Monthly Archives: July 2014

October 2010: After completing a PhD and one year post-doc here, Margarita Chli has now left my group and joined the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zurich as a Senior Researcher: see her new webpage here. We wish her the best of luck in her new job!

September 2010: At ECCV Steven Lovegrove and I presented our paper on live spherical mosaicing and we also gave a live demo of the system. In this work, we show how to make a mosaicing system which operates sequentially in real-time but also generates globally consistent mosaics over a whole sphere. As video is gathered… Read more »

September 2010: Adrien Angeli presented our paper at BMVC on live feature clustering. This is work in the direction of understanding how appearance and geometry information can be used in a more unified way in visual SLAM than in current systems where place recognition and loop closure detection is done with bag-of-words type approaches which… Read more »

August 2010: There is currently a funded PhD studentship available under the joint supervision of Prof. Paul Kelly and myself on software tools for heterogeneous multicore/manycore/GPU architectures applied to real-time vision and mapping. This position (which could start soon if we find the right student) is funded by AMD. If you are interested, please contact… Read more »

June 2010: Dyson, with whom I’ve been working recently on robotics and vision applications, are currently looking for a Robotics System Engineer to work at their R&D centre in Malmesbury, UK. Ideally this will be someone with PhD level experience in computer vision or robotics but get in touch for more details. See the advertisement… Read more »

June 2010: I attended Robotics: Science and Systems, which was as usual a very stimulating conference, and particularly enjoyable this year as it was hosted by close colleagues and friends of mine in Zaragoza. We presented a paper by Hauke Strasdat, J. M. M. Montiel and myself called Scale Drift-Aware Large Scale Monocular SLAM. In… Read more »

June 2010: We attended CVPR and successfully presented our two papers (see the details below). Richard Newcombe also gave a live demo of his live dense reconstruction system. Here are a couple of example images of single camera reconstructions he did during the demo (click on the images to see large versions):

June 2010: We have just released a new open source (LGPL) software package for vision-based SLAM. The RobotVision library is available from openslam.org and offers various essential elements of a visual SLAM back-end, including bundle adjustment, feature initialisation, pose-graph optimisation and 2D/3D visualisation. This release features software used in our new paper to be presented… Read more »

May 2010: I am very happy that the paper “Real-Time Monocular SLAM: Why Filter?”, which I wrote with Hauke Strasdat and J. M. M. Montiel, has been awarded Best Vision Paper at ICRA 2010. Real-Time Monocular SLAM: Why Filter? (PDF format), Hauke Strasdat, J. M. M. Montiel and Andrew J. Davison, ICRA 2010 (Winner, Best… Read more »

April 2010: We have two papers accepted for CVPR 2010. Richard Newcombe and I have developed a breakthrough method for live dense reconstruction. Our system, which requires just a single standard hand-held video camera attached to a powerful PC, is capable of automatic reconstruction of a desktop-scale scene within just a few seconds as the… Read more »