12 accepted papers
Haptic feedback enhances user interaction with systems by adding the sense of touch, thereby improving immersion and realism in applications like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), video games, education, and robotic surgery. To address the challenges in mechanically actuated haptic feedb
We propose a fixed-lag smoother-based sensor fusion architecture to leverage the complementary benefits of range-based sensors and visual-inertial odometry (VIO) for localization. We use two fixed-lag smoothers (FLS) to decouple accurate state estimation and high-rate pose generation for closed-loop
Previous remote sensing recognition approaches predominantly perform well on the training-testing dataset. However, due to large style discrepancies not only among multidomain datasets but also within a single domain, they suffer from obvious performance degradation when applied to unseen domains. I…
Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization has emerged as a low-cost and scalable indoor positioning solution. However, in cluttered environments, the performance of UWB TDOA-based localization deteriorates due to the biased and non-Gaussian noise distributions induced…
As robots venture into the real world, they are subject to unmodeled dynamics and disturbances. Traditional model-based control approaches have been proven successful in relatively static and known operating environments. However, when an accurate model of the robot is not available, model-based des
Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization has recently emerged as a promising indoor positioning solution. However, in cluttered environments, both the UWB radio positions and the obstacle-induced non-line-of-sight (NLOS) measurement biases significantly impact the qu
Accurate and reliable state estimation is becoming increasingly important as robots venture into the real world. Gaussian variational inference (GVI) is a promising alternative for nonlinear state estimation, which estimates a full probability density for the posterior instead of a point estimate as…
"Understanding blur from a single defocused image contains two tasks of defocus detection and deblurring. This paper makes the earliest effort to jointly learn both defocus detection and deblurring without using pixel-level defocus detection annotation and paired defocus deblurring ground truth. We…
Accurate indoor localization is a crucial enabling technology for many robotics applications, from warehouse management to monitoring tasks. Ultra-wideband (UWB) time difference of arrival (TDOA)-based localization is a promising lightweight, low-cost solution that can scale to a large number of dev
Although existing fully-supervised defocus blur detection (DBD) models significantly improve performance, training such deep models requires abundant pixel-level manual annotation, which is highly time-consuming and error-prone. Addressing this issue, this paper makes an effort to train a deep DBD m…
Defocus blur detection (DBD) is a fundamental yet challenging topic, since the homogeneous region is obscure and the transition from the focused area to the unfocused region is gradual. Recent DBD methods make progress through exploring deeper or wider networks with the expense of high memory and co…
Defocus blur detection (DBD) is the separation of infocus and out-of-focus regions in an image. This process has been paid considerable attention because of its remarkable potential applications. Accurate differentiation of homogeneous regions and detection of low-contrast focal regions, as well as…