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Dr Tobias Fischer

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Chief Investigator
Queensland University of Technology
I am passionate about my overarching research goal: providing robots with perceptual abilities that allow safe, intelligent interactions with humans in real-world environments. To develop these perceptual abilities, I believe it is useful to study the principles of the human, animal and insect visual systems. I use these principles to develop new computer vision and machine learning algorithms and validate their effectiveness in intelligent robotic systems. I am enthusiastic about this forward/reverse engineering approach, which combines concepts from computer science and engineering with those from biology and social sciences, as it offers the dual benefit of uncovering principles inherent in the animal visual system, as well as applying these principles to its artificial counterpart. I am a recipient of two best thesis awards and two best poster awards and have acquired grants in excess of 400,000 AUD.
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tobias.fischer@qut.edu.au
Tobias Fischer avatarTobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics
Things I got to remember after being in #London for less than an hour: coffee is rubbish compared to #Australia, many more German voices than in @brisbanecityqld, and the tube is indeed underground (quite a few stairs to get to the new shiny @TfL #elizabethline). @ieee_ras_icra
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4:46:08 PM – 5/26/2023
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The @ICCVConference reviews are out. We got by far the lowest quality reviews I've ever seen at a computer vision conference - only one proper review. ChatGPT would have done a much better job than the other two ...
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11:31:45 PM – 5/22/2023
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Getting up early in winter is hard, but then those stunning sunrises in the #sunshinestate make it all worthwhile! @brisbanecityqld @BOM_Qld
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7:51:20 PM – 5/9/2023
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Kids on the drawing board after spotting the @ISS_Research flying over @brisbanecityqld tonight. Toddler: that’s not a rocket ship (that’s how I motivated going outside in the cold ..), it doesn’t have a pointy nose :). #kids #spacerobotics #futureengineers
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10:18:26 AM – 5/8/2023
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Tobias Fischer avatarTobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics
🎉 I'm excited to share our @ieeeras #RAL paper presentation at @ieee_ras_icra #ICRA: "How Many Events Do You Need? Event-based Visual Place Recognition Using Sparse But Varying Pixels"! 🌍📷 🔗 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=b3fmXn… 📄 Paper: doi.org/10.1109/LRA.20… With @maththrills
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9:09:07 PM – 5/3/2023
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Tobias Fischer avatarTobias 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
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9:13:16 PM – 3/13/2023
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Tobias Fischer avatarTobias 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
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9:54:07 PM – 3/2/2023
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Our #RVSS2023 challenge tracks are ready. 10 teams will be competing - hopefully no kangaroos will be harmed! @QUTRobotics @nikoSuenderhauf @feras_dayoub @dgdvision @DimityMiller
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11:04:33 PM – 2/10/2023
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