Fourth TRADR Evaluation Exercise in Rotterdam with GB Firefighters
From November 6th to November 17th, I took part to the fourth TRADR Evaluation Exercise in Rotterdam. The full TRADR system was evaluated by the GB firefighters end-users
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
Author: luigi
TRADR and Alcor in Piombino for the European Robotics League (ERL) Event
On September 17 2017, I was with the Alcor and TRADR teams in Piombino, for the European Robotics League event. We gave
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TRADR on EuroNews
The TRADR EU project is on Euronews. The video report shows the simulated disaster scene we used in the last
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CNN-SLAM: Real-time dense monocular SLAM with learned depth prediction
In this page, the Authors K. Tateno, F. Tombari, I. Laina and N. Navab present the following paper in which CNNs are used
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Hand-Crafted Features or Learned Local Features?
In this post, Torsten Sattler presents his upcoming CVPR 2017 paper “Comparative Evaluation of Hand-Crafted and Learned Local Features” You
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Optimization – why momentum really works
This post explains why momentum works in optimization. Nice interactive images are used to this aim. Here you can find another
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Horus – a new wearable device that can be a life changer for blind people
Horus is an Italian project. It’s one of those projects that makes you think I would love to join the
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Handle – the new creature of Boston Dynamics
Handle is definitely a big Wow. From the youtube video description: “Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5 ft
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Driverless cars that ‘see’ the road ahead
Micheal Milford explains how to make a driverless car see the road ahead. From his Google+ post: “We were asked to
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RGBDTAM: A Cost-Effective and Accurate RGB-D Tracking and Mapping System
In this post, Alejo Concha Belenguer presents his new work RGBDTAM. This is a direct SLAM pipeline that runs in real-time and
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Mekamon and AR battles
A nice meka with the option to engage AR battles
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Do we need self-driving cars?
This post reports that a self-driving Uber car was involved in a high-speed crash in Tempe, Arizona. No one was
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TRADR Year 3 Review in Montelibretti – Work Package 4 Obtained an Excellent Evaluation
This year, the TRADR review took place at the Scuola Di Formazione Operativa of Vigili del Fuoco (Italian Firefighters) in
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Bias and variance tradeoff
This very nice post clearly explains the bias and variance tradeoff http://www.learnopencv.com/bias-variance-tradeoff-in-machine-learning/ This tradeoff can be mathematically stated by the
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Best Late Breaking Report at SSRR 2016
Our recent work with ETHZ was awarded Best Late Breaking Report at SSRR 2016 “3D Localization, Mapping and Path Planning for
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