Visual Perception Engine (VPEngine) is a modular framework that enables efficient GPU usage for robotic vision tasks by sharing a foundation model backbone across multiple specialized task heads. It eliminates redundant feature extraction, supports dynamic task prioritization, and achieves up to 3× speedup over sequential execution. The open‑source Python implementation, with ROS2 C++ bindings, delivers real‑time performance (≥50 Hz) on NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX using TensorRT‑optimized models.
By Jakub {\L}ucki, Jonathan Becktor, Georgios Georgakis, Rob Royce, Shehryar Khattak
arXiv:2608.21764v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Event-based vision has emerged as a promising paradigm for energy-aware artificial intelligence (AI), offering sparse, low-latency visual signals tha...
By Riadul Islam, Joey Mule, Dhandeep Challagundla, Shahmir Rizvi, Sean Carson, Rachit Saini
arXiv:2607. 22714v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-time perception is a foundational requirement for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles, yet embedded automotive platforms impose severe constraints on compute, memory, and power.
By Sai Sidharth D
arXiv:2607. 28293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While depth sensors have the potential to complement RGB data for affordance segmentation in wearable robots, their usage seems to remain underexplored.
By Edoardo Ragusa, Giovanni Paolo Canuti, Simone Lugani, Rodolfo Zunino, Paolo Gastaldo
arXiv:2610.01746v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous driving systems have become a central focus of intelligent transportation research, with End-to-End Learning and Modular Architectures off...
By Kartik B. Kapse
arXiv:2609.23974v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models are endowing autonomous systems with greater intelligence, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the environment through vis...
By Boxun Hu, Jiawei Ge, Axel Krieger, Peng Wang, Tinoosh Mohsenin
arXiv:2607. 03213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present OpenGlass, an open-source, privacy-oriented, local-first system for low-latency multimodal visual assistance, with a primary focus on blind and low-vision users.
By Mengzhang Li, Yuan Yao
The paper introduces AdaptAV, a system that continuously adapts vision models for autonomous vehicles by retraining them on the cloud using data uploaded from the vehicles. It leverages powerful cloud compute resources and a highly accurate oracle model to guide the retraining process, producing a new model that is then transmitted back to the vehicle. This approach aims to improve inference accuracy over time while maintaining the fast inference speeds required for on‑vehicle deployment.
By Yuheng Zhu, Dhruva Ungrupulithaya, Boluo Ge, Man-Ki Yoon
arXiv:2409. 16808v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern applications such as autonomous vehicles, intelligent surveillance, and smart city systems increasingly require object detection on resource-constrained edge devices.
By Daghash K. Alqahtani, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Maria A. Rodriguez, Adel N. Toosi
arXiv:2606. 02979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a novel compact deep multi-task learning model to handle various autonomous driving perception tasks in one forward pass.
By Oskar Natan, Jun Miura
Foundation models are endowing autonomous systems with greater intelligence, enabling a more comprehensive understanding of the environment through visual perception. A representative example is Human...
The paper presents a novel multi‑exit computational scheme for TinyML on an ultra‑low‑power GAP9 SoC, adding confidence‑based gating points to a MobileNetV2 CNN for ImageNet‑100. By allowing inference to stop early, the approach cuts average MAC operations by 41 % (from 313 MMAC to 185 MMAC), reduces inference time by 29 % (49 ms to 35 ms), and saves 24 % in energy (2.1 mJ to 1.6 mJ per frame) with only a ~1 % drop in accuracy. Compared to a state‑of‑the‑art adaptive CNN on the same hardware, the method more than doubles computational efficiency, raising MAC/cycle from 8.1 to 17.2.
By Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi