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
Computer Vision, AI, Robotics Engineer, PhD
perception
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”
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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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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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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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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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