Publications

Journals:

[J.7] Q. Lin, R. Xiong, T. Vidal-Calleja. A GMM Based Uncertainty Model for Point Clouds Registration. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 91, May 2017, pages 349-362, ISSN 0921-8890, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.robot16.11.021. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921889015303109

[J.6] C. Brunner, T. Peynot, T. Vidal-Calleja, J. Underwood. Selective Combination of Visual and Thermal Imaging for Resilient Localisation in Adverse Conditions: Day and Night, Smoke and Fire. Journal of Field Robotics.30: 641–666. doi:10.1002/rob.21464. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rob.21464/abstract

[J.5] J. Sola, T. Vidal-Calleja, J. Civera, J. M.M. Montiel. Impact of landmark parametrization on monocular EKF-SLAM with points and lines. International Journal on Computer Vision. Vol 97 Issue 3, pages 339-368, May 2012.

[J.4] T. Vidal-Calleja, C. Berger, J. Sola, S. Lacroix. Large Scale Multiple Robot Visual Mapping with Heterogeneous Landmarks in Semi-structured Terrain. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 59, Issue 9, pages 654-674, September 2011.

[J.3] C. Brunner, T. Peynot, T. Vidal-Calleja. Visual Metrics for Evaluation of Sensor Data Quality in Outdoor Perception. International Journal of Intelligent Control System, Special Issue on Quantifying the Performance of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 16, Issue 2, pages 142- 159, June 2011.

[J.2] T. Vidal-Calleja, J. Andrade-Cetto and A. Sanfeliu. Action Selection for Single Camera SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part B., Vol. 40 Issue 6, pages 1567 - 1581, December 2010.

[J.1] J. Sola , A. Monin, M. Devy and T. Vidal-Calleja. Fusing monocular information in multi-camera SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Special Issue on Visual SLAM, Vol. 24 No. 5, pages 958-968, October 2008.

Book Chapters:

[BC.2] T. Vidal-Calleja, C. Berger, J. Sola, and S. Lacroix. Environment modeling for cooperative air/ground robotic systems. Robotics Research, Vol. 70 of the series Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics pp 681-696, 2011.

[BC.1] J. Andrade-Cetto, T. Vidal-Calleja, and A. Sanfeliu. Stochastic state estimation for simultaneous localization and map building in mobile robotics. In V. Kordic, A. Lazinica, and M. Merdan, editors, Cutting Edge Robotics, chapter 3, pages 223-242. pro literatur Verlag, 2005. [ bib | .pdf ]

Conferences:

[C.32] L. Sun, T. Vidal-Calleja and J. Valls Miro, “Gaussian Markov Random Fields for Fusion in Information Form”, In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Stockholm, Sweden May 2016.

[C.31] D. Su, T. Vidal Calleja and J. Valls Miro, 'Split Conditional Independent Mapping for Sound Source Localisation with Inverse-Depth Parametrisation', IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Daejeon, Korea, pp. 2000-2006, 2016. UTS OPUS or Publisher's site

[C.30] L. Shi, J. Valls Miro, T. Zhang, T. Vidal Calleja, L. Sun and G. Dissanayake, 'Constrained Sampling of 2.5D Probabilistic Maps for Augmented Inference', 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Daejeon, Korea, 2016. UTS OPUS

[C.29] F. Bai, S. Huang, S, T. Vidal Calleja, and Q. ZHANG, 'Incremental SQP Method for Constrained Optimization Formulation in SLAM', he 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2016, IEEE, Phuket, Thailand, 2016. UTS OPUS

[C.28] R. Falque, T. Vidal Calleja, G. Dissanayake, J. Valls Miro, 'From the skin-depth equation to the inverse RFEC sensor model', 14th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 2016), IEEE, Phuket, Thailand, 2016. UTS OPUS

[C.27] D. Su, T. Vidal Calleja and J. Valls Miro, “Simultaneous asynchronous microphone array calibration and sound source localisation”, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 5561-5567, Oct 2015.

[C.26] R. Falque, T. Vidal Calleja and J. Valls Miro, 'Kidnapped Laser-Scanner for Evaluation of RFEC Tool', IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IEEE, Hamburg, Germany, pp. 313-318, Oct 2015.

[C.25] L. Sun, T. Vidal-Calleja and J. Valls Miro. Learning Spatial Correlation for Fusion in Thickness Mapping. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Seattle, USA May 2015.

[C.24] L. Shi, L. Sun, T. Vidal Calleja, and J. Valls Miro, Kernel-Specific Gaussian Process for Predicting Pipe Wall Thickness Maps, Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, Canberra, Dec 2015.

[C.23] D. Su, J. Valls Miro and T. Vidal Calleja, Real-time Sound Source Localisation for Target Tracking Applications using an Asynchronous Microphone Array, The 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015), IEEE, Auckland, New Zealand.

[C.22] D. Su, J. Valls Miro and T. Vidal Calleja, Modelling In-Pipe Acoustic Signal Propagation for Condition Assessment of Multi-Layer Water Pipelines, The 10th IEEE Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ICIEA 2015), Auckland, New Zealand.

[C.21] D. Su, J. Valls Miro and T. Vidal Calleja, Graph-SLAM based calibration of an embedded asynchronous microphone array for outdoor robotic target tracking, Assistive Robotics: Proceedings of the International Conference on CLAWAR 2015, The 2015 International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 2015), World Scientific, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, pp. 641-648.

[C.20] T. Vidal Calleja, J. Valls Miro, F. Martin, D. Lingnau and D. Russell. Automatic Detection and Verification of Pipeline Construction Features with Multi-modal data. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Chicago, October 2014.

[C.19] T. Vidal Calleja, D. Su, F. De Bruijn and J. Valls Miro. Learning Spatial Correlations for Bayesian fusion in Pipe Thickness Mapping. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Hong-Kong, May 2014.

[C.18] B. Wijerathna, T. Vidal-Calleja, S. Kodagoda, Q. Zhang and J. Valls Miro. Multiple defect interpretation based on Gaussian Processes for MFL technology. Proceedings of the SPIE Smart Structures and Materials + Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, San Diego, March 2013.

[C.17] T. Vidal-Calleja, G. Agamennoni. Integrated Probabilistic Generative Model for Detecting Smoke on Visual Images. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Minnesota, May 2012.

[C.16] C. Brunner, T. Peynot, and T. Vidal-Calleja. Combining multiple sensor modalities for a localisation robust to smoke. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, September 2011.

[C.15] J. Nieto, G. Agamennoni and T. Vidal-Calleja. Loop-closure candidate selection by exploiting structure in vehicle trajectory. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Francisco, September 2011.

[C.14] A. Hernandez, J. Nieto, T. Vidal-Calleja, and Eduardo Nebot. Large scale visual odometry. In Australasian Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Sydney, December 2009.

[C.13] T. Vidal-Calleja, C. Berger, and S. Lacroix. Even-driven loop closure in multirobot mapping. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Saint Louis, October 2009.

[C.12] J. Solà, T. Vidal-Calleja, and M. Devy. Undelayed intialization of line segments in monocular slam. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Saint Louis, October 2009.

[C.11] T. Vidal-Calleja, C. Berger, J. Sola, and S. Lacroix. Environment modeling for cooperative air/ ground robotic systems. In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Robotics Research, Lucerne, September 2009.

[C.10] P. Neubert, P. Protzel, T. Vidal-Calleja, and S. Lacroix. A fast line segment tracker. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Hamburg, October 2008.

[C.9] T. Vidal-Calleja, A. Sanfeliu and J. Andrade-Cetto. Guiding and Localising a Mobile Robot with a Monocular Camera in non-flat Terrains. In proceedings of International Symposium of Autonomous Vehicles, Toulouse, September 2007. [ bib | .pdf ]

[C.8] T. Vidal-Calleja, M. Bryson, S. Sukkarieh, A. Sanfeliu, and J. Andrade-Cetto. On the Observability of Bearing only SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Roma, April 2007.

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[C.7] T. Vidal-Calleja, A.D. Davison, J. Andrade-Cetto, and D.W. Murray. Active control for single camera SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 1930-1936, Orlando, May 2006.

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[C.6] J. Andrade-Cetto, T. Vidal-Calleja, and A. Sanfeliu. Multirobot C-SLAM: Simultaneous localization, control, and mapping. In Proceedings of the IEEE ICRA05 Workshop on Network Robot Systems, Barcelona, April 2005.

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[C.5] J. Andrade-Cetto, T. Vidal-Calleja, and A. Sanfeliu. Unscented transformation of vehicle states in SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 324-329, Barcelona, April 2005.

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[C.4] T. Vidal-Calleja, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A. Sanfeliu. Conditions for suboptimal filter stability in SLAM. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, volume 1, pages 27-32, Sendei, September 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]

[C.3] T. Vidal-Calleja, J. Andrade-Cetto, and A. Sanfeliu. Estimator stability analysis in SLAM. In Proceedings of the 5th IFAC/EURON Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, July 2004. [ bib | .pdf ]

[C.2] T. Vidal-Calleja, M. Velasco-Villa, and E. Aranda-Bricaire. Artificial potential fields for trailer-like systems. In Proceedings of the 10th Latinamerican Congress on Automatic Control, Guadalajara, December 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]

[C.1] T. Vidal-Calleja, M. Velasco-Villa, and E. Aranda-Bricaire. Real time obstacle avoidance for trailer-like systems. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics and Automation, Toluca, September 2002. [ bib | .pdf ]

Technical Reports:

T. Vidal-Calleja. 2-d visual servoing for marco. Technical Report IRI-DT-03-02, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, September 2003.

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Masters Thesis:

T. Vidal-Calleja. Generalización del Método de Campos Potenciales Artificiales para un Vehículo Articulado. Masters Thesis, CINVESTAV-IPN, June 2002. (In Spanish)

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PhD Thesis:

T. Vidal-Calleja. Visual Navigation in Unknown Environments. PhD These, UPC. July 2007. [ link]

Patents

[P.1] T. Vidal Calleja, and G. Agamennoni. Australian Provisional Patent Application 2011900896, Image processing–simultaneous quantisation and model learning for object categorisation, filed 11 March 2011.

[P.2] T. Vidal Calleja, and R. Ramakrishnani. Australian Provisional Patent Application 2011900894, Image processing–enhanced descriptor vector for object categorisation, filed 11 March 2011.

[P.3] T. Peynot, C. Brunner, and T. Vidal Calleja. Australian Provisional Patent Application 2010905444, Sensor data processing–visual metrics for outdoor perception, filed 8 December 2010.