Pedro Miraldo

Short Bio:

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at KTH Royal Institue of Technology, Division of Decision and Control Systems. Before moving to Sweden, I was a FCT post-doctoral researcher in the Inteligent Robots and Systems group, Institute for Systems and Robotics (LARSyS),Lisbon, and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (ECE and CS&E), University of Lisbon, Portugal. I got the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Coimbra, Portugal (2008 and 2013 respectively), under the supervision of Prof. Helder Araujo. I am a member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

My main current research topics are: 3D computer vision, robot vision, active vision.

News:

[02-2019]

Paper accepted in the IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS):
A Framework for Depth Estimation and Relative Localization of Ground Robots using Computer Vision [link];

[02-2019]

Paper accepted in the IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Minimal Solvers for Mini-Loop Closures in 3D Multi-Scan Alignment [link];

[01-2019]

Paper accepted in the American Control Conference (ACC): Active Estimation of 3D Lines in Spherical Coordinates [link];

[01-2019]

Two papers accepted in the IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA):
1) POSEAMM: A Unified Framework for Solving Pose Problems using an Alternating Minimization Method [link, code], and
2) OmniDRL: Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Reinforcement Learning on Omnidirectional Cameras [link,video];

[12-2018]

Paper accepted in the Elsevier Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal (RAS): Efficient and Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Learning for Human-Aware Navigation [link,video];

[07-2018]

Paper accepted in the European Conf. Computer Vision (ECCV): A Minimal Closed-Form Solution for Multi-Perspective Pose Estimation using Points and Lines, [link,project,video];

[07-2018]

I will join the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, as a PostDoctoral Researcher;

[06-2018]

Paper in IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS): Active Structure-from-Motion for 3D Straight Lines [link,video];

[02-2018]

Paper accepted in the IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR): Analytical Modeling of Vanishing Points and Curves in Catadioptric Cameras [link,project];

[01-2018]

Paper in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA): Increasing robustness of vision-based localization using potential fields [link];

[01-2018]

Journal paper in Elsevier Optics and Lasers in Engineering (OLEN): Generic distortion model for metrology under optical microscopes [link].