Pedro Miraldo

- Phone: 617-621-7536
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Principal Research Scientist -
Education:
Ph.D., University of Coimbra, 2013 -
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Biography
Pedro Miraldo held an FCT postdoctoral researcher grant at the Institute for Systems & Robotics and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, IST Instituto Superior Tecnico Lisbon from 2014 to 2018. Then, he joined the Division of Decision and Control Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate from 2018 to 2019. Finally, he returned to IST in 2019 as a second-stage Researcher (comparable to Assistant Research Professor).
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Recent News & Events
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NEWS MERL researchers presented 5 papers and an invited workshop talk at ICRA 2022 Date: May 23, 2022 - May 27, 2022
Where: International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
MERL Contacts: Ankush Chakrabarty; Stefano Di Cairano; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Pedro Miraldo; Daniel N. Nikovski; Rien Quirynen; Arvind Raghunathan; Diego Romeres; Abraham P. Vinod; Yebin Wang
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, RoboticsBrief- MERL researchers presented 5 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) that was held in Philadelphia from May 23-27, 2022. The papers covered a broad range of topics from manipulation, tactile sensing, planning and multi-agent control. The invited talk was presented in the "Workshop on Collaborative Robots and Work of the Future" which covered some of the work done by MERL researchers on collaborative robotic assembly. The workshop was co-organized by MERL, Mitsubishi Electric Automation's North America Development Center (NADC), and MIT.
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MERL Publications
- "A Unified Model for Line Projections in Catadioptric Cameras with Rotationally Symmetric Mirrors", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01534, June 2022.BibTeX TR2022-084 PDF
- @inproceedings{Miraldo2022jun,
- author = {Miraldo, Pedro and Iglesias, Jose Pedro},
- title = {A Unified Model for Line Projections in Catadioptric Cameras with Rotationally Symmetric Mirrors},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2022,
- month = jun,
- doi = {10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01534},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-084}
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- "A Unified Model for Line Projections in Catadioptric Cameras with Rotationally Symmetric Mirrors", IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01534, June 2022.
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Other Publications
- "On Incremental Structure-from-Motion using Lines", IEEE Trans. Robotics (T-RO), Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 391-406, 2022.BibTeX
- @Article{j32,
- author = {Mateus, Andr\'e and Tahri, Omar and Aguiar, A. Pedro and Lima, Pedro U. and Pedro Miraldo},
- title = {On Incremental Structure-from-Motion using Lines},
- journal = {IEEE Trans. Robotics (T-RO)},
- year = 2022,
- volume = 38,
- number = 1,
- pages = {391--406},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11196}{arXiv:2105.11196}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2021.3085487}{doi}]}
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, - "Solving the discrete Euler-Arnold equations for the generalized rigid body motion", Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM), Vol. 402, pp. 113814, 2022.BibTeX
- @Article{j33,
- author = {Cardoso, Jo{\~a}o R. and Pedro Miraldo},
- title = {Solving the discrete Euler-Arnold equations for the generalized rigid body motion},
- journal = {Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (CAM)},
- year = 2022,
- volume = 402,
- pages = 113814,
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00505}{\it arXiv:2109.00505}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2021.113814}{doi}]}
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, - "An observer cascade for velocity and multiple line estimation", IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2022.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j34,
- author = {Mateus, Andr\'e and Lima, Pedro U. and Pedro Miraldo},
- title = {An observer cascade for velocity and multiple line estimation},
- booktitle = {IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2022,
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01879}{arXiv:2203.01879},{doi}]}
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, - "Active Depth Estimation: Stability Analysis and its Applications", IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020, pp. 2002-2008.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j26,
- author = {Rodrigues, R. T. and P. Miraldo and Dimarogonas, D. V. and Aguiar, A. P.},
- title = {Active Depth Estimation: Stability Analysis and its Applications},
- booktitle = {IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {2002--2008},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07137}{\it arXiv:2003.07137},\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA40945.2020.9196670}{doi}]}
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, - "3DRegNet: A Deep Neural Network for 3D Point Registration", IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020, pp. 7191-7201.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j27,
- author = {Pais, G. Dias and Ramalingam, Srikumar and Govindu, Venu Madhav and Nascimento, Jacinto C. and Chellappa, Rama and Pedro Miraldo},
- title = {3DRegNet: A Deep Neural Network for 3D Point Registration},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {7191--7201},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.01701}{\it arXiv:1904.01701},\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00722}{doi}]}
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, - "Minimal Solvers for 3D Scan Alignment with Pairs of Intersecting Lines", IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020, pp. 7232-7242.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j28,
- author = {Mateus, Andr{\'e} and Ramalingam, Srikumar and Pedro Miraldo},
- title = {Minimal Solvers for 3D Scan Alignment with Pairs of Intersecting Lines},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {7232--7242},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.00726}{doi}]}
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, - "On the Generalized Essential Matrix Correction: An efficient solution to the problem and its applications", Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Vol. 62, pp. 1107-1120, 2020.BibTeX
- @Article{j29,
- author = {Pedro Miraldo and Cardoso, Jo{\~a}o R.},
- title = {On the Generalized Essential Matrix Correction: An efficient solution to the problem and its applications},
- journal = {Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision},
- year = 2020,
- volume = 62,
- pages = {1107--1120},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06328}{\it arXiv:1709.06328}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-020-00961-w}{doi}]}
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, - "Fast Model Predictive Image-Based Visual Servoing for Quadrotors", IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020, pp. 7566-7572.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j30,
- author = {Roque, Pedro and Bin, Elisa and Pedro Miraldo and Dimarogonas, Dimos V.},
- title = {Fast Model Predictive Image-Based Visual Servoing for Quadrotors},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {7566--7572},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS45743.2020.9340759}{doi}]}
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, - "Mapping of Sparse 3D Data using Alternating Projection", Asian Conf. Computer Vision (ACCV), 2020, pp. 295-313.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j31,
- author = {Ranade, Siddhant and Xin, Yu and Kakkar, Shantnu and Pedro Miraldo and Ramalingam, Srikumar},
- title = {Mapping of Sparse 3D Data using Alternating Projection},
- booktitle = {Asian Conf. Computer Vision (ACCV)},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {295--313},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02516}{\it arXiv:2010.02516},\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69525-5_18}{doi}]}
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, - "POSEAMM: A Unified Framework for Solving Pose Problems using an Alternating Minimization Method", IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, pp. 3493-3499.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j21,
- author = {Campos, J. and Rodrigues, J. R. and P. Miraldo},
- title = {POSEAMM: A Unified Framework for Solving Pose Problems using an Alternating Minimization Method},
- booktitle = {IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {3493--3499},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.04858}{\it arXiv:1904.04858}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793694}{doi}]}
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, - "OmniDRL: Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Reinforcement Learning on Omnidirectional Cameras", IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019, pp. 4782-4789.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j22,
- author = {Pais, G. and Nascimento, J. C. and P. Miraldo},
- title = {OmniDRL: Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Reinforcement Learning on Omnidirectional Cameras},
- booktitle = {IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {4782--4789},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00676}{\it arXiv:1903.00676}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2019.8794471}{doi}]}
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, - "Minimal Solvers for Mini-Loop Closures in 3D Multi-Scan Alignment", IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2019, pp. 9691-9700.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j23,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Saha, S. and Ramalingam, S.},
- title = {Minimal Solvers for Mini-Loop Closures in 3D Multi-Scan Alignment},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {9691--9700},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03941}{\it arXiv:1904.03941}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2019.00993}{doi}]}
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, - "A Framework for Depth Estimation and Relative Localization of Ground Robots using Computer Vision", IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2019, pp. 3719-3724.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j24,
- author = {Rodrigues, R. and P. Miraldo and Dimarogonas, D. V. and Aguiar, A. P.},
- title = {A Framework for Depth Estimation and Relative Localization of Ground Robots using Computer Vision},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {3719--3724},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.00309}{\it arXiv:1908.00309}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968459}{doi}]}
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, - "SocRob$@$Home Integrating AI Components in a Domestic Robot System", Künstliche Intelligenz (KI), Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 343-356, 2019.BibTeX
- @Article{j25,
- author = {Lima, P. U. and Azevedo, C. and Brzozowska, E. and Cartucho, J. and Dias, T. J. and Gon\c{c}alves, J. and Kinarullathil, M. and Lawless, G. and Lima, O. and Luz, R. and P. Miraldo and Piazza, E. and Silva, M. and Veiga, T. and Ventura, R.},
- title = {SocRob$@$Home Integrating AI Components in a Domestic Robot System},
- journal = {K\"{u}nstliche Intelligenz (KI)},
- year = 2019,
- volume = 33,
- number = 4,
- pages = {343--356},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-019-00618-w}{doi}]}
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, - "Generic distortion model for metrology under optical microscopes", Optics and Lasers in Engineering (OLEN), Vol. 103, pp. 119-126, 2018.BibTeX
- @Article{j15,
- author = {Liu, X. and Li, Z. and Zhong, K. and Chao, Y. and P. Miraldo and Shi, Y.},
- title = {Generic distortion model for metrology under optical microscopes},
- journal = {Optics and Lasers in Engineering (OLEN)},
- year = 2018,
- volume = 103,
- pages = {119--126},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optlaseng.2017.12.006}{doi}]}
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, - "Low-level Active Visual Navigation: Increasing robustness of vision-based localization using potential fields", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 2079-2086, 2018.BibTeX
- @Article{j16,
- author = {Rodrigues, R. and Basiri, M. and Aguiar, A. P. and P. Miraldo},
- title = {Low-level Active Visual Navigation: Increasing robustness of vision-based localization using potential fields},
- journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2018,
- volume = 3,
- number = 3,
- pages = {2079--2086},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.07249}{\it arXiv:1801.07249}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2018.2809628}{doi}]}
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, - "Analytical Modeling of Vanishing Points and Curves in Catadioptric Cameras", IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2018, pp. 2012-2021.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j17,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Eiras, F. and Ramalingam, S.},
- title = {Analytical Modeling of Vanishing Points and Curves in Catadioptric Cameras},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2018,
- pages = {2012--2021},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09460}{\it arXiv:1804.09460}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2018.00215}{doi}]}
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, - "Active Structure-from-Motion for 3D Straight Lines", IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2018, pp. 5819-5825.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j18,
- author = {Mateus, A. and Tahri, O. and P. Miraldo},
- title = {Active Structure-from-Motion for 3D Straight Lines},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2018,
- pages = {5819--5825},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00753}{\it arXiv:1807.00753}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2018.8593793}{doi}]}
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, - "A Minimal Closed-Form Solution for Multi-Perspective Pose Estimation using Points and Lines", European Conf. Computer Vision (ECCV), 2018, pp. 490-507.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j19,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Dias, T. and Ramalingam, S.},
- title = {A Minimal Closed-Form Solution for Multi-Perspective Pose Estimation using Points and Lines},
- booktitle = {European Conf. Computer Vision (ECCV)},
- year = 2018,
- pages = {490--507},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09970}{\it arXiv:1807.09970}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01270-0_29}{doi}]}
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, - "Efficient and Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Learning for Human-Aware Navigation", Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Vol. 113, pp. 23-37, 2018.BibTeX
- @Article{j20,
- author = {Mateus, A. and Ribeiro, D. and P. Miraldo and Nascimento, J. C.},
- title = {Efficient and Robust Pedestrian Detection using Deep Learning for Human-Aware Navigation},
- journal = {Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS)},
- year = 2018,
- volume = 113,
- pages = {23--37},
- note = {[\href{https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.04441}{\it arXiv:1607.04441}, \href{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2018.12.007}{doi}]}
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, - "A framework to calibrate the scanning electron microscope under any magnifications", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PT-L), Vol. 28, No. 16, pp. 1715-1718, 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{j12,
- author = {Liu, X. and Li, Z. and P. Miraldo and Zhong, K. and Shi, Y.},
- title = {A framework to calibrate the scanning electron microscope under any magnifications},
- journal = {IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (PT-L)},
- year = 2016,
- volume = 28,
- number = 16,
- pages = {1715--1718},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2522758}{doi}]}
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, - "Efficient Object Search for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments: Semantic Map as an Input for the Decision Maker", IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016, pp. 2745-2750.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j13,
- author = {Veiga, T. and P. Miraldo and Ventura, R. and Lima, P.},
- title = {Efficient Object Search for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments: Semantic Map as an Input for the Decision Maker},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {2745--2750},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2016.7759426}{doi}]}
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, - "Competitions for Benchmarking: Task and Functionality Scoring Complete Performance Assessment", IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine (RA-M), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 53-61, 2015.BibTeX
- @Article{j10,
- author = {Amigoni, F. and Berghofer, J. and Bonarini, A. and G. Fontana, N. Hochgeschwender and Iocchi, L. and Kraetzschmar, G. K. and Lima, P. and Matteucci, M. and P. Miraldo and Nardi, D. and Schiaonati, V.},
- title = {Competitions for Benchmarking: Task and Functionality Scoring Complete Performance Assessment},
- journal = {IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine (RA-M)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 22,
- number = 3,
- pages = {53--61},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2015.2448871}{doi}]}
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, - "Direct Solution to the Minimal Generalized Pose", IEEE Trans. Cybernetics (T-CYB), Vol. 45, No. 3, pp. 404-415, 2015.BibTeX
- @Article{j5,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {Direct Solution to the Minimal Generalized Pose},
- journal = {IEEE Trans. Cybernetics (T-CYB)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 45,
- number = 3,
- pages = {404--415},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2014.2326970}{doi}]}
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, - "Pose Estimation for General Cameras Using Lines", IEEE Trans. Cybernetics (T-CYB), Vol. 45, No. 10, pp. 2156-2164, 2015.BibTeX
- @Article{j6,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H. and Gon\c{c}alves, N.},
- title = {Pose Estimation for General Cameras Using Lines},
- journal = {IEEE Trans. Cybernetics (T-CYB)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 45,
- number = 10,
- pages = {2156--2164},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/TCYB.2014.2366378}{doi}]}
- }
, - "Generalized Essential Matrix: Properties of the Singular Value Decomposition", Image and Vision Computing (IVC), Vol. 34, pp. 45-50, 2015.BibTeX
- @Article{j7,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {Generalized Essential Matrix: Properties of the Singular Value Decomposition},
- journal = {Image and Vision Computing (IVC)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 34,
- pages = {45--50},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2014.11.003}{doi}]}
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, - "Pose Estimation for Non-Central Cameras Using Planes", Springer J. Intelligent & Robotic Systems (JINT), Vol. 80, No. 3, pp. 595-608, 2015.BibTeX
- @Article{j8,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {Pose Estimation for Non-Central Cameras Using Planes},
- journal = {Springer J. Intelligent \& Robotic Systems (JINT)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 80,
- number = 3,
- pages = {595--608},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-015-0193-3}{doi}]}
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, - "A Simple and Robust Solution to the Minimal General Pose Estimation", IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014, pp. 2119-2125.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j3,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {A Simple and Robust Solution to the Minimal General Pose Estimation},
- booktitle = {IEEE Int'l Conf. Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2014,
- pages = {2119--2125},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907150}{doi}]}
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, - "Planar Pose Estimation for General Cameras using Known 3D Lines", IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014, pp. 4234-4240.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j4,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {Planar Pose Estimation for General Cameras using Known 3D Lines},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ Int'l Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
- year = 2014,
- pages = {4234--4240},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2014.6943159}{doi}]}
- }
, - "Calibration of Smooth Camera Models", IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI), Vol. 35, No. 9, pp. 2091-2103, 2013.BibTeX
- @Article{j2,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H.},
- title = {Calibration of Smooth Camera Models},
- journal = {IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (T-PAMI)},
- year = 2013,
- volume = 35,
- number = 9,
- pages = {2091--2103},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2012.258}{doi}]}
- }
, - "Point-based Calibration Using a Parametric Representation of General Imaging Models", IEEE/CVF Int'l Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV), 2011, pp. 2304-2311.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{j1,
- author = {P. Miraldo and Araujo, H. and Queir\'{o}, J.},
- title = {Point-based Calibration Using a Parametric Representation of General Imaging Models},
- booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Int'l Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV)},
- year = 2011,
- pages = {2304--2311},
- note = {[\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2011.6126511}{doi}]}
- }
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- "On Incremental Structure-from-Motion using Lines", IEEE Trans. Robotics (T-RO), Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 391-406, 2022.