accuracy of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Jacob Fein-Ashley , Tian Ye , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

When performing robot/vehicle localization using ground penetrating radar (GPR) to handle adverse weather and environmental conditions, existing techniques often struggle to accurately estimate distances when processing B-scan images with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Huaichao Wang , Xuanxin Fan , Ji Liu , Haifeng Li , Dezhen Song

Traditional radar imaging methods suffer from the problems of low resolution and poor noise suppression. We propose a new radar imaging method based on Self-supervised deep-learning-assisted compressed sensing (SS-DL-CS-Net). The original…

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