A technology maturity assessment framework for industry 5.0 machine vision systems based on systematic literature review in automotive manufacturing

FK Konstantinidis, N Myrillas, KA Tsintotas… - … Journal of Production …, 2023‏ - Taylor & Francis
When considering how an intelligent factory can 'see,'the answer lies in machine vision
technology. To assess the current technological advancements of machine vision systems …

The revisiting problem in simultaneous localization and map**: A survey on visual loop closure detection

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Where am I? This is one of the most critical questions that any intelligent system should
answer to decide whether it navigates to a previously visited area. This problem has long …

Modest-vocabulary loop-closure detection with incremental bag of tracked words

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Gasteratos - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2021‏ - Elsevier
A key feature in the context of simultaneous localization and map** is loop-closure
detection, a process determining whether the current robot's environment perception …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluating the performance of mobile-convolutional neural networks for spatial and temporal human action recognition analysis

SN Moutsis, KA Tsintotas, I Kansizoglou, A Gasteratos - Robotics, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Human action recognition is a computer vision task that identifies how a person or a group
acts on a video sequence. Various methods that rely on deep-learning techniques, such as …

Dimensionality reduction through visual data resampling for low-storage loop-closure detection

KA Tsintotas, S An, IT Papapetros… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As loop-closure detection plays a fundamental role in any simultaneous localization and
map** (SLAM) system, through its ability to recognize previously visited locations, one of …

Towards 3D printed modular unmanned aerial vehicle development: The landing safety paradigm

T Mitroudas, KA Tsintotas, N Santavas… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are at the fore-front of this century's technological shift,
becoming ubiquitous in research and market areas. Similarly, nowadays, 3D printing is a …

BK tree indexing for active vision-based loop-closure detection in autonomous navigation

KA Tsintotas, V Sevetlidis, IT Papapetros… - … on Control and …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aiming to recognize familiar places through the camera measurements during a robot's
autonomous mission, visual loop-closure pipelines are developed for navigation …

Depth-based deep learning for manhole detection in uav navigation

RE Andersen, M Zajaczkowski… - … on Imaging Systems …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Drones navigating in dark, GPS-denied and confined spaces can pose a difficult challenge
due to, among other, the processing power required to maintain a high resolution map of the …

The MPU RX-4 project: Design, electronics, and software development of a geofence protection system for a fixed-wing vtol uav

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Taitzoglou… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are at the forefront of this century's technological shift,
becoming ubiquitous in research and market areas. However, as a UAV navigates …

The revisiting problem in simultaneous localization and map**

KA Tsintotas, L Bampis, A Gasteratos - Online Appearance-Based Place …, 2022‏ - Springer
If we have been there before, we realize that viewing a single photograph is sufficient to
understand where the picture was captured. This fact highlights the impact of appearance …