Image-based obstacle detection methods for the safe navigation of unmanned vehicles: A review

S Badrloo, M Varshosaz, S Pirasteh, J Li - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mobile robots lack a driver or a pilot and, thus, should be able to detect obstacles
autonomously. This paper reviews various image-based obstacle detection techniques …

A survey on theories and applications for self-driving cars based on deep learning methods

J Ni, Y Chen, Y Chen, J Zhu, D Ali, W Cao - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Self-driving cars are a hot research topic in science and technology, which has a great
influence on social and economic development. Deep learning is one of the current key …

Towards real-time monocular depth estimation for robotics: A survey

X Dong, MA Garratt, SG Anavatti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an essential component for many autonomous driving and robotic activities such as ego-
motion estimation, obstacle avoidance and scene understanding, monocular depth …

Memory-based deep reinforcement learning for obstacle avoidance in UAV with limited environment knowledge

A Singla, S Padakandla… - IEEE transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents our method for enabling a UAV quadrotor, equipped with a monocular
camera, to autonomously avoid collisions with obstacles in unstructured and unknown …

Deep learning-based monocular obstacle avoidance for unmanned aerial vehicle navigation in tree plantations: Faster region-based convolutional neural network …

HY Lee, HW Ho, Y Zhou - Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 2021 - Springer
Abstract In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely utilized in precision
agriculture, such as tree plantations. Due to limited intelligence, these UAVs can only …

S2DNet: Depth estimation from single image and sparse samples

P Hambarde, S Murala - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depth prediction from single image is a challenging task due to the intra scale ambiguity and
unavailability of prior information. The prediction of an unambiguous depth from single RGB …

[HTML][HTML] A survey on RGB-D datasets

A Lopes, R Souza, H Pedrini - Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2022 - Elsevier
RGB-D data is essential for solving many problems in computer vision. Hundreds of public
RGB-D datasets containing various scenes, such as indoor, outdoor, aerial, driving, and …

Pix2pix-based monocular depth estimation for drones with optical flow on airsim

T Shimada, H Nishikawa, X Kong, H Tomiyama - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, we propose a method for estimating depth for an image of a monocular camera
in order to avoid a collision for the autonomous flight of a drone. The highest flight speed of a …

Indoor obstacle discovery on reflective ground via monocular camera

F Xue, Y Chang, T Wang, Y Zhou, A Ming - International Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Visual obstacle discovery is a key step towards autonomous navigation of indoor mobile
robots. Successful solutions have many applications in multiple scenes. One of the …

Mobilexnet: An efficient convolutional neural network for monocular depth estimation

X Dong, MA Garratt, SG Anavatti… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Depth estimation from a single RGB image has attracted great interest in autonomous
driving and robotics. State-of-the-art methods are usually designed on top of complex and …