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How can you rescue a “kidnapped” robot? A new AI system helps the robot regain its sense of location in dynamic, ever-changing environments

Researchers at Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain) have developed MCL-DLF, a coarse-to-fine 3D LiDAR localization approach combining Monte Carlo Localization with deep local features for ...
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How can you rescue a 'kidnapped' robot? New AI system helps robots regain their sense of location

Mobile robots must continuously estimate their position to navigate autonomously. However, satellite-based navigation systems are not always reliable: signals may degrade near buildings or become ...
AsiaOne

Japan's fragile Q4 economic recovery poses early test for Takaichi

Japan's economy limped back to meagre growth in the fourth quarter, significantly missing market expectations in a key test for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's government as cost-of-living pressures ...
GitHub

PersPose: 3D Human Pose Estimation with Perspective Encoding and Perspective Rotation

This is the offical Pytorch implementation of PersPose, which estimates the 3D positions of joints from individual images. Below is the overall framework. We design Perspective Encoding (PE) to encode ...
IEEE

Self-Distillation Adaptive Pose Estimation Method for Cross-Domain Non-Cooperative Spacecraft Based on Optical Sensor Data

Abstract: Domain adaptation is crucially important for non-cooperative spacecraft pose estimation from optical sensor data in real-world orbital images. Given the scarcity of real images, synthetic ...
IEEE

Facial Landmark Detection and Head Pose Estimation of Occluded Faces Based on Stable Diffusion Image Completion

Abstract: Face occlusion often makes it challenging to detect facial landmarks and head pose accurately. In this work, we present a pipeline to estimate facial landmarks and head pose when only a ...