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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.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Large crowd of @2022Iros attendees enjoying traditional #japanese music and performances. Great conclusion of the main conference, with many cool workshops lined up for tomorrow.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Great talk by @GeorgiaChal reminding us that we stand on the shoulders of giants, advocating to augment classical algorithms with modern machine learning techniques to achieve embodied intelligence.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics My good friend @mazrk7 talking about his intention recognition work on wheelchair #robots @2022Iros with @YiannisDemiris @Imperial_PRL. Catch him if you are at #iros2022 - he’s such a nice person.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Our @qutrobotics @_HelenCarson being grilled by #SLAM guru Cyrill @stachnis and doing a job explaining strengths and limitations of her work on #integrity in #localization for #robotics and #autonomousdriving. With @maththrills and Jason Ford @QUT
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Logistical challenge @2022Iros: capture all @QUTRobotics researchers in one photo. Thanks @MartinaZambelli for being the photographer. Next challenge: tag all researchers, too - not one for today ;). #robotics #kyoto #Japan
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Very proud of @Scarlett_Raine_ who did an amazing job presenting her paper on underwater #segmentation using sparse labels. Great to see the next generation flourish! @2022Iros @QUTRobotics @CSIRO #Robotics @RoboticsAINews #coralreefs #computervision
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics End of day 2 @2022Iros. Continue to eat delicious food and bumping into old friends - here with @haroldsoh @tanichu @mazrk7 @MartinaZambelli @roalchaq chatting about teaching the next generation of #roboticists, differences across institutions and more. Loving #conference life!
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Interesting stats. We are doing better in the Asia Pacific region compared to the rest of the world, but still not nearly good enough.
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Join us for the Women in Engineering #WiE forum @iros2022 @ieeeras in half an hour in the main hall! @IEEEorg #womeninengineering
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Made it to @iros2022 :). Very beautiful, well worth the long journey. Caught up with former colleague @mazrk7 and @RoboStack collaborator @wuoulf already, after delicious breakfast with @Scarlett_Raine_. Drop me a message if you are also at #iros and would like to catch up!
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Great to see our project with @intel featured in today's @QUT media release! The project is about using their #neuromorphic Loihi 2 processor for ultra-low-power, highly adaptive #robot localization algorithms. With @Somayeh_HS and @maththrills @QUTRobotics twitter.com/QUT/status/157…
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Great to be attending @ResilResearcher's seminar with lots of tips+tricks to be a more #resilient #researcher, changing one's #mindset to be more positive by identifying strengths, being aware of the #impostor #syndrome and more! @QUTRobotics @QUT @Somayeh_HS @Scarlett_Raine_
Tobias Fischer@TobiasRobotics Last minute @ieee_ras_icra @ieee_ras_icra server issues. Glad we submitted our papers early :) @maththrills @Somayeh_HS @Stephen_Hausler @nikoSuenderhauf @DimityMiller
