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We present NeRFVS, a novel neural radiance fields (NeRF) based method to enable free navigation in a room. NeRF achieves impressive performance in rendering images for novel views similar to the input views while suffering for novel views…

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This paper presents a novel 3D myopic coverage path planning algorithm for lunar micro-rovers that can explore unknown environments with limited sensing and computational capabilities. The algorithm expands upon traditional non-graph path…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Shreya Santra , Kentaro Uno , Gen Kudo , Kazuya Yoshida

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have become a ubiquitous tool for modeling scene appearance and geometry from multiview imagery. Recent work has also begun to explore how to use additional supervision from lidar or depth sensor measurements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Anagh Malik , Parsa Mirdehghan , Sotiris Nousias , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos , David B. Lindell

The exploration of planetary surfaces is predominately unmanned, calling for a landing vehicle and an autonomous and/or teleoperated rover. Artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques can be leveraged for better mission…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Alexander Lavin

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) have gained prominence as a machine learning technique for representing 3D scenes and estimating the bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) from multiple images. However, most existing research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Lulin Zhang , Ewelina Rupnik , Tri Dung Nguyen , Stéphane Jacquemoud , Yann Klinger

Modern Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) learn a mapping from position to volumetric density leveraging proposal network samplers. In contrast to the coarse-to-fine sampling approach with two NeRFs, this offers significant potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Lukas Radl , Andreas Kurz , Michael Steiner , Markus Steinberger

In the realm of digital situational awareness during disaster situations, accurate digital representations, like 3D models, play an indispensable role. To ensure the safety of rescue teams, robotic platforms are often deployed to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Hartmut Surmann , Niklas Digakis , Jan-Nicklas Kremer , Julien Meine , Max Schulte , Niklas Voigt

As a promising fashion for visual localization, scene coordinate regression (SCR) has seen tremendous progress in the past decade. Most recent methods usually adopt neural networks to learn the mapping from image pixels to 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Le Chen , Weirong Chen , Rui Wang , Marc Pollefeys

This work describes the implementation of a simple and computationally efficient Intelligent Navigation System (INS) for autonomous systems used in areas where human access is impossible. The system uses Laser Range Finder (LRF) readings as…

Reconstructing large-scale 3D scenes is essential for autonomous vehicles, especially when partial sensor data is lost. Although the recently developed neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown compelling results in implicit representations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xiuzhong Hu , Guangming Xiong , Zheng Zang , Peng Jia , Yuxuan Han , Junyi Ma

In the realm of autonomous driving, achieving precise 3D reconstruction of the driving environment is critical for ensuring safety and effective navigation. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have shown promise in creating highly detailed and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Xiaochao Pan , Jiawei Yao , Hongrui Kou , Tong Wu , Canran Xiao

This work investigates the use of Neural implicit representations, specifically Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), for geometrical queries and motion planning. We show that by adding the capacity to infer occupancy in a radius to a pre-trained…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Michael Pantic , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Lionel Ott

While originally developed for novel view synthesis, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have recently emerged as an alternative to multi-view stereo (MVS). Triggered by a manifold of research activities, promising results have been gained…

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In advanced mission concepts with high levels of autonomy, spacecraft need to internally model the pose and shape of nearby orbiting objects. Recent works in neural scene representations show promising results for inferring generic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Anne Mergy , Gurvan Lecuyer , Dawa Derksen , Dario Izzo

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) are gaining significant interest for online active object reconstruction due to their exceptional memory efficiency and requirement for only posed RGB inputs. Previous NeRF-based view planning methods exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Sicong Pan , Liren Jin , Hao Hu , Marija Popović , Maren Bennewitz

First-Person-View (FPV) holds immense potential for revolutionizing the trajectory of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), offering an exhilarating avenue for navigating complex building structures. Yet, traditional Neural Radiance Field (NeRF)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Liqi Yan , Qifan Wang , Junhan Zhao , Qiang Guan , Zheng Tang , Jianhui Zhang , Dongfang Liu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) have emerged as a standard framework for representing 3D scenes and objects, introducing a novel data type for information exchange and storage. Concurrently, significant progress has been made in multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Francesco Ballerini , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Roberto Mirabella , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

The quality of three-dimensional reconstruction is a key factor affecting the effectiveness of its application in areas such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) can generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Qianqiu Tan , Tao Liu , Yinling Xie , Shuwan Yu , Baohua Zhang

The field of autonomous navigation for unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) is in continuous growth and increasing levels of autonomy have been reached in the last few years. However, the task becomes more challenging when the focus is on the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Achille Chiuchiarelli , Giacomo Franchini , Francesco Messina , Marcello Chiaberge

This work introduces Neural Elevations Models (NEMos), which adapt Neural Radiance Fields to a 2.5D continuous and differentiable terrain model. In contrast to traditional terrain representations such as digital elevation models, NEMos can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Adam Dai , Shubh Gupta , Grace Gao