J-MOD2: Joint Monocular Obstacle Detection and Depth Estimation

M Mancini, G Costante, P Valigi… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we propose an end-to-end deep architecture that jointly learns to detect
obstacles and estimate their depth for MAV flight applications. Most of the existing …

FPGA applications in unmanned aerial vehicles-a review

M Bouhali, F Shamani, ZE Dahmane, A Belaidi… - … Symposium, ARC 2017 …, 2017 - Springer
Most of the existing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in different scales, use
microcontrollers as their processing engine. In this paper, we provide a wide study on how …

ReS2tAC—UAV-Borne Real-Time SGM Stereo Optimized for Embedded ARM and CUDA Devices

B Ruf, J Mohrs, M Weinmann, S Hinz, J Beyerer - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the emergence of low-cost robotic systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicle, the
importance of embedded high-performance image processing has increased. For a long …

Semi-global stereo matching with surface orientation priors

D Scharstein, T Taniai, SN Sinha - … International Conference on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semi-Global Matching (SGM) is a widely-used efficient stereo matching technique. It works
well for textured scenes, but fails on untextured slanted surfaces due to its fronto-parallel …

Real-time on-board obstacle avoidance for UAVs based on embedded stereo vision

B Ruf, S Monka, M Kollmann, M Grinberg - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
In order to improve usability and safety, modern unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are
equipped with sensors to monitor the environment, such as laser-scanners and cameras …

Orchestrating quality of service in the cloud of things ecosystem

PP Jayaraman, K Mitra, S Saguna… - 2015 IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud of Things (CoT) is a vision inspired by Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing
where the IoT devices are connected to the clouds via the Internet for data storage …

[HTML][HTML] FaSS-MVS: Fast Multi-View Stereo with Surface-Aware Semi-Global Matching from UAV-Borne Monocular Imagery

B Ruf, M Weinmann, S Hinz - Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With FaSS-MVS, we present a fast, surface-aware semi-global optimization approach for
multi-view stereo that allows for rapid depth and normal map estimation from monocular …

Optimizations for FPGA‐Based Ultrasound Multiple‐Access Spread Spectrum Ranging

L Segers, A Braeken, A Touhafi - Journal of Sensors, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Indoor localization based on ultrasound signals has been carried out by several research
groups. Most of the techniques rely on a single ultrasound pulse ranging, where the Time of …

[PDF][PDF] Design and implementation of fpga based quadrotor controller

M Ghanim, Y Hüner, M Gayretli, M Öney, ME YALÇIN… - 2019 - researchgate.net
As the need for developing stable and reprogrammable Unmanned Aerial Systems has
increased between researchers and engineers due to increasing interest in many …

Efficient surface-aware semi-global matching with multi-view plane-sweep sampling

B Ruf, T Pollok, M Weinmann - arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09891, 2019 - arxiv.org
Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an
essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in …