Lab Meeting November 20th, 2014 (ChihChung): Worldwide Pose Estimation using 3D Point Clouds

Abstract:
We address the problem of determining where a photo was taken by estimating a full 6-DOF-plus-intrincs camera pose with respect to a large geo-registered 3D point cloud, bringing together research on image localization, landmark recognition, and 3D pose estimation. Our method scales to datasets with hundreds of thousands of images and tens of millions of 3D points through the use of two new techniques: a co-occurrence prior for RANSAC and bidirectional matching of image features with 3D points. We evaluate our method on several large data sets, and show state-of-the-art results on landmark recognition as well as the ability to locate cameras to within meters, requiring only seconds per query.

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Lab Meeting November 7th, 2014 (Jeff): Multiple Target Tracking using Recursive RANSAC

Title: Multiple Target Tracking using Recursive RANSAC

Authors: Peter C. Niedfeldt and Randal W. Beard

Abstract:


Estimating the states of multiple dynamic targets is difficult due to noisy and spurious measurements, missed detections, and the interaction between multiple maneuvering targets. In this paper a novel algorithm, which we call the recursive random sample consensus (R-RANSAC) algorithm, is presented to robustly estimate the states of an unknown number of dynamic targets. R-RANSAC was previously developed to estimate the parameters of multiple static signals when measurements are received sequentially in time. The R-RANSAC algorithm proposed in this paper reformulates our previous work to track dynamic targets using a Kalman filter. Simulation results using synthetic data are included to compare R-RANSAC to the GM-PHD filter.

American Control Conference (ACC), 2014

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http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6859273&tag=1