9 papers
Event-Based Visual Teach-and-Repeat via Fast Fourier-Domain Cross-Correlation
Gokul B. Nair, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford +1
Visual teach-and-repeat (VT&R) navigation enables robots to autonomously traverse previously demonstrated paths using visual feedback. We present a novel event-camera-based VT\&R s…
Event-LAB: Towards Standardized Evaluation of Neuromorphic Localization Methods
Adam D. Hines, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford +1
Event-based localization research and datasets are a rapidly growing area of interest, with a tenfold increase in the cumulative total number of published papers on this topic over…
Long-Term Multi-Session 3D Reconstruction Under Substantial Appearance Change
Beverley Gorry, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford +1
Long-term environmental monitoring requires the ability to reconstruct and align 3D models across repeated site visits separated by months or years. However, existing Structure-fro…
Robust Scene Coordinate Regression via Geometrically-Consistent Global Descriptors
Son Tung Nguyen, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford +1
Recent learning-based visual localization methods use global descriptors to disambiguate visually similar places, but existing approaches often derive these descriptors from geomet…
Image-Based Relocalization and Alignment for Long-Term Monitoring of Dynamic Underwater Environments
Beverley Gorry, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford +1
Effective monitoring of underwater ecosystems is crucial for tracking environmental changes, guiding conservation efforts, and ensuring long-term ecosystem health. However, automat…
Pixi: Unified Software Development and Distribution for Robotics and AI
Tobias Fischer, Wolf Vollprecht, Bas Zalmstra +8
The reproducibility crisis in scientific computing constrains robotics research. Existing studies reveal that up to 70% of robotics algorithms cannot be reproduced by independent t…