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6D pose estimation using an improved method based on point pair features

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Vidal, Joel Lin, Chyi-Yeu Martí, Robert Department of Mechanical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Taipei Taiwan Computer Vision and Robotics Group University of Girona Girona Spain

The Point Pair Feature [4] has been one of the most successful 6D pose estimation method among model-based approaches as an efficient, integrated and compromise alternative to the traditional local and global pipelines. During the last years, several variations of the algorithm have been proposed. Among these extensions, the solution introduced by Hinterstoisser et al. [6] is a major contribution. This work presents a variation of this PPF method applied to the SIXD Challenge datasets presented at the 3rd International Workshop on Recovering 6D Object Pose held at the ICCV 2017. We report an average recall of 0.77 for all datasets and overall recall of 0.82, 0.67, 0.85, 0.37, 0.97 and 0.96 for hinterstoisser, tless, tudlight, rutgers, tejani and doumanoglou datasets, respectively. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Object detection

Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Meter Reading

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arXiv 2019年

作者： Laroca, Rayson Barroso, Victor Diniz, Matheus A. Gonçalves, Gabriel R. Schwartz, William Robson Menotti, David Federal University of Paraná Laboratory of Vision Robotics and Imaging Department of Informatics Av. Coronel Francisco Heráclito dos Santos 100 Curitiba81530-000 Brazil Federal University of Minas Gerais Smart Surveillance Interest Group Department of Computer Science Av. Antônio Carlos 6627 Belo Horizonte31270-010 Brazil

In this paper, we tackle Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) by leveraging the high capability of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We design a two-stage approach that employs the Fast-YOLO object detector for counter detection and evaluates three different CNN-based approaches for counter recognition. In the AMR literature, most datasets are not available to the research community since the images belong to a service company. In this sense, we introduce a new public dataset, called UFPR-AMR dataset, with 2,000 fully and manually annotated images. This dataset is, to the best of our knowledge, three times larger than the largest public dataset found in the literature and contains a well-defined evaluation protocol to assist the development and evaluation of AMR methods. Furthermore, we propose the use of a data augmentation technique to generate a balanced training set with many more examples to train the CNN models for counter recognition. In the proposed dataset, impressive results were obtained and a detailed speed/accuracy trade-off evaluation of each model was performed. In a public dataset, state-of-the-art results were achieved using less than 200 images for training. Copyright © 2019, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Public utilities

One deep music representation to rule them all? A comparative analysis of different representation learning strategies

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arXiv 2018年

作者： Kim, Jaehun Urbano, Julián Liem, Cynthia C.S. Hanjalic, Alan Multimedia Computing Group Department of Intelligent Systems Faculty of Electrical Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science Delft University of Technology

Inspired by the success of deploying deep learning in the fields of computer vision and Natural Language Processing, this learning paradigm has also found its way into the field of Music Information Retrieval. In order to benefit from deep learning in an effective, but also efficient manner, deep transfer learning has become a common approach. In this approach, it is possible to reuse the output of a pre-trained neural network as the basis for a new learning task. The underlying hypothesis is that if the initial and new learning tasks show commonalities and are applied to the same type of input data (e.g. music audio), the generated deep representation of the data is also informative for the new task. Since, however, most of the networks used to generate deep representations are trained using a single initial learning source, their representation is unlikely to be informative for all possible future tasks. In this paper, we present the results of our investigation of what are the most important factors to generate deep representations for the data and learning tasks in the music domain. We conducted this investigation via an extensive empirical study that involves multiple learning sources, as well as multiple deep learning architectures with varying levels of information sharing between sources, in order to learn music representations. We then validate these representations considering multiple target datasets for evaluation. The results of our experiments yield several insights on how to approach the design of methods for learning widely deployable deep data representations in the music domain. Copyright © 2018, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Music

Common Limitations of Image Processing Metrics: A Picture Story

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Reinke, Annika Tizabi, Minu D. Sudre, Carole H. Eisenmann, Matthias Rädsch, Tim Baumgartner, Michael Acion, Laura Antonelli, Michela Arbel, Tal Bakas, Spyridon Bankhead, Peter Benis, Arriel Blaschko, Matthew Buettner, Florian Cardoso, M. Jorge Chen, Jianxu Cheplygina, Veronika Christodoulou, Evangelia Cimini, Beth A. Collins, Gary S. Engelhardt, Sandy Farahani, Keyvan Ferrer, Luciana Galdran, Adrian van Ginneken, Bram Glocker, Ben Godau, Patrick Haase, Robert Hamprecht, Fred Hashimoto, Daniel A. Heckmann-Nötzel, Doreen Hirsch, Peter Hoffman, Michael M. Huisman, Merel Isensee, Fabian Jannin, Pierre Kahn, Charles E. Kainmueller, Dagmar Kainz, Bernhard Karargyris, Alexandros Karthikesalingam, Alan Kavur, A. Emre Kenngott, Hannes Kleesiek, Jens Kleppe, Andreas Koehler, Sven Kofler, Florian Kopp-Schneider, Annette Kooi, Thijs Kozubek, Michal Kreshuk, Anna Kurc, Tahsin Landman, Bennett A. Litjens, Geert Madani, Amin Maier-Hein, Klaus Martel, Anne L. Mattson, Peter Meijering, Erik Menze, Bjoern Moher, David Moons, Karel G.M. Müller, Henning Nichyporuk, Brennan Nickel, Felix Noyan, M. Alican Petersen, Jens Polat, Gorkem Rafelski, Susanne M. Rajpoot, Nasir Reyes, Mauricio Rieke, Nicola Riegler, Michael A. Rivaz, Hassan Saez-Rodriguez, Julio Sánchez, Clara I. Schroeter, Julien Saha, Anindo Selver, M. Alper Sharan, Lalith Shetty, Shravya Smeden, Maarten V.A.N. Stieltjes, Bram Summers, Ronald M. Taha, Abdel A. Tiulpin, Aleksei Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. Calster, Ben V.A.N. Varoquaux, Gaël Wiesenfarth, Manuel Yaniv, Ziv R. Jäger, Paul Maier-Hein, Lena Division of Intelligent Medical Systems and HI Helmholtz Imaging Heidelberg Germany Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Heidelberg University Heidelberg Germany Division of Intelligent Medical Systems Heidelberg Germany NCT Heidelberg DKFZ University Medical Center Heidelberg Germany MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing Department of Computer Science University College London London United Kingdom School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Science King’s College London London United Kingdom Division of Medical Image Computing Heidelberg Germany Instituto de Cálculo CONICET – Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina Centre for Medical Image Computing University College London London United Kingdom McGill University Montréal Canada Division of Computational Pathology Dept of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Indiana University School of Medicine IU Health Information and Translational Sciences Building Indianapolis United States University of Pennsylvania Richards Medical Research Laboratories FL7 PhiladelphiaPA United States Institute of Genetics and Cancer University of Edinburgh Edinburgh United Kingdom Department of Digital Medical Technologies Holon Institute of Technology Holon Israel European Federation for Medical Informatics Le Mont-sur-Lausanne Switzerland Center for Processing Speech and Images Department of Electrical Engineering KU Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - box 2441 Leuven3001 Belgium Frankfurt/Mainz DKFZ UCT Frankfurt-Marburg Germany Heidelberg Germany Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Medicine Germany Goethe University Frankfurt Department of Informatics Germany Frankfurt Cancer Insititute Germany Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V. Dortmund Germany Department of Computer Science IT University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark Imaging Platform Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard CambridgeMA United States Centre for St

While the importance of automatic image analysis is continuously increasing, recent meta-research revealed major flaws with respect to algorithm validation. Performance metrics are particularly key for meaningful, objective, and transparent performance assessment and validation of the used automatic algorithms, but relatively little attention has been given to the practical pitfalls when using specific metrics for a given image analysis task. These are typically related to (1) the disregard of inherent metric properties, such as the behaviour in the presence of class imbalance or small target structures, (2) the disregard of inherent data set properties, such as the non-independence of the test cases, and (3) the disregard of the actual biomedical domain interest that the metrics should reflect. This living dynamically document has the purpose to illustrate important limitations of performance metrics commonly applied in the field of image analysis. In this context, it focuses on biomedical image analysis problems that can be phrased as image-level classification, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, or object detection task. The current version is based on a Delphi process on metrics conducted by an international consortium of image analysis experts from more than 60 institutions worldwide. © 2021, CC BY.

关键词： Medical imaging

NTIRE 2020 Challenge on Real-World Image Super-Resolution: Methods and Results

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arXiv 2020年

作者： Lugmayr, Andreas Danelljan, Martin Timofte, Radu Ahn, Namhyuk Bai, Dongwoon Cai, Jie Cao, Yun Chen, Junyang Cheng, Kaihua Chun, SeYoung Deng, Wei El-Khamy, Mostafa Man Ho, Chiu Ji, Xiaozhong Kheradmand, Amin Kim, Gwantae Ko, Hanseok Lee, Kanghyu Lee, Jungwon Li, Hao Liu, Ziluan Liu, Zhi-Song Liu, Shuai Lu, Yunhua Meng, Zibo Navarrete Michelini, Pablo Micheloni, Christian Prajapati, Kalpesh Ren, Haoyu Hyeok Seo, Yong Siu, Wan-Chi Sohn, Kyung-Ah Tai, Ying Muhammad Umer, Rao Wang, Shuangquan Wang, Huibing Haoning Wu, Timothy Wu, Haoning Yang, Biao Yang, Fuzhi Yoo, Jaejun Zhao, Tongtong Zhou, Yuanbo Zhuo, Haijie Zong, Ziyao Zou, Xueyi Wang, Li-Wen Cani, Marie-Paule Siu, Wan-Chi Yang, Huan Fu, Jianlong Shi, Yukai Chen, Junyang Lee, Kanghyu Park, Jaihyun Lee, Junyeop Min, Jeongki Lee, Bokyeung Ko, Hanseok Yoo, Jaejun Sohn, Kyung-Ah Micheloni, Christian Hu, Fengshuo Wang, Yanhong Lu, Yunhua Peng, Jinjia Wang, Huibing Zhuo, Haijie Lee, Junyeop Min, Jeongki Lee, Bokyeung Park, Jaihyun Ko, Hanseok Tai, Lab Ying Jilin Li, Youtu Lab Liu, Shuai Yang, Biao Liu, Xing Chen, Shuaijun Zhao, Lei Wang, Zhan Lin, Yuxuan Jia, Xu Gao, Qinquan Deng, Wei Kheradmand, Amin El-Khamy, Mostafa Wang, Shuangquan Bai, Dongwoon Lee, Jungwon Patel, Heena Chudasama, Vishal Upla, Kishor Ramachandra, Raghavendra Raja, Kiran Busch, Christoph Meng, Zibo Ho, Chiu Man Computer Vision Lab ETH Zurich Switzerland LIX - Computer science laboratory at the cole polytechnique Palaiseau France Center of Multimedia Signal Processing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong Shanghai Jiao Tong University China Microsoft Research Beijing China Guangdong University of Technology China Intelligent Signal Processing Laboratory Korea University Korea Republic of Ajou University Korea Republic of EPFL University of Udine Italy BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd Dalian Maritime University China Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. Ltd Department of Video Information Processing Korea University Korea Republic of School of Electrical Engineering Korea University Korea Republic of Tencent Youtu Lab Yun Cao Tencent Youtu Tencent Youtu Lab Chengjie Wang Tencent Tencent Youtu Lab Feiyue Huang Tencent Youtu Lab Peking University China North China University of Technology China Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd China Fuzhou University Tong Tong Fuzhou University Imperial Vision Technology China Fuzhou University Imperial Vision Technology China Imperial Vision Technology SOC R&D Samsung Semiconductor Inc. United States Ulsan national institute of science and technology Korea Republic of Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology Surat India Norwegian University of Science and Technology Gjøvik Norway InnoPeak Technology

This paper reviews the NTIRE 2020 challenge on real world super-resolution. It focuses on the participating methods and final results. The challenge addresses the real world setting, where paired true high and low-resolution images are unavailable. For training, only one set of source input images is therefore provided along with a set of unpaired high-quality target images. In Track 1: Image Processing artifacts, the aim is to super-resolve images with synthetically generated image processing artifacts. This allows for quantitative benchmarking of the approaches w.r.t. a ground-truth image. In Track 2: Smartphone Images, real low-quality smart phone images have to be super-resolved. In both tracks, the ultimate goal is to achieve the best perceptual quality, evaluated using a human study. This is the second challenge on the subject, following AIM 2019, targeting to advance the state-of-the-art in super-resolution. To measure the performance we use the benchmark protocol from AIM 2019. In total 22 teams competed in the final testing phase, demonstrating new and innovative solutions to the problem. Copyright © 2020, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Optical resolving power

Forecasting intracranial hypertension using multi-scale waveform metrics

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arXiv 2019年

作者： Hüser, Matthias Kündig, Adrian Karlen, Walter De Luca, Valeria Jaggi, Martin Biomedical Informatics Group Department of Computer Science ETH Zürich Universitätstrasse 6 Zürich8092 Switzerland Mobile Health Systems Lab Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems Department of Health Sciences and Technology ETH Zürich Zürich8008 Switzerland Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering ETH Zürich Zürich8092 Switzerland Machine Learning & Optimization Lab EPFL Lausanne1015 Switzerland

Objective: Acute intracranial hypertension is an important risk factor of secondary brain damage after traumatic brain injury. Hypertensive episodes are often diagnosed reactively, leading to late detection and lost time for intervention planning. A pro-active approach that predicts critical events several hours ahead of time could assist in directing attention to patients at risk. Approach: We developed a prediction framework that forecasts onsets of acute intracranial hypertension in the next 8 hours. It jointly uses cerebral auto-regulation indices, spectral energies and morphological pulse metrics to describe the neurological state of the patient. One-minute base windows were compressed by computing signal metrics, and then stored in a multi-scale history, from which physiological features were derived. Main results: Our model predicted events up to 8 hours in advance with alarm recall rates of 90% at a precision of 30.3% in the MIMIC-III waveform database, improving upon two baselines from the literature. We found that features derived from high-frequency waveforms substantially improved the prediction performance over simple statistical summaries of low-frequency time serie1s, and each of the three feature classes contributed to the performance gain. The inclusion of long-term history up to 8 hours was especially important. Significance: Our results highlight the importance of information contained in high-frequency waveforms in the neurological intensive care unit. They could motivate future studies on pre-hypertensive patterns and the design of new alarm algorithms for critical events in the injured brain. Copyright © 2019, The Authors. All rights reserved.

关键词： Morphology

QU-BraTS: MICCAI BraTS 2020 Challenge on Quantifying Uncertainty in Brain Tumor Segmentation - Analysis of Ranking Scores and Benchmarking Results

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arXiv 2021年

作者： Mehta, Raghav Filos, Angelos Baid, Ujjwal Sako, Chiharu McKinley, Richard Rebsamen, Michael Dätwyler, Katrin Meier, Raphael Radojewski, Piotr Murugesan, Gowtham Krishnan Nalawade, Sahil Ganesh, Chandan Wagner, Ben Yu, Fang F. Fei, Baowei Madhuranthakam, Ananth J. Maldjian, Joseph A. Daza, Laura Gómez, Catalina Arbeláez, Pablo Dai, Chengliang Wang, Shuo Reynaud, Hadrien Mo, Yuanhan Angelini, Elsa Guo, Yike Bai, Wenjia Banerjee, Subhashis Pei, Linmin Murat, A.K. Rosas-González, Sarahi Zemmoura, Ilyess Tauber, Clovis Vu, Minh H. Nyholm, Tufve Löfstedt, Tommy Ballestar, Laura Mora Vilaplana, Veronica McHugh, Hugh Talou, Gonzalo Maso Wang, Alan Patel, Jay Chang, Ken Hoebel, Katharina Gidwani, Mishka Arun, Nishanth Gupta, Sharut Aggarwal, Mehak Singh, Praveer Gerstner, Elizabeth R. Kalpathy-Cramer, Jayashree Boutry, Nicolas Huard, Alexis Vidyaratne, Lasitha Rahman, Md Monibor Iftekharuddin, Khan M. Chazalon, Joseph Puybareau, Elodie Tochon, Guillaume Ma, Jun Cabezas, Mariano Llado, Xavier Oliver, Arnau Valencia, Liliana Valverde, Sergi Amian, Mehdi Soltaninejad, Mohammadreza Myronenko, Andriy Hatamizadeh, Ali Feng, Xue Dou, Quan Tustison, Nicholas Meyer, Craig Shah, Nisarg A. Talbar, Sanjay Weber, Marc-André Mahajan, Abhishek Jakab, Andras Wiest, Roland Fathallah-Shaykh, Hassan M. Nazeri, Arash Milchenko, Mikhail Marcus, Daniel Kotrotsou, Aikaterini Colen, Rivka Freymann, John Kirby, Justin Davatzikos, Christos Menze, Bjoern Bakas, Spyridon Gal, Yarin Arbel, Tal McGill University MontrealQC Canada Group University of Oxford Oxford United Kingdom University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States Department of Radiology Perelman School of Medicine The University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Perelman School of Medicine University of Pennsylvania PhiladelphiaPA United States University Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology University of Bern Inselspital Bern University Hospital Bern Switzerland Department of Radiology University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center DallasTX United States Department of Bioengineering University of Texas DallasTX United States Advanced Imaging Research Center University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center DallasTX United States Universidad de los Andes Bogotá Colombia Data Science Institute Imperial College London London United Kingdom NIHR Imperial BRC ITMAT Data Science Group Imperial College London London United Kingdom Department of Brain Sciences Imperial College London London United Kingdom Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata India Department of CSE University of Calcutta Kolkata India Department of Information Technology Uppsala University Uppsala Sweden Department of Diagnostic Radiology The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center PittsburghPA United States UMR U1253 iBrain Université de Tours Inserm Tours France Department of Radiation Sciences Umeå University Umeå Sweden Department of Computing Science Umeå University Umeå Sweden Signal Theory and Communications Department Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Barcelona Tech Barcelona Spain Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand Radiology Department Auckland City Hospital Auckland New Zealand Auckland Bioengineering Institute University of Auckland New Zealand Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Department of Radiology

Deep learning (DL) models have provided state-of-the-art performance in various medical imaging benchmarking challenges, including the Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) challenges. However, the task of focal pathology multi-compartment segmentation (e.g., tumor and lesion sub-regions) is particularly challenging, and potential errors hinder translating DL models into clinical workflows. Quantifying the reliability of DL model predictions in the form of uncertainties could enable clinical review of the most uncertain regions, thereby building trust and paving the way toward clinical translation. Several uncertainty estimation methods have recently been introduced for DL medical image segmentation tasks. Developing scores to evaluate and compare the performance of uncertainty measures will assist the end-user in making more informed decisions. In this study, we explore and evaluate a score developed during the BraTS 2019 and BraTS 2020 task on uncertainty quantification (QU-BraTS) and designed to assess and rank uncertainty estimates for brain tumor multi-compartment segmentation. This score (1) rewards uncertainty estimates that produce high confidence in correct assertions and those that assign low confidence levels at incorrect assertions, and (2) penalizes uncertainty measures that lead to a higher percentage of under-confident correct assertions. We further benchmark the segmentation uncertainties generated by 14 independent participating teams of QU-BraTS 2020, all of which also participated in the main BraTS segmentation task. Overall, our findings confirm the importance and complementary value that uncertainty estimates provide to segmentation algorithms, highlighting the need for uncertainty quantification in medical image analyses. Finally, in favor of transparency and reproducibility, our evaluation code is made publicly available at https://***/RagMeh11/QU-BraTS. © 2021, CC BY.

关键词： Benchmarking

Decentralized MPC based Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot Target Tracking Scenarios

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Decentralized MPC based Obstacle Avoidance for Multi-Robot T...

IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue robotics (SSRR)

作者： Rahul Tallamraju Sujit Rajappa Michael J. Black Kamalakar Karlapalem Aamir Ahmad Agents and Applied Robotics Group IIIT Hyderabad India Department of Computer Science University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany Perceiving Systems Department Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tübingen Germany

ISBN: (纸本)9781538655733

In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning algorithm which is based on model predictive control (MPC). The planner is designed as a quadratic program, subject to constraints on robot dynamics and obstacle avoidance. Repulsive potential field functions are employed to avoid obstacles. The novelty of our approach lies in embedding these non-linear potential field functions as constraints within a convex optimization framework. Our method convexifies nonconvex constraints and dependencies, by replacing them as pre-computed external input forces in robot dynamics. The proposed algorithm additionally incorporates different methods to avoid field local minima problems associated with using potential field functions in planning. The motion planner does not enforce predefined trajectories or any formation geometry on the robots and is a comprehensive solution for cooperative obstacle avoidance in the context of multi-robot target tracking. We perform simulation studies for different scenarios to showcase the convergence and efficacy of the proposed algorithm.

关键词： Collision avoidance Target tracking Robots Optimization Dynamics Planning Heuristic algorithms

Opportunities and challenges for monitoring terrestrial biodiversity in the robotics age

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Nature ecology & evolution 2025年 2025 May 22页

作者： Stephen Pringle Martin Dallimer Mark A Goddard Léni K Le Goff Emma Hart Simon J Langdale Jessica C Fisher Sara-Adela Abad Marc Ancrenaz Fabio Angeoletto Fernando Auat Cheein Gail E Austen Joseph J Bailey Katherine C R Baldock Lindsay F Banin Cristina Banks-Leite Aliyu S Barau Reshu Bashyal Adam J Bates Jake E Bicknell Jon Bielby Petra Bosilj Emma R Bush Simon J Butler Dan Carpenter Christopher F Clements Antoine Cully Kendi F Davies Nicolas J Deere Michael Dodd Rosie Drinkwater Don A Driscoll Guillaume Dutilleux Mads Dyrmann David P Edwards Mohammad S Farhadinia Aisyah Faruk Richard Field Robert J Fletcher Chris W Foster Richard Fox Richard M Francksen Aldina M A Franco Alison M Gainsbury Charlie J Gardner Ioanna Giorgi Richard A Griffiths Salua Hamaza Marc Hanheide Matt W Hayward Marcus Hedblom Thorunn Helgason Sui P Heon Kevin A Hughes Edmund R Hunt Daniel J Ingram George Jackson-Mills Kelly Jowett Timothy H Keitt Laura N Kloepper Stephanie Kramer-Schadt Jim Labisko Frédéric Labrosse Jenna Lawson Nicolas Lecomte Ricardo F de Lima Nick A Littlewood Harry H Marshall Giovanni L Masala Lindsay C Maskell Eleni Matechou Barbara Mazzolai Alistair McConnell Brett A Melbourne Aslan Miriyev Eric Djomo Nana Alessandro Ossola Sarah Papworth Catherine L Parr Ana Payo-Payo Gad Perry Nathalie Pettorelli Rajeev Pillay Simon G Potts Miranda T Prendergast-Miller Lan Qie Persie Rolley-Parnell Stephen J Rossiter Marcus Rowcliffe Heather Rumble Jon P Sadler Christopher J Sandom Asiem Sanyal Franziska Schrodt Sarab S Sethi Adi Shabrani Robert Siddall Simón C Smith Robbert P H Snep Carl D Soulsbury Margaret C Stanley Philip A Stephens P J Stephenson Matthew J Struebig Matthew Studley Martin Svátek Gilbert Tang Nicholas K Taylor Kate D L Umbers Robert J Ward Patrick J C White Mark J Whittingham Serge Wich Christopher D Williams Ibrahim B Yakubu Natalie Yoh Syed A R Zaidi Anna Zmarz Joeri A Zwerts Zoe G Davies Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) School of Natural Sciences University of Kent Canterbury UK. s.pringle@kent.ac.uk. Centre for Environmental Policy Imperial College London London UK. Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne UK. School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh UK. Synthotech Ltd Milner Court Hornbeam Square Harrogate UK. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) School of Natural Sciences University of Kent Canterbury UK. Mechanical Engineering Department University College London London UK. HUTAN SWD Kota Kinabalu Malaysia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Gestão e Tecnologia Ambiental da Universidade Federal de Rondonópolis Rondonópolis Brasil. Department of Engineering Harper Adams University Newport UK. Applied Ecology Research Group School of Life Sciences Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge UK. Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Penicuik UK. Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London Silwood Park Campus Ascot UK. Department of Urban and Regional Planning Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences Bayero University Kano Nigeria. Greenhood Nepal Kathmandu Nepal. Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences Nottingham Trent University Nottinghamshire UK. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool UK. Lincoln Centre for Autonomous Systems University of Lincoln Lincoln UK. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh UK. School of Biological Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich Research Park Norwich UK. Digital Ecology Limited Bristol UK. School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol Bristol UK. Department of Computing Imperial College London London UK. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Colorado Boulder CO USA. Faculty of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) The Open University Walton Hall Milt

With biodiversity loss escalating globally, a step change is needed in our capacity to accurately monitor species populations across ecosystems. Robotic and autonomous systems (RAS) offer technological solutions that may substantially advance terrestrial biodiversity monitoring, but this potential is yet to be considered systematically. We used a modified Delphi technique to synthesize knowledge from 98 biodiversity experts and 31 RAS experts, who identified the major methodological barriers that currently hinder monitoring, and explored the opportunities and challenges that RAS offer in overcoming these barriers. Biodiversity experts identified four barrier categories: site access, species and individual identification, data handling and storage, and power and network availability. robotics experts highlighted technologies that could overcome these barriers and identified the developments needed to facilitate RAS-based autonomous biodiversity monitoring. Some existing RAS could be optimized relatively easily to survey species but would require development to be suitable for monitoring of more 'difficult' taxa and robust enough to work under uncontrolled conditions within ecosystems. Other nascent technologies (for instance, new sensors and biodegradable robots) need accelerated research. Overall, it was felt that RAS could lead to major progress in monitoring of terrestrial biodiversity by supplementing rather than supplanting existing methods. Transdisciplinarity needs to be fostered between biodiversity and RAS experts so that future ideas and technologies can be codeveloped effectively.

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