RAVG: Robotics Active Vision Group

@conference{7899826,

title = {A bag of relevant regions for visual place recognition in challenging environments},

author = {Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril and Castelan, Mario},

doi = {10.1109/ICPR.2016.7899826},

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-12-01},

booktitle = {2016 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)},

pages = {1358-1363},

abstract = {In this paper, we present a method for vision-based place recognition in environments with a high content of similar features and that are prone to variations in illumination. The high similarity of features makes difficult the disambiguation between two different places. The novelty of our method relies on using the Bag of Words (BoW) approach to derive an image descriptor from a set of relevant regions, which are extracted using a visual attention algorithm. We name our approach Bag of Relevant Regions (BoRR). The descriptor of each relevant region is built by using a 2D histogram of the chromatic channels of the CIE-Lab color space. We have compared our results with those using state of the art descriptors that include the BoW and demonstrate that our approach performs better in most of the cases.},

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}

@conference{maldonado2016bag,

title = {A Bag of Relevant Regions Model for Place Recognition in Coral Reefs},

author = {Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril },

year  = {2016},

date = {2016-01-01},

booktitle = {OCEANS 2016},

pages = {1--5},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{maldonado2015ethologically,

title = {Ethologically inspired reactive exploration of coral reefs with collision avoidance: Bridging the gap between human and robot spatial understanding of unstructured environments},

author = {Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril and Rodriguez-Telles, Francisco G},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},

pages = {4872--4879},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{maldonado2015autonomous,

title = {Autonomous robotic exploration of coral reefs using a visual attention-driven strategy for detecting and tracking regions of interest},

author = {Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril 

},

year  = {2015},

date = {2015-01-01},

booktitle = {OCEANS 2015-Genova},

pages = {1--5},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{maldonado2014robust,

title = {Robust detection and tracking of regions of interest for autonomous underwater robotic exploration},

author = {Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril and Martinez-Garcia, Edgar A.},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Proc. 6th Int. Conf. on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications},

pages = {165--171},

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pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{rodriguez2014vision,

title = {Vision-based reactive autonomous navigation with obstacle avoidance: Towards a non-invasive and cautious exploration of marine habitat},

author = {Rodriguez-Telles, Francisco G and Perez-Alcocer, Ricardo and Maldonado-Ramirez, Alejandro and Torres-Mendez, Luz Abril and Bikram Dey, Bir and Martinez-Garcia, Edgar A.},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},

pages = {3813--3818},

organization = {IEEE},

keywords = {},

pubstate = {published},

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}