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Static mapping is fundamental to robot navigation, providing a persistent geometric prior and a consistent reference for long-term autonomy. However, dynamic objects leave residual traces and cause surface loss, which reduces map…

Mapping and localization are essential capabilities of robotic systems. Although the majority of mapping systems focus on static environments, the deployment in real-world situations requires them to handle dynamic objects. In this paper,…

An innovative method based on the traversal of rays, originating from detected particles, through a three-dimensional grid of voxels is presented. The methodology has as main advantage that the outcome of the method is independent of the…

LiDARs are widely used in autonomous robots due to their ability to provide accurate environment structural information. However, the large size of point clouds poses challenges in terms of data storage and transmission. In this paper, we…

This paper presents a randomized algorithm for computing the near-optimal low-rank dynamic mode decomposition (DMD). Randomized algorithms are emerging techniques to compute low-rank matrix approximations at a fraction of the cost of…

This article describes a multi-modal method using simulated Lidar data via ray tracing and image pixel loss with differentiable rendering to optimize an object's position with respect to an observer or some referential objects in a computer…

Particle filtering is a numerical Bayesian technique that has great potential for solving sequential estimation problems involving non-linear and non-Gaussian models. Since the estimation accuracy achieved by particle filters improves as…

The Ray-Casting algorithm is an important method for fast real-time surface display from 3D medical images. Based on the Ray-Casting algorithm, a novel parallel Ray-Casting algorithm is proposed in this paper. A novel operation is…

We push the limit in planning collision-free motions for routing uniform labeled discs in two dimensions. First, from a theoretical perspective, we show that the constant-factor time-optimal routing of labeled discs can be achieved using a…

Recovering high-quality 3D scenes from a single RGB image is a challenging task in computer graphics. Current methods often struggle with domain-specific limitations or low-quality object generation. To address these, we propose CAST…

Localizing an image wrt. a 3D scene model represents a core task for many computer vision applications. An increasing number of real-world applications of visual localization on mobile devices, e.g., Augmented Reality or autonomous robots…

RRT* is an efficient sampling-based motion planning algorithm. However, without taking advantages of accessible environment information, sampling-based algorithms usually result in sampling failures, generate useless nodes, and/or fail in…

Reliable localization is crucial for autonomous robots to navigate efficiently and safely. Some navigation methods can plan paths with high localizability (which describes the capability of acquiring reliable localization). By following…

Real-time detection of objects in the 3D scene is one of the tasks an autonomous agent needs to perform for understanding its surroundings. While recent Deep Learning-based solutions achieve satisfactory performance, their high…

This paper presents a new method to classify 1D signals using the signed cumulative distribution transform (SCDT). The proposed method exploits certain linearization properties of the SCDT to render the problem easier to solve in the SCDT…

The task of detecting 3D objects is important to various robotic applications. The existing deep learning-based detection techniques have achieved impressive performance. However, these techniques are limited to run with a graphics…

External localization is an essential part for the indoor operation of small or cost-efficient robots, as they are used, for example, in swarm robotics. We introduce a two-stage localization and instance identification framework for…

The use of machine learning algorithms is an attractive way to produce very fast detector simulations for scattering reactions that can otherwise be computationally expensive. Here we develop a factorised approach where we deal with each…

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

Vectors of data are at the heart of machine learning and data mining. Recently, vector quantization methods have shown great promise in reducing both the time and space costs of operating on vectors. We introduce a vector quantization…