Air Series is a collection of articles mentored by Chen Wang.

A wide variety of topics in robotics are covered, including localization, detection, and lifelong learning.

All articles are first authored by Undergraduate or Master students and second authored by Chen Wang.

Air Series Articles

@inproceedings{li2021airdet,
  title = {{AirDet}: Few-Shot Detection without Fine-tuning for Autonomous Exploration},
  author = {Li, Bowen and Wang, Chen and Reddy, Pranay and Kim, Seungchan and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.01740},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/AirDet},
  keywords = {airseries}
}

@inproceedings{keetha2021airobject,
  title = {{AirObject}: A Temporally Evolving Graph Embedding for Object Identification},
  author = {Keetha, Nikhil Varma and Wang, Chen and Qiu, Yuheng and Xu, Kuan and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.15150},
  video = {https://youtu.be/WZgn7hMZXhI},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/AirObject},
  keywords = {airseries}
}

@inproceedings{gao2021lifelong,
  title = {{AirLoop}: Lifelong Loop Closure Detection},
  author = {Gao, Dasong and Wang, Chen and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.08975},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/AirLoop},
  video = {https://youtu.be/7uYAizKyGgE},
  keywords = {airseries}
}

@inproceedings{qiu2021airdos,
  title = {{AirDOS}: Dynamic SLAM benefits from Articulated Objects},
  author = {Qiu, Yuheng and Wang, Chen and Wang, Wenshan and Henein, Mina and Scherer, Sebastian},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.09903},
  code = {https://github.com/haleqiu/airdos},
  video = {https://youtu.be/O1mNIHcfnC0},
  keywords = {airseries}
}

@article{xu2021aircode,
  title = {{AirCode}: A Robust Object Encoding Method},
  author = {Xu, Kuan and Wang, Chen and Chen, Chao and Wu, Wei and Scherer, Sebastian},
  journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.00327},
  code = {https://github.com/sair-lab/AirCode},
  video = {https://youtu.be/TsdfSVz7hks},
  keywords = {airseries},
  addinfo = {Accepted to ICRA 2022}
}

First Author Information (When work was done)

• Bowen Li
  • RISS intern at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Junior student at Tongji University, China.
  • Now: PhD student of CMU RI.
• Nikhil Varma Keetha
  • RISS intern at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Junior student at Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad.
  • Now: Master student of CMU RI.
• Dasong Gao
  • Master student at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • Now: PhD student of MIT EECS.
• Yuheng Qiu
  • Undergraduate of Chinese University of Hong Kong.
  • Now: PhD student of CMU ME.
• Kuan Xu
  • Master Graduate of Harbin Institute of Technology, China.
  • Engineer at Tencent and Geekplus.
  • Now: PhD student of NTU EEE.

Contribution

• AirDet: Few-shot Detection without Fine-tunning

  • The first practical few-shot object detection method that requires no fine-tunning.
  • It achieves even better results than the exhaustively fine-tuned methods (up to 60% improvements).
  • Validated on real world sequences from DARPA Subterranean (SubT) challenge.

• AirObject: Temporal Object Embedding

  • The first temporal object embedding method.
  • It achieves the state-of-the-art performance for video object identification.
  • Robust to severe occlusion, perceptual aliasing, viewpoint shift, deformation, and scale transform.
  • Project Page: https://chenwang.site/airobject

• AirDOS: Dynamic Object-aware SLAM (DOS) system

  • The first DOS system showing that camera pose estimation can be improved by incorporating dynamic articulated objects.
  • Establish 4-D dynamic object maps.
  • Project Page: https://chenwang.site/airdos

• AirLoop: Lifelong Learning for Robots

  • The first lifelong learning method for loop closure detection.
  • Model incremental improvement even after deployment.
  • Project Page: https://chenwang.site/airloop

• AirCode: Robust Object Encoding

  • The first deep point-based object encoding for single image.
  • It achieves the state-of-the-art performance for object re-identification.
  • Robust to viewpoint shift, object deformation, and scale transform.
  • Project Page: https://chenwang.site/aircode

Congratulations to the above young researchers!

More information can be found at the research page.