News | Vadim Indelman

The below covers news until December 2017. More recent news are announced via twitter.

December 2017: The paper “BAFS: Bundle Adjustment with Feature Scale Constraints for Enhanced Estimation Accuracy” has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
December 2017: The paper “Vision-based Dynamic Target Trajectory and Ego-motion Estimation Using Incremental Light Bundle Adjustment” has been accepted to the International Journal of Micro Air Vehicles (SAGE), Special Issue on Estimation and Control for MAV Navigation in GPS-denied Cluttered Environments.
September 2017: Inauguration/housewarming of ANPL’s new laboratory facility will be held on October 24, see details here (in Hebrew). You’re most welcome to attend!
September 2017: Vadim Indelman joins the Editorial Board of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) as Associate Editor.
September 2017: The paper “Fast Action Elimination for Efficient Decision Making and Belief Space Planning Using Bounded Approximations” has been accepted to International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR).
July 2017: Vadim Indelman will be teaching the course “Vision Aided Navigation” in Fall 2017 semester. The course focuses on VAN, SLAM, Belief space planning etc. We hope many students from various departments will attend the course!
June 2017:
- The paper “No Belief Propagation Required: Belief Space Planning in High-Dimensional State Spaces via Factor Graphs, Matrix Determinant Lemma and Re-use of Calculation” has been accepted to the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
- The paper “Decentralized Multi-Robot Belief Space Planning in Unknown Environments via Identification and Efficient Re-Evaluation of Impacted Paths” has been accepted to Autonomous Robots Journal.
- Two papers got accepted to IROS 2017: “Scalable Sparsification for Efficient Decision Making Under Uncertainty in High Dimensional State Spaces” and “Active Online Visual-Inertial Navigation and Sensor Calibration via Belief Space Planning and Factor Graph Based Incremental Smoothing“.
April 2017: Vadim Indelman will be chairing the session “SLAM II” at ICRA 2017.
April 2017: Dr. Andrej Kitanov joins ANPL as a research scientist. Welcome Andrej!
March 2017: ANPL is featured in the Technion’s magazine (in Hebrew).
February 2017: ANPL is featured in the AE newsletter, see here (in Hebrew).
January 2017:
- 4 papers got accepted to ICRA 2017:
- Dmitry Kopitkov was awarded (the second time!) a Gutwirth and Jacobs excellence fellowship. Congrats’ Dmitry!
- The paper “Cooperative Multi-Robot Belief Space Planning for Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments” has been accepted to Autonomous Robots Journal.
- The paper “Computationally Efficient Belief Space Planning via Augmented Matrix Determinant Lemma and Re-Use of Calculations” has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
December 2016: 4 papers got accepted to IACAS 2017.
October 2016: Vadim Indelman will be giving a talk at the “IBM Research Cognitive Computing Colloquium on Computer Vision and Video Technologies” at IBM Research – Haifa.
October 2016: The paper “Incremental Sparse GP Regression for Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation and Mapping” has been accepted to the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
September 2016: Vadim Indelman will be chairing the sessions “Sensor Based Planning” and “Mobile Robots” at IROS 2016.
July 2016: Two papers got accepted to IROS 2016: “Computationally Efficient Decision Making Under Uncertainty in High-Dimensional State Spaces” and “Multi-Robot Decentralized Belief Space Planning in Unknown Environments via Efficient Re-Evaluation of Impacted Paths“.
June 2016: The paper “DA-BSP: Towards Data Association Aware Belief Space Planning for Robust Active Perception” got accepted to the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016). An extended version is available on arXiv.
April 2016: Two papers got accepted to ICRA 2016 workshop “AI for Long-term Autonomy“.
April 2016: Vadim Indelman will be co-chairing the session “AI Reasoning Methods” at ICRA 2016.
April 2016: The paper “Incremental Distributed Inference from Arbitrary Poses and Unknown Data Association: Using Collaborating Robots to Establish a Common Reference Frame” has been published in IEEE Control Systems Magazine (CSM).
March 2016: Shashank Pathak gets the prestigious PBC fellowship for outstanding postdoctoral researchers. Congrats’ Shashank!
March 2016: Vadim Indelman will be chairing the session “SLAM and Autonomous Navigation” in the Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR). See detailed program here.
February 2016: Vadim Indelman gave an invited talk on robust active perception at the IAAC workshop “Navigation Systems and Applications“.
January 2016:
- Vadim Indelman will be teaching the course “Vision Aided Navigation” next semester (Spring 2016). See brief info here.
- Dmitry Kopitkov was awarded a Gutwirth and Jacobs excellence fellowship. Congratulations Dmitry!
- Antony Thomas was awarded a Sherman fellowship for interdisciplinary M.Sc. research. Congratulations Antony!
- The paper “No Correlations Involved: Decision Making Under Uncertainty in a Conservative Sparse Information Space” has been accepted to IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and to ICRA 2016.
- 5 papers got accepted to the Israel Conference on Robotics (ICR).
December 2015: 3 papers got accepted to IACAS 2016.
November 2015: Vadim Indelman gave an invited talk on “decision making and planning in sparse conservative belief space” at the IAAC workshop “Motion Control Methods in Robotics”. Slides can be found here.
November 2015: Dr. Shashank Pathak joins our group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Welcome Shashank!
October 2015: Dr. Elina Moldavskaya joins our group as a research scientist. Welcome Elina!
July 2015:
- Vadim Indelman received a 4-year ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant.
- We got the best poster award (photo) at an RSS workshop “The Problem of Mobile Sensors” for the paper “Incremental Sparse GP Regression for Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation and Mapping”. An extended version of the paper will be presented at ISRR in September.
- Vadim Indelman gave an invited tutorial on ”distributed perception and estimation in multi-robot systems“ at an RSS workshop on Principles of Multi-Robot Systems. Slides can be found here and also on the official website of the Technical Committee on Multi-Robot Systems (TC MRS) of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
- Two papers got accepted to ISRR 2015: “Towards Cooperative Multi-Robot Belief Space Planning in Unknown Environments” and “Incremental Sparse GP Regression for Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation and Mapping“.
- The paper “Towards Multi-Robot Active Collaborative State Estimation via Belief Space Planning” has been accepted to IROS 2015.
- The paper “Towards Information-Theoretic Decision Making in a Conservative Information Space” has been presented at ACC 2015. Slides are available here.
- Three RSS workshop papers got accepted (see Publications).
- The schedule of the Workshop on Multiple View Geometry in Robotics (MVIGRO), to be held in conjunction with RSS 2015, is now published online. Hope to see many of you there!
June 2015: Lab website goes live.
May 2015: Vadim Indelman will be giving an invited talk on “distributed perception and estimation in multi-robot systems” at the workshop on Principles of Multi-Robot Systems, that will be held in July in conjunction with RSS 2015.
April 2015: An extended version of the paper “Incremental Sparse GP Regression for Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation & Mapping” now appears on ArXiv.
March 2015: The paper Incremental Light Bundle Adjustment for Structure From Motion and Robotics has been accepted to the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
March 2015: Vadim Indelman is co-organizing a Workshop on Multiple View Geometry in Robotics, in conjunction with RSS 2015 – first Call for Papers will be out soon.
February 2015: The paper Towards Information-Theoretic Decision Making in a Conservative Information Space has been accepted to ACC 2015.
February 2015: Two papers got accepted to ICRA 2015: “Distributed Real-time Cooperative Localization and Mapping using an Uncertainty-Aware Expectation Maximization Approach“, and “Information-based Reduced Landmark SLAM.
January 2015: Vadim Indelman will be teaching a new joint-level course in Spring 2015 semester: Vision Aided Navigation (086761). See further details here. Hope to see many of you there!
December 2014: The paper Incremental Sparse GP Regression for Continuous-time Trajectory Estimation and Mapping has been presented in NIPS workshop on Autonomously Learning Robots.
November 2014: The paper Planning in the Continuous Domain: a Generalized Belief Space Approach for Autonomous Navigation in Unknown Environments has been accepted to the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).
October 2014: Incremental Light Bundle Adjustment is now published as a book chapter in edited Springer collection New Development in Robot Vision.
October 2014: Our paper – Concurrent filtering and smoothing: A parallel architecture for real-time navigation and full smoothing – has been accepted to the International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) and is now published online.
September 2014: Vadim Indelman is a Program Committee member of RSS 2015 (Robotics: Science and Systems Conference).
July 2014: Vadim Indelman is co-organizing a Workshop on Multiple View Geometry in Robotics, in conjunction with RSS 2014 – full program is now online; please consider attending (Berkeley, USA).

June 2014: The paper “Incremental Distributed Robust Inference from Arbitrary Robot Poses via EM and Model Selection” has been accepted to RSS Workshop on Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic Vehicle Networks.
\May 2014: Vadim Indelman is chairing the session “Path planning: Multiple Mobile Robots and Agents“, and co-chairing the session “SLAM: Visual Odometry” at ICRA 2014.
May 2014: Our paper “An Experimental Study of Robust Distributed Multi-Robot Data Association from Arbitrary Poses” has been accepted to International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER).
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