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Omnia presents a synthetic data driven pipeline to accelerate the training, validation, and deployment readiness of militarized humanoids. The approach converts first-person spatial observations captured from point-of-view recordings, smart…

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Despite advances in object detection, aerial imagery remains a challenging domain, as models often fail to generalize across variations in spatial resolution, scene composition, and semantic label coverage. Differences in geographic…

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Aerial surveillance and monitoring demand both real-time and robust motion detection from a moving camera. Most existing techniques for drones involve sending a video data streams back to a ground station with a high-end desktop computer or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Chong Huang , Peng Chen , Xin Yang , Kwang-Ting , Cheng

Recent advances in deep learning for remote sensing rely heavily on large annotated datasets, yet acquiring high-quality ground truth for geometric, radiometric, and multi-domain tasks remains costly and often infeasible. In particular, the…

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Reproducible closed-loop evaluation remains a major bottleneck in Embodied AI such as visual navigation. A promising path forward is high-fidelity simulation that combines photorealistic sensor rendering with geometrically grounded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xinhao Liu , Jiaqi Li , Youming Deng , Ruxin Chen , Yingjia Zhang , Yifei Ma , Li Guo , Yiming Li , Jing Zhang , Chen Feng

The present article proposes an approach to analyze the photometric properties of the surface materials from multi-angle observations acquired by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on-board the Mars…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-25 J. Fernando , F. Schmidt , X. Ceamanos , P. Pinet , S. Douté , Y Daydou

The design of distributed autonomous systems for operation beyond reliable ground contact presents a fundamental tension: as round-trip communication latency grows, the set of decisions delegable to ground operators shrinks. This paper…

This work introduces VISY-REVE: a novel pipeline to validate image processing algorithms for Vision-Based Navigation. Traditional validation methods such as synthetic rendering or robotic testbed acquisition suffer from difficult setup and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marius Neuhalfen , Jonathan Grzymisch , Manuel Sanchez-Gestido

The remote mapping of minerals and discrimination of ore and waste on surfaces are important tasks for geological applications such as those in mining. Such tasks have become possible using ground-based, close-range hyperspectral sensors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Lloyd Windrim , Arman Melkumyan , Richard J. Murphy , Anna Chlingaryan , Raymond Leung

Traditionally, 3d indoor datasets have generally prioritized scale over ground-truth accuracy in order to obtain improved generalization. However, using these datasets to evaluate dense geometry tasks, such as depth rendering, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 HyunJun Jung , Weihang Li , Shun-Cheng Wu , William Bittner , Nikolas Brasch , Jifei Song , Eduardo Pérez-Pellitero , Zhensong Zhang , Arthur Moreau , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

Radio maps reflect the spatial distribution of signal strength and are essential for applications like smart cities, IoT, and wireless network planning. However, reconstructing accurate radio maps from sparse measurements remains…

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Future missions to Mars and Venus will make use of aerobraking and aerocapture in order to gain mass through the saving of fuel at planetary arrival. So far only aerobraking has been demonstrated, if the Mars Premier project has paved the…

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The availability of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite imagery has increased considerably in recent years, with datasets commercially available. However, the acquisition of high-resolution SAR images in airborne configurations,…

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The current availability of soil moisture data over large areas comes from satellite remote sensing technologies (i.e., radar-based systems), but these data have coarse resolution and often exhibit large spatial information gaps. Where data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Danny Rorabaugh , Mario Guevara , Ricardo Llamas , Joy Kitson , Rodrigo Vargas , Michela Taufer

Performing orbital insertion around Mars using aerocapture instead of a propulsive orbit insertion manoeuvre allows to save resources and/or increase the payload mass fraction. Aerocapture has never been employed to date because of the high…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-13 Giorgio Isoletta , Michele Grassi , Elena Fantino , David de la Torre Sangrà , Jesús Peláez Álvarez

This paper is the first paper of a series that will present the derivation of the modal mineralogy of Mars (M3 project) at a global scale from the near-infrared dataset acquired by the imaging spectrometer OMEGA (Observatoire pour la…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Lucie Riu , François Poulet , John Carter , Jean-Pierre Bibring , Brigitte Gondet , Mathieu Vincendon

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a mature geophysical method that has gained increasing popularity in planetary science over the past decade. GPR has been utilised both for Lunar and Martian missions providing pivotal information regarding…

Robotic applications involving people often require advanced perception systems to better understand complex real-world scenarios. To address this challenge, photo-realistic and physics simulators are gaining popularity as a means of…

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