Kimera-multi: a system for distributed multi-robot metric-semantic simultaneous localization and mapping

Y Chang, Y Tian, JP How… - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first fully distributed multi-robot system for dense metric-semantic
Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). Our system, dubbed Kimera-Multi, is …

Object-aware dense semantic correspondence

F Yang, X Li, H Cheng, J Li… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2017 - openaccess.thecvf.com
This work aims to build pixel-to-pixel correspondences between images from the same
visual class but with different geometries and visual similarities. This task is particularly …

Bev-locator: An end-to-end visual semantic localization network using multi-view images

Z Zhang, M Xu, W Zhou, T Peng, L Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Accurate localization ability is fundamental in autonomous driving. Traditional visual
localization frameworks approach the semantic map-matching problem with geometric …

Adapting semantic segmentation models for changes in illumination and camera perspective

W Zhou, A Zyner, S Worrall… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Semantic segmentation using deep neural networks has been widely explored to generate
high-level contextual information for autonomous vehicles. To acquire a complete 180° …

Hdmapnet: An online hd map construction and evaluation framework

Q Li, Y Wang, Y Wang, H Zhao - 2022 International Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Constructing HD semantic maps is a central component of autonomous driving. However,
traditional pipelines require a vast amount of human efforts and resources in annotating and …

Semi-supervised semantic mapping through label propagation with semantic texture meshes

RA Rosu, J Quenzel, S Behnke - International Journal of Computer Vision, 2020 - Springer
Scene understanding is an important capability for robots acting in unstructured
environments. While most SLAM approaches provide a geometrical representation of the …

Hierarchical semantic mapping using convolutional neural networks for intelligent service robotics

RC Luo, M Chiou - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The introduction of service robots in the public domain has introduced a paradigm shift in
how robots are interacting with people, where robots must learn to autonomously interact …

Panopticfusion: Online volumetric semantic mapping at the level of stuff and things

G Narita, T Seno, T Ishikawa… - 2019 IEEE/RSJ …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose PanopticFusion, a novel online volumetric semantic mapping system at the
level of stuff and things. In contrast to previous semantic mapping systems, PanopticFusion …

Spherical multi-modal place recognition for heterogeneous sensor systems

L Bernreiter, L Ott, J Nieto, R Siegwart… - … on Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we propose a robust end-to-end multi-modal pipeline for place recognition
where the sensor systems can differ from the map building to the query. Our approach …

Volumetric instance-aware semantic mapping and 3D object discovery

M Grinvald, F Furrer, T Novkovic… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To autonomously navigate and plan interactions in real-world environments, robots require
the ability to robustly perceive and map complex, unstructured surrounding scenes. Besides …