Computer vision techniques can enhance landmark-based navigation by better utilizing online photo collections. We use spatial reasoning to compute camera poses, which are then regi...
Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Alan L. Liu, Ramakr...
We address the problem of multi-UAV surveillance in complex urban environments with occlusions. The problem consists of coordinating the flight of UAVs with on-board cameras so t...
— This paper addresses the use of robotic tissue manipulation in medical needle insertion procedures to improve targeting accuracy and to help avoid damaging sensitive tissues. T...
Meysam Torabi, Kris K. Hauser, Ron Alterovitz, Vin...
Abstract—Many sensor network applications are tightly coupled with the geometric environment where the sensor nodes are deployed. The topological skeleton extraction has shown gr...
Hongbo Jiang, Wenping Liu, Dan Wang, Chen Tian, Xi...
— Mobile robots have to detect and handle a variety of potential hazards to navigate autonomously. We present a real-time stereo vision based mapping algorithm for identifying an...