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Field robotics in perceptually-challenging environments require fast and accurate state estimation, but modern LiDAR sensors quickly overwhelm current odometry algorithms. To this end, this paper presents a lightweight frontend LiDAR…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Kenny Chen , Brett T. Lopez , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Ankur Mehta

On-orbit service is important for maintaining the sustainability of space environment. Space-based visible camera is an economical and lightweight sensor for situation awareness during on-orbit service. However, it can be easily affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yiman Zhu , Lu Wang , Jingyi Yuan , Yu Guo

With the rapid development of sixth-generation (6G) communication technology, global communication networks are moving towards the goal of comprehensive and seamless coverage. In particular, low earth orbit (LEO) satellites have become a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Wenjun Lan , Kongyang Chen , Jiannong Cao , Yikai Li , Ning Li , Qi Chen , Yuvraj Sahni

The trajectory and boundary of an orbiting satellite are fundamental information for on-orbit repairing and manipulation by space robots. This task, however, is challenging owing to the freely and rapidly motion of on-orbiting satellites,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Peizhuo Li , Yunda Sun , Xue Wan

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations play a pivotal role in sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks by providing global coverage, massive connections, and huge capacity. In this paper, we present a novel LEO satellite…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Wenfei Yao , Xiaoming Chen , Qi Wang , Xingyu Peng

A new robust and accurate approach for the detection and localization of flying objects with the purpose of highly dynamic aerial interception and agile multi-robot interaction is presented in this paper. The approach is proposed for use on…

The advent of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks, enhanced by artificial intelligence, promises ubiquitous connectivity through Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. These satellites are capable of collecting vast amounts of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Loc X. Nguyen , Sheikh Salman Hassan , Yu Min Park , Yan Kyaw Tun , Zhu Han , Choong Seon Hong

The proliferation of location-based services has led to massive spatial data generation. Spatial join is a crucial database operation that identifies pairs of objects from two spatial datasets based on spatial relationships. Due to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Yongyi Liu , Ahmed Mahmood , Amr Magdy , Minyao Zhu

Data collected by Earth-observing (EO) satellites are often afflicted by cloud cover. Detecting the presence of clouds -- which is increasingly done using deep learning -- is crucial preprocessing in EO applications. In fact, advanced EO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Andrew Du , Yee Wei Law , Michele Sasdelli , Bo Chen , Ken Clarke , Michael Brown , Tat-Jun Chin

Detecting small objects over large areas remains a significant challenge in satellite imagery analytics. Among the challenges is the sheer number of pixels and geographical extent per image: a single DigitalGlobe satellite image encompasses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Adam Van Etten

Space has emerged as an exciting new application area for machine learning, with several missions equipping deep learning capabilities on-board spacecraft. Pre-processing satellite data through on-board training is necessary to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Grace Kim , Luca Powell , Filip Svoboda , Nicholas Lane

As one of the basic tasks of computer vision, object detection has been widely used in many intelligent applications. However, object detection algorithms are usually heavyweight in computation, hindering their implementations on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Zhiqiang Cao , Zhijun Li , Pan Heng , Yongrui Chen , Daqi Xie , Jie Liu

Underwater object detection (UOD), aiming to identify and localise the objects in underwater images or videos, presents significant challenges due to the optical distortion, water turbidity, and changing illumination in underwater scenes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Long Chen , Yuzhi Huang , Junyu Dong , Qi Xu , Sam Kwong , Huimin Lu , Huchuan Lu , Chongyi Li

As a driving force in the advancement of intelligent in-orbit applications, DNN models have been gradually integrated into satellites, producing daily latency-constraint and computation-intensive tasks. However, the substantial computation…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jinglong Guan , Qiyang Zhang , Ilir Murturi , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar , Shangguang Wang

A Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation consists of a large number of small satellites traveling in space with high mobility and collecting vast amounts of mobility data such as cloud movement for weather forecast, large herds of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mohamed Elmahallawy , Tie Luo

Satellite computing has emerged as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networks. This innovative technology provides data processing capabilities, which facilitates the widespread implementation of artificial intelligence…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Shifeng Peng , Xuefeng Hou , Zhishu Shen , Qiushi Zheng , Jiong Jin , Atsushi Tagami , Jingling Yuan

Space-ground integrated networks hold great promise for providing global connectivity, particularly in remote areas where large amounts of valuable data are generated by Internet of Things (IoT) devices, but lacking terrestrial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jingyang Zhu , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Chunxiao Jiang , Linling Kuang

This papers focuses on symbol spotting on real-world digital architectural floor plans with a deep learning (DL)-based framework. Traditional on-the-fly symbol spotting methods are unable to address the semantic challenge of graphical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Alireza Rezvanifar , Melissa Cote , Alexandra Branzan Albu

With the increasingly congested and contested space environment, safe and effective satellite operation has become increasingly challenging. As a result, there is growing interest in autonomous satellite capabilities, with common machine…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Henry Lei , Joshua Aurand , Zachary S. Lippay , Sean Phillips

Automatic object detection by satellite remote sensing images is of great significance for resource exploration and natural disaster assessment. To solve existing problems in remote sensing image detection, this article proposes an improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Lei Yang , Guowu Yuan , Hao Zhou , Hongyu Liu , Jian Chen , Hao Wu