no code implementations • 14 Mar 2024 • Benjamin Ramtoula, Daniele De Martini, Matthew Gadd, Paul Newman
Two parallel lines of work on VPR have shown, on one side, that general-purpose off-the-shelf feature representations can provide robustness to domain shifts, and, on the other, that fused information from sequences of images improves performance.
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2023 • Matthew Gadd, Benjamin Ramtoula, Daniele De Martini, Paul Newman
In the case of localisation, important dataset differences impacting performance are modes of appearance change, including weather, lighting, and season.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Benjamin Ramtoula, Matthew Gadd, Paul Newman, Daniele De Martini
For this, we propose representing images - and by extension datasets - using Distributions of Neuron Activations (DNAs).
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2021 • Ali Agha, Kyohei Otsu, Benjamin Morrell, David D. Fan, Rohan Thakker, Angel Santamaria-Navarro, Sung-Kyun Kim, Amanda Bouman, Xianmei Lei, Jeffrey Edlund, Muhammad Fadhil Ginting, Kamak Ebadi, Matthew Anderson, Torkom Pailevanian, Edward Terry, Michael Wolf, Andrea Tagliabue, Tiago Stegun Vaquero, Matteo Palieri, Scott Tepsuporn, Yun Chang, Arash Kalantari, Fernando Chavez, Brett Lopez, Nobuhiro Funabiki, Gregory Miles, Thomas Touma, Alessandro Buscicchio, Jesus Tordesillas, Nikhilesh Alatur, Jeremy Nash, William Walsh, Sunggoo Jung, Hanseob Lee, Christoforos Kanellakis, John Mayo, Scott Harper, Marcel Kaufmann, Anushri Dixit, Gustavo Correa, Carlyn Lee, Jay Gao, Gene Merewether, Jairo Maldonado-Contreras, Gautam Salhotra, Maira Saboia Da Silva, Benjamin Ramtoula, Yuki Kubo, Seyed Fakoorian, Alexander Hatteland, Taeyeon Kim, Tara Bartlett, Alex Stephens, Leon Kim, Chuck Bergh, Eric Heiden, Thomas Lew, Abhishek Cauligi, Tristan Heywood, Andrew Kramer, Henry A. Leopold, Chris Choi, Shreyansh Daftry, Olivier Toupet, Inhwan Wee, Abhishek Thakur, Micah Feras, Giovanni Beltrame, George Nikolakopoulos, David Shim, Luca Carlone, Joel Burdick
This paper presents and discusses algorithms, hardware, and software architecture developed by the TEAM CoSTAR (Collaborative SubTerranean Autonomous Robots), competing in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
1 code implementation • 26 Sep 2019 • Pierre-Yves Lajoie, Benjamin Ramtoula, Yun Chang, Luca Carlone, Giovanni Beltrame
This paper introduces DOOR-SLAM, a fully distributed SLAM system with an outlier rejection mechanism that can work with less conservative parameters.
Robotics
1 code implementation • 23 Sep 2019 • Jacopo Panerati, Benjamin Ramtoula, David St-Onge, Yanjun Cao, Marcel Kaufmann, Aidan Cowley, Lorenzo Sabattini, Giovanni Beltrame
Redundancy and parallelism make decentralized multi-robot systems appealing solutions for the exploration of extreme environments.
Robotics Multiagent Systems C.2.4; C.4; I.2.9