Tensegrity robotics

DS Shah, JW Booth, RL Baines, K Wang… - Soft robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Numerous recent advances in robotics have been inspired by the biological principle of
tensile integrity—or “tensegrity”—to achieve remarkable feats of dexterity and resilience …

RGB-D data-based action recognition: a review

MB Shaikh, D Chai - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Classification of human actions is an ongoing research problem in computer vision. This
review is aimed to scope current literature on data fusion and action recognition techniques …

Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild

X Zhou, X Wen, Z Wang, Y Gao, H Li, Q Wang… - Science Robotics, 2022 - science.org
Aerial robots are widely deployed, but highly cluttered environments such as dense forests
remain inaccessible to drones and even more so to swarms of drones. In these scenarios …

Learning high-speed flight in the wild

A Loquercio, E Kaufmann, R Ranftl, M Müller… - Science Robotics, 2021 - science.org
Quadrotors are agile. Unlike most other machines, they can traverse extremely complex
environments at high speeds. To date, only expert human pilots have been able to fully …

Skeleton-based action recognition via spatial and temporal transformer networks

C Plizzari, M Cannici, M Matteucci - Computer Vision and Image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Skeleton-based Human Activity Recognition has achieved great interest in recent
years as skeleton data has demonstrated being robust to illumination changes, body scales …

CAS(ME)3: A Third Generation Facial Spontaneous Micro-Expression Database With Depth Information and High Ecological Validity

J Li, Z Dong, S Lu, SJ Wang, WJ Yan… - … on Pattern Analysis …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Micro-expression (ME) is a significant non-verbal communication clue that reveals one
person's genuine emotional state. The development of micro-expression analysis (MEA) has …

Bad slam: Bundle adjusted direct rgb-d slam

T Schops, T Sattler, M Pollefeys - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
A key component of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems is the joint
optimization of the estimated 3D map and camera trajectory. Bundle adjustment (BA) is the …

Learning depth with convolutional spatial propagation network

X Cheng, P Wang, R Yang - IEEE transactions on pattern …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose the convolutional spatial propagation network (CSPN) and
demonstrate its effectiveness for various depth estimation tasks. CSPN is a simple and …

An efficient sampling-based method for online informative path planning in unknown environments

L Schmid, M Pantic, R Khanna, L Ott… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ability to plan informative paths online is essential to robot autonomy. In particular,
sampling-based approaches are often used as they are capable of using arbitrary …

Completionformer: Depth completion with convolutions and vision transformers

Y Zhang, X Guo, M Poggi, Z Zhu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Given sparse depths and the corresponding RGB images, depth completion aims at spatially
propagating the sparse measurements throughout the whole image to get a dense depth …