3 accepted papers
Visual localization is a crucial requirement in mobile robotics, field and service robotics, and self-driving cars. Recently, unsupervised learning with Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) has shown to produce spatial representations that enable localization from holistic images. The approach is faster and
In outdoor scenarios changing conditions (e.g., seasonal, weather and lighting effects) have a substantial impact on the appearance of a scene, which often prevents successful visual localization. The application of an unsupervised Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) on the images captured by an autonomous…
A model of hierarchical Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) enables a mobile robot to learn a spatial representation of its environment directly from images captured during a random walk. After the unsupervised learning phase a subset of the resulting representations are orientation invariant and code for t…