11 citations · 32 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers · 1 filter
The Radiance of Neural Fields: Democratizing Photorealistic and Dynamic Robotic Simulation
Georgina Nuthall, Richard Bowden, Oscar Mendez
As robots increasingly coexist with humans, they must navigate complex, dynamic environments rich in visual information and implicit social dynamics, like when to yield or move thr…
RaSpectLoc: RAman SPECTroscopy-dependent robot LOCalisation
Christopher Thomas Thirgood, Oscar Alejandro Mendez Maldonado, Chao Ling +2
This paper presents a new information source for supporting robot localisation: material composition. The proposed method complements the existing visual, structural, and semantic…
Improving Robot Localisation by Ignoring Visual Distraction
Oscar Mendez, Matthew Vowels, Richard Bowden
Attention is an important component of modern deep learning. However, less emphasis has been put on its inverse: ignoring distraction. Our daily lives require us to explicitly avoi…
Robot in a China Shop: Using Reinforcement Learning for Location-Specific Navigation Behaviour
Xihan Bian, Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield
Robots need to be able to work in multiple different environments. Even when performing similar tasks, different behaviour should be deployed to best fit the current environment. I…
Markov Localisation using Heatmap Regression and Deep Convolutional Odometry
Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield, Richard Bowden
In the context of self-driving vehicles there is strong competition between approaches based on visual localisation and LiDAR. While LiDAR provides important depth information, it…
A Robust Extrinsic Calibration Framework for Vehicles with Unscaled Sensors
Celyn Walters, Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield +1
Accurate extrinsic sensor calibration is essential for both autonomous vehicles and robots. Traditionally this is an involved process requiring calibration targets, known fiducial…
SeDAR - Semantic Detection and Ranging: Humans can localise without LiDAR, can robots?
Oscar Mendez, Simon Hadfield, Nicolas Pugeault +1
How does a person work out their location using a floorplan? It is probably safe to say that we do not explicitly measure depths to every visible surface and try to match them agai…