— We present an improved version of the treemap SLAM algorithm which uses Cholesky factors for representing Gaussians and a Hierarchical Tree Partitioning algorithm derived from ...
Most mobile navigation systems focus on answering the question, “I know where I want to go, now can you show me exactly how to get there?” While this approach works well for m...
Computer vision techniques can enhance landmark-based navigation by better utilizing online photo collections. We use spatial reasoning to compute camera poses, which are then regi...
Harlan Hile, Radek Grzeszczuk, Alan L. Liu, Ramakr...
With the rise of photo-sharing websites such as Facebook and Flickr has come dramatic growth in the number of photographs online. Recent research in object recognition has used su...
Yunpeng Li, David J. Crandall, Daniel P. Huttenloc...
To operate successfully in indoor environments, mobile robots must be able to localize themselves. Most current localization algorithms lack flexibility, autonomy, and often optim...