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Chapter and Conference Paper
homer@UniKoblenz: Winning Team of the RoboCup@Home Open Platform League 2018
We won this year’s RoboCup@Home track in the Open Platform League in Montreal (Canada). The approaches as used for the competition are briefly described in this paper
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Adaptive Learning Methods for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in RoboCup@Home
Team homer@UniKoblenz has become an integral part of the RoboCup@Home community. As such we would like to share our experience gained during the competitions with new teams. In this paper we describe our appr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Affordance Origami: Unfolding Agent Models for Hierarchical Affordance Prediction
Object affordances have moved into the focus of researchers in computer vision and have been shown to augment the performance of object recognition approaches. In this work we address the problem of visual aff...
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Chapter
A ROS-Based System for an Autonomous Service Robot
The Active Vision Group (AGAS) has gained plenty of experience in robotics over the past years. This contribution focuses on the area of service robotics. We present several important components that are cruci...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Detecting Fine-Grained Affordances with an Anthropomorphic Agent Model
In this paper we propose an approach to distinguish affordances on a fine-grained scale. We define an anthropomorphic agent model and parameterized affordance models. The agent model is transformed according t...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Fourier Features For Person Detection in Depth Data
A robust and reliable person detection is crucial for many applications. In the domain of service robots that we focus on, knowing the location of a person is an essential requirement for any meaningful human-...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pose Estimation and Shape Retrieval with Hough Voting in a Continuous Voting Space
In this paper we present a method for 3D shape classification and pose estimation. Our approach is related to the recently popular adaptations of Implicit Shape Models to 3D data, but differs in some key aspec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Team Homer@UniKoblenz — Approaches and Contributions to the RoboCup@Home Competition
In this paper we present the approaches and contributions of team homer@UniKoblenz that were developed for and applied during the RoboCup@Home competitions. In particular, we highlight the different abstractio...
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Article
Distance-based tractography in high angular resolution diffusion MRI
High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, determining the diffusion of water molecules in tissue in vivo. HARDI is advantageous over the well-known diff...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hierarchical Multi-robot Coordination
The complexity and variety of household chores creates conflicting demands on the technical design of domestic robots. One solution for this problem is the coordination of several specialized robots based on t...
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Chapter
MFC: A Morphological Fiber Classification Approach
Diffusion imaging is a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that provides the examination of neuronal pathways in vivo. High angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI) is able to reconstruct more than ...
