Jakob Engel, a PhD student in Prof. Daniel Cremer’s group at TUM will give a seminar on his recent work on (LSD-)SLAM and applications in autonomous quadrocopter navigation. Hope to see you there.

Tom

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VIP Group Seminar
Direct SLAM and 3D Reconstruction in real-time (and autonomous Quadrocopter)

Jakob Engel
Computer Vision Group at TU Munich

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Date: December 15th, Monday
Time: 14:00
Room: Huxley LT 144 (Lecture Theatre)
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The talk will give an overview over LSD-SLAM: a large-scale, direct monocular SLAM algorithm,
the key ideas and techniques behind it, and some current extentions we are working on.
I will also talk about some recent and current projects using RGB-D sensors, and projects
applying visual SLAM to autonomous quadrocopter navigation.

Short Bio:
Jakob Engel received his Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2009 and his Master degree in December 2011 at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). He received the SIEMENS Award for the best Master’s Thesis 2012 for his work on Autonomous Camera-Based Navigation of a Quadrocopter. Since September 2012 he is a full-time PhD Student in the Computer Vision Group at the TU Munich, headed by Prof. Daniel Cremers. His main research interests are visual SLAM (monocular, stereo and RGB-D), 3D reconstruction and vision-based navigation of (Nano-)Quadrotors. He received the EMVA Young Professional Award 2014 for his work on Semi-Dense Visual Odometry (LSD-SLAM).