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  • Dehazing quality evaluation algorithm integrating dark channel theory and image depth estimation 

    Huang, Jiayan; Xu, Xin Xin; Luo, Shao Ye; Zhao, Wan Qi; Fan, Haoyi; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Guerra Paradas, Edmundo; Wang, Chuansheng; Zhang, Fuquan (2024-05-01)
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    Image dehazing is an important research topic and hotspot in the fields of image processing and computer vision. Therefore, evaluating the performance of image dehazing algorithms has become an import research issue. ...
  • Enhancing robotic collaborative tasks through contextual human motion prediction and intention inference 

    Laplaza Galindo, Javier; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto (2024-07-13)
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    Predicting human motion based on a sequence of past observations is crucial for various applications in robotics and computer vision. Currently, this problem is typically addressed by training deep learning models using ...
  • A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges 

    Singamaneni, Phani Teja; Bachiller Burgos, Pilar; Manso, Luis J.; Garrell Zulueta, Anais; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto; Spalanzani, Anne; Alami, Rachid (SAGE publishing, 2024-09)
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    Socially aware robot navigation is gaining popularity with the increase in delivery and assistive robots. The research is further fueled by a need for socially aware navigation skills in autonomous vehicles to move safely ...
  • Weakly and semi-supervised detection, segmentation and tracking of table grapes with limited and noisy data 

    Ciarfuglia, Thomas A.; Motoi, Ionut M.; Saraceni, Leonardo; Fawakherji, Mulham; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto; Nardi, Daniele (2023-02)
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    Detection, segmentation and tracking of fruits and vegetables are three fundamental tasks for precision agriculture, enabling robotic harvesting and yield estimation applications. However, modern algorithms are data hungry ...
  • Perception–intention–action cycle in human–robot collaborative tasks: the collaborative lightweight object transportation use-case 

    Domínguez Vidal, José Enrique; Rodríguez Linares, Nicolás Adrián; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto (Springer, 2024-03-25)
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    This study proposes to improve the reliability, robustness and human-like nature of Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC). For that, the classical Perception–Action cycle is extended to a Perception–Intention–Action (PIA) cycle, ...
  • The LogiSmile Project - Piloting autonomous vehicles for last-mile Logistics in european cities 

    Conill de Azpiazu, Maria; Vietor, Tim; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto; Lemardele, Clement; Baldó Oliva, Albert; Aniculaesei, Adina; Rausch, Andreas; Santamaria Navarro, Àngel (Elsevier, 2023)
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    The use of autonomous technologies for last-mile logistics has the potential to reduce operation costs, cut emissions from the delivery sector, improve safety levels in communities, and provide efficient delivery solutions ...
  • Adaptive social planner to accompany people in real-life dynamic environments 

    Repiso Polo, Ely; Garrell Zulueta, Anais; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto (Springer, 2022-12-03)
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    Robots must develop the ability to socially navigate in uncontrolled urban environments to be able to be included in our daily lives. This paper presents a new robot navigation framework called the adaptive social planner ...
  • Accurate detection and depth estimation of table grapes and peduncles for robot harvesting, combining monocular depth estimation and CNN methods 

    Coll Ribes, Gabriel; Torres Rodriguez, Ivan Jesús; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Guerra Paradas, Edmundo; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto (Elsevier, 2023-12)
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    Precision agriculture is a growing field in the agricultural industry and it holds great potential in fruit and vegetable harvesting. In this work, we present a robust accurate method for the detection and localization of ...
  • Shared task representation for human–robot collaborative navigation: the collaborative search case 

    Dalmasso Blanch, Marc; Domínguez Vidal, José Enrique; Torres Rodriguez, Ivan Jesús; Jiménez Schlegl, Pablo; Garrell Zulueta, Anais; Sanfeliu Cortés, Alberto (Springer, 2023-10-30)
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    Recent research in Human Robot Collaboration (HRC) has spread and specialised in many sub-fields. Many show considerable advances, but the human–robot collaborative navigation (HRCN) field seems to be stuck focusing on ...
  • LEPF-Net: light enhancement pixel fusion network for underwater image enhancement 

    Yan, Jiaquan; Wang, Yijian; Fan, Haoyi; Huang, Jiayan; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Wang, Chuansheng (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-06-01)
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    Underwater images often suffer from degradation due to scattering and absorption. With the development of artificial intelligence, fully supervised learning-based models have been widely adopted to solve this problem. ...
  • All-in-one aerial image enhancement network for forest scenes 

    Chen, Zhaoqi; Wang, Chuansheng; Zhang, Fuquan; Zhang, Ling; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Guerra Paradas, Edmundo (Frontiers Media SA, 2023-01-01)
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    Drone monitoring plays an irreplaceable and significant role in forest firefighting due to its characteristics of wide-range observation and real-time messaging. However, aerial images are often susceptible to different ...
  • Semi-supervised wildfire smoke detection based on smoke-aware consistency 

    Wang, Chuansheng; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Guerra Paradas, Edmundo; Shen, Zhiguo; Hu, Jinxing; Fan, Haoyi (Frontiers Media SA, 2022-11-08)
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    The semi-transparency property of smoke integrates it highly with the background contextual information in the image, which results in great visual differences in different areas. In addition, the limited annotation of ...

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