Finding the location where a picture was taken is an important problem for a variety of applications including surveying, interactive traveling and homeland security among others....
Abstract. We present a new technique to recover the shape of an unknown smooth specular surface from a single image. A calibrated camera faces a specular surface reflecting a calib...
This work is about solving the global localization issue for mobile robots operating in large and cooperative environments. It tackles the problem of estimating the pose of a robo...
Andreu Corominas Murtra, Josep Maria Mirats i Tur,...
Abstract—This paper presents a probabilistic algorithm for simultaneously estimating the pose of a mobile robot and the positions of nearby people in a previously mapped environm...
Michael Montemerlo, Sebastian Thrun, William Whitt...
It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. W...
Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus P. J. F...