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Full house for my lecture on #AI, #swarming and the evolution of #military #strategy at the Dept of #Informatics of the University of #Zurich. Impressive work by the team of Prof Scaramuzza Davide Scaramuzza from the #robotics and #perception group #AI

Our #RSS2020 paper "AlphaPilot Autonomous Drone Racing" won the Best Systems Paper Award! Congrats to my team P. Foehn, D. Brescianini, Elia Kaufmann, Mathias Gehrig, Titus Cieslewski, Manasi Muglikar Paper: rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/RSS20_Foe… Video : youtu.be/k6vGEj1ZZWc University of Zurich UZH President

Flightmare: A Flexible Quadrotor Simulator arxiv.org/abs/2009.00563

Are you looking for a photo-realistic, customizable, and easy to use simulator for #drones? Then, #Flightmare is what you need! Compatible with #ROS, #OpenAI Gym, and #Oculus. Website: uzh-rpg.github.io/flightmare/ Kudos to @Cprimer_ Elia Kaufmann Antonio Loquercio #UZH_en

3 weeks left! Can you outperform #OpenVINS and #OKVIS on the most challenging VIO/SLAM dataset?

#Placerecognition is usually done based on single images. Yet in #SLAM , we also extract 3D structure. Why not use BOTH images and structure? Doing this, we achieve 98% recall@1 on #RobotCar VS 90% SOTA. Video: youtu.be/OWzBH3d7M_k Paper: rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/docs/RAL20_Oer…

Life imitating art (or; a PhD thesis imitating science fiction). Science fiction could have inspired my life choices more than I might care to admit 😬.

Thesis submitted! Thanks to Davide Scaramuzza and my colleagues at RPG for great 5 years, to Siddharth Choudhary, Kosta Derpanis, Michael Bloesch & Andreas Ziegler for co-authoring the core papers, and to Marc Pollefeys and Torsten Sattler for agreeing to review! 5 years of research on a single screen:

I have several #PostDoc openings in #AI: - Neural control of drones - Neural SLAM - Event cameras - Semantic scene understanding - Computational photography Come build the future of robotics with us! Apply here: rpg.ifi.uzh.ch/positions.html

Created a "map" of my research for upcoming interview talks.

Very excited that robots can now also connect to Azure Spatial Anchors through our new Linux SDK. Interact with your robots in Mixed Reality and let them contribute to the AR cloud! #mixedreality #robots #microsoft #arcloud #azur…lnkd.in/d8j9BDS lnkd.in/dTm8dPG

Being organized is good for you, and for the people you work with! Never forget a task. Never forget a great idea. Still keep your mind free for the things that matter most. Here's how, using a method called #GTD and an app called Todoist : titus-c.ch/2020/11/how-to…

Our new Junior Research Group Leader @mashapopovic is seeking 2 PhD positions to support her work in CP4 "Autonomous In-Field Intervention" in our Cluster. Apply until Dec 6: uni-bonn.de/die-universita… #openposition #career #science #interdisciplinaryresearch

Ph.D. defense passed! Thanks to Davide Scaramuzza and my colleagues at RPG for amazing 5 years! Thanks to Marc Pollefeys and Torsten Sattler for reviewing and for asking challenging and interesting questions! And thanks to Prof. Thomas Fritz for chairing! Thesis details coming soon...

Ph.D. Defense: Multi-Agent Visual SLAM with minimal data exchange: a) O(n²) → O(n) decentr. place recognition, b) minimal feature set with SIPs, c) no more feature descriptors with IMPs, d) optimization is not needed for navigation, nor exploration: youtu.be/5C7I7uNGkBw

Time and attention are precious, and we should treat each others’ time and attention with respect. Here is a proposal for some 21st-century rules that should help us do that with modern communication methods: titus-c.ch/2020/12/respec… Thanks Carmen and Philipp Foehn for reviewing!

Hey Todoist , it would be really nice to have "negative priority" / p5 and maybe p6. So that in my "Today" view, I can move "less important than default" tasks back without having to mark all default tasks as higher priority. Should be trivial to implement.

A candidate for "things that will be different after Covid"? Well, why not?

Very nice interview with Torsten Sattler about Computer Vision between Geometry & Learning, and research trends. Personal takeaways from first ½: AR/VR as stepping stone for robotics; visualization is key to understanding; simulations allow agents to make and test hypotheses.

I think Publons is a criminally underrated / underutilized tool. It collects verified reviews into a public record. If more people used it, we could have a better conversation about review duty. Thoughts?