Program at a Glance

09:20     Welcome and Introduction

09:30     Tutorial on Visual Place Recognition by Peter Corke   [ slides ]

10:30     Coffee Break

10:50     Oral Paper Presentations                

10:50     Will Maddern, Alexander D. Stewart, Collin McManus, Ben Upcroft, Winston Churchill, and Paul Newman:

              "Illumination Invariant Imaging: Applications in Robust Vision-aided Localisation, Mapping and Classification

              for Autonomous Vehicles"   [ PDF ]   [ poster ]

11:10     Nicholas Carlevaris-Bianco and Ryan M. Eustice: 

              "Learning Visual Feature Descriptors for Dynamic Lighting Conditions"   [ PDF ]

11:30     Kirk MacTavish and Timothy D. Barfoot:

             "Towards Hierarchical Place Recognition for Long-Term Autonomy"   [ PDF ]   [ slides ]   [ poster ]

11:50     Rares Ambrus, Nils Bore, John Folkesson and Patric Jensfelt:

              "Meta-rooms: Building and Maintaining Long Term Spatial Models in a Dynamic World"

12:10     Ross Finman, Thomas Whelan, Liam Paull, and John J. Leonard:

              "Physical Words for Place Recognition in Dense RGB-D Maps"   [ PDF ]

12:30     Lunch Break

14:00     Invited Talk by Michael Milford: "A multi-pronged attack on the place recognition problem"   [ slides ]

14:45     Short Talks of Poster Presentations

14:45     Tayyab Naseer, Luciano Spinello, Wolfram Burgard, Cyrill Stachniss:

              "Visual Robot Localization Across Seasons using Network Flows"  [ PDF ]

14:50     Nghia Ho, Punarjay Chakravarty:

              "Localization on Freeways using the Horizon Line Signature"   [ PDF ]    [ poster ]     [ video ]

14:55     Levente Tamas, Bjoen Jensen:

              "All-Season 3D Object Recognition Challenges"   [ PDF ]   [ slides ]   [ poster ]

15:00     K. Rebai, O. Azouaoui, N. Achour:

              "HS Combined Histogram for Visual Memory Building and Scene Recognition in Outdoor Environments" [ PDF ]

15:05     Poster Session

15:30     Coffee Break and Poster Session

15:50     Invited Talk by Paul Newman

16:30     Open Discussion and Conclusions

 

Invited Speakers

1. • Paul Newman, University of Oxford 

2. • Michael Milford, Queensland University of Technology    [ slides ]

 

Tutorial

1. • Peter Corke, Queensland University of Technology – Place Recognition Background ad State of the Art    [ slides ]