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Vision-based localization for autonomous driving has been of great interest among researchers. When a pre-built 3D map is not available, the techniques of visual simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) are typically adopted. Due to…
Vision based solutions for the localization of vehicles have become popular recently. We employ an image retrieval based visual localization approach. The database images are kept with GPS coordinates and the location of the retrieved…
Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is a fundamental problem in mobile robotics. While sparse point-based SLAM methods provide accurate camera localization, the generated maps lack semantic information. On the other hand, state of…
There is a general expectation that robots should operate in urban environments often consisting of potentially dynamic entities including people, furniture and automobiles. Dynamic objects pose challenges to visual SLAM algorithms by…
We propose a novel model for temporal detection and localization which allows the training of deep neural networks using only counts of event occurrences as training labels. This powerful weakly-supervised framework alleviates the burden of…
Visual place recognition is an important problem towards global localization in many robotics tasks. One of the biggest challenges is that it may suffer from illumination or appearance changes in surrounding environments. Event cameras are…
Quadruped robots are currently a widespread platform for robotics research, thanks to powerful Reinforcement Learning controllers and the availability of cheap and robust commercial platforms. However, to broaden the adoption of the…
Visual place recognition techniques based on deep learning, which have imposed themselves as the state-of-the-art in recent years, do not generalize well to environments visually different from the training set. Thus, to achieve top…
Place recognition is a cornerstone of vehicle navigation and mapping, which is pivotal in enabling systems to determine whether a location has been previously visited. This capability is critical for tasks such as loop closure in…
Compared to abstract features, significant objects, so-called landmarks, are a more natural means for vehicle localization and navigation, especially in challenging unstructured environments. The major challenge is to recognize landmarks in…
This paper presents a simple and robust method for the automatic localisation of static 3D objects in large-scale urban environments. By exploiting the potential to merge a large volume of noisy but accurately localised 2D image data, we…
We present a lightweight magnetic field simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) approach for drift correction in odometry paths, where the interest is purely in the odometry and not in map building. We represent the past magnetic field…
Loop closure detection is important for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which associates current observations with historical keyframes, achieving drift correction and global relocalization. However, a falsely detected loop…
This paper introduces Dr-PoGO, a method for Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) using a 2D spinning radar. Unlike cameras or lidars that require line-of-sight, millimetre-wave radars can `see' through dust, falling snow, rain, etc.…
Localization and mapping are key capabilities for self-driving vehicles. In this paper, we build on Kimera and extend it to use multiple cameras as well as external (eg wheel) odometry sensors, to obtain accurate and robust odometry…
In this paper we evaluate performance of the SeqSLAM algorithm for passive vision-based localization in very dark environments with low-cost cameras that result in massively blurred images. We evaluate the effect of motion blur from…
This work presents the development of a lane detection system aimed at assisting the driving of conventional and autonomous vehicles. The system was implemented using traditional computer vision techniques, focusing on robustness and…
Most real-time autonomous robot applications require a robot to traverse through a dynamic space for a long time. In some cases, a robot needs to work in the same environment. Such applications give rise to the problem of a life-long SLAM…
Visual place recognition algorithms trade off three key characteristics: their storage footprint, their computational requirements, and their resultant performance, often expressed in terms of recall rate. Significant prior work has…
We propose an extension to the segment-based global localization method for LiDAR SLAM using descriptors learned considering the visual context of the segments. A new architecture of the deep neural network is presented that learns the…