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Event cameras are promising devices for lowlatency tracking and high-dynamic range imaging. In this paper,we propose a novel approach for 6 degree-of-freedom (6-DoF)object motion tracking that combines measurements of eventand frame-based…

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This paper tackles the problem of estimating the relative position, orientation, and velocity between a UAV and a planar platform undergoing arbitrary 3D motion during approach and landing. The estimation relies on measurements from…

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Vision-based target motion estimation is a fundamental problem in many robotic tasks. The existing methods have the limitation of low observability and, hence, face challenges in tracking highly maneuverable targets. Motivated by the aerial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Canlun Zheng , Hanqing Guo , Shiyu Zhao

This paper presents a simple algebraic method to estimate the pose of a camera relative to a planar target from $n \geq 4$ reference points with known coordinates in the target frame and their corresponding bearing measurements in the…

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For a solar-like star, the surface rotation evolves with time, allowing in principle to estimate the age of a star from its surface rotation period. Here we are interested in measuring surface rotation periods of solar-like stars observed…

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In this paper, we investigate the applicability of the astrometric method to the determination of the lens parameters for gravitational microlensing events toward both the LMC and the Galactic bulge. For this analysis, we investigate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Cheongho Han , Kyongae Chang

The study explored the usage of astronomical observations for the identification and tracking of artificial satellites. Spacecraft streaks on astronomical images are a growing issue for the astronomical community. The increasing number of…

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High-accuracy astrometry permits the determination of not only stellar tangential motion, but also the component along the line-of-sight. Such non-spectroscopic (i.e. astrometric) radial velocities are independent of stellar atmospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dainis Dravins , Lennart Lindegren , Soren Madsen

Gould & DePoy proposed a pixel lensing survey towards the Galactic bulge using a small aperture (~65 mm) camera with a large pixel size (10") detector and deliberately degraded optics achieving 30" PSF. In this paper, we estimate the event…

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The event camera is a novel bio-inspired vision sensor. When the brightness change exceeds the preset threshold, the sensor generates events asynchronously. The number of valid events directly affects the performance of event-based tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Xijie Xiang , Lin Zhu , Jianing Li , Yonghong Tian , Tiejun Huang

Detecting binary stars in photometric time series is traditionally done by measuring eclipses. This requires the orbital plane to be aligned with the observer. A new method without that requirement uses stellar oscillations to measure…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-13 Douglas L. Compton , Timothy R. Bedding , Simon J. Murphy , Dennis Stello

In racket sports, such as tennis, locating the ball's position at impact is important in clarifying player and equipment characteristics, thereby aiding in personalized equipment design. High-speed cameras are used to measure the impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Yuto Kase , Kai Ishibe , Ryoma Yasuda , Yudai Washida , Sakiko Hashimoto

Event cameras provide a natural and data efficient representation of visual information, motivating novel computational strategies towards extracting visual information. Inspired by the biological vision system, we propose a behavior driven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Nan Cai , Pia Bideau

Event cameras have a lot of advantages over traditional cameras, such as low latency, high temporal resolution, and high dynamic range. However, since the outputs of event cameras are the sequences of asynchronous events overtime rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 S. Mohammad Mostafavi I. , Lin Wang , Yo-Sung Ho , Kuk-Jin Yoon

Event cameras, also known as neuromorphic cameras, are an emerging technology that offer advantages over traditional shutter and frame-based cameras, including high temporal resolution, low power consumption, and selective data acquisition.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-22 Aniket Jagtap , RamaKrishna Venkatesh Saripalli , Joe Lemley , Waseem Shariff , Alan F. Smeaton

Asteroseismology involves probing the interiors of stars and quantifying their global properties, such as radius and age, through observationsof normal modes of oscillation. The technical requirements for conducting asteroseismology include…

Rotational speed is one of the important metrics to be measured for calibrating the electric motors in manufacturing, monitoring engine during car repairing, faults detection on electrical appliance and etc. However, existing measurement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Guangrong Zhao , Yiran Shen , Ning Chen , Pengfei Hu , Lei Liu , Hongkai Wen

Spatial convolution is arguably the most fundamental of 2D image processing operations. Conventional spatial image convolution can only be applied to a conventional image, that is, an array of pixel values (or similar image representation)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Cedric Scheerlinck , Nick Barnes , Robert Mahony

We show that an interferometer moving at a relativistic speed relative to a point source of light offers a sensitive probe of acceleration. Such an accelerometer contains no moving parts, and is thus more robust than conventional…

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