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Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics After 1.5 years of hard work and #collaboration with Stefan Schubert, Peer Neubert, @sourav_garg_, and @maththrills, we can finally share the first #tutorial paper on visual place recognition #VPR, defining VPR as a field: arxiv.org/abs/2303.03281. 1/3
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics For anyone who has spotted a typo or two in their #IROS2023 submission: It seems the deadline was extended by 24 hours (so open another ~10 hours; thanks PaperPlaza!). Videos are not due till March 5. @ieeeras @QUTRobotics @Stephen_Hausler @sourav_garg_ @DimityMiller @maththrills
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Our #RVSS2023 challenge tracks are ready. 10 teams will be competing - hopefully no kangaroos will be harmed! @QUTRobotics @nikoSuenderhauf @feras_dayoub @dgdvision @DimityMiller
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics I wonder what all the layoffs @Meta @Google (+ @twitter) etc. will mean for the research output of those companies at conferences such as @ieee_ras_icra @CVPR @ICCVConference @siggraph? Will they go down in the next few years? Any thoughts?
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Getting busy on a Wednesday morning on our @overleaf ahead of the @CVPR deadline in ~80 hours. Good luck to all the #computervision folks out there! PS: After moving to @openreviewnet I wonder if @overleaf will be the next bottleneck? Tip: enable your @overleaf - @Dropbox sync.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Hi #ScienceTwitter, does anyone have experience with @github #ClassRoom? I am starting teaching next year (yay!) and one of my first aims is to move away from @MATLAB with its #AutoGrader to another platform that supports @ThePSF #Python. Courses are in Robotics (+some vision).
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Our results show that our approach achieves #competitive performance when compared to several baseline methods (EventVLAD, Event-VPR, Ensemble-Event-VPR), and is particularly well suited for compute- and energy-constrained platforms.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics We contribute a new indoor QCR-Event-VPR dataset captured with a DAVIS346 camera mounted on a mobile @clearpathrobots Jackal #robot (@petercorke59 photo-bombing in the background).
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics We explore the distinctiveness of event streams from a small subset of pixels (in the tens or hundreds) for the #VPR task. Using sparse (over image coordinates) but varying (variance over the #events per pixel) pixels enables frequent and computationally cheap location estimates.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Back in sunny #Brisbane after a great @iros2022. Good news in my inbox: Our paper "How Many Events Do You Need? Event-Based Visual Place Recognition Using Sparse But Varying Pixels" with @maththrills appeared in the @ieeeras #Robotics & #Automation Letters doi.org/10.1109/LRA.20…
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Several #WomenInEngineering top-up #scholarships are now available @QUTRobotics to research #robotic #vision and related areas. More details: linkedin.com/posts/activity… If interested, please reach out via tobias.fischer@qut.edu.au with the subject prefix "[2023 WiE PhD]"
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Anyone from the #casino industry here? This suggests you could use robots to persuade humans to gamble. Just in case profits are not high enough yet ;)
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics The four ingredients for humane #robots: @alefreedot starting out a great talk @2022Iros, suggesting robots need to be sensitive, adaptive, considerate and consistent.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics One of my favourite topics, active sensing, discussed by @mpopovic514 in fully autonomous #robots and #drones. Slides so far still use GPs, I wonder if the next slides will reveal implicit representations. @2022Iros
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Sad that the last day of @2022Iros has commenced. I’m starting out the day at the @BADUE22 workshop but will later have to change rooms to hear @alefreedot and @nikoSuenderhauf talking #hri and #probabilistic #robotics in the age of #deeplearning respectively.
