Research

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2025

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    MonoTher-Depth: Enhancing Thermal Depth Estimation via Confidence-Aware Distillation
    Xingxing Zuo ,  Nikhil Ranganathan ,  Connor Lee ,  Georgia Gkioxari , and 1 more author
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Jan 2025
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2024

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    Vision-Based Detection of Uncooperative Targets and Components on Small Satellites
    Hannah Grauer ,  Elena-Sorina Lupu ,  Connor Lee ,  Soon-Jo Chung , and 4 more authors
    In Small Satellite Conference , Aug 2024
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    Semantics from Space: Satellite-Guided Thermal Semantic Segmentation Annotation for Aerial Field Robots
    Connor Lee ,  Saraswati Soedarmadji ,  Matthew Anderson ,  Anthony J. Clark , and 1 more author
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , Mar 2024
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    Caltech Aerial RGB-Thermal Dataset in the Wild
    Connor Lee* ,  Matthew Anderson* ,  Nikhil Raganathan ,  Xingxing Zuo , and 3 more authors
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) , Mar 2024
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    RGB-X Object Detection via Scene-Specific Fusion Modules
    Sri Aditya Deevi* ,  Connor Lee* ,  Lu Gan* ,  Sushruth Nagesh , and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision , Jan 2024
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2023

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    Online Self-Supervised Thermal Water Segmentation for Aerial Vehicles
    Connor Lee ,  Jonathan Gustafsson Frennert ,  Lu Gan ,  Matthew Anderson , and 1 more author
    In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) , Oct 2023

    IROS Best Paper Award on Agri-Robotics (Finalist)

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    Unsupervised RGB-to-Thermal Domain Adaptation via Multi-Domain Attention Network
    Lu Gan ,  Connor Lee ,  and  Soon-Jo Chung
    In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , Jun 2023
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    Self-Supervised Landmark Discovery for Terrain-Relative Navigation
    Connor Lee ,  Esmir Mesic ,  and  Soon-Jo Chung
    In ICRA Workshop on Unconventional spatial representations: Opportunities for robotics , Jun 2023
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2021

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    A Seasonally Invariant Deep Transform for Visual Terrain-Relative Navigation
    Anthony Fragoso ,  Connor Lee ,  Austin McCoy ,  and  Soon-Jo Chung
    Science Robotics, Jun 2021
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2016

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    Vision-based Obstacle Avoidance for Micro Air Vehicles using an Egocylindrical Depth Map
    Roland Brockers ,  Anthony Fragoso ,  Brandon Rothrock ,  Connor Lee , and 1 more author
    In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics , Jun 2016
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