[AG-TECH] AG SIGGRAPH Session 30th April "Live Localisation and Mapping with a Single Camera"

[Martin Turner]

*** Apologies for Cross-posting ***

Andrew Davison, Imperial College "Live Localisation and Mapping with a 
Single Camera"

30th April 2010, 2-3pm (BST) Room 1.10, Kilburn Building, The University 
of Manchester

Recent advances in probabilistic Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping 
(SLAM) algorithms, together with modern computer power, have made it 
possible to create practical systems able to perform real-time 
estimation of the motion of a camera in 3D purely from the image stream 
it acquires. This is of interest in many application fields, including 
robotics, wearable computing and augmented reality. I will explain the 
main aspects of the algorithms behind visual SLAM techniques, and 
present recent work which is now turning towards not just estimating 
camera motion but also recovering dense scene models in real-time.
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Part of http://manchester.siggraph.org/

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