PLVS code released
I am happy to release the code of my project PLVS. PLVS is a real-time system that leverages sparse RGB-D and Stereo SLAM, volumetric mapping, and
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Luigi Freda
Robotics & Computer Vision Engineer, PhD
Sensors
slamplay is ready!
If you love to play with SLAM like me, I shared slamplay on github: https://github.com/luigifreda/slamplay. slamplay is a collection of powerful
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PLVS for Circus Maximus Mixed-Reality Experience
If you are visiting Rome, now you can go to the Circus Maximus and enjoy a great Mixed-Reality experience. An
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Visual Perception and Spatial Computing
On February 2019, I was the teacher of the course Visual Perception and Spatial Computing in the Advanced School of AI. This school
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Driverless cars that ‘see’ the road ahead
Micheal Milford explains how to make a driverless car see the road ahead. From his Google+ post: “We were asked to
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RGBDTAM: A Cost-Effective and Accurate RGB-D Tracking and Mapping System
In this post, Alejo Concha Belenguer presents his new work RGBDTAM. This is a direct SLAM pipeline that runs in real-time and
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Do we need self-driving cars?
This post reports that a self-driving Uber car was involved in a high-speed crash in Tempe, Arizona. No one was
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Microsoft HoloLens brings New Vision to Elevator Maintenance of Thyssenkrupp
Using Microsoft HoloLens, 24,000+ service technicians of Thyssenkrupp will be able to visualize and identify problems with elevators ahead of
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Agile Drone Flight through Narrow Gaps with Onboard Sensing and Computing
From Google+, Davide Scaramuzza presents his last work on perception aware path planning for quadrotors. “I am happy to share
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TRADR Team and Vigili del Fuoco in Amatrice
It was a great life experience being part of the TRADR team who successfully deployed two UGVs and three drones
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Italian Earthquake: Recommendations for using Rescue Robots
On this page Dr. Robin Murphy posted very useful recommendations for using ground and aerial robots for immediate lifesaving. “…A video camera,
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A Self-Driving Fleet Arrives in Pittsburgh This Month – Uber Steps on the Accelerator
Uber is definitely stepping on the accelerator… “Starting later this month, Uber will allow customers in downtown Pittsburgh to summon
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Direct Sparse Odometry
A new exciting work from the Computer Vision Group of TUM. “DSO is a novel direct and sparse formulation for
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3D Semantic Parsing of Large-Scale Indoor Spaces
“3D sensing has experienced a major progress with the availability of mature technology for scanning large-scale spaces that can reliably
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Lidar Sensor onto Single Chip
“At MIT’s Photonic Microsystems Group, the authors are developing a lidar-on-a-chip system that is smaller than a dime, has no
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