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TP-TIO: A Robust Thermal-Inertial Odometry with Deep ThermalPoint
To achieve robust motion estimation in visually degraded environments, t...
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Batteries, camera, action! Learning a semantic control space for expressive robot cinematography
Aerial vehicles are revolutionizing the way film-makers can capture shot...
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Attitude and Thrust Strategies for Fully-Actuated Multirotors: The Fast-Track to Real-World Applications
The introduction of fully-actuated multirotors has opened the door to ne...
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Do You See What I See? Coordinating Multiple Aerial Cameras for Robot Cinematography
Aerial cinematography is significantly expanding the capabilities of fil...
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ULSD: Unified Line Segment Detection across Pinhole, Fisheye, and Spherical Cameras
Line segment detection is essential for high-level tasks in computer vis...
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TartanVO: A Generalizable Learning-based VO
We present the first learning-based visual odometry (VO) model, which ge...
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A Robust Laser-Inertial Odometry and Mapping Method for Large-Scale Highway Environments
In this paper, we propose a novel laser-inertial odometry and mapping me...
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Monocular Camera Localization in Prior LiDAR Maps with 2D-3D Line Correspondences
Light-weight camera localization in existing maps is essential for visio...
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Line-based Camera Pose Estimation in Point Cloud of Structured Environments
Accurate registration of 2D imagery with point clouds is a key technolog...
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Deep-Learning Assisted High-Resolution Binocular Stereo Depth Reconstruction
This work presents dense stereo reconstruction using high-resolution ima...
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LiDAR Enhanced Structure-from-Motion
Although Structure-from-Motion (SfM) as a maturing technique has been wi...
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Autonomous Aerial Cinematography In Unstructured Environments With Learned Artistic Decision-Making
Aerial cinematography is revolutionizing industries that require live an...
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A Stereo Algorithm for Thin Obstacles and Reflective Objects
Stereo cameras are a popular choice for obstacle avoidance for outdoor l...
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Learning Controls Using Cross-Modal Representations: Bridging Simulation and Reality for Drone Racing
Machines are a long way from robustly solving open-world perception-cont...
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ALFA: A Dataset for UAV Fault and Anomaly Detection
We present a dataset of several fault types in control surfaces of a fix...
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A Joint Optimization Approach of LiDAR-Camera Fusion for Accurate Dense 3D Reconstructions
Fusing data from LiDAR and camera is conceptually attractive because of ...
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Automatic Real-time Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
The recent increase in the use of aerial vehicles raises concerns about ...
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Can a Robot Become a Movie Director? Learning Artistic Principles for Aerial Cinematography
Aerial filming is becoming more and more popular thanks to the recent ad...
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Towards a Robust Aerial Cinematography Platform: Localizing and Tracking Moving Targets in Unstructured Environments
The use of drones for aerial cinematography has revolutionized several a...
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Improved Generalization of Heading Direction Estimation for Aerial Filming Using Semi-supervised Regression
In the task of Autonomous aerial filming of a moving actor (e.g. a perso...
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Monocular and Stereo Cues for Landing Zone Evaluation for Micro UAVs
Autonomous and safe landing is important for unmanned aerial vehicles. W...
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Joint Point Cloud and Image Based Localization For Efficient Inspection in Mixed Reality
This paper introduces a method of structure inspection using mixed-reali...
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A Unified 3D Mapping Framework using a 3D or 2D LiDAR
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) has been considered as a so...
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Integrating kinematics and environment context into deep inverse reinforcement learning for predicting off-road vehicle trajectories
Predicting the motion of a mobile agent from a third-person perspective ...
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Open Problems in Robotic Anomaly Detection
Failures in robotics can have disastrous consequences that worsen rapidl...
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Monocular Object and Plane SLAM in Structured Environments
We present a monocular Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) usin...
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Autonomous drone cinematographer: Using artistic principles to create smooth, safe, occlusion-free trajectories for aerial filming
Autonomous aerial cinematography has the potential to enable automatic c...
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CubeSLAM: Monocular 3D Object Detection and SLAM without Prior Models
We present a method for single image 3D cuboid object detection and mult...
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Hindsight is Only 50/50: Unsuitability of MDP based Approximate POMDP Solvers for Multi-resolution Information Gathering
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) offer an elegant...
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Bayesian Active Edge Evaluation on Expensive Graphs
Robots operate in environments with varying implicit structure. For inst...
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Data-driven Planning via Imitation Learning
Robot planning is the process of selecting a sequence of actions that op...
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Robust Localization of an Arbitrary Distribution of Radioactive Sources for Aerial Inspection
Radiation source detection has seen various applications in the past dec...
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Semantic 3D Occupancy Mapping through Efficient High Order CRFs
Semantic 3D mapping can be used for many applications such as robot navi...
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Learning Heuristic Search via Imitation
Robotic motion planning problems are typically solved by constructing a ...
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Pop-up SLAM: Semantic Monocular Plane SLAM for Low-texture Environments
Existing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms are not...
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Direct Monocular Odometry Using Points and Lines
Most visual odometry algorithm for a monocular camera focuses on points,...
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