Computer vision based indoor localization methods use either an infrastructure of static
cameras to track mobile entities (eg, people, robots) or cameras attached to the mobile …

The main limitation to obstacle avoidance nowadays has been negative road anomalies
which is the term we used to refer to potholes and cracks due to their negative drop from the …

The automatic detection and extraction of road pothole distress is an important issue
regarding healthy road structures, monitoring, and maintenance. In this paper, a new …

In recent months Kinect and Xtion sensors appear massively at the entertainment market. In
parallel, many developers show engineering applications of the system related with their 3D …

Low-cost depth-cameras have been used in many agricultural applications with reported
advantages of low cost, reliability and speed of measurement. However, some problems …

Pavement distress and wear detection is of prime importance in transportation engineering.
Due to degradation, potholes and different types of cracks are formed and they have to be …

High speed, low latency obstacle avoidance is essential for enabling Micro Aerial Vehicles
(MAVs) to function in cluttered and dynamic environments. While other systems exist that do …

Time-of-flight (TOF) cameras robustly provide depth data of real world scenes at video frame
rates. Unfortunately, currently available camera models provide rather low XY resolution …

Despite the current surge of interest in autonomous robotic systems, robot activity
recognition within restricted indoor environments remains a formidable challenge …

The substitution of a human factor by an affordable low-cost robotic system has been
increasing recently. The reason being, the robot is expected to do less errors than a human …