8 accepted papers
Mapping and understanding complex 3D environments is fundamental to how autonomous systems perceive and interact with the physical world, requiring both precise geometric reconstruction and rich semantic comprehension. While existing 3D semantic mapping systems excel at reconstructing and identifyin…
Despite the success of current multimodal learning at scale, its susceptibility to data poisoning attacks poses security concerns in critical applications. Attacker can manipulate model behavior by injecting maliciously crafted yet minute instances into the training set, stealthily mismatching disti…
Large-scale LiDAR mappings and localization leverage place recognition techniques to mitigate odometry drifts, ensuring accurate mapping. These techniques utilize scene representations from LiDAR point clouds to identify previously visited sites within a database. Local descriptors, assigned to each
Masked Autoencoders (MAEs) learn generalizable representations for image, text, audio, video, etc., by reconstructing masked input data from tokens of the visible data. Current MAE approaches for videos rely on random patch, tube, or frame based masking strategies to select these tokens. This paper…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are being incorporated into various autonomous systems like self-driving cars and robots. However, there is a rising concern about the robustness of these systems because of their susceptibility to adversarial attacks on DNNs. Past research has established that DNNs used…
We propose a novel temporal attention based neural network architecture for robotics tasks that involve fusion of time series of sensor data, and evaluate the performance improvements in the context of autonomous navigation of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) in uncertain environments. The architectu
The paper proposes an on-line monitoring framework for continuous real-time safety/security in learning-based control systems (specifically application to a unmanned ground vehicle). We monitor validity of mappings from sensor inputs to actuator commands, controller-focused anomaly detection (CFAM),…
We present a novel end-to-end learning framework to enable ground vehicles to autonomously navigate unknown environments by fusing raw pixels from cameras and depth measurements from a LiDAR. A deep neural network architecture is introduced to effectively perform modality fusion and reliably predict…