When We First Met: Visual-Inertial Person Localization for Co-Robot Rendezvous

Xi Sun,Xinshuo Weng,Kris Kitani,Xi Sun,Xinshuo Weng,Kris Kitani

We aim to enable robots to visually localize a target person through the aid of an additional sensing modality - the target person's 3D inertial measurements. The need for such technology may arise when a robot is to meet a person in a crowd for the first time or when an autonomous vehicle must rendezvous with a rider amongst a crowd without knowing the appearance of the person in advance. A perso...