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Aditya NG
dblp:383/4417
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2024
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Systems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot navigation and mapping · 77% Autonomous driving · 23% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
mobile robot navigation |
0.8 | 1 | 2024 | Thermal Voyager: A Comparative Study of RGB and Thermal Cameras for Night-Time Autonomous Navigation · ICRA 2024 |
Robotics › Autonomous driving › perception › environment perception
scene perception |
0.2 | 1 | 2024 | Thermal Voyager: A Comparative Study of RGB and Thermal Cameras for Night-Time Autonomous Navigation · ICRA 2024 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
trajectory prediction network · 0.8model predictive control · 0.8
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Thermal Voyager: A Comparative Study of RGB and Thermal Cameras for Night-Time Autonomous NavigationabstractAchieving reliable autonomous navigation during nighttime remains a substantial obstacle in the field of robotics. Although systems utilizing Light Detection and Ranging (Li-DAR) and Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR) enable environmental perception regardless of lighting conditions, they face significant challenges in environments with a high density of agents due to their dependence on active emissions. Cameras operating in the visible spectrum represent a quasi-passive alternative, yet they see a substantial drop in efficiency in low-light conditions, consequently hindering both scene perception and path planning. Here, we introduce a novel end-to-end navigation system, the "Thermal Voyager", which leverages infrared thermal vision to achieve true passive perception in autonomous entities. The system utilizes our architecture, TrajNet to interpret thermal visual inputs to produce desired trajectories and employs a model predictive control strategy to determine the optimal steering angles needed to actualize those trajectories. We train our TrajNet on a comprehensive video dataset incorporating visible and thermal footage along-side Controller Area Network (CAN) frames. We demonstrate that nighttime navigation facilitated by Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) thermal cameras can rival the performance of daytime navigation systems using RGB cameras. Our work paves the way for scene perception and trajectory prediction empowered entirely by passive thermal sensing technology, heralding a new era where autonomous navigation is both feasible and reliable irrespective of the time of day. We make our code and thermal trajectory dataset public1. Aditya NG, Dhruval PB, Jehan Shalabi, Shubhankar Jape, Xueji Wang, Zubin Jacob |
ICRA | 1 |