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View article: Neural 3D Object Reconstruction with Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Neural 3D Object Reconstruction with Small-Scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Open
Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) exhibit immense potential for navigating indoor and hard-to-reach areas, yet their significant constraints in payload and autonomy have largely prevented their use for complex tasks like high-quality 3…
View article: BiCrossNet: resource-efficient cross-view geolocalization with binary neural networks
BiCrossNet: resource-efficient cross-view geolocalization with binary neural networks Open
This paper presents BiCrossNet, a novel approach to cross-view geolocalization utilizing binary neural networks to significantly reduce computational complexity while maintaining competitive performance. Key contributions include the devel…
View article: Resource-Efficient Ubiquitous Sensor Networks for Smart Agriculture: A Survey
Resource-Efficient Ubiquitous Sensor Networks for Smart Agriculture: A Survey Open
Smart agriculture is an enabling technology addressing the increasing challenges of efficiency, sustainability, and quality of food production. It requires rich data from the farming area at high spatial and temporal resolution. Although r…
View article: Decentralized Text-Based Person Re-Identification in Multi-Camera Networks
Decentralized Text-Based Person Re-Identification in Multi-Camera Networks Open
Text-based person re-identification (re-ID) is an emerging research domain in multi-camera surveillance systems. It involves identifying individuals across different camera views using textual descriptions as queries. Although text-based p…
View article: Call for Papers
Call for Papers Open
BACKGROUNDInternet of Robots (IoR) is rooted in cyber-physical systems, involving cooperation between robots, computers, networks, and humans.There are many forms of robots that exist in space, air, ground, and water, which can help achiev…
View article: Call for Papers
Call for Papers Open
BACKGROUNDInternet of Robots (IoR) is rooted in cyber-physical systems, involving cooperation between robots, computers, networks, and humans.There are many forms of robots that exist in space, air, ground, and water, which can help achiev…
View article: Call for Papers
Call for Papers Open
BACKGROUNDInternet of Robots (IoR) is rooted in cyber-physical systems, involving cooperation between robots, computers, networks, and humans.There are many forms of robots that exist in space, air, ground, and water, which can help achiev…
View article: Multidrone Mission Execution With EAMOS: From Text to Mission
Multidrone Mission Execution With EAMOS: From Text to Mission Open
Existing software tools for specifying and executing multidrone missions are limited to route planning or tightly coupled to specific drone hardware. We introduce EAMOS (Execution of Aerial Multidrone Missions and Operations Specification …
View article: Min-Max Vertex Cycle Covers With Connectivity Constraints for Multi-Robot Patrolling
Min-Max Vertex Cycle Covers With Connectivity Constraints for Multi-Robot Patrolling Open
We consider a multi-robot patrolling scenario with intermittent connectivity constraints, ensuring that robots' data finally arrive at a base station. In particular, each robot traverses a closed tour periodically and meets with the robots…
View article: Distributed and Communication-Aware Coalition Formation and Task Assignment in Multi-Robot Systems
Distributed and Communication-Aware Coalition Formation and Task Assignment in Multi-Robot Systems Open
In many missions, multiple robots need to cooperate to complete tasks. The workflow of these multi-robot tasks involves forming coalitions of robots, assigning them to available tasks, and jointly executing the tasks. In this article, we i…
View article: Dynamic Camera Reconfiguration with Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Methods for Crowd Surveillance
Dynamic Camera Reconfiguration with Reinforcement Learning and Stochastic Methods for Crowd Surveillance Open
Crowd surveillance plays a key role to ensure safety and security in public areas. Surveillance systems traditionally rely on fixed camera networks, which suffer from limitations, as coverage of the monitored area, video resolution and ana…
View article: Multi-UAV Surveillance With Minimum Information Idleness and Latency Constraints
Multi-UAV Surveillance With Minimum Information Idleness and Latency Constraints Open
We discuss surveillance with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that minimize idleness (the time between consecutive visits of sensing locations) and constrain latency (the time between capturing data at a sensing location and its arr…
View article: Self-Awareness for Autonomous Systems
Self-Awareness for Autonomous Systems Open
The articles in this month’s special issue cover concepts and fundamentals, architectures and techniques, and applications and case studies in the exciting area of self-awareness in autonomous systems.
View article: Multi-Robot Persistent Surveillance With Connectivity Constraints
Multi-Robot Persistent Surveillance With Connectivity Constraints Open
Mobile robots, especially unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are of increasing\ninterest for surveillance and disaster response scenarios. We consider the\nproblem of multi-robot persistent surveillance with connectivity constraints\nwhere r…
View article: Persistent Multi-UAV Surveillance with Data Latency Constraints
Persistent Multi-UAV Surveillance with Data Latency Constraints Open
We discuss surveillance with multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) that minimize idleness (the time between consecutive visits of sensing locations) and constrain latency (the time between capturing data at a sensing location and its arr…
View article: Toward an Interactive Reinforcement Based Learning Framework for Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Processes
Toward an Interactive Reinforcement Based Learning Framework for Human Robot Collaborative Assembly Processes Open
As manufacturing demographics change from mass production to mass customization, advances in human-robot interaction in industries have taken many forms. However, the topic of reducing the programming effort required by an expert using nat…
View article: Concealing the identity of faces in oblique images with adaptive hopping Gaussian mixtures
Concealing the identity of faces in oblique images with adaptive hopping Gaussian mixtures Open
Cameras mounted on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are increasingly used for recreational photography. However, aerial photographs of public places often contain faces of bystanders thus leading to a perceived or actual violation of privacy. …
View article: Concealing the identity of faces in oblique images with adaptive hopping\n Gaussian mixtures
Concealing the identity of faces in oblique images with adaptive hopping\n Gaussian mixtures Open
Cameras mounted on Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) are increasingly used for\nrecreational photography. However, aerial photographs of public places often\ncontain faces of bystanders thus leading to a perceived or actual violation of\nprivac…
View article: Trustworthy and Privacy-Aware Sensing for Internet of Things
Trustworthy and Privacy-Aware Sensing for Internet of Things Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is considered as the key enabling technology for smart services. Security and privacy are particularly open challenges for IoT applications due to the widespread use of commodity devices. This work introduces t…
View article: Privacy protection vs. utility in visual data
Privacy protection vs. utility in visual data Open
Ubiquitous and networked sensors impose a huge challenge for privacy protection which has become an emerging problem of modern society. Protecting the privacy of visual data is particularly important due to the omnipresence of cameras, and…
View article: Multi-camera object tracking using surprisal observations in visual sensor networks
Multi-camera object tracking using surprisal observations in visual sensor networks Open
View article: Human Robot Collaboration to Reach a Common Goal in an Assembly Process
Human Robot Collaboration to Reach a Common Goal in an Assembly Process Open
Enabling robotic systems to collaborate with humans is a challenging task, on different levels of abstraction. Such systems need to understand the context under which they operate, by perceiving, planning and reasoning to team up with a hu…
View article: Dynamic Reconfiguration in Camera Networks: A Short Survey
Dynamic Reconfiguration in Camera Networks: A Short Survey Open
There is a clear trend in camera networks towards enhanced functionality and flexibility, and a fixed static deployment is typically not sufficient to fulfill these increased requirements. Dynamic network reconfiguration helps to optimize …
View article: Resource-aware State Estimation in Visual Sensor Networks with Dynamic Clustering
Resource-aware State Estimation in Visual Sensor Networks with Dynamic Clustering Open
Generally, resource-awareness plays a key role in wireless sensor networks due the limited capabilities in
processing, storage and communication. In this paper we present a resource-aware cooperative state estimation
facilitated by a…