Search Results for author: John J. Leonard

Found 22 papers, 6 papers with code

LOSS-SLAM: Lightweight Open-Set Semantic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

no code implementations5 Apr 2024 Kurran Singh, Tim Magoun, John J. Leonard

Enabling robots to understand the world in terms of objects is a critical building block towards higher level autonomy.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

NeuSE: Neural SE(3)-Equivariant Embedding for Consistent Spatial Understanding with Objects

no code implementations13 Mar 2023 Jiahui Fu, Yilun Du, Kurran Singh, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, John J. Leonard

We present NeuSE, a novel Neural SE(3)-Equivariant Embedding for objects, and illustrate how it supports object SLAM for consistent spatial understanding with long-term scene changes.

Object Object SLAM

Optimizing Fiducial Marker Placement for Improved Visual Localization

1 code implementation2 Nov 2022 Qiangqiang Huang, Joseph DeGol, Victor Fragoso, Sudipta N. Sinha, John J. Leonard

Our main contribution is a novel framework for modeling camera localizability that incorporates both natural scene features and artificial fiducial markers added to the scene.

Visual Localization

NeRF-SLAM: Real-Time Dense Monocular SLAM with Neural Radiance Fields

1 code implementation24 Oct 2022 Antoni Rosinol, John J. Leonard, Luca Carlone

We propose a novel geometric and photometric 3D mapping pipeline for accurate and real-time scene reconstruction from monocular images.

Probabilistic Volumetric Fusion for Dense Monocular SLAM

1 code implementation3 Oct 2022 Antoni Rosinol, John J. Leonard, Luca Carlone

We present a novel method to reconstruct 3D scenes from images by leveraging deep dense monocular SLAM and fast uncertainty propagation.

Robust Change Detection Based on Neural Descriptor Fields

no code implementations1 Aug 2022 Jiahui Fu, Yilun Du, Kurran Singh, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, John J. Leonard

The ability to reason about changes in the environment is crucial for robots operating over extended periods of time.

Change Detection Object

PlaneSDF-based Change Detection for Long-term Dense Mapping

no code implementations18 Jul 2022 Jiahui Fu, Chengyuan Lin, Yuichi Taguchi, Andrea Cohen, Yifu Zhang, Stephen Mylabathula, John J. Leonard

Given point clouds of the source and target scenes, we propose a three-step PlaneSDF-based change detection approach: (1) PlaneSDF volumes are instantiated within each scene and registered across scenes using plane poses; 2D height maps and object maps are extracted per volume via height projection and connected component analysis.

Change Detection Object +2

Discrete-Continuous Smoothing and Mapping

1 code implementation25 Apr 2022 Kevin J. Doherty, Ziqi Lu, Kurran Singh, John J. Leonard

In particular, we provide a library, DC-SAM, extending existing tools for inference problems defined in terms of factor graphs to the setting of discrete-continuous models.

Point Cloud Registration

Trajectory Prediction with Linguistic Representations

no code implementations19 Oct 2021 Yen-Ling Kuo, Xin Huang, Andrei Barbu, Stephen G. McGill, Boris Katz, John J. Leonard, Guy Rosman

Language allows humans to build mental models that interpret what is happening around them resulting in more accurate long-term predictions.

Trajectory Prediction

TIP: Task-Informed Motion Prediction for Intelligent Vehicles

no code implementations17 Oct 2021 Xin Huang, Guy Rosman, Ashkan Jasour, Stephen G. McGill, John J. Leonard, Brian C. Williams

When predicting trajectories of road agents, motion predictors usually approximate the future distribution by a limited number of samples.

Autonomous Driving Decision Making +1

Incremental Non-Gaussian Inference for SLAM Using Normalizing Flows

1 code implementation2 Oct 2021 Qiangqiang Huang, Can Pu, Kasra Khosoussi, David M. Rosen, Dehann Fourie, Jonathan P. How, John J. Leonard

This paper presents normalizing flows for incremental smoothing and mapping (NF-iSAM), a novel algorithm for inferring the full posterior distribution in SLAM problems with nonlinear measurement models and non-Gaussian factors.

Position

Lidar-Monocular Surface Reconstruction Using Line Segments

no code implementations6 Apr 2021 Victor Amblard, Timothy P. Osedach, Arnaud Croux, Andrew Speck, John J. Leonard

We compare the accuracy and the completeness of the 3D mesh to a ground truth obtained with a survey-grade 3D scanner.

Surface Reconstruction

A Front-End for Dense Monocular SLAM using a Learned Outlier Mask Prior

no code implementations1 Apr 2021 Yihao Zhang, John J. Leonard

Recent achievements in depth prediction from a single RGB image have powered the new research area of combining convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with classical simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms.

Depth Estimation Depth Prediction +1

Bootstrapped Self-Supervised Training with Monocular Video for Semantic Segmentation and Depth Estimation

no code implementations19 Mar 2021 Yihao Zhang, John J. Leonard

For a robot deployed in the world, it is desirable to have the ability of autonomous learning to improve its initial pre-set knowledge.

Depth Estimation Self-Supervised Learning +1

Advances in Inference and Representation for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

no code implementations8 Mar 2021 David M. Rosen, Kevin J. Doherty, Antonio Teran Espinoza, John J. Leonard

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the process of constructing a global model of an environment from local observations of it; this is a foundational capability for mobile robots, supporting such core functions as planning, navigation, and control.

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping

Towards Visual Ego-motion Learning in Robots

no code implementations29 May 2017 Sudeep Pillai, John J. Leonard

Many model-based Visual Odometry (VO) algorithms have been proposed in the past decade, often restricted to the type of camera optics, or the underlying motion manifold observed.

Motion Estimation Optical Flow Estimation +3

Past, Present, and Future of Simultaneous Localization And Mapping: Towards the Robust-Perception Age

2 code implementations19 Jun 2016 Cesar Cadena, Luca Carlone, Henry Carrillo, Yasir Latif, Davide Scaramuzza, Jose Neira, Ian Reid, John J. Leonard

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)consists in the concurrent construction of a model of the environment (the map), and the estimation of the state of the robot moving within it.

Robotics

High-Performance and Tunable Stereo Reconstruction

no code implementations3 Nov 2015 Sudeep Pillai, Srikumar Ramalingam, John J. Leonard

Traditional stereo algorithms have focused their efforts on reconstruction quality and have largely avoided prioritizing for run time performance.

Disparity Estimation Stereo Disparity Estimation +1

A Mixture of Manhattan Frames: Beyond the Manhattan World

no code implementations CVPR 2014 Julian Straub, Guy Rosman, Oren Freifeld, John J. Leonard, John W. Fisher III

Traditional approaches to scene representation exploit this phenomenon via the somewhat restrictive assumption that every plane is perpendicular to one of the axes of a single coordinate system.

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