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Publications
2025
Journal papers
Matched Filtering based LiDAR Place Recognition for Urban and Natural Environments
Therese Joseph, Tobias Fischer, and Michael Milford
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2025
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Applications of Spiking Neural Networks in Visual Place Recognition
Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer
IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2025
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Conference papers (international, refereed)
Threshold Adaptation in Spiking Networks Enables Shortest Path Finding and Place Disambiguation
Robin Dietrich, Tobias Fischer, Nicolai Waniek, Nico Reeb, Michael Milford, Alois Knoll, and Adam Hines
Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements 2025
Preprints
2024
Conference papers (international, refereed)
Workshop papers (international, refereed)
Preprints
2023
Journal papers
Visual Place Recognition: A Tutorial
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
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
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
Somayeh Hussaini, Michael Milford, and Tobias Fischer
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023
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SAFE: Sensitivity-Aware Features for Out-of-Distribution Object Detection
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
Alastair Bradford, Grant van Breda, and Tobias Fischer
Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2023
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2022
Journal papers
Spiking Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition via Weighted Neuronal Assignments
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
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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HammerDrive: A Task-Aware Driving Visual Attention Model
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Preprints
2020
Journal papers
Computational Modeling of Embodied Visual Perspective Taking
Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 2020
Also selected for presentation at ICDL 2020
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Event-Based Visual Place Recognition With Ensembles of Spatio-Temporal Windows
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
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
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)
2018
Journal papers
DAC-h3: A Proactive Robot Cognitive Architecture to Acquire and Express Knowledge About the World and the Self
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
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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iCub-HRI: A Software Framework for Complex Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios on the iCub Humanoid Robot
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
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
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
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
Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris
CVPR 2018 Workshop on Vision Meets Cognition
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The sixth Visual Object Tracking VOT2018 challenge results
Matej Kristan et al.
ECCV 2018 Workshop on Visual Object Tracking
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Theses
Perspective Taking in Robots: A Framework and Computational Model
Tobias Fischer (Supervisor: Prof. Yiannis Demiris)
Ph.D. Thesis, Imperial College London, September 2018
2017
Conference papers (international, refereed)
Attentional Correlation Filter Network for Adaptive Visual Tracking
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
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
Tobias Fischer and Yiannis Demiris
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016
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Workshop papers (international, refereed)
Towards the Emergence of Procedural Memories from Lifelong Multi-Modal Streaming Memories for Cognitive Robots
2014
Theses
Model of all known spatial maps in primary visual cortex
Tobias Fischer (Supervisor: Dr James A. Bednar)
M.Sc. Thesis, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014
2013
Theses
Obstacle detection in stereo vision using watershed segmentation
Tobias Fischer (Supervisors: John Tsotsos PhD FRSC and Prof. Dr Horst-Michael Groß)
B.Sc. Thesis, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, 2013