- Best poster award :RGB-D Neural Radiance Fields: Local Sampling for Faster Training, Arnab Dey, Andrew I. Comport. Eurographics, 24-29 April 2022, Reims, France : paper.
- Postdoc and Research Engineer Positions in the context of the European H2020 projet MEMEX on Visual learning and 3D mapping for mobile Augmented Reality. Application dealine 5th of March 2021.
- IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine RGB-D Neural Radiance Fields: Local Sampling for Faster Training, Arnab Dey, Andrew I. Comport. Eurographics, 24-29 April 2022, Reims, France For the paper “RGB-D Neural Radiance Fields: Local Sampling for Faster Training, Arnab Dey, Andrew I. Comport. Eurographics, 24-29 April 2022, Reims, France”
- CNRS INS2I - IRP (International Research Project) on Advancing Autonomy for Unmanned Robotic Systems lead by Tarek Hamel (I3S) and Rob Mahoney (ANU) accepted 2020-2022 funding collaboration French-Australian collaboration with our team and Tom Drummond (Monash University).
- PhD filled on "Real-time 3D Biomechanics Capture using deep-learning and computer vision".
- Monash University, Talk for Tom Drummond's group, ""Large-scale photo-realistic visual localisation and mapping for robotics and augmented reality", Dec 18, 2019.
- ITRI, Taiwan, talk for Bob Wang's group, "Large-scale photo-realistic visual localisation and mapping for robotics and augmented reality" at 2 pm, Dec. 13 (Friday) 2019, at Building 58 of ITRI.
- DEADLINE 1 August 2019 - PhD opening with RENAULT Software Labs on "Spatial AI for Vehicle Perception in Dynamic Environments".
- The final demonstrator of the COMANOID H2020 projet with Airbus, CNRS, DLR, INRIA and Univ. Rome 1 was held on the 21st of Febuary 2019 - see more here
- DEADLINE 17 May 2019 - PhD opening on "Real-time Visual Surface Reconstruction for Spatial AI Systems :with applications to robotics and augmented reality".
- French-German Conference on Humanoid and Legged Robots 5-7 December 2018 (HLR’18) – Invited talk on “Visual SLAM for humanoid robot localization and closed-loop control”.
- PhD defence of Arnaud Tanguy on the 29th of November 2018 on the topic of "Visual SLAM for humanoid robot localization and closed-loop control". The PhD was supervised by Andrew Comport and Abderrahmane Kheddar. The jury was composed of Olivier Stasse (LAAS-CNRS, Rapporteur), David Filliat (ENSTA ParisTech, Rapporteur), Phillippe Martinet (INRIA, Examinateur), Claire Dune (Université de Toulon, Examinateur).
- Postdoc Position Filled in the context of the European H2020 projet Comanoid (CNRS, INRIA, DLR, Univ. Rome 1, Airbus) on RGB-D localisation and mapping for humanoid robots in a manufacturing environment - more information is available here.
- PhD defence of Fernando Ireta on the 4th of April 2018 on the topic of "Estimation de pose globale et suivi pour la localisation RGB-D et cartographie 3D". The PhD was supervised by Andrew Comport and the jury was composed of Pascal Vasseur (Université de Rouen), Youcef Mezouar (Institute Pascal), Jonghyuk Kim, (Australian National University), Christian Laugier (INRIA) and Jean-Bernard Hayet, (CIMAT, Mexico).
- Robot PACA, steering committee member of RobotPACA − Workshop to unite all the actors in robotics throughout the region PACA, 25-26 juin 2018, Sophia Antipolis, France.
- IIT Visual Geometry and Modelling group, invited talk, Andrew Comport, Dense visual SLAM for autonomous navigation and augmented reality, 19th-20th of June, 2017.
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Arnaud Tanguy, Pierre Gergondet, Andrew Comport, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Award of the best paper finalist for the article IEEE/SICE SII entitled “Closed-loop RGB-D SLAM Multi-Contact Control for Humanoid Robots” presented at SII 2016 (International Symposium on System Integration)
- Fernando Ireta and Andrew Comport, Award of the best student paper finalist at IEEE/RSJ IROS, for the article entitled “Point-to-hyperplane RGB-D Pose Estimation : Fusing Photometric and Geometric Measurements”. Prestented at IROS 2016.
- Fernando Ireta and Andrew Comport, Awarded the best student paper finalist at IEEE MFI, for the article entitled “A Proof that Fusing Measurements Using Point-to-Hyperplace Registration is Invariant to Relative Scale”. Presented at "Multi-sensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems".
- PIXMAP, Prize-winner for the French national innovation competition CREADEV for the creation of start-ups.
- PhD position filled on Object recognition in RGB-D images For the accurate localisation of a manufacturing collaborative robot in collaboration with Airbus Group.
- Andrew Comport and Maxime Meilland, Awarded the medal of the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis 2014.
- European H2020 projet Comanoid on Multi-contact Collaborative Humanoids in Aircraft Manufacturing begins in collaboration with CNRS, INRIA, Airbus, DLR et l'Université de Rome 1.
- We are looking for a postdoc to work on large-scale dense visual SLAM. More information is available HERE. Please contact us rapidly if you are interested.
- Invited talk at the Robotics and Perception Group at the University of Zurich.
- Invited conference on the "Next generation of collaborative robots" at the Embassy of France in Japan sponsored by Airbus and the French embassy, 26/2/2014.
- IEEE/RSJ IROS Best Paper Award : On unifying key-frame and voxel-based dense visual SLAM at large scales, 2013, Maxime Meilland and Andrew Comport
- 26/10/2013 - Visit to the CNRS-AIST JRL(Joint Robotics Laboratory) in Tsukuba Japan.
- 27/9/2013 - 1st ACROSS Workshop on Cooperative Cognitive and Robotic Systems. "Super-resolution and high-dynamic range dense RGB-D mapping and its applications to real-time augmented reality".
- 9/2013 - Associate Editor for ICRA 2014.
- 16-20/9/2013 - Invited visit and seminar in the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University of Munich.
- 4/9/2013 - PhD defense of Tommi Tykkälä - Real-time Image-based RGB-D Camera Motion Tracking and Environment Mapping with the jury: Shahram IZADI, Eric Marchand, José Maria Martinez Montiel, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen.
- 29/8//2013 - ICCV 2013 paper accepted: "A Unified Rolling Shutter and Motion Model for Dense 3D Visual Tracking"
- 2/7/2013 - ISMAR 2013 paper accepted: "3D High Dynamic Range Dense Visual SLAM and Its Application to Real-time Object Re-lighting"
- 30/6/2013 - Two IROS 2013 papers accepted: "Photorealistic 3D Mapping of Indoors by RGB-D Scanning Process" and "On unifying key-frame and voxel-based dense visual SLAM at large scales"
- >11/3/2013 - ICRA 2013 paper accepted (39% acceptance ratio): M. Meilland and A.I. Comport, Super-resolution 3D Tracking and Mapping in the Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 6-10, 2013, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- We have been awarded a PHC FAISIC 2012 grant to collaborate with Professor Tom Drummond at Monash University, Australia.
- We have initiated a collaboration between NTU (National Taiwan University) and I3S with a two week visit to collaborate with Bob Wang.
- Dr. Maxime Meilland successfully defended his PhD.