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most citedBenchmarking Vision-Based Object Tracking for USVs in Complex Maritime Environments

10 citations · 16 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.RO2026

LLM-VLM Fusion Framework for Autonomous Maritime Port Inspection using a Heterogeneous UAV-USV System

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Ahsan B. Bakht +1

Maritime port inspection plays a critical role in ensuring safety, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency in complex maritime environments. However, existing inspection…

cs.RO2025

Lang2Manip: A Tool for LLM-Based Symbolic-to-Geometric Planning for Manipulation

Muhayy Ud Din, Jan Rosell, Waseem Akram +1

Simulation is essential for developing robotic manipulation systems, particularly for task and motion planning (TAMP), where symbolic reasoning interfaces with geometric, kinematic…

cs.RO2025

AquaChat++: LLM-Assisted Multi-ROV Inspection for Aquaculture Net Pens with Integrated Battery Management and Thruster Fault Tolerance

Abdelhaleem Saad, Waseem Akram, Irfan Hussain

Inspection of aquaculture net pens is essential for ensuring the structural integrity and sustainable operation of offshore fish farming systems. Traditional methods, typically bas…

cs.RO2025

AquaChat: An LLM-Guided ROV Framework for Adaptive Inspection of Aquaculture Net Pens

Waseem Akram, Muhayy Ud Din, Abdelhaleem Saad +1

Inspection of aquaculture net pens is essential for maintaining the structural integrity, biosecurity, and operational efficiency of fish farming systems. Traditional inspection ap…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

A Review of Generative AI in Aquaculture: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions for Smart and Sustainable Farming

Waseem Akram, Muhayy Ud Din, Lyes Saad Soud +1

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in aquaculture, enabling intelligent synthesis of multimodal data, including text, images, au…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

Vision Language Action Models in Robotic Manipulation: A Systematic Review

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Lyes Saad Saoud +2

Vision Language Action (VLA) models represent a transformative shift in robotics, with the aim of unifying visual perception, natural language understanding, and embodied control w…

cs.RO2025

Maritime Mission Planning for Unmanned Surface Vessel using Large Language Model

Muhayy Ud Din, Waseem Akram, Ahsan B Bakht +2

Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs) are essential for various maritime operations. USV mission planning approach offers autonomous solutions for monitoring, surveillance, and logistics…

cs.CV2024★ 10 cited

Benchmarking Vision-Based Object Tracking for USVs in Complex Maritime Environments

Muhayy Ud Din, Ahsan B. Bakht, Waseem Akram +3

Vision-based target tracking is crucial for unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to perform tasks such as inspection, monitoring, and surveillance. However, real-time tracking in compl…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

LLM-guided Task and Motion Planning using Knowledge-based Reasoning

Muhayy Ud Din, Jan Rosell, Waseem Akram +3

Performing complex manipulation tasks in dynamic environments requires efficient Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) approaches that combine high-level symbolic plans with low-level mo…

cs.RO2024

Long-Range Vision-Based UAV-assisted Localization for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Waseem Akram, Siyuan Yang, Hailiang Kuang +7

The global positioning system (GPS) has become an indispensable navigation method for field operations with unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in marine environments. However, GPS ma…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

MuLA-GAN: Multi-Level Attention GAN for Enhanced Underwater Visibility

Ahsan Baidar Bakht, Zikai Jia, Muhayy ud Din +6

The underwater environment presents unique challenges, including color distortions, reduced contrast, and blurriness, hindering accurate analysis. In this work, we introduce MuLA-G…

cs.RO2023

Marine: Design and Implementation of Unmanned Surface Vessel for Vision Guided Navigation

Muhayy Ud Din, Ahmed Humais, Waseem Akram +5

Marine robots, particularly Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs), have gained considerable attention for their diverse applications in maritime tasks, including search and rescue, envir…

cs.CV2023

Evaluating Deep Learning Assisted Automated Aquaculture Net Pens Inspection Using ROV

Waseem Akram, Muhayyuddin Ahmed, Lakmal Seneviratne +1

In marine aquaculture, inspecting sea cages is an essential activity for managing both the facilities' environmental impact and the quality of the fish development process. Fish es…

cs.CV2023

Vision-Based Autonomous Navigation for Unmanned Surface Vessel in Extreme Marine Conditions

Muhayyuddin Ahmed, Ahsan Baidar Bakht, Taimur Hassan +6

Visual perception is an important component for autonomous navigation of unmanned surface vessels (USV), particularly for the tasks related to autonomous inspection and tracking. T…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Autonomous Underwater Robotic System for Aquaculture Applications

Waseem Akram, Muhayyuddin Ahmed, Lakmal Seneviratne +1

Aquaculture is a thriving food-producing sector producing over half of the global fish consumption. However, these aquafarms pose significant challenges such as biofouling, vegetat…