Place recognition is important navigation ability for autonomous navigation of mobile robots. Visual cues extracted from images provide a way to represent and recognize visited places. In this article, a multi-cue based place learning algorithm is ...

With the widespread use of smartphones, the loss of a device is critical, both in disrupting daily communications, and in losing valuable property. When a mobile device is missing, localization techniques may assist in finding the device. Current ...

Detecting visits to semantically meaningful places is important for many emerging mobile applications. We present PlaceSense, a place discovery algorithm suitable for mobile devices that exploits pervasive RF-beacons. By relying on separate mechanisms ...

Although the process of establishing a memory of a location is necessary for navigation, relatively little is known about the information that humans use when forming place memories. We examined the relative importance of distance and angular information ...

This paper considers the problem of environment-mapping for autonomous mobile agents. Central to this problem is how the structure of the external environment can be captured and represented so that an agent is able to autonomously navigate in a robust ...