MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) is Mitsubishi Electric Corporation's North American research organization.

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MERL does application-motivated basic and applied research and advanced development in physical simulation & modeling, optimization, control, signal processing and Artificial Intelligence. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

More detail about MERL is available in our most recent annual report: MERL Annual Report 2021

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Featured Research

Point-Plane SLAM: Real-time 3D reconstruction using an RGB-D sensor on a tablet.

We present a real-time 3D reconstruction system using an RGB-D sensor on a hand-held tablet. The main novelty of the system is a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm that uses both point and plane features as primitives. Planes are the most common structures in man-made indoor and outdoor scenes.

As the core of the algorithm, we show that it is possible to register 3D data in two different coordinate systems using any combination of three point/plane features (3 planes, 2 planes and 1 point, 1 plane and 2 points, and 3 points). We use the minimal set of features in a RANSAC framework to robustly compute correspondences and estimate the camera pose. We also use the point and plane features in bundle adjustment . . . [learn more]

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    For graduate students who are interested in pursuing an exciting internship researching and prototyping, MERL has many positions available during the summer and at other times.

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