no code implementations • 26 Jun 2019 • Madhura Thosar, Christian A. Mueller, Georg Jaeger, Johannes Schleiss, Narender Pulugu, Ravi Mallikarjun Chennaboina, Sai Vivek Jeevangekar, Andreas Birk, Max Pfingsthorn, Sebastian Zug
However, due to different sensing and acting capabilities of robots, their conceptual understanding of objects must be generated from a robot's perspective entirely, which asks for robot-centric conceptual knowledge about objects.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2019 • Arturo Gomez Chavez, Qingwen Xu, Christian A. Mueller, Sören Schwertfeger, Andreas Birk
Underwater robot interventions require a high level of safety and reliability.
no code implementations • 20 Nov 2018 • Christian A. Mueller, Andreas Birk
Experiments show that extracted persistent commonality groups can feature semantically meaningful shape concepts; the generalization of the proposed approach is evaluated by different real-world datasets.
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2018 • Qingwen Xu, Arturo Gomez Chavez, Heiko Bülow, Andreas Birk, Sören Schwertfeger
In this work, we extend the iFMI method and apply a motion model to estimate an omni-camera's pose when it moves in 3D space.
no code implementations • 16 Oct 2018 • Arturo Gomez Chavez, Christian A. Mueller, Tobias Doernbach, Davide Chiarella, Andreas Birk
We propose a robust gesture-based communication pipeline for divers to instruct an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to assist them in performing high-risk tasks and helping in case of emergency.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2018 • Georg Jäger, Christian A. Mueller, Madhura Thosar, Sebastian Zug, Andreas Birk
Robots require knowledge about objects in order to efficiently perform various household tasks involving objects.
no code implementations • 12 Jul 2018 • Arturo Gomez Chavez, Andrea Ranieri, Davide Chiarella, Enrica Zereik, Anja Babić, Andreas Birk
In this article we present a novel underwater dataset collected from several field trials within the EU FP7 project "Cognitive autonomous diving buddy (CADDY)", where an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) was used to interact with divers and monitor their activities.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2018 • Tomasz Łuczyński, Andreas Birk
On the other hand there is a well known method for haze removal in air, called Dark Channel Prior.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2018 • Christian A. Mueller, Andreas Birk
Therein surface description and representation of object shape structure have significant influence on shape categorization accuracy, when dealing with real-world scenes featuring noisy, partial and occluded object observations.
no code implementations • 6 Mar 2018 • Christian A. Mueller, Andreas Birk
Inspired by Persistent Homology, hidden groups of shape commonalities are revealed from object segment decompositions.
2 code implementations • 2 Mar 2016 • Tobias Fromm, Andreas Birk
We present a damage-aware planning approach which determines the best sequence to manipulate a number of objects in a scene.
Robotics