Autonomous vehicles (AVs) must share space with pedestrians, both in carriageway cases
such as cars at pedestrian crossings and off-carriageway cases such as delivery vehicles …

Thermal cameras are passive sensors that capture the infrared radiation emitted by all
objects with a temperature above absolute zero. This type of camera was originally …

Recent technological advances enabled modern robots to become part of our daily life. In
particular, assistive robotics emerged as an exciting research topic that can provide …

This study presents and approach to measure the levels of acute stress in humans by
analysing their behavioral patterns when interacting with technological devices. We study …

This paper introduces a taxonomy of vision systems for ground mobile robots. In the last five
years, a significant number of relevant papers have contributed to this subject. Firstly, a …

Most existing autonomous driving vehicles and robots rely on active LIDAR sensors to detect
the depth of the surrounding environment, which usually has limited resolution, and the …

Natural calamities have recently opened their doors to disasters which in turn have affected
various regions of the world. Disasters serve as an eye-opener as they are unstoppable and …

Model-driven engineering (MDE), implicitly based upon meta-model principles, is gaining
more and more attention in software systems due to its inherent benefits. Its use normally …

The exponential increase of home-bound persons who live alone and are in need of
continuous monitoring requires new solutions to current problems. Most of these cases …

Human detection in videos plays an important role in various real life applications. Most of
traditional approaches depend on utilizing handcrafted features which are problem …