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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"visual sensor"”.
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Geometric Principles of Multiple Visual Sensors
… building a large scale system with distributed visual sensors. I have developed a unified algebraic approach for studying the structure-from-motion problem, which is a set of rank conditions on the multiple-view matrices of image features. This approach can be applied to characterize the …
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Deployment, Coverage And Network Optimization In Wireless Video Sensor Networks For 3D Indoor Monitoring
… research over the past decade or so, wireless sensor networks (wsns) have evolved into a well established technology for industry, environmental and medical applications. However, traditional wsns employ such sensors as thermal or photo light resistors that are often modeled with simple …
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Rapid-response surveillance system design and aerodynamic modeling
… surveillance mission, recording images with a visual sensor, and sending them back to a ground station. In the aerodynamic analysis and modeling, this report shows the trade studies performed in selecting the best aerodynamic configuration in terms of performance and stability. The propulsion …
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Surface and Sub-Surface Analyses for Bridge Inspection
… in the field of bridge inspection using multiple sensors (e.g. ground penetrating radar (GPR) and visual sensor) has been proposed. In the first part of this research (discussed in chapter 3), the focus is towards developing effective and novel methods for rebar detection and localization for …
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Exploring Topological Environments
… a differential drive robot and an autonomous visual sensor.
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Duplex camera portable motion capture system for single athlete’s performance analysis
… system for biomechanical analysis of sports. The visual sensor used in this research consists of two Kinect sensors Microsoft. The case studies were focused on a single athlete for sepak takraw pre-serve and bunga silat at any single time. MATLAB and Software Development Kit (SDK) by Microsoft …
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Development of Ground-Level Hyperspectral Image Datasets and Analysis Tools, and their use towards a Feature Selection based Sensor Design Method for Material Classification
Visual sensing in robotics, especially in the context of autonomous vehicles, has advanced quickly and many important contributions have been made in the areas of target classification. Typical to these studies is the use of the Red-Green-Blue (RGB) camera. Separately, in the field of remote …
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A fast selective grasping algorithm with deep learning and autonomous dataset creation on point cloud
… is tailored to utilize point clouds from RGB-D sensors and offers rapid execution and training times. The proposed design allows for efficient training and retraining, making it adaptable to diverse sets of objects. To expedite the training process, an autonomous dataset generation method is …
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Adaptation in Non-Parametric State Estimation with Application to People Tracking
The employment of visual sensor networks in surveillance systems has brought in as many challenges as disadvantages. While the integration of multiple cameras into a network has the potential advantage of fusing complementary observations from sensors and enlarging visual coverage, it also …
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On-orbit inspection of a rotating object using a moving observer
… meaning that they are not equipped with working sensors or actuators. There are several reasons to want to visit these uncooperative space objects with an inspector satellite: to deorbit or deflect dangerous debris; to inspect and/or repair defunct satellites; or to observe, sample, or extract …
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Vision Based Guidance and Flight Control in Problems of Aerial Tracking
The use of visual sensors in providing the necessary information for the autonomous guidance and navigation of the unmanned-air vehicles (UAV) or micro-air vehicles (MAV) applications is inspired by biological systems and is motivated first of all by the reduction of the navigational sensor cost. …