MSR Thesis Defense
Learning for Perception and Strategy: Adaptive Omnidirectional Stereo Vision and Tactical Reinforcement Learning
Newell-Simon Hall 4305Abstract: Multi-view stereo omnidirectional distance estimation usually needs to build a cost volume with many hypothetical distance candidates. The cost volume building process is often computationally heavy considering the limited resources a mobile robot has. We propose a new geometry-informed way of distance candidates selection method which enables the use of a very small number [...]
Online-Adaptive Self-Supervised Learning with Visual Foundation Models for Autonomous Off-Road Driving
3305 Newell-Simon HallAbstract: Autonomous robot navigation in off-road environments currently presents a number of challenges. The lack of structure makes it difficult to handcraft geometry-based heuristics that are robust to the diverse set of scenarios the robot might encounter. Many of the learned methods that work well in urban scenarios require massive amounts of hand-labeled data, but [...]