Abstract Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been focused on by research
efforts because of their extensive applications in scientific, commercial as well as military …

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 …

It is efficient to replace human eyes with underwater vehicles equipped with visual sensors
to carry out underwater inspections. However, the inability of monocular vision to provide …

As one of the key technologies of SLAM, loop-closure detection can help eliminate the
cumulative errors of the odometry. Many of the current LiDAR-based SLAM systems do not …

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 …

As a mobile robot, eg, an aerial, underwater, or ground‐moving vehicle, navigates through
an unknown environment, it has to construct a map of its surroundings and simultaneously …

Due to the unavailability of GPS signal, it is more urgent to develop the autonomous
navigation capability for the underwater vehicles. In this paper, we summarize the …

Surface defect inspection for underwater structures is important. However, the inspection
technologies based on passive vision cannot meet accuracy requirements. In this paper, we …

The development in ocean exploration and observation make the demand for moving object
detection in underwater increasingly urgent. The moving object detection in underwater with …

Subsurface flows are challenging to map due to the inaccessibility and extreme nature. This
coupled with global positioning system (GPS) denied, sensorially deprived, complex, and …