no code implementations • 14 Oct 2022 • Connor Malone, Stephen Hausler, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford
One recent promising approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques using methods such as SRAL and multi-process fusion.
no code implementations • 28 Jun 2022 • Stephen Hausler, Ming Xu, Sourav Garg, Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava, Ankit Vora, Michael Milford
6-DoF visual localization systems utilize principled approaches rooted in 3D geometry to perform accurate camera pose estimation of images to a map.
no code implementations • 9 Dec 2021 • Stephen Hausler, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford
A recent approach to the Visual Place Recognition (VPR) problem has been to fuse the place recognition estimates of multiple complementary VPR techniques simultaneously.
3 code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Stephen Hausler, Sourav Garg, Ming Xu, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer
Visual Place Recognition is a challenging task for robotics and autonomous systems, which must deal with the twin problems of appearance and viewpoint change in an always changing world.
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1 code implementation • 28 Jan 2020 • Stephen Hausler, Michael Milford
In this paper we present a novel, hierarchical localization system that explicitly benefits from three varying characteristics of localization techniques: the distribution of their localization hypotheses, their appearance- and viewpoint-invariant properties, and the resulting differences in where in an environment each system works well and fails.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2019 • Stephen Hausler, Adam Jacobson, Michael Milford
Our key innovation is to filter the feature maps in an early convolutional layer, but then continue to run the network and extract a feature vector using a later layer in the same network.
1 code implementation • 8 Mar 2019 • Stephen Hausler, Adam Jacobson, Michael Milford
In this paper we address these shortcomings with a novel "multi-sensor" fusion approach applied to multiple image processing methods for a single visual image stream, combined with a dynamic sequence matching length technique and an automatic processing method weighting scheme.
Robotics
1 code implementation • 20 Feb 2019 • Sourav Garg, Madhu Babu V, Thanuja Dharmasiri, Stephen Hausler, Niko Suenderhauf, Swagat Kumar, Tom Drummond, Michael Milford
Visual place recognition (VPR) - the act of recognizing a familiar visual place - becomes difficult when there is extreme environmental appearance change or viewpoint change.
Robotics