Luca Carlone
Associate Professor, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Research interests
Certifiable Perception: robust perception algorithms and systems for high-integrity autonomous systems; High-level Perception: super-human geometric, semantic, and physical scene understanding; Efficient and Task-driven Perception: lightweight perception for resource-constrained robots
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2024] Outstanding Systems Paper Award for the paper “Khronos: A Unified Approach for Spatio-Temporal Metric-Semantic SLAM in Dynamic Environments” at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) conference.
[2023] IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Paper Award for the paper “Kimera-Multi:: Robust, Distributed, Dense Metric-Semantic SLAM for Multi-Robot Systems” (in collaboration with Y. Tian, Y. Chang, F. Herrera Arias, C. Nieto-Granda, and J. How).
[2023] Sloan Research Fellow.
[2023] Best Paper Award Finalist for the paper “Uncertainty propagation for 3D reconstruction with deep dense monocular SLAM.” at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
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