Enhancing Object Detection in Smart Video Surveillance: A Survey of Occlusion-Handling Approaches

Z Ouardirhi, SA Mahmoudi, M Zbakh - Electronics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Smart video surveillance systems (SVSs) have garnered significant attention for their
autonomous monitoring capabilities, encompassing automated detection, tracking, analysis …

Autonomous multiple‐trolley collection system with nonholonomic robots: Design, control, and implementation

P Xie, B Xia, A Hu, Z Zhao, L Meng, Z Sun… - Journal of Field …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The task of collecting and transporting luggage trolleys in airports, characterized by its
complexity within dynamic public environments, presents both an ongoing challenge and a …

Person re-identification for robot person following with online continual learning

H Ye, J Zhao, Y Zhan, W Chen, L He… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot person following (RPF) is a crucial capability in human-robot interaction (HRI)
applications, allowing a robot to persistently follow a designated person. In practical RPF …

CARPE-ID: Continuously Adaptable Re-identification for Personalized Robot Assistance

F Rollo, A Zunino, N Tsagarakis, EM Hoffman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In today's Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios, a prevailing tendency exists to assume
that the robot shall cooperate with the closest individual or that the scene involves merely a …

Semantic Segmentation Based on Multiple Granularity Learning

K Wu, A Bawazir, X Xiao, SB Avula… - 2023 IEEE/RSJ …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate and robust coarse semantic segmentation plays a key role in the pursuit of
autonomous driving. We present an algorithm that regularizes the representation space of …

Continuous Adaptation in Person Re-identification for Robotic Assistance

F Rollo, A Zunino, N Tsagarakis… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In scenarios of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), it is often assumed that the robot should
cooperate with the closest individual or that only one person is present. However, in real-life …

Continuous Robotic Tracking of Dynamic Targets in Complex Environments Based on Detectability

Z Wang, S Huang, M Li, J Ouyang… - … on Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Target tracking is a fundamental task in the domain of robotics. The effectiveness of target
tracking hinges upon various factors, such as tracking distance, occlusions, collision …

Human Orientation Estimation under Partial Observation

J Zhao, H Ye, Y Zhan, H Zhang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.14139, 2024 - arxiv.org
Reliable human orientation estimation (HOE) is critical for autonomous agents to understand
human intention and perform human-robot interaction (HRI) tasks. Great progress has been …

HPPS: A Hierarchical Progressive Perception System for Luggage Trolley Detection and Localization at Airports

Z Sun, Z Zhang, J Zhao, H Ye, J Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05514, 2024 - arxiv.org
The robotic autonomous luggage trolley collection system employs robots to gather and
transport scattered luggage trolleys at airports. However, existing methods for detecting and …

Advancing Robot Person Following with Multi-Object Tracking and Dynamic ID Switching

H Zhu, Y Chao, H Lu - 2024 5th International Conference on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Existing Robot Person Following usually assumes that the object is selected in the initial
frame, which renders it incapable of switching the tracking object in subsequent frames. In …