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cs.CV2026

Telescope: Learnable Hyperbolic Foveation for Ultra-Long-Range Object Detection

Parker Ewen, Dmitriy Rivkin, Mario Bijelic +1

Autonomous highway driving, especially for long-haul heavy trucks, requires detecting objects at long ranges beyond 500 meters to satisfy braking distance requirements at high spee…

cs.CV2026

ChopGrad: Pixel-Wise Losses for Latent Video Diffusion via Truncated Backpropagation

Dmitriy Rivkin, Parker Ewen, Lili Gao +5

Recent video diffusion models achieve high-quality generation through recurrent frame processing where each frame generation depends on previous frames. However, this recurrent mec…

cs.RO2025

SLIM-VDB: A Real-Time 3D Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Framework

Anja Sheppard, Parker Ewen, Joey Wilson +6

This paper introduces SLIM-VDB, a new lightweight semantic mapping system with probabilistic semantic fusion for closed-set or open-set dictionaries. Advances in data structures fr…

cs.CV2025

These Magic Moments: Differentiable Uncertainty Quantification of Radiance Field Models

Parker Ewen, Hao Chen, Seth Isaacson +3

This paper introduces a novel approach to uncertainty quantification for radiance fields by leveraging higher-order moments of the rendering equation. Uncertainty quantification is…

cs.RO2024

Modeling Uncertainty in 3D Gaussian Splatting through Continuous Semantic Splatting

Joey Wilson, Marcelino Almeida, Min Sun +6

In this paper, we present a novel algorithm for probabilistically updating and rasterizing semantic maps within 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS). Although previous methods have introd…

cs.CV2024

LatentBKI: Open-Dictionary Continuous Mapping in Visual-Language Latent Spaces with Quantifiable Uncertainty

Joey Wilson, Ruihan Xu, Yile Sun +4

This paper introduces a novel probabilistic mapping algorithm, LatentBKI, which enables open-vocabulary mapping with quantifiable uncertainty. Traditionally, semantic mapping algor…

cs.RO2024

Let's Make a Splan: Risk-Aware Trajectory Optimization in a Normalized Gaussian Splat

Jonathan Michaux, Seth Isaacson, Challen Enninful Adu +6

Neural Radiance Fields and Gaussian Splatting have recently transformed computer vision by enabling photo-realistic representations of complex scenes. However, they have seen limit…

cs.RO2024

You've Got to Feel It To Believe It: Multi-Modal Bayesian Inference for Semantic and Property Prediction

Parker Ewen, Hao Chen, Yuzhen Chen +4

Robots must be able to understand their surroundings to perform complex tasks in challenging environments and many of these complex tasks require estimates of physical properties s…

cs.RO2023

ConvBKI: Real-Time Probabilistic Semantic Mapping Network with Quantifiable Uncertainty

Joey Wilson, Yuewei Fu, Joshua Friesen +5

In this paper, we develop a modular neural network for real-time {\color{black}(> 10 Hz)} semantic mapping in uncertain environments, which explicitly updates per-voxel probabilist…

cs.RO2023

Not All Actions Are Created Equal: Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design for Safe and Optimal Nonlinear System Identification

Parker Ewen, Gitesh Gunjal, Joey Wilson +3

Uncertainty in state or model parameters is common in robotics and typically handled by acquiring system measurements that yield information about the uncertain quantities of inter…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

These Maps Are Made For Walking: Real-Time Terrain Property Estimation for Mobile Robots

Parker Ewen, Adam Li, Yuxin Chen +2

The equations of motion governing mobile robots are dependent on terrain properties such as the coefficient of friction, and contact model parameters. Estimating these properties i…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Generating Continuous Motion and Force Plans in Real-Time for Legged Mobile Manipulation

Parker Ewen, Jean-Pierre Sleiman, Yuxin Chen +3

Manipulators can be added to legged robots, allowing them to interact with and change their environment. Legged mobile manipulation planners must consider how contact forces genera…