SEEing the World from Rowan Border @ Oxford Robotics Institute
Rowan Border
- 14:00 19th April 2018 ( Trinity Term 2018 )
Rowan is a 2nd year DPhil student at the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI). He started at Oxford in 2015 reading for the CDT in AIMS. He previously completed a BSc Hons in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Edinburgh University. Rowan’s main research interest is aerial autonomy and he is working with Prof Paul Newman and Dr Jonathan Gammell at ORI to develop an autonomous aerial platform. His current research focuses on next best view (NBV) planning for large scale 3D mapping and reconstruction.
SEEing the World: The ability to obtain high quality reconstructions of large scenes has important applications in infrastructure inspection (e.g., structural integrity checks on buildings and bridges) and creating accurate simulation environments. While there exist approaches for obtaining good reconstructions of small scenes, many of these do not scale to large scenes. One of the key challenges in mapping large scenes is determining how to move around a scene to obtain the ‘best’ views necessary for a high quality reconstruction. Our mapping approach, the Surface Edge Explorer (SEE), presents a solution that can obtain high-resolution reconstructions of large scenes using an autonomous aerial platform.
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