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Annika Thomas

7 accepted papers

2026

CU-Multi: A Dataset for Multi-Robot Collaborative Perception

ICRA 2026poster

A central challenge for multi-robot systems is fusing independently gathered perception data into a unified representation. Despite progress in Collaborative SLAM (C-SLAM), benchmarking remains hindered by the scarcity of dedicated multi-robot datasets. Many evaluations instead partition single-robo…

2026

VISTA: Monocular Segmentation-Based Mapping for Appearance and View-Invariant Global Localization

RA-L 2026

Global localization is critical for autonomous navigation, particularly in scenarios where an agent must localize within a map generated in a different session or by another agent, as agents often have no prior knowledge about the correlation between reference frames. However, this task remains chal

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

VISTA: Monocular Segmentation-Based Mapping for Appearance and View-Invariant Global Localization

ICRA 2026poster

Global localization is critical for autonomous navigation, particularly in scenarios where an agent must localize within a map generated in a different session or by another agent, as agents often have no prior knowledge about the correlation between reference frames. However, this task remains chal…

2025

ROMAN: Open-Set Object Map Alignment for Robust View-Invariant Global Localization

RSS 2025poster

Global localization is a fundamental capability required for long-term and drift-free robot navigation. However, current methods fail to relocalize when faced with significantly different viewpoints. We present ROMAN (Robust Object Map Alignment Anywhere), a robust global localization method capable…

Cited by 1PDFcodeScholar
2024

PUMA: Fully Decentralized Uncertainty-aware Multiagent Trajectory Planner with Real-time Image Segmentation-based Frame Alignment

ICRA 2024poster

Fully decentralized, multiagent trajectory planners enable complex tasks like search and rescue or package delivery by ensuring safe navigation in unknown environments. However, deconflicting trajectories with other agents and ensuring collision-free paths in a fully decentralized setting is complic…

Cited by 6SourcecodeScholar
2024

SOS-Match: Segmentation for Open-Set Robust Correspondence Search and Robot Localization in Unstructured Environments

IROS 2024poster

We present SOS-Match, a novel framework for detecting and matching objects in unstructured environments. Our system consists of 1) a front-end mapping pipeline using a zero-shot segmentation model to extract object masks from images and track them across frames and 2) a frame alignment pipeline that…

Cited by 11SourceScholar
2023

Global Localization in Unstructured Environments Using Semantic Object Maps Built from Various Viewpoints

IROS 2023poster

We present a novel framework for global localization and guided relocalization of a vehicle in an unstructured environment. Compared to existing methods, our pipeline does not rely on cues from urban fixtures (e.g., lane markings, buildings), nor does it make assumptions that require the vehicle to…

Cited by 12SourceScholar