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Learning to Navigate

The excerpt note is about the novel approach of learning to navigate proposed by DeepMind research team in past few period of time.

How did you learn to navigate the neighborhood of your childhood, to go to a friend’s house, …

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How to build spatial representation model (x, y, z, yaw) for 3D SLAM inspired by the brain?

The excerpt note is some relevant references about 2.5D SLAM inspired by the brain, which is expanded from the RatSLAM system.

Guth F. A. et. al. present an Hippo 3D (DolphinSLAM), expanded from the RatSLAM system, which was initially designed …

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3D SLAM: the grand challenge and ultimate goal for robotic perception.

Real-world applications in GPS-denied environments require robust mapping and perception techniques to enable mobile systems to autonomously navigate complex 3D environments.

Robotic environments are in general 3D, involving translation in three directions, x, y, and z, and rotation around three …

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iNav 2018: How does the brain know where it is, where it is going, and how to get from one place to another?

The 2nd Interdisciplinary Navigation Symposium (iNav 2018) was held in June 2018 in Québec, Canada, organized by Jeffery Taube, Thomas Wolbers, Kate Jeffery, Laure Rondi-Reig, David Dickman, Mayank Mehta. The meeting aims to bring together a diverse group of scientists …

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Long-distance Navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals

The excerpt note is about twenty important mechanistic questions related to long-distance animal navigation from Mouritsen, H. (2018).

Mouritsen, H. (2018). Long-distance navigation and magnetoreception in migratory animals. Nature, 558(7708), 50.

Abstract: For centuries, humans have been fascinated by …

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Human Spatial Navigation

The first book to comprehensively explore the cognitive foundations of human spatial navigation.

Arne D. Ekstrom, Hugo J. Spiers, Véronique D. Bohbot & R. Shayna Rosenbaum

Hardcover 2018 55.00 43.00 ISBN9780691171746 216 pp. 7 x 10 20 color + 40 …

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Patch Normalization for Visual Template Matching based on Panoramic Images in Bio-inspired Navigation System

The excerpt note is about how to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio by using patch normalization in each image to enhance edge information and eliminate image intensity variation from Edward P. et al. IJRR 2016.

Patch normalization is performed by …

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