3 papers
cs.RO2026
Advancing Accessible Underwater Robotics: The Mini-Girona I-AUV at RAMI 2025
Taqi Hamoda, Bilal Ahmed, Deborah Ele-Ojo +9
The Mini-Girona Intervention Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (I-AUV) represents an advancement in accessible underwater robotics, designed to bridge the gap between costly, specializ…
cs.CV2026
Geometry-Driven Opti-Acoustic Co-Registration and View-Invariant Reflectivity Mapping for Side-Scan Sonar
Taqi Hamoda, Nuno Gracias
Side-Scan Sonar (SSS) is a primary modality for large-scale underwater mapping, yet automated perception and cross-modal alignment are severely bottlenecked by acoustic complexitie…
cs.CV2026
BenthicDINO: Physics-Informed Self-Distillation for View-Invariant Side-Scan Sonar Representations
Taqi Hamoda, Hayat Rajani, Nuno Gracias
Automated perception in side-scan sonar (SSS) imagery is severely hindered by physical acoustic artifacts, resulting in representations that inextricably mix intrinsic seabed refle…