Google New Plan: Map the Interior World in 3-D
Everyone knows about Google Map and use it. But now the internet giant has a bigger target: it wants to digitally map
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
Computer Vision
Mapping and Navigating Using a RealSense R200
This video shows how the new RealSense R200 can be used for 2D mapping and navigation for TutleBot. Drivers & ROS
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Opt is a New Language for Optimization Problems in Computer Graphics and Imaging
“Many graphics and vision problems are naturally expressed as optimizations with either linear or non-linear least squares objective functions over
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Best Optics for Visual Odometry
In their latest work “Benefit of Large Field of View Cameras for Visual Odometry“, Davide Scaramuzza et al. analyse which optics is
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EchoPixel’s VR lets Doctors Look Inside Your Body
Nice application of 3D reconstruction from radiology scans. “With EchoPixel and 3D glasses, internal organs pop off the screen like
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Movidius breakthrough puts AI onto a USB stick
Movidius (innovative Irish chip maker) has just created the world’s first deep learning USB stick. Entitled the Fathom Neural Compute Stick,
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Meta Augmented Glasses
How to design a proper demo for augmented glasses. Looking behind the lenses… “Our promotional videos are shot from behind
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Magic Leap News
This Andrew Davison’s comment about Magic Leap recent results is thought-provoking. In the very interesting article of Kevin Kelly, the
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Movidius is now powering DJI’s autonomous drone
The newest DJI drone, the Phantom 4, offers robust obstacle avoidance at a price the average consumer can afford. It
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Visual-Inertial Fusion for Real-time Semidense/dense SLAM
This work reports recent results leaded by Alejo Concha Belenguer on visual-inertial fusion for real-time semidense/dense SLAM, in collaboration with Giuseppe
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3D Model Reconstructed from 4 Helmet-held Cameras
Awesome 3D reconstruction and headset. In the 3D reconstruction there are also the meshes of a “sky ceiling”
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The Oxford Robotcar Dataset
After the well known KITTI dataset a new robotcar dataset http://robotcar-dataset.robots.ox.ac.uk/ This dataset contains over 100 repetitions of a consistent
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