Papers

Publications

• Nae, Sebastian-Ion, Mihai-Eugen Barbu, Sebastian Mocanu, and Marius Leordeanu. "Learning on the Fly: Replay-Based Continual Object Perception for Indoor Drones." arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.13440 (2026).

• Mocanu, Sebastian, Sebastian-Ion Nae, Mihai-Eugen Barbu, and Marius Leordeanu. "Efficient Self-Supervised Neuro-Analytic Visual Servoing for Real-time Quadrotor Control." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 1744-1753. 2025.

• Mocanu, Sebastian, Emil Slusanschi, and Marius Leordeanu. "Self-Supervised Learning to Fly using Efficient Semantic Segmentation and Metric Depth Estimation for Low-Cost Autonomous UAVs." arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.16624 (2025).

• Budisteanu, A., Costea, D., Marcu, A., & Leordeanu, M. (2023). Self-supervised novel 2D view synthesis of large-scale scenes with efficient multi-scale voxel carving. ArXiv. /abs/2306.14709 (BMVC 2024)

• Pirvu, Mihai, Alina Marcu, Maria Alexandra Dobrescu, Ahmed Nabil Belbachir, and Marius Leordeanu. "Multi-task hypergraphs for semi-supervised learning using earth observations." In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 3404-3414. 2023.

• Marcu, A., Pirvu, M., Costea, D., Haller, E., Slusanschi, E., Belbachir, A. N., Sukthankar, R., & Leordeanu, M. (2023). Self-supervised Hypergraphs for Learning Multiple World Interpretations. ArXiv. /abs/2308.07615 (Accepted at ICCV 2023 Workshops)

• Licăret, V., Robu, V., Marcu, A., Costea, D., Sluşanschi, E., Sukthankar, R., & Leordeanu, M. (2022, May). UFO Depth: Unsupervised learning with flow-based odometry optimization for metric depth estimation. In 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 6526-6532). IEEE. (Rank A*)

• Marius Leordeanu, Mihai Pirvu, Dragos Costea, Alina Marcu, Emil Slusanschi and Rahul Sukthankar. "Semi-Supervised Learning for Multi-Task Scene Understanding by Neural Graph Consensus.", AAAI 2021 (Rank A*).

• Mihai Pirvu, Victor Robu, Vlad Licaret, Dragos Costea, Alina Marcu, Emil Slusanschi, Rahul Sukthankar and Marius Leordeanu. "Depth distillation: unsupervised metric depth estimation for UAVs by finding consensus between kinematics, optical flow and deep learning", CVPR 2021 Embedded Vision Workshop (Rank A*).

• Alina Marcu, Vlad Licaret, Dragos Costea, Marius Leordeanu, Semantics through Time: Semi-supervised Segmentation of Aerial Videos with Iterative Label Propagation, ACCV (Rank A), 2020.

• Alina Marcu, Dragos Costea, Vlad Licaret, Marius Leordeanu. Towards automatic annotation for semantic segmentation in drone videos, 2019.

• Marcu, Alina, Dragos Costea, Vlad Licaret, Mihai Pîrvu, Emil Slusanschi, and Marius Leordeanu. "SafeUAV: Learning to estimate depth and safe landing areas for UAVs from synthetic data." Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) Workshops. 2018.

• Marcu, A., D. Costea, E. Slusanschi, and M. Leordeanu. "A multi-stage multi-task neural network for aerial scene interpretation and geolocalization." arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01322 (2018).

• Costea, Dragos, Alina Marcu, Emil Slusanschi, and Marius Leordeanu. "Roadmap generation using a multi-stage ensemble of deep neural networks with smoothing-based optimization." Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops. 2018.

• Costea, Dragos, Alina Marcu, Emil Slusanschi, and Marius Leordeanu. "Creating roadmaps in aerial images with generative adversarial networks and smoothing-based optimization." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. 2017.

• Marcu, Alina Elena, and Marius Leordeanu. "Object Contra Context: Dual Local-Global Semantic Segmentation in Aerial Images." In AAAI Workshops. 2017.

• Costea, Dragos, and Marius Leordeanu. "Aerial image geolocalization from recognition and matching of roads and intersections." arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08323 (2016).

• Marcu, Alina, and Marius Leordeanu. "Dual local-global contextual pathways for recognition in aerial imagery." arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05462 (2016).