Publications

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2024

Conference papers (international, refereed)

FocusTune: Tuning Visual Localization through Focus-Guided Sampling
  • WACV 2024

Son Tung Nguyen, Alejandro Fontan, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024

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Image Labels Are All You Need for Coarse Seagrass Segmentation
  • WACV 2024

Scarlett Raine, Ross Marchant, Brano Kusy, Frederic Maire, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2024

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VPRTempo: A Fast Temporally Encoded Spiking Neural Network for Visual Place Recognition
  • ICRA 2024

Adam D Hines, Peter G Stratton, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024

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Teach and Repeat Navigation: A Robust Control Approach
  • ICRA 2024

Payam Nourizadeh, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024

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Enhancing Visual Place Recognition via Fast and Slow Adaptive Biasing in Event Cameras
  • IROS 2024

Gokul B Nair, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2024

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Workshop papers (international, refereed)

Human-in-the-Loop Segmentation of Multi-species Coral Imagery
  • CVPR 2024

Scarlett Raine, Ross Marchant, Brano Kusy, Frederic Maire, Niko Suenderhauf, and Tobias Fischer

CVPR 2024 Workshop on Learning With Limited Labelled Data for Image and Video Understanding

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2023

Journal papers

Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial
  • RAM 2023 + ICRA 2024

Stefan Schubert, Peer Neubert, Sourav Garg, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 2023

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Conference papers (international, refereed)

Hyperdimensional Feature Fusion for Out-Of-Distribution Detection
  • WACV 2023

Samuel Wilson, Tobias Fischer, Niko Sünderhauf, and Feras Dayoub

IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2023

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Boosting Performance of a Baseline Visual Place Recognition Technique by Predicting the Maximally Complementary Technique
  • ICRA 2023

Connor Malone, Stephen Hausler, Tobias Fischer, and Michael Milford

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023

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Ensembles of Compact, Region-specific & Regularized Spiking Neural Networks for Scalable Place Recognition
  • ICRA 2023

Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023

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Trajectory Tracking via Multiscale Continuous Attractor Networks
  • IROS 2023

Therese Joseph, Tobias Fischer, and Michael Milford

IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2023

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SAFE: Sensitivity-Aware Features for Out-of-Distribution Object Detection
  • ICCV 2023

Samuel Wilson, Tobias Fischer, Feras Dayoub, Dimity Miller, and Niko Sünderhauf

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision 2023

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Racing With ROS 2: A Navigation System for an Autonomous Formula Student Race Car
  • ACRA 2023

Alastair Bradford, Grant van Breda, and Tobias Fischer

Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023

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Preprints

Publication teaser
Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition
  • arXiv 2023

Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

arXiv 2311.13186

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2022

Journal papers

Spiking Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition via Weighted Neuronal Assignments
  • RAL 2022 + ICRA 2022

Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022

Also selected for presentation at ICRA 2022

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A RoboStack Tutorial: Using the Robot Operating System Alongside the Conda and Jupyter Data Science Ecosystems
  • RAM 2022 + IROS 2022

Tobias Fischer, Wolf Vollprecht, Silvio Traversaro, Sean Yen, Carlos Herrero, and Michael Milford

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 2022

Also selected for presentation at IROS 2022

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Publication teaser
HammerDrive: A Task-Aware Driving Visual Attention Model
  • T-ITS 2022

Pierluigi Vito Amadori, Tobias Fischer, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2022

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Point Label Aware Superpixels for Multi-species Segmentation of Underwater Imagery
  • RAL 2022 + IROS 2022

Scarlett Raine, Ross Marchant, Brano Kusy, Frederic Maire, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022

Also selected for presentation at IROS 2022

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How Many Events do You Need? Event-based Visual Place Recognition Using Sparse But Varying Pixels
  • RAL 2022 + ICRA 2023

Tobias Fischer and Michael Milford

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2022

Also selected for presentation at ICRA 2023

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Predicting Secondary Task Performance: A Directly Actionable Metric for Cognitive Overload Detection
  • TCDS 2022

Pierluigi Vito Amadori, Tobias Fischer, Ruohan Wang, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2022

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2021

Journal papers

Intelligent Reference Curation for Visual Place Recognition via Bayesian Selective Fusion
  • RAL 2021 + ICRA 2021

Tim Molloy, Tobias Fischer, Michael Milford, and Girish Nair

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021

Also selected for presentation at ICRA 2021

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Probabilistic Appearance-Invariant Topometric Localization with New Place Awareness
  • RAL 2021 + IROS 2021

Ming Xu, Tobias Fischer, Niko Sünderhauf, and Michael Milford

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2021

Also selected for presentation at IROS 2021

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Conference papers (international, refereed)

Patch-NetVLAD: Multi-Scale Fusion of Locally Global Descriptors for Place Recognition
  • CVPR 2021

Stephen Hausler, Sourav Garg, Ming Xu, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2021

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Where is your place, Visual Place Recognition
  • IJCAI 2021

Tobias Fischer*, Sourav Garg*, and Michael Milford (*: equal contributions)

International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2021

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Fast and Robust Bio-inspired Teach and Repeat Navigation
  • IROS 2021

Dominic Dall'Osto, Tobias Fischer, and Michael Milford

IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2021

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Workshop papers (international, refereed)

Publication teaser
Bio-inspired Robot Perception Coupled With Robot-modeled Human Perception
  • R-SS 2021

Tobias Fischer

R-SS 2021 Pioneers Workshop

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Preprints

Publication teaser
Unsupervised Complementary-aware Multi-process Fusion for Visual Place Recognition
  • arXiv 2021

Stephen Hausler, Tobias Fischer, and Michael Milford

arXiv 2112.04701

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2020

Journal papers

Computational Modeling of Embodied Visual Perspective Taking
  • TCDS 2020 + ICDL 2020

Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2020

Also selected for presentation at ICDL 2020

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Publication teaser
Event-Based Visual Place Recognition With Ensembles of Spatio-Temporal Windows
  • RAL 2020

Tobias Fischer and Michael Milford

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2020

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Conference papers (international, refereed)

Real-Time Multi-Person Pose Tracking using Data Assimilation
  • WACV 2020

Caterina Buizza, Tobias Fischer, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2020

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Decision Anticipation for Driving Assistance Systems
  • ITSC 2020

Pierluigi Vito Amadori, Tobias Fischer, Ruohan Wang, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference 2020

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2019

Workshop papers (international, refereed)

RT-BENE: A Dataset and Baselines for Real-Time Blink Estimation in Natural Environments
  • ICCV 2019

Kevin Cortacero, Tobias Fischer, and Yiannis Demiris

ICCV 2019 Workshop on Gaze Estimation and Prediction in the Wild

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2018

Journal papers

DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
  • TCDS 2018

Tobias Fischer*, Clement Moulin-Frier*, Maxime Petit, Gregoire Pointeau, Jordi-Ysard Puigbo, Ugo Pattacini, Sock Ching Low, Daniel Camilleri, Phuong Nguyen, Matej Hoffmann, Hyung Jin Chang, Martina Zambelli, Anne-Laure Mealier, Andreas Damianou, Giorgio Metta, Tony Prescott, Yiannis Demiris, Peter Ford Dominey, and Paul F.M.J. Verschure (*: equal contributions)

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2018

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Learning Kinematic Structure Correspondences Using Multi-Order Similarities
  • TPAMI 2018

Hyung Jin Chang, Tobias Fischer, Maxime Petit, Martina Zambelli, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Learning 2018

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Publication teaser
iCub-HRI: A Software Framework for Complex Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios on the iCub Humanoid Robot
  • FRAI 2018

Tobias Fischer, Jordi-Ysard Puigbo, Daniel Camilleri, Phuong Nguyen, Clement Moulin-Frier, Stephane Lallee, Giorgio Metta, Tony Prescott, Yiannis Demiris, and Paul F.M.J. Verschure

Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2018

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Conference papers (international, refereed)

Context-aware Deep Feature Compression for High-speed Visual Tracking
  • CVPR 2018

Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang, Tobias Fischer, Sangdoo Yun, Kyuewang Lee, Jiyeoup Jeong, Yiannis Demiris, and Jin Young Choi

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2018

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RT-GENE: Real-Time Eye Gaze Estimation in Natural Environments
  • ECCV 2018

Tobias Fischer, Hyung Jin Chang, and Yiannis Demiris

European Conference on Computer Vision 2018

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Transferring Visuomotor Learning from Simulation to the Real World for Robotics Manipulation Tasks
  • IROS 2018

Phuong Nguyen, Tobias Fischer, Hyung Jin Chang, Ugo Pattacini, Yiannis Demiris, and Giorgio Metta

IEEE/RSJ Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems 2018

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Workshop papers (international, refereed)

A Computational Model for Embodied Visual Perspective Taking: From Physical Movements to Mental Simulation
  • CVPR 2018

Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris

CVPR 2018 Workshop on Vision Meets Cognition

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Publication teaser
The sixth Visual Object Tracking VOT2018 challenge results
  • ECCV 2018

Matej Kristan et al.

ECCV 2018 Workshop on Visual Object Tracking

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Theses

Publication teaser
Perspective Taking in Robots: A Framework and Computational Model
  • Ph.D. 2018

Tobias Fischer (Supervisor: Prof. Yiannis Demiris)

Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College London, September 2018

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2017

Conference papers (international, refereed)

Attentional Correlation Filter Network for Adaptive Visual Tracking
  • CVPR 2017

Jongwon Choi, Hyung Jin Chang, Sangdoo Yun, Tobias Fischer, Yiannis Demiris, and Jin Young Choi

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2017

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2016

Journal papers

Lifelong Augmentation of Multi-Modal Streaming Autobiographical Memories
  • TCDS 2016

Tobias Fischer*, Maxime Petit*, and Yiannis Demiris (*: equal contributions)

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2016

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Conference papers (international, refereed)

Markerless Perspective Taking for Humanoid Robots in Unconstrained Environments
  • ICRA 2016

Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016

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Kinematic Structure Correspondences via Hypergraph Matching
  • CVPR 2016

Hyung Jin Chang, Tobias Fischer, Maxime Petit, Martina Zambelli, and Yiannis Demiris

IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2016

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Workshop papers (international, refereed)

Publication teaser
Towards Anchoring Self-Learned Representations to Those of Other Agents
  • IROS 2016

Martina Zambelli, Tobias Fischer, Maxime Petit, Hyung Jin Chang, Antoine Cully, and Yiannis Demiris

IROS 2016 Workshop on Bio-inspired Social Robot Learning in Home Scenarios

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Towards the Emergence of Procedural Memories from Lifelong Multi-Modal Streaming Memories for Cognitive Robots
  • IROS 2016

Tobias Fischer*, Maxime Petit*, and Yiannis Demiris (*: equal contributions)

IROS 2016 Workshop on Machine Learning Methods for High-Level Cognitive Capabilities in Robotics

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2014

Theses

Publication teaser
Model of all known spatial maps in primary visual cortex
  • M.Sc. 2014

Tobias Fischer (Supervisor: Dr James A. Bednar)

M.Sc. Thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014

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2013

Theses

Publication teaser
Obstacle detection in stereo vision using watershed segmentation
  • B.Sc. 2013

Tobias Fischer (Supervisors: John Tsotsos PhD FRSC and Prof. Dr Horst-Michael Groß)

B.Sc. Thesis, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, 2013

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