no code implementations • 4 Jun 2024 • Samuel M. Bateman, Ning Xu, H. Charles Zhao, Yael Ben Shalom, Vince Gong, Greg Long, Will Maddern
Recent work on these models proposes training robust online mapping systems using low quality map priors with synthetic perturbations in an attempt to simulate out-of-date HD map priors.
no code implementations • 24 Feb 2020 • Will Maddern, Geoffrey Pascoe, Matthew Gadd, Dan Barnes, Brian Yeomans, Paul Newman
We describe the release of reference data towards a challenging long-term localisation and mapping benchmark based on the large-scale Oxford RobotCar Dataset.
no code implementations • 30 Jan 2019 • Simon Chadwick, Will Maddern, Paul Newman
Given the possible closing speeds between two vehicles, this necessitates the ability to accurately detect distant vehicles.
Robotics
no code implementations • 9 Mar 2018 • Horia Porav, Will Maddern, Paul Newman
We present a method of improving visual place recognition and metric localisation under very strong appear- ance change.
no code implementations • 17 Nov 2017 • Dan Barnes, Will Maddern, Geoffrey Pascoe, Ingmar Posner
We present a self-supervised approach to ignoring "distractors" in camera images for the purposes of robustly estimating vehicle motion in cluttered urban environments.
2 code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Torsten Sattler, Will Maddern, Carl Toft, Akihiko Torii, Lars Hammarstrand, Erik Stenborg, Daniel Safari, Masatoshi Okutomi, Marc Pollefeys, Josef Sivic, Fredrik Kahl, Tomas Pajdla
Visual localization enables autonomous vehicles to navigate in their surroundings and augmented reality applications to link virtual to real worlds.
no code implementations • CVPR 2017 • Geoffrey Pascoe, Will Maddern, Michael Tanner, Pedro Pinies, Paul Newman
We propose a direct monocular SLAM algorithm based on the Normalised Information Distance (NID) metric.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2016 • Dan Barnes, Will Maddern, Ingmar Posner
We present a weakly-supervised approach to segmenting proposed drivable paths in images with the goal of autonomous driving in complex urban environments.