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Do we need self-driving cars?

29 March 201729 March 2017 luigi 0 Comments business, machine-learning, robotics, self-driving car

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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Machine Learning Posts 

Bias and variance tradeoff

22 March 201729 March 2017 luigi 0 Comments data analysis, deep-learning, machine-learning

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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Business Computer Vision Mixed Reality Perception Posts Sensors 

Microsoft HoloLens brings New Vision to Elevator Maintenance of Thyssenkrupp

28 September 2016 luigi 0 Comments augmented reality, business, computer vision, perception, sensors, SLAM, visual localization

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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Business Drones Perception Posts Robotics 

DJI launches ultraportable iOS-connected Mavic Pro camera drone

28 September 2016 luigi 0 Comments business, drones, perception, robotics, sensors

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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Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

Agile Drone Flight through Narrow Gaps with Onboard Sensing and Computing

28 September 201628 September 2016 luigi 0 Comments computer vision, drones, image processig, perception, robotics, sensors

From Google+, Davide Scaramuzza presents his last work on perception aware path planning for quadrotors. “I am happy to share

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Business Posts Robotics 

The Going Rate for Self-driving Talent is $10 million per Person, word of Sebastian Thrun

28 September 201629 September 2016 luigi 0 Comments machine-learning, perception, robotics, self-driving car

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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Drones News Perception Robotics Sensors 

TRADR Team and Vigili del Fuoco in Amatrice

6 September 201610 September 2016 luigi 0 Comments 3D reconstruction, disaster robotics, drones, lidar, multi-robot, robotics, TRADR, UGVs, USAR

It was a great life experience being part of the TRADR team who successfully deployed two UGVs and three drones

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Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

Italian Earthquake: Recommendations for using Rescue Robots

24 August 201624 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments mapping, robotics, USAR

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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Business Computer Vision Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

A Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month – Uber Steps on the Accelerator

22 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments business, computer vision, lidar, mapping, perception, robotics, self-driving car, sensor-based motion planning, sensors, SLAM

Uber is definitely stepping on the accelerator… “Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon

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Computer Vision Machine Learning Mixed Reality Perception Posts Robotics 

ElasticFusion – Real-time Light Source Detection

22 August 201622 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments 3D reconstruction, augmented reality, machine-learning, mapping, open source, place recognition, robotics, SLAM, visual localization

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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Computer Vision Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

Direct Sparse Odometry

5 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments 3D reconstruction, computer vision, image processig, SLAM, visual localization

A new exciting work from the Computer Vision Group of TUM. “DSO is a novel direct and sparse formulation for

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Posts Robotics 

History of Robotics

5 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments 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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Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

3D Semantic Parsing of Large-Scale Indoor Spaces

5 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments data analysis, lidar, mapping, perception, robotics

“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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Business Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip

5 August 20165 August 2016 luigi 0 Comments business, lidar, mapping, perception, robotics, sensors

“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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Perception Posts Robotics Sensors 

Geometry and Beyond – Representations, Physics, and Scene Understanding for Robotics – RSS 2016

28 June 201628 June 2016 luigi 0 Comments mapping, perception, robotics, sensors

This is a very interesting workshop with very nice perspectives. Oliver Brock, TU Berlin „Geometry is dead” Hanif Kara said

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News About Me

  • My new pySLAM v2 is out!
  • Member of the Program Committee of SAC 2020-IRMAS Track
  • PLVS for Circus Maximus Mixed-Reality Experience
  • Visual Perception and Spatial Computing
  • 3dpatrolling – 3D Multi-Robot Patrolling with a Two-Level Coordination Strategy 

Blog

  • My new pySLAM v2 is out!
  • ROSIntegration for Unreal Engine 4.23
  • PLVS for Circus Maximus Mixed-Reality Experience
  • Visual Perception and Spatial Computing
  • 3dpatrolling – 3D Multi-Robot Patrolling with a Two-Level Coordination Strategy 

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