Implantable sensor systems are effective tools for biomedical diagnosis, visualization and treatment of various health conditions, attracting the interest of researchers, as well as healthcare practitioners. These systems efficiently and conveniently...
Research of target localization and tracking is always a remarkable problem in the application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology. There are many kinds of research and applications of target localization and tracking, such as Angle of Arri...
Multiple-object detection, localization, and tracking are desirable in many areas and applications, as the field of deep learning has developed and has drawn the attention of academics in computer vision, having a plethora of networks now achieving e...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been widely used in indoor location tracking, especially serving human beings, due to its advantage of low cost, non-contact communication, resistance to hostile environments and so forth. Over the...
Object geo-localization from images is crucial to many applications such as land surveying, self-driving, and asset management. Current visual object geo-localization algorithms suffer from hardware limitations and impractical assumptions limiting th...
This work proposes an innovative approach to enhance the localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments. The methodology integrates a sophisticated object-tracking algorithm to augment the established simultaneous localizatio...
Localization is one of the essential problems in the Internet of Things (IoT). Dynamic changes in the radio environment may lead to poor localization accuracy or discontinuous localization in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios. To address this proble...
We introduce a high precision localization and tracking method that makes use of cheap Bluetooth low-energy (BLE) beacons only. We track the position of a moving sensor by integrating highly unreliable and noisy BLE observations streaming from multip...
Multiple object tracking is used in a range of applications, including autonomous control of various vehicles and sports analytics. The main challenges in developing tracking systems are detection errors and computational load that scales with the nu...
Chang’e-5, China’s first unmanned lunar sample-return mission, was successfully landed in Northern Oceanus Procellarum on 1 December 2020. Determining the lander location precisely and timely is critical for both engineering operations and subsequent...
Target tracking is an important application of wireless sensor networks. The networks’ ability to locate and track an object is directed linked to the nodes’ ability to locate themselves. Consequently, localization systems are essential for target tr...
Short-range localization and life tracking have been hot research topics in the fields of medical care, consumer electronics, driving assistance, and indoor robots/drones navigation. Among various sensors, microwave and mm-wave continuous-wave (CW) r...
In large bowel investigations using endoscopic capsules and upon detection of significant findings, physicians require the location of those findings for a follow-up therapeutic colonoscopy. To cater to this need, we propose a model based on tracking...
This paper investigates the feasibility of 3D self-localization and tracking using chipless radio frequency identification (RFID) tags operating in the terahertz (THz) frequency band. The primary objective is to achieve sub-millimeter (sub-mm) locali...
This paper presents a visual localization system for underwater robots, aimed at achieving high-precision relative positioning and dynamic target tracking. A 3D AprilTag reference structure is constructed using a cubic configuration, and a high-resol...
Reliable outdoor localization is essential for autonomous mobile robots, where the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is widely used to provide global positioning information. However, GNSS signals are often degraded in real-world environments...
Indoor localization has become a mature research area, but further scientific developments are limited due to the lack of open datasets and corresponding frameworks suitable to compare and evaluate specialized localization solutions. Although several...
Accurate tracking and localization of in-line inspection (ILI) tools are essential for mileage calibration, defect mapping, and blockage prevention in oil and gas pipelines. This review summarizes sensor-based approaches for external ILI-tool localiz...
Hilly orchards are characterized by undulating terrain, canopy occlusion, irregular tree-row structures, and marked variations in ground adhesion conditions, which challenge the autonomous navigation of agricultural machinery by degrading perception...
The problem of multi-robot collaborative self-localization and distributed target tracking in practical scenarios is studied in this work. The major challenge in solving the problem in a distributed fashion is properly dealing with inter-robot and ro...
This paper describes an approach to detect, localize, and track moving, non-cooperative objects by exploiting multipath propagation. In a network of spatially distributed transmitting and receiving nodes, moving objects appear as discrete mobile scat...
In this paper, an object localization and tracking system is implemented with an ultrasonic sensing technique and improved algorithms. The system is composed of one ultrasonic transmitter and five receivers, which uses the principle of ultrasonic ran...
The requirement of active localization techniques to attach a hardware device to the targets that need to be located can be difficult or even impossible for certain applications. For this reason, there has been an increasing interest in tagless or de...
This paper deals with mobile multi-target detection and tracking. In the traditional method, there are uncertainties such as misdetection and false alarm in the measurement data, and it will be inevitable having to deal with the data association. To...
This paper discusses a key technique for passive localization and tracking of radiation sources, which obtains the motion trajectory of radiation sources carried by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by continuously or periodically localizing it without...
Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) positioning is a challenging task indoors due to environmental constraints and the unpredictable behavior of signal propagation, even at a fixed location. The aim of this work is to develop deep learning-based appro...
In this paper, new path optimization algorithms are developed for uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) self-localization and target tracking, exploiting beacon (landmark) bearings and angle-of-arrival (AOA) measurements from a manoeuvring target. To account...
We present an algorithm for fusing data from a constellation of RF sensors detecting cellular emanations with the output of a multi-spectral video tracker to localize and track a target with a specific cell phone. The RF sensors measure the Doppler s...
The tracking and positioning of transmission lines is a key element for UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to achieve autonomous inspection of transmission lines. Current methods are vulnerable to weather and environmental factors, have high costs, and...
Recent advances in eye-tracking technologies have fostered growing interest in their integration with acoustic research for investigating auditory perception and human behavioral responses. This study presents a structured literature review of recent...
This paper presents a multi-sensor fusion framework for the accurate indoor localization and trajectory tracking of a differential-drive mobile robot. The proposed system integrates Ultra-Wideband (UWB) trilateration, wheel odometry, and Attitude and...
Track-to-track association (T2TA) is a challenging task in situational awareness in intelligent vehicles and surveillance systems. In this paper, the problem of track-to-track association with sensor bias (T2TASB) is considered. Traditional T2TASB al...
The proliferation of drones in civilian environments has raised growing concerns about their misuse, highlighting the need to develop efficient detection systems to protect public and private spaces. This article presents a hybrid approach for UAV de...
Unauthorized unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) intrusions in sensitive areas such as airports have made accurate UAV detection and localization a pressing need. Acoustic sensing is passive and weather-independent, but conventional microphone arrays requi...
The use of audio systems that employ binaural synthesis with head tracking has become increasingly popular, particularly in virtual reality gaming systems. The binaural synthesis process uses the Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTF) as an input req...
With the cost reduction of underwater sensor network nodes and the increasing demand for underwater detection and monitoring, near-land areas, shallow water areas, lakes and rivers have gradually tended to densely arranged sensor nodes. In order to a...
In visual tracking, the tracking model must be updated online, which often leads to undesired inclusion of corrupted training samples, and hence inducing tracking failure. We present a locality preserving correlation filter (LPCF) integrating a novel...
The aim of this study was the validation of player and ball position measurements of Kinexon’s local positioning system (LPS) in handball and football. Eight athletes conducted a sport-specific course (SSC) and small sided football games (SSG), simul...
In this paper, we present a novel onboard robust visual algorithm for long-term arbitrary 2D and 3D object tracking using a reliable global-local object model for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) applications, e.g., autonomous tracking and chasing a mov...
Ultra-wideband (UWB) and inertial measurement unit (IMU) fusion is an effective scheme for train and rail-guided target localization because UWB provides absolute ranging results and the IMU provides high-rate motion prediction. In practical rail tra...
In this paper, we propose a multi-view structural local subspace tracking algorithm based on sparse representation. We approximate the optimal state from three views: (1) the template view; (2) the PCA (principal component analysis) basis view; and (...
This research examined whether intrinsic (fresh) and extrinsic (local) cue words of locally grown food menu items were associated with consumers’ visual attention (i.e., fixation count and total fixation duration) and menu choice using an eye-t...
Indoor positioning using Wi-Fi signals is an economic technique. Its drawback is that multipath propagation distorts these signals, leading to an inaccurate localization. An approach to improve the positioning accuracy consists of using fingerprints...
Object tracking is a challenging task in many computer vision applications due to occlusion, scale variation and background clutter, etc. In this paper, we propose a tracking algorithm by combining discriminative global and generative multi-scale loc...
The Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) tracking tasks find extensive utility across various applications. However, current Transformer-based trackers are generally tailored for diverse scenarios and lack specific designs for UAV applications. Moreover, du...
Visual object tracking is a significant technology for camera-based sensor networks applications. Multilayer convolutional features comprehensively used in correlation filter (CF)-based tracking algorithms have achieved excellent performance. However...
Shortwave track diseases are generally reflected in the form of local track irregularity. Such diseases will greatly impact the train–track–bridge interaction (TTBI) dynamic system, seriously affecting train safety. Therefore, a method is...
Appearance models play an important role in visual tracking. Effective modeling of the appearance of tracked objects is still a challenging problem because of object appearance changes caused by factors, such as partial occlusion, illumination variat...
The deep-sea landing vehicle (DSLV) swarm exploration system is a novel platform for the detection of marine mineral resources. A high-precision cooperative localization system with Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL), Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), and electro...
Railway transportation plays a vital role in modern society, enabling the safe and efficient movement of people and goods over long distances. To ensure the longevity and safety of a railway infrastructure, the regular maintenance of tracks is crucia...
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