Recent advances in deep learning technology have triggered radical progress the autonomy of ground vehicles. Marine coastal Autonomous Surface Vehicles (ASVs) that are regularly used for surveillance, monitoring, and other routine tasks can benefit from this autonomy. Long haul sea transportation activities additional opportunities. These two use cases present very different terrains—the first ...

We propose to utilize confocal Raman spectroscopy combined with high resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) for nondestructive characterisation of the sidewalls of etched and passivated small pixel (24μm×24μm) focal plane arrays (FPA) fabricated using LW/LWIR InAs/GaSb type-II strained layer superlattice (T2SL) detector material. Special high aspect ratio Si and GaAs AFM probes, with tip leng...

This paper presents a method for automatic segmentation of images of faces captured in Long Wavelength Infrared (LWIR), allowing a wide range of face rotations, expressions and artifacts (such as glasses and hats). The paper presents a novel high accurate approach and compares its performance against three other previously published methods. The proposed approach uses active contours, morpholog...