Papers, talks, awards and appointments from Tobias Fischer's group at the QUT Centre for Robotics. https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news 2026-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 Tobias Fischerhttps://www.tobiasfischer.info/ https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-10-12-20261012-sparse-snn-vpr 2026-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 <p>New preprint led by postdoc Somayeh Hussaini: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16022">Removing the Compute Bottleneck for Event-based Visual Place Recognition with Spiking Neural Networks</a>, a sparse spiking network that resolves place recognition queries in tens of microseconds on a standard CPU.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-10-06-20261006-refraction-correction 2026-10-06T00:00:00+00:00 <p>New preprint led by PhD student Chelim Lim: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07788">Image-Space Refraction Correction for Underwater 3D Reconstruction</a>, which removes flat-port refraction so standard SfM and SLAM produce undistorted underwater reconstructions.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-10-01-20261001-iros-workshop-talks 2026-10-01T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Invited talks at IROS 2026: a keynote on ground truth and benchmarks at the <a href="https://jonasfrey96.github.io/data_in_field_robotics/">Data in Field Robotics</a> workshop, and a talk on underwater robotic vision for reef restoration at the <a href="https://www.marinerobotics.info/">Perception and Navigation for Marine Robotics</a> workshop (on behalf of Scarlett Raine).</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-09-30-20260930-iros-papers 2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Three papers at IROS 2026: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01019">AI-driven dispensing of coral reseeding devices</a> for the Great Barrier Reef, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17287">event-based visual teach-and-repeat</a>, and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04401">quantile transfer for operating point selection in visual place recognition</a>.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-09-30-20260930-cgras 2026-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 <p>New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38846">CGRAS</a>, a robotic system that monitors tens of thousands of coral recruits in aquaculture, cutting monitoring time and labour by a factor of 9.6.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-09-25-20260925-future-fellowship 2026-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Awarded an ARC Future Fellowship ($1.1M AUD, 2027–2031), which will follow on from my current ARC DECRA Fellowship.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-09-18-20260918-event-camera-preprints 2026-09-18T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Two new event-camera preprints led by Adam Hines: the open-source <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21330">EventCV library</a> for event-based robotic vision, and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.21219">MegaEvent</a> for multi-viewpoint geo-localization.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-08-10-20260810-wacv-2027 2026-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Accepted to WACV 2027: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10575">Why Domain Matters</a>, domain-aware benchmarking of underwater object detection and annotation quality, led by PhD student Melanie Wille.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-08-04-20260804-adstar 2026-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Three talks at the ADSTAR Summit 2026 on assured positioning without GPS: latency-driven visual positioning, neuromorphic positioning for energy-efficient autonomy, and neuromorphic and quantum sensing for underwater positioning.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-08-01-20260801-associate-professor 2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Promoted to Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, effective 1 August 2026.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-06-29-20260629-taco 2026-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 <p>New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29851">TACO</a>, a test-and-check framework for robust pose graph optimization, led by postdoc Emilio Olivastri.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-06-22-20260622-ijhe 2026-06-22T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Published in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2026.155749">time-resolved oxygen bubble dynamics in proton exchange membrane electrolysers</a>.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-06-15-20260615-icuas 2026-06-15T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Presented at ICUAS 2026: <a href="/publications">aerial visual place recognition in Antarctica</a> for robust monitoring in extreme environments.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-06-01-20260601-icra 2026-06-01T00:00:00+00:00 <p>At ICRA 2026: a keynote tutorial with Peter Corke, <a href="https://github.com/petercorke/ICRA2026-modern-software-tools">From Research Code to Running Systems</a>, workshop talks on low-latency neuromorphic localization and underwater robotic vision for reef restoration, and three papers on <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24094">sub-millisecond event-based place recognition</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14516">Event-LAB</a> and <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17299">coral spawn monitoring</a>.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-05-29-20260529-displace 2026-05-29T00:00:00+00:00 <p>New preprint: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30769">DisPlace</a>, discriminative place projections for multi-reference visual place recognition, led by PhD student Dhyey Manish Rajani.</p> https://www.tobiasfischer.info/news#2026-04-12-20260412-rap 2026-04-12T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Published in IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/RAP.2026.3684018">open-source, cost-aware kinematically feasible planning</a> for mobile and surface robotics, the planner behind Nav2’s Smac Planner.</p>