Songchang Jin - IEEE Xplore Author Profile

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Multi-agent systems often face challenges such as elevated communication demands and intricate interactions. We propose an innovative hierarchical graph attention actor-critic reinforcement learning method to address the issues, which uses the hierarchical graph attention to capture the relationships of cooperation or competition among agents, and the agent enables a better understand of the dynam...Show More
The local extremum is a crucial factor that affects the efficiency of online coverage path planning (CPP). Most online CPP methods generate coverage motions point by point in unknown environments. However, these solutions ignore efficient global coverage and probably result in local extremum. This letter presents a hierarchy coverage path planning approach (HCPP) with proactive extremum prevention...Show More
In squint multireceiver synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), the platform moves continuously along the azimuth direction during the interpulse and intrapulse. The intrapulse motion results in Doppler scale effect (DSE) of the echo signal, and the squint angle will exacerbate this effect. Considering the intrapulse motion of the sonar platform, we derived the time-varying time delay and range history, a...Show More
Motion is both the answer and the question, which is the perfect interpretation of synthetic aperture imaging. In multireceiver synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), the angular motion error of SAS platform leads to different sway and heave errors for each receiver, resulting in squint, which will have a significant impact on image quality. Considering the angular motion of the multireceiver SAS, we est...Show More
Visual geolocation plays a crucial role when GPS is unavailable in the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Many methods rely on visible light cameras, which may not perform well in low-light or foggy conditions. To address this issue, we propose an advanced UAV visual geolocation method called ICF-Loc, which utilizes infrared images in a coarse-to-fine approach. ICF-Loc consists of two stages: a retr...Show More
Active Visual Tracking (AVT) is a significant research area with extensive applications in fields such as drones and autonomous driving. AVT involves controlling camera motion based on visual observations to track target object(s). In dynamic environments, especially with the presence of distractors, AVT faces the challenge of scale variation. Existing methods struggle to effectively handle these ...Show More
Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is a classic problem with a wide range of applications. To cope with more complex situations in reality, Dynamic MAPF (DMAPF) has received much attention. The existing DMAPF definition lacks completeness or considers too simple situations. In this paper, we comprehensively model DMAPF based on realistic scenarios. Consequently, dynamic scenarios bring many problems....Show More
Deep reinforcement learning-based Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) has gained significant attention due to its remarkable adaptability to environments. Existing methods primarily leverage multi-agent communication in a fully-decentralized framework to maintain scalability while enhancing information exchange among agents. However, as the number of agents and obstacles increases, the environment bec...Show More
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-to-satellite geolocalization offers accurate drift-free navigation in the absence of external positioning signals. Increased deep-learning-based approaches have demonstrated their potential for high accuracy by framing the problem as a one-to-all retrieval task. However, in real-world scenario, the problem is not just a one-to-all retrieval task, which leads to a gap ...Show More
Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has attracted extensive attention in recent years. Lightweight depth estimation methods are crucial for resource-constrained edge devices. However, existing lightweight methods often encounter the challenge of limited representation capacity and increased computational resource consumption for image reconstruction. To alleviate these issues, we propose a ...Show More
Active Visual Tracking (AVT) aims at controlling the motion system of the tracker to follow the target given visual observations. Existing works have achieved significant breakthroughs by leveraging deep reinforcement learning. However, these methods rely solely on a single visual observation image, and the tracker can only infer relationship between the position of itself and the target according...Show More
Coverage path planning is a critical challenge in various domains, including drones, robots, and automation devices. Traditional methods heavily rely on manually crafted heuristic rules, which struggle to adapt to complex environments and task requirements. This paper proposes a deep reinforcement learning-based algorithm for coverage path planning to achieve automated and intelligent solutions. T...Show More
Dubins coverage has been extensively researched to address the coverage path planning (CPP) problem of a known environment for the curvature-constrained robot. However, its fixed-speed assumption prevents the robot from accelerating to reduce the time and limits its flexibility to avoid obstacles. Therefore, this paper presents a collision-free CPP approach (CFC) for the obstacle-constrained envir...Show More
Siamese network based trackers treat tracking as a maximum matching between the detection region and the template, in which the template is either fixed or updated. The template-fixed trackers degrade accuracy since the appearance variations of the object in the subsequent frames are lacked; while the template-updated trackers depress robustness once the tracking drift occurs. In this paper, we ap...Show More
Nowadays, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in agriculture, rescuing and surveillance due to their small size, low cost and strong adaptability. Coverage Path Planning (CPP) is a fundamental problem for UAV applications, which means to find a path covering all the targets or regions of interest. Researches on CPP in a single region have been studied for decad...Show More
Invisualtracking, deeplearningbasedtrackershave demonstrated strong competitiveness under many challenging conditions such as background clutters and occlusions. Several recent studies have devoted to defeating such conditions by using Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) to explore temporal smoothness and stable deep representation. In this paper, we propose a tracker based on Bi-directional Long Sho...Show More