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Dan Withers
dblp:203/5032
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2017
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-authorSystems, architecture and hardware · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Robot navigation and mapping · 91% Autonomous driving · 9% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping › localization › range-based localization
LiDAR localization |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Modelling scene change for large-scale long term laser localisation · ICRA 2017 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping
localization |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Modelling scene change for large-scale long term laser localisation · ICRA 2017 |
Robotics › Robot navigation and mapping › robot mapping
long-term mapping |
0.3 | 1 | 2017 | Modelling scene change for large-scale long term laser localisation · ICRA 2017 |
Robotics › Autonomous driving
perception |
0.1 | 1 | 2017 | Modelling scene change for large-scale long term laser localisation · ICRA 2017 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
error distribution modeling · 0.3distraction suppression · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Modelling scene change for large-scale long term laser localisationabstractThis paper addresses a difficulty in large-scale long term laser localisation - how to deal with scene change. We pose this as a distraction suppression problem. Urban driving environments are frequently subject to large dynamic outliers, such as buses, trucks etc. These objects can mask the static elements of the prior map that we rely on for localisation. At the same time some objects change shape in a way that is less dramatic but equally pernicious during localisation - for example trees over seasons and in wind, shop fronts and doorways. In this paper, we show how we can learn in high resolution, the areas of our map that are subject to such distractions (low value data) in a place-dependent approach. We demonstrate how to utilise this model to select individual laser measurements for localisation. Specifically, by leveraging repeated operation over weeks and months, for each point in our map pointcloud we build distributions of the errors associated with that point for multiple localisation passes. These distributions are then used to determine the legitimacy of laser measurements prior to their use in localisation. We demonstrate distraction suppression as a front-end process to large scale localiser by incrementally adding 50km of error data to our base map and show that robustness is improved over the base system with a further 10km of urban driving. Dan Withers, Paul Newman 0001 |
ICRA | 1 |