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The application of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Multi-UAV) in Wilderness Search and Rescue (WiSAR) significantly enhances mission success due to their rapid coverage of search areas from high altitudes and their adaptability to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zijian Ge , Jingjing Jiang , Matthew Coombes

The recent works on Video Object Segmentation achieved remarkable results by matching dense semantic and instance-level features between the current and previous frames for long-time propagation. Nevertheless, global feature matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Volodymyr Fedynyak , Yaroslav Romanus , Bohdan Hlovatskyi , Bohdan Sydor , Oles Dobosevych , Igor Babin , Roman Riazantsev

This paper investigates the application of Diffusion Policy in non-stationary, vision-based RL settings, specifically targeting environments where task dynamics and objectives evolve over time. Our work is grounded in practical challenges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Gunbir Singh Baveja

A key challenge with procedure planning in instructional videos lies in how to handle a large decision space consisting of a multitude of action types that belong to various tasks. To understand real-world video content, an AI agent must…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Fen Fang , Yun Liu , Ali Koksal , Qianli Xu , Joo-Hwee Lim

Audio-visual segmentation (AVS) aims to segment the sounding objects in video frames. Although great progress has been witnessed, we experimentally reveal that current methods reach marginal performance gain within the use of the unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jinxiang Liu , Yikun Liu , Fei Zhang , Chen Ju , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Computer vision models have been known to encode harmful biases, leading to the potentially unfair treatment of historically marginalized groups, such as people of color. However, there remains a lack of datasets balanced along demographic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Nicholas Lui , Bryan Chia , William Berrios , Candace Ross , Douwe Kiela

A novel prize-winner algorithm designed for a path following problem within the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) field is presented in this paper. The proposed approach exploits the advantages offered by the pure pursuing algorithm to set up…

Navigating unfamiliar environments presents significant challenges for household robots, requiring the ability to recognize and reason about novel decoration and layout. Existing reinforcement learning methods cannot be directly transferred…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Yiran Qin , Ao Sun , Yuze Hong , Benyou Wang , Ruimao Zhang

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Existing segmentation models trained on a single medical imaging dataset often lack robustness when encountering unseen organs or tumors. Developing a robust model capable of identifying rare or novel tumor categories not present during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Rong Wu , Ziqi Chen , Liming Zhong , Heng Li , Hai Shu

Detecting objects of interest, such as human survivors, safety equipment, and structure access points, is critical to any search-and-rescue operation. Robots deployed for such time-sensitive efforts rely on their onboard sensors to perform…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Manthan Patel , Gabriel Waibel , Shehryar Khattak , Marco Hutter

Diffusion-based policies have shown impressive performance in robotic manipulation tasks while struggling with out-of-domain distributions. Recent efforts attempted to enhance generalization by improving the visual feature encoding for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Shijie Wu , Yihang Zhu , Yunao Huang , Kaizhen Zhu , Jiayuan Gu , Jingyi Yu , Ye Shi , Jingya Wang

Diffusion Policy (DP) enables robots to learn complex behaviors by imitating expert demonstrations through action diffusion. However, in practical applications, hardware limitations often degrade data quality, while real-time constraints…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jiahua Ma , Yiran Qin , Yixiong Li , Xuanqi Liao , Yulan Guo , Ruimao Zhang

Universal image restoration is a practical and potential computer vision task for real-world applications. The main challenge of this task is handling the different degradation distributions at once. Existing methods mainly utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dian Zheng , Xiao-Ming Wu , Shuzhou Yang , Jian Zhang , Jian-Fang Hu , Wei-Shi Zheng

The human visual system processes images with varied degrees of resolution, with the fovea, a small portion of the retina, capturing the highest acuity region, which gradually declines toward the field of view's periphery. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Beatriz Paula , Plinio Moreno

Some perspectives naturally provide more information than others. How can an AI system determine which viewpoint offers the most valuable insight for accurate and efficient 3D object reconstruction? Active view selection (AVS) for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Zhengquan Zhang , Feng Xu , Mengmi Zhang

In this work, we address a challenge in video inpainting: reconstructing occluded regions in dynamic, real-world scenarios. Motivated by the need for continuous human motion monitoring in healthcare settings, where facial features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Zheyan Zhang , Diego Klabjan , Renee CB Manworren

Reconstruction-based approaches have achieved remarkable outcomes in anomaly detection. The exceptional image reconstruction capabilities of recently popular diffusion models have sparked research efforts to utilize them for enhanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Haoyang He , Jiangning Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Xuhai Chen , Zhishan Li , Xu Chen , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Lei Xie

Constructing high-definition (HD) maps is a crucial requirement for enabling autonomous driving. In recent years, several map segmentation algorithms have been developed to address this need, leveraging advancements in Bird's-Eye View (BEV)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Peijin Jia , Tuopu Wen , Ziang Luo , Mengmeng Yang , Kun Jiang , Zhiquan Lei , Xuewei Tang , Ziyuan Liu , Le Cui , Bo Zhang , Long Huang , Diange Yang

Seamlessly moving objects within a scene is a common requirement for image editing, but it is still a challenge for existing editing methods. Especially for real-world images, the occlusion situation further increases the difficulty. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zheng-Peng Duan , Jiawei Zhang , Siyu Liu , Zheng Lin , Chun-Le Guo , Dongqing Zou , Jimmy Ren , Chongyi Li