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2026
- PreprintNew preprint led by postdoc Somayeh Hussaini: Removing the Compute Bottleneck for Event-based Visual Place Recognition with Spiking Neural Networks, a sparse spiking network that resolves place recognition queries in tens of microseconds on a standard CPU.
- PreprintNew preprint led by PhD student Chelim Lim: Image-Space Refraction Correction for Underwater 3D Reconstruction, which removes flat-port refraction so standard SfM and SLAM produce undistorted underwater reconstructions.
- TalkInvited talks at IROS 2026: a keynote on ground truth and benchmarks at the Data in Field Robotics workshop, and a talk on underwater robotic vision for reef restoration at the Perception and Navigation for Marine Robotics workshop (on behalf of Scarlett Raine).
- PaperThree papers at IROS 2026: AI-driven dispensing of coral reseeding devices for the Great Barrier Reef, event-based visual teach-and-repeat, and quantile transfer for operating point selection in visual place recognition.
- PreprintNew preprint: CGRAS, a robotic system that monitors tens of thousands of coral recruits in aquaculture, cutting monitoring time and labour by a factor of 9.6.
- AwardAwarded an ARC Future Fellowship ($1.1M AUD, 2027–2031), which will follow on from my current ARC DECRA Fellowship.
- PreprintTwo new event-camera preprints led by Adam Hines: the open-source EventCV library for event-based robotic vision, and MegaEvent for multi-viewpoint geo-localization.
- PaperAccepted to WACV 2027: Why Domain Matters, domain-aware benchmarking of underwater object detection and annotation quality, led by PhD student Melanie Wille.
- TalkThree 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.
- AppointmentPromoted to Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology, effective 1 August 2026.
- PreprintNew preprint: TACO, a test-and-check framework for robust pose graph optimization, led by postdoc Emilio Olivastri.
- PaperPublished in the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy: time-resolved oxygen bubble dynamics in proton exchange membrane electrolysers.
- PaperPresented at ICUAS 2026: aerial visual place recognition in Antarctica for robust monitoring in extreme environments.
- TalkAt ICRA 2026: a keynote tutorial with Peter Corke, From Research Code to Running Systems, workshop talks on low-latency neuromorphic localization and underwater robotic vision for reef restoration, and three papers on sub-millisecond event-based place recognition, Event-LAB and coral spawn monitoring.
- PreprintNew preprint: DisPlace, discriminative place projections for multi-reference visual place recognition, led by PhD student Dhyey Manish Rajani.
- PaperPublished in IEEE Robotics and Automation Practice: open-source, cost-aware kinematically feasible planning for mobile and surface robotics, the planner behind Nav2’s Smac Planner.