Beyond robustness: A taxonomy of approaches towards resilient multi-robot systems

A Prorok, M Malencia, L Carlone, GS Sukhatme… - ar** (SLAM) is a crucial capability to obtain
timely situational awareness over large areas. Real-world applications demand multi-robot …

Object pose estimation with statistical guarantees: Conformal keypoint detection and geometric uncertainty propagation

H Yang, M Pavone - … of the IEEE/CVF Conference on …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
The two-stage object pose estimation paradigm first detects semantic keypoints on the
image and then estimates the 6D pose by minimizing reprojection errors. Despite performing …

Estimation contracts for outlier-robust geometric perception

L Carlone - Foundations and Trends® in Robotics, 2023 - nowpublishers.com
Outlier-robust estimation is a fundamental problem and has been extensively investigated
by statisticians and practitioners. The last few years have seen a convergence across …

Certifiably optimal outlier-robust geometric perception: Semidefinite relaxations and scalable global optimization

H Yang, L Carlone - IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose the first general and scalable framework to design certifiable algorithms for
robust geometric perception in the presence of outliers. Our first contribution is to show that …

Foundations of spatial perception for robotics: Hierarchical representations and real-time systems

N Hughes, Y Chang, S Hu, R Talak… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
3D spatial perception is the problem of building and maintaining an actionable and
persistent representation of the environment in real-time using sensor data and prior …

A State‐of‐the‐Art Computer Vision Adopting Non‐Euclidean Deep‐Learning Models

SH Chowdhury, MR Sany, MH Ahamed… - … Journal of Intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A distance metric known as non‐Euclidean distance deviates from the laws of Euclidean
geometry, which is the geometry that governs most physical spaces. It is utilized when …

On the convergence of IRLS and its variants in outlier-robust estimation

L Peng, C Kümmerle, R Vidal - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Outlier-robust estimation involves estimating some parameters (eg, 3D rotations) from data
samples in the presence of outliers, and is typically formulated as a non-convex and non …

ROBIN: a graph-theoretic approach to reject outliers in robust estimation using invariants

J Shi, H Yang, L Carlone - 2021 IEEE International Conference …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many estimation problems in robotics, computer vision, and learning require estimating
unknown quantities in the face of outliers. Outliers are typically the result of incorrect data …