An incomplete set of relevant publications
Research Groups
Oxford Mobile Robotics Group - MRG
Researchers
Literature
Autonomous Vehicles
[1] Sebastian Thrun et al. Stanley: The Robot that Won the DARPA Grand Challenge. Journal of Field Robotics. 2006.
SLAM and Visual SLAM
[1] Adrien Angeli et al. Visual Topological SLAM and Global Localization. ICRA 2009.
[2] David M. Cole, et al. Using Naturally Salient Regions for SLAM with 3D Laser Data. ICRA workshop on SLAM. 2005.
[3] Adrien Angeli, et al. A Fast and Incremental Method for Loop-Closure Detection Using Bags of Visual Words. IEEE Trans on Robotics. 2008.
[4] Paul Newman, et al. Outdoor SLAM using Visual Appearance and Laser Ranging. ICRA 2006.
[5] Mark Cummins and Paul Newman. Accelerated Appearance-Only SLAM. ICRA 2008. [PDF]
[6] Iwan Ulrich and Illah Nourbakhsh. Appearance-Based Place Recognition for Topological Localization. ICRA 2000.
[7] Milford, M. and Wyeth, G. Mapping a Suburb with a Single Camera Using a Biologically Inspired SLAM System. IEEE Trans on Robotics. 2008.
Occupancy Grids
[1] Alberto Elfes, A Tesselated Probabilistic Representation for Spatial Robot Perception and Navigation. JPL/NASA Conference on Space Telerobotics 1989.
[2] Alberto Elfes, Using occupancy grids for mobile robot perception and navigation. Computer. 1989.
[3] Sebastian Thrun, Learning Occupancy Grids with Forward Models, IROS 2001. [PDF]
Visual Place Recognition
Mapping
[1] Rohan Paul and Paul Newman. FAB-MAP 3D: Topological Mapping with Spatial and Visual Appearance. ICRA 2010. [PDF]
[2] S. Bazeille and D. Filliat. Combining Odometry and Visual Loop-Closure Detection for Consistent Topo-Metrical Mapping. RAIRO Operations Research. 2010. [PDF]
[3] Mark Cummins and Paul Newman. FAB-MAP: Probabilistic Localization and Mapping in the Space of Appearance. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 2008. [PDF]
[4] Jean-Arcady Meyer and David Filliat. Map-based navigation in Mobile robots - II. A review of map-learning and path-planing strategies. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research. 2003. [PDF]
[5] David Filliat and Jean-Arcady Meyer. Map-based navigation in mobile robots - I. A review of localisation strategies. Journal of Cognitive Systems Research. 2003. [PDF]
Navigation, Path Planning
[1] David Filliat. Interactive Learning of Visual Topological Navigation. IROS 2008. [PDF]
Visual Attention
[1] Sharat Chikkerur, Thomas Serre, Cheston Tan and Tomaso Poggio. What and Where: A Bayesian Inference Theory of Attention. Vision Research, 2010.
[2] Dashan Gao and Nuno Vasconcelos. Bottom-up Saliency is a Discriminant Process. ICCV 2007.