The quest for military Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) procedures arises from the demand to reduce collateral damage and fratricide. Although missiles with two-dimensional ATR capabilities do exist, the potential of ...

Kernel methods are able to exploit high-dimensional spaces for representational advantage, while only operating implicitly in such spaces, thus incurring none of the computational cost of doing so. They appear to have the ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) use is on the rise, both for civilian and military applications. Autonomous UAV navigation is an active research topic, but human operators still provide a flexibility that currently matches ...

This thesis investigates the utilisation of cheap RGBD sensors in rigid body tracking and 3D multiview registration for augmented and Virtual reality applications. RGBD sensors can be used as an affordable substitute for ...

This thesis investigates new convex optimisation techniques for motion and pose estimation. Numerous computer vision problems can be formulated as optimisation problems. These optimisation problems are generally solved via ...

As future robotic surface exploration missions to other planets, moons and asteroids become more ambitious in their science goals, there is a rapidly growing need to significantly enhance the capabilities of entry, descent ...

This thesis deals with the challenge of autonomous navigation of the ExoMars rover. The absence of global positioning systems (GPS) in space, added to the limitations of wheel odometry makes autonomous navigation based ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is a research field in robotics which is in high demand in recent years, although there still exist many unanswered questions. In contrast, to the human operated aerial vehicles, it is still ...

This thesis focuses on the theory and implementation of visual navigation techniques for Autonomous Air Vehicles in outdoor environments. The target of this study is to fuse and cooperatively develop an incremental map for ...