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Category: Cognitive Navigation

Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2017-002)

1. This Autonomous Quadrotor Swarm Doesn’t Need GPS

By Evan Ackerman  Posted 27 Dec 2017 

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Brief News of Cognitive Navigation (2017-001)

  1. Neuroscience-inspired Data Compression

         By Prof. Michael Milford  Dec 21, 2017

  • A project: An infinitely scalable learning and recognition network. The idea at the core of the project is to combine neuroscience and machine learning to develop new data compression techniques,
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Technology: Use or lose our navigation skills

Roger McKinlay 30 March 2016  in Nature News

Automatic wayfinding is eroding natural abilities, warns Roger McKinlay. 

Read more info on the Nature site.  Nature 531, 573–575 (31 March 2016) doi:10.1038/531573a

 

@SWNS A lorry wedged between houses in Bruton, …

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OCamCalib: Omnidirectional Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab

Author: Davide Scaramuzza  For catadioptric and fisheye cameras up to 195 degrees.

The OcamCalib Toolbox for Matlab allows the user (also inexpert users) to calibrate any central omnidirectional camera, that is, any panoramic camera having a single effective viewpoint (see …

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Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab

Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab @ Dr. Jean-Yves Bouguet

This is a release of a Camera Calibration Toolbox for Matlab® with a complete documentation. This document may also be used as a tutorial on camera calibration since it includes …

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【Latest Papers】Cognitive Navigation by Neuro-Inspired Localization, Mapping and Episodic Memory

Abstract One of the important topics in the study of robotic cognition is to enable robot to perceive, plan and react to situations in a real-world environment. We present a novel angle on this subject, by integrating active navigation with …

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Nature Neuroscience Nov. 2017 Issue: Focus on Spatial Cognition

From Nature Neuroscience  Oct. 31 2017

Navigation is the ability to estimate one’s own position and to track and plan one’s own path in physical space, be it on land, on sea, in the air or even in space. …

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Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark

Brief content From ScienceNews   BY  AMBER DANCE 12:30PM, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Neuroscientist Nachum Ulanovsky and his colleagues of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, studying several different species of bats, are investigating how the flying mammals perceive …

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Definitions of Cognition & Cognitive Systems

From the euCognition

The following definitions were contributed by members of euCognition in response to a questionnaire. The definitions are listed in the order in which they were submitted.

Cognition is the ability to relate perception and action in a …

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Brain Mechanisms of Navigation in Physical and Cognitive Spaces

The following lectures are presented in the NEUROSCIENCE SYMPOSIUM : BRAIN MECHANISMS OF NAVIGATION IN PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE SPACES at Central European University in August 31, 2017.

This is a special symposium with four outstanding scientist (three Nobel laureates and one Brain Prize winner) …

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Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS)

From inilabs.com

DVS Overview

Dvs128AndEdvsWithCreditCardConventional vision sensors see the world as a series of frames. Successive frames contain enormous amounts of redundant information, wasting memory access, RAM, disk space, energy, computational power and time. In addition, each frame imposes the …

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HD Maps: New age maps powering autonomous vehicles

From GeospatialWorld  by   Harsha Vardhan   September 22, 2017

High Definition Maps or HD Maps are the new generation maps that are powering machines and self-driving cars & autonomous cars. Read this article to understand everything about HD Maps. Full credit for …

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ETH ANYmal: a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments

ANYmal is a quadrupedal robot designed for autonomous operation in challenging environments. Driven by special compliant and precisely torque controllable actuators, the system is capable of dynamic running and high-mobile climbing. Thanks to incorporated laser sensors and cameras, the robot …

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The Brain as a Multi-layered Map Scales and Reference Points for Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging

 

Margarita Zaleshina, Alexander Zaleshin

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia

(Zaleshina, terbiosorg)@gmail.com

 

The paper provides an overview of brain mapping in neuroscience and describe the application of spatial data processing techniques to represent the brain as …

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Bat brains: Studies of free-flying bats reveal nerve cells that enable complex navigation.

Bat brain signals illuminate navigation in the dark

brown bat

Read more in the Science News https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bat-brain-signals-illuminate-navigation-dark …

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