UAVs vs. Natural Autonomous Vehicles (NAVs) -- Are We Closing the Gap? There have been many significant advancements in UAV technology over the past 10-15 years.  In this presentation, we will step back and evaluate how well we are really doing in this area by comparing performance of UAVs with those of Natural Autonomous…

Sparse Sampling for Active Learning of Multi-Source and Multi-Modal Environments Consider a field of interest from which you can only collect a few observations.  From these observations, we wish to find a target's location. Such a problem arises in military surveillance, environmental monitoring, cyber-security, medical…