no code implementations • 11 May 2023 • Sun Yifei, Li Dingrui, Ye Minying, Tanaka Kanji
In the former module, local pole map is constructed and its configuration is compared against a precomputed global pole map.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2021 • Tanaka Kanji
In this study, we consider an active self-localization task by an active observer and present a novel reinforcement learning (RL)-based next-best-view (NBV) planner.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2019 • Sugimoto Takuma, Yamaguchi Kousuke, Tanaka Kanji
To address this issue, we reconsider the bag-of-words (BoW) image representation, by exploiting its recent advances in terms of self-localization and change detection.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2019 • Tanaka Kanji
In visual place recognition (VPR), map segmentation (MS) is a preprocessing technique used to partition a given view-sequence map into place classes (i. e., map segments) so that each class has good place-specific training images for a visual place classifier (VPC).
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2019 • Yamaguchi Kousuke, Tanaka Kanji, Sugimoto Takuma, Ide Rino, Takeda Koji
We introduce an efficient incremental recursive AE (rAE) training framework that recursively summarizes a large collection of background images into the AE set.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2019 • Hiroki Tomoe, Tanaka Kanji
Most of the current state-of-the-art frameworks for cross-season visual place recognition (CS-VPR) focus on domain adaptation (DA) to a single specific season.
no code implementations • 7 Apr 2019 • Kojima Yusuke, Tanaka Kanji, Yang Naiming, Hirota Yuji
We present a novel scalable framework for image change detection (ICD) from an on-board 3D imagery system.
no code implementations • 14 Sep 2018 • Tanaka Kanji
Recent researches demonstrate that self-localization performance is a very useful measure of likelihood-of-change (LoC) for change detection.
no code implementations • 24 Dec 2017 • Yamaguchi Kousuke, Tanaka Kanji, Sugimoto Takuma
In general, change detection aims to identify interesting changes between a given query image and a reference image of the same scene taken at a different time.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2017 • Tanaka Kanji
In our contribution, the proposed algorithm is applied and evaluated on a practical long-term cross-season change detection system that consists of a large number of place-specific object-level change classifiers.
no code implementations • 7 Jun 2017 • Fei Xiaoxiao, Tanaka Kanji
In this study, we address the problem of supervised change detection for robotic map learning applications, in which the aim is to train a place-specific change classifier (e. g., support vector machine (SVM)) to predict changes from a robot's view image.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2017 • Murase Tomoya, Tanaka Kanji
Our approach, which utilizes a compact bag-of-words (BoW) scene model, makes several contributions to the problem: 1) Two kinds of prior information are extracted from the view sequence map and used for change detection.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2016 • Fei Xiaoxiao, Tanaka Kanji, Inamoto Kouya
In this study, we explore the use of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in visual place classification for robotic mapping and localization.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2016 • Tanaka Kanji
With the recent success of visual features from deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) in visual robot self-localization, it has become important and practical to address more general self-localization scenarios.
no code implementations • 13 May 2015 • Tsukamoto Taisho, Tanaka Kanji
In this study, we propose a novel scene descriptor for visual place recognition.