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Applications of diffusion models for visual tasks have been quite noteworthy. This paper targets making classification models more robust to occlusions for the task of object recognition by proposing a pipeline that utilizes a frozen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Rupayan Mallick , Sibo Dong , Nataniel Ruiz , Sarah Adel Bargal

Traditionally, sweet orange crop forecasting has involved manually counting fruits from numerous trees, which is a labor-intensive process. Automatic systems for fruit counting, based on proximal imaging, computer vision, and machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Thiago T. Santos , Kleber X. S. de Souza , João Camargo Neto , Luciano V. Koenigkan , Alécio S. Moreira , Sônia Ternes

Apples are among the most widely consumed fruits worldwide. Currently, apple harvesting fully relies on manual labor, which is costly, drudging, and hazardous to workers. Hence, robotic harvesting has attracted increasing attention in…

Occlusions of objects is one of the indispensable problems in Computer vision. While Convolutional Neural Net-works (CNNs) provide various state of the art approaches for regular image classification, they however, prove to be not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Karthick Prasad Gunasekaran , Nikita Jaiman

For computer vision systems to operate in dynamic situations, they need to be able to represent and reason about object permanence. We introduce a framework for learning to estimate 4D visual representations from monocular RGB-D, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Basile Van Hoorick , Purva Tendulkar , Didac Suris , Dennis Park , Simon Stent , Carl Vondrick

Analyzing complex scenes with Deep Neural Networks is a challenging task, particularly when images contain multiple objects that partially occlude each other. Existing approaches to image analysis mostly process objects independently and do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Xiaoding Yuan , Adam Kortylewski , Yihong Sun , Alan Yuille

Any 3D tracking algorithm has to deal with occlusions: multiple targets get so close to each other that the loss of their identities becomes likely. In the best case scenario, trajectories are interrupted, thus curbing the completeness of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Andrea Cavagna , Stefania Melillo , Leonardo Parisi , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi

Amodal segmentation aims to infer the complete shape of occluded objects, even when the occluded region's appearance is unavailable. However, current amodal segmentation methods lack the capability to interact with users through text input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Zhixuan Li , Hyunse Yoon , Sanghoon Lee , Weisi Lin

Images taken through window glass are often degraded by contaminants adhered to the glass surfaces. Such contaminants cause occlusions that attenuate the incoming light and scatter stray light towards the camera. Most of existing deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Qiang Li , Yuanming Cao

This paper presents a comprehensive review of ground agricultural robotic systems and applications with special focus on harvesting that span research and commercial products and results, as well as their enabling technologies. The majority…

Efficient identification of picking points is critical for automated fruit harvesting. Avocados present unique challenges owing to their irregular shape, weight, and less-structured growing environments, which require specific viewpoints…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xiao'ao Song , Konstantinos Karydis

Learning from Demonstration offers great potential for robots to learn to perform agricultural tasks, specifically selective harvesting. One of the challenges is that the target fruit can be oscillating while approaching. Grasping…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Robert van de Ven , Ard Nieuwenhuizen , Eldert J. van Henten , Gert Kootstra

In this letter, we present a new dataset to advance the state of the art in detecting citrus fruit and accurately estimate yield on trees affected by the Huanglongbing (HLB) disease in orchard environments via imaging. Despite the fact that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Jordan A. James , Heather K. Manching , Matthew R. Mattia , Kim D. Bowman , Amanda M. Hulse-Kemp , William J. Beksi

Goal recognition (GR) involves inferring the goals of other vehicles, such as a certain junction exit, which can enable more accurate prediction of their future behaviour. In autonomous driving, vehicles can encounter many different…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Cillian Brewitt , Massimiliano Tamborski , Cheng Wang , Stefano V. Albrecht

Occlusion removal is an interesting application of image enhancement, for which, existing work suggests manually-annotated or domain-specific occlusion removal. No work tries to address automatic occlusion detection and removal as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Dumindu Tissera , Ranga Rodrigo

Real-time apple detection in orchards is one of the most effective ways of estimating apple yields, which helps in managing apple supplies more effectively. Traditional detection methods used highly computational machine learning algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Vittorio Mazzia , Francesco Salvetti , Aleem Khaliq , Marcello Chiaberge

Automation and robotisation of the agricultural sector are seen as a viable solution to socio-economic challenges faced by this industry. This technology often relies on intelligent perception systems providing information about crops,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Justin Le Louëdec , Grzegorz Cielniak

Accurate in-hand pose estimation is crucial for robotic object manipulation, but visual occlusion remains a major challenge for vision-based approaches. This paper presents an approach to robotic in-hand object pose estimation, combining…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Felix Nonnengießer , Alap Kshirsagar , Boris Belousov , Jan Peters

In vegetated environments, such as forests, exploratory robots play a vital role in navigating complex, cluttered environments where human access is limited and traditional equipment struggles. Visual occlusion from obstacles, such as…

Image classification models, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), perform well on a variety of classification tasks but struggle under conditions of partial occlusion, i.e., conditions in which objects are partially covered from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Kaleb Kassaw , Francesco Luzi , Leslie M. Collins , Jordan M. Malof