4 papers
Enabling 24-hour Agricultural Robotics: Unsupervised Day-to-Night Cross-Modal Image Translation for Nighttime Visual Navigation
Robel Mamo, Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak +1
While visual navigation has been extensively studied in agricultural robotics, most existing systems assume daytime conditions. In fact, deploying autonomous robots at night offers…
Semantics-Guided Multimodal Masked Autoencoder Pretraining for 3D BEV Object Detection
Prabuddhi Wariyapperuma, Rajitha de Silva, Marc Hanheide +2
Accurate 3D bird's-eye view (BEV) object detection is essential for autonomous driving, and depends strongly on effective multimodal representations from complementary sensors such…
Calibration-Informative Region Selection for Online LiDAR--Camera Calibration in Agricultural Environments
Rajitha de Silva, Grzegorz Cielniak
Reliable multi-modal calibration requires identifying which observations truly constrain the extrinsic parameters and which ones mainly add noise or ambiguity. In this paper, we pr…
SPARROW: Smart Precision Agriculture Robot for Ridding of Weeds
Dhanushka Balasingham, Sadeesha Samarathunga, Gayantha Godakanda Arachchige +5
The advancements in precision agriculture are vital to support the increasing demand for global food supply. Precision spot spraying is a major step towards reducing chemical usage…