Italian Earthquake: Recommendations for using Rescue Robots
On this page Dr. Robin Murphy posted very useful recommendations for using ground and aerial robots for immediate lifesaving. “…A video camera,
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Luigi Freda
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
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A Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month – Uber Steps on the Accelerator
Uber is definitely stepping on the accelerator… “Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon
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ElasticFusion – Real-time Light Source Detection
A new journal paper about ElasticFusion has come out from Davison’s group. New exciting results on 3D light source mapping are presented.
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Direct Sparse Odometry
A new exciting work from the Computer Vision Group of TUM. “DSO is a novel direct and sparse formulation for
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History of Robotics
Here you can find a nice timeline of robotics projects from ancient times. In particular, you can find some details about
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Third TRADR Joint Exercise in Prague and VREP Simulations
From July 4th to July 8th, I participated to the third TRADR Joint Exercise which took place in Prague (Czech Republic). The full
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3D Semantic Parsing of Large-Scale Indoor Spaces
“3D sensing has experienced a major progress with the availability of mature technology for scanning large-scale spaces that can reliably
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Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
“At MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group, the authors are developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no
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Geometry and Beyond – Representations, Physics, and Scene Understanding for Robotics – RSS 2016
This is a very interesting workshop with very nice perspectives. Oliver Brock, TU Berlin „Geometry is dead” Hanif Kara said
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Event Camera SLAM
The slamcore start-up is pioneering breaktrough new algorithms for accurate and robust real-time event camera motion tracking and scene reconstruction
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Probabilistic Deep Network
This post explains a trick which allows us to convert neural network outputs into probabilities, with no cost to performance,
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Exo360 Drone: Virtual Reality Taken to the Skys
The Exo360 has 5 cameras which can capture the surroundings of where ever the drone is flying and then stitch
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Are the Sceptics Right? Limits and Potentials of Deep Learning in Robotics
This post presents an interesting summary of the RSS 2016 Workshop Here you can fine official page and description of the
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Tiny-CNN: Header-only, Dependency-free Deep Learning Framework
Tiny-CNN is an header-only, dependency-free deep learning framework for C++11. Just include tiny_cnn.h and write your model in C++. There is
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Deep Learning for Robust Normal Estimation in Unstructured Point Clouds
Normal estimation in point clouds is a crucial first step for numerous algorithms, from surface reconstruction and scene understanding to
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