ACFR Papers at ICRA 2023

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers and keynote at the flagship robotics conference IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), to be held in London May 29 – June 2: Improving benthic classification using resolution scaling and SymmNet Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Heather Doig, Oscar Pizarro and …

ACFR Papers at ACC 2022

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers at the American Control Conference Conference Program – ACC 2022 (a2c2.org), to be held in Atlanta June 8 -10: Learning Stable Koopman Embeddings Fletcher Fan, Bowen Yi, David Rye, Guodong Shi, and Ian R. Manchester In this paper, we present a new …

ACFR Papers and Keynote at ICRA 2022

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers and keynote at the flagship robotics conference IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), to be held in Philadelphia May 23 – 27: Radar-based Materials Classification Using Deep Wavelet Scattering Transform: A Comparison of Centimetre vs. Millimetre Wave Units Rami …

ACFR Papers at CDC 2021

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers at the upcoming IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2021), to be held online Dec 13 – 17: An almost globally convergent observer for visual SLAM without persistent excitation Bowen Yi, Chi Jin, Lei Wang, Guodong Shi, Ian R. Manchester Preprint: …

ACFR Papers at IROS 2021

Check out our latest work! ACFR researchers will be presenting the following papers at the upcoming IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2021), to be held Sep 7 – Oct 1: Fast-Learning Grasping and Pre-Grasping via Clutter Quantization and Q-map Masking Dafa Ren, Xiaoqiang Ren, Xiaofan Wang, S. Tejaswi Digumarti, and Guodong …

Congratulations to Julie Stephany Berrio Perez who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Stephany Berrio Perez has successfully completed her PhD thesis, entitled “Scene understanding and map maintenance for autonomous vehicles applications”. The work was supervised by Professor Eduardo Nebot and Dr Stewart Worrall. Congratulations Stephany! Two of the main challenges to enable vehicles to operate autonomously in urban streets are scene understanding and long-term localisation. This thesis …

Robotic Vision Summer School 2021

Sunday, Jan 31st – Friday, Feb 5th, 2021 For the first time ever, the Robotic Vision Summer School (RVSS) is running as a hybrid live / online event this year. Attendees wil join us online from around the world, and in-person at physical workshop nodes at Australian National University, Queensland University of Technology, Monash University, …

Congratulations to Professor Stefan Williams for receiving a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Teaching and Research at The University of Sydney.

The Vice-Chancellors Awards are now in their fifth year. These awards celebrate the outstanding contributions of our academic and professional staff to teaching, research and service, leadership, mentorship, and industry and community engagement. Sixty individuals and teams from across the University have been recognised for their outstanding efforts through the 2020 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence. …

Congratulations to Steven Potiris who has satisfied the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Steven Potiris has successfully completed his PhD thesis, entitled “Robust and Efficient Individual Plant Mapping of Vegetable Crops”. The work was supervised by Professor Salah Sukkarieh and Dr Asher Bender. Congratulations Steven! Crop mapping can provide phenotype data for breeding research. To provide phenotyping data for individual plants,  a system must be able to detect …

Looking for an Australian Summer research project with us? The Engineering Vacation Research Internship Program applications are now live, deadline is 14 October 2020.

Our Engineering Vacation Research Internship Program is designed to provide valuable research experience and is open to those students interested in pursuing a research career at a university or in industry. The Summer Research Program will run for 8 weeks from 14 December 2020 until 19 February 2021 (excluding the University’s closedown period). Below is …

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