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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Luigi Freda
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
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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 (LBR) at SSRR 2016 “3D Localization, Mapping and Path
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Microsoft HoloLens brings New Vision to Elevator Maintenance of Thyssenkrupp
Using Microsoft HoloLens, 24,000+ service technicians of Thyssenkrupp will be able to visualize and identify problems with elevators ahead of
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DJI launches ultraportable iOS-connected Mavic Pro camera drone
Drone maker DJI unveiled its latest flying camera: a foldable, portable, sub-$1,000 device dubbed the Mavic Pro. This seems to
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Agile Drone Flight through Narrow Gaps with Onboard Sensing and Computing
From Google+, Davide Scaramuzza presents his last work on perception aware path planning for quadrotors. “I am happy to share
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The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun
According to this post, Sebastian Thrun said “Uber has just bought a half-a-year-old company [Otto] with 70 employees for almost $700
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TRADR Team and Vigili del Fuoco in Amatrice
It was a great life experience being part of the TRADR team who successfully deployed two UGVs and three drones
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