Reports

An appearance-based approach for topological visual mapping and localization using local invariant features is proposed in this paper. To optimize running times, matchings between the current image and previous visited places are determined using an index based on a...

Vessel maintenance entails periodic visual inspections of internal and external parts of the hull in order to detect the typical defective situations affecting metallic structures, such as coating breakdown, corrosion, cracks, etc. The main goal of project MINOAS is...

All professional researchers are from time to time asked to carry out some reviewing. Although it is impossible from a practical point of view to achieve perfect reviewing, it is certainly mandatory for a responsible professional to try to do it in a good way. Good...

Visual loop closure detection in robotics is defined as the ability of recognizing previously seen places given the current image captured by the robot. The Bag-of-Words image representation has been widely used for these kinds of tasks. However, in this paper, an...