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2010

Overview

Sebastian Scherer is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their scholarly work spans the fields of Computer Science and Engineering, with a strong focus on robotics and sensor-based localization systems.

The scientist has contributed extensively to several subfields, including Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Aerospace Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, and Geology. Their research frequently addresses topics such as Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, and Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies.

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Sebastian Scherer are the following:

  • "RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments Using Point Correlations," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • "Super Odometry: IMU-centric LiDAR-Visual-Inertial Estimator for Challenging Environments," 2021, 2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
  • "Present and Future of SLAM in Extreme Environments: The DARPA SubT Challenge," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
  • "AnyLoc: Towards Universal Visual Place Recognition," 2023, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "ALFA: A dataset for UAV fault and anomaly detection," 2020, The International Journal of Robotics Research

Sebastian Scherer's frequent collaborators include:

  • Chen Wang
  • Wenshan Wang
  • Brady Moon
  • Mohammadreza Mousaei
  • Yuheng Qiu

Their work has been published multiple times in notable venues, with frequent contributions in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University), 114 publications
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 16 publications
  • IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 6 publications
  • 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 5 publications
  • Field Robotics, 5 publications

Best Publications

  • VoxNet: A 3D Convolutional Neural Network for real-time object recognition

    Daniel Maturana;Sebastian Scherer

  • UUV Simulator: A Gazebo-based package for underwater intervention and multi-robot simulation

    Musa Morena Marcusso Manhaes;Sebastian A. Scherer;Martin Voss;Luiz Ricardo Douat

  • CubeSLAM: Monocular 3-D Object SLAM

    Shichao Yang;Sebastian Scherer

  • CubeSLAM: Monocular 3D Object SLAM

    Shichao Yang;Sebastian Scherer

  • TartanAir: A Dataset to Push the Limits of Visual SLAM

    Wenshan Wang;Delong Zhu;Xiangwei Wang;Yaoyu Hu

  • 3D Convolutional Neural Networks for landing zone detection from LiDAR

    Daniel Maturana;Sebastian Scherer

  • RGB-D SLAM in Dynamic Environments Using Point Correlations.

    Weichen Dai;Yu Zhang;Ping Li;Zheng Fang

  • Flying Fast and Low Among Obstacles: Methodology and Experiments

    Sebastian Scherer;Sanjiv Singh;Lyle Chamberlain;Mike Elgersma

  • An Onboard Monocular Vision System for Autonomous Takeoff, Hovering and Landing of a Micro Aerial Vehicle

    Shaowu Yang;Sebastian A. Scherer;Andreas Zell

  • First results in detecting and avoiding frontal obstacles from a monocular camera for micro unmanned aerial vehicles

    Tomoyuki Mori;Sebastian Scherer

  • Real-Time Semantic Mapping for Autonomous Off-Road Navigation

    Daniel Maturana;Po-Wei Chou;Masashi Uenoyama;Sebastian A. Scherer

  • River mapping from a flying robot: state estimation, river detection, and obstacle mapping

    Sebastian Scherer;Joern Rehder;Supreeth Achar;Hugh Cover

  • Super Odometry: IMU-centric LiDAR-Visual-Inertial Estimator for Challenging Environments.

    Shibo Zhao;Hengrui Zhang;Peng Wang;Lucas Nogueira

  • An efficient global energy optimization approach for robust 3D plane segmentation of point clouds

    Zhen Dong;Zhen Dong;Bisheng Yang;Pingbo Hu;Sebastian Scherer

  • Pop-up SLAM: Semantic monocular plane SLAM for low-texture environments

    Shichao Yang;Yu Song;Michael Kaess;Sebastian Scherer

  • Monocular Object and Plane SLAM in Structured Environments

    Shichao Yang;Sebastian Scherer

  • Hierarchical registration of unordered TLS point clouds based on binary shape context descriptor

    Zhen Dong;Bisheng Yang;Fuxun Liang;Ronggang Huang

  • Autonomous landing at unprepared sites by a full-scale helicopter

    Sebastian Scherer;Lyle Chamberlain;Sanjiv Singh

  • Flying Fast and Low Among Obstacles

    S. Scherer;S. Singh;L. Chamberlain;S. Saripalli

  • Improving stochastic policy gradients in continuous control with deep reinforcement learning using the Beta distribution

    Po-Wei Chou;Daniel Maturana;Sebastian Scherer

  • Tartan Racing: A multi-modal approach to the DARPA Urban Challenge

    Chris Urmson;J. Andrew Bagnell;Christopher R. Baker;Martial Hebert

  • Regionally accelerated batch informed trees (RABIT*): A framework to integrate local information into optimal path planning

    Sanjiban Choudhury;Jonathan D. Gammell;Timothy D. Barfoot;Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

  • Autonomous Exploration for Infrastructure Modeling with a Micro Aerial Vehicle

    Luke Yoder;Sebastian A. Scherer

Frequent Co-Authors

Sanjiv Singh
Sanjiv Singh Carnegie Mellon University
Andreas Zell
Andreas Zell University of Tübingen
Chen Wang
Chen Wang Swansea University
Ashish Kapoor
Ashish Kapoor Microsoft (United States)
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis University of Pittsburgh
Michael Kaess
Michael Kaess Carnegie Mellon University
Katia Sycara
Katia Sycara Carnegie Mellon University
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington
Rainer Lienhart
Rainer Lienhart University of Augsburg
Howie Choset
Howie Choset Carnegie Mellon University

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