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Dr Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas

Reader in Robotics, Computer Vision and Mobile Systems &
Deputy Director Bristol Robotics Lab

Address:
Department of Computer Science
Merchant Venturers Building
University of  Bristol,
Woodland Road BS8 1UB
United Kingdom

Room 3.18 MVB
Tel: (44 or  0)  117 9545128
Fax: (44 or 0 ) 117 9545208

wmayol *at* cs. bris. ac. uk
Walterio Mayol
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RAs and PhD Research Students:

Andrew Gee, Dima Damen, Jose Martinez-Carranza
Sudeep Sundaram, Irwandi Hipiny. John Bartholomew, Anthony Glynn, Teesid Leelasawassuk, Austin Gregg-Smith,

Alumni:

Andrew Gee, Tim Milstead, Pished Bunnun, Mosalam Ebrahimi,

Research:

  • Personal Robotics and Perception
  • Real Time Vision Group


    NEWS:

  • Been honoured by been asked to give a keynote at WARM 2013. WARM is a very interesting long running event in the Augmented Reality calendar. Its intended to converge key research experts in AR, ubiquitous computing and computer graphics in an evironment that encourages open discussion of new ideas and concepts. It also accepts submissions with a deadline of 15th January 2013.

  • I am one of the general chairs for BMVC 2013 here in Bristol. BMVC is one of the most established, longest-running, high quality computer vision conferences around. It is also extremely affordable in a world of outrageous registration rates which makes it also a very academic-centric venue. We look forward to see you here! Deadline for full papers is 24 April 2013.

  • Next year I am part of the PC for the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) 2013. ISWC is the prime and original place for wearable computing research. In the past years since around 2006 or so it had IMO too much emphasis on mobile phone platforms, however it is refreshing to see that now the drive is to hear and motivate more about true wearable computers, that is, those that are always on, extracting information and interacting with the person mediating real data, not just hidden away and sporadically used (as a mobile phone would be). Deadline is April 7th 2013.

  • As part of the COGNITO project we are organizing a workshop on Cognitive Assistive Systems at IROS 2012 CAS-workshop. Deadline August 2nd, 2012.

  • My recent collaboration with Abhijit Karnik and Sriram Subramanian from the Bristol Interaction Group has developed some display technology for multi user see-through glass Augmented Reality.
    A paper on the work will appear in CHI 2012 and has been awarded Best Paper Honorable Mention. A video is available here.

  • 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-based Interaction PETMEI. Deadline June 15 2012. As part of Ubicomp2012.

  • CVPR Workshop on Egocentric Vision, as part of IEEE CVPR 2012, Deadline 17th April 2012.

  • New EU Project COGNITO For the automatic description of manual workflow from wearable sensing. With partners: DFKI, Univ of Leeds, UTC/CNRS, Trivisio GmbH, CCG and SmartFactory KL.

  • 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-based Interaction PETMEI. September 18th as part of Ubicomp2011.

  • Special Issue on "Models for Mixed and Augmented Reality" . For the Virtual Reality Journal. As a follow on on the recent ISMAR workshop of the same topic, this special issue aims to reflect recent work on making, using and representing models and model-making techniques for Augmented Reality. Deadline **EXTENDED** 14th March 2011.

  • Workshop: Augmented Reality Super Models As part of ISMAR 2010, Wednesday 13th of October. Deadline: September 6, 2010.

  • Workshop: Application of Computer Vision for Mixed and Augmented Reality As part of ACCV 2010, November 9th 2010. Deadline: August 6th.

  • *After a couple of years in the making, GazeMap was released in October 2009. This is a commercial software of ASL where my work on robust visual description and mapping with Denis Chekhlov and Andrew Calway is used. This software serves to position gaze in 3D and significantly simplifies the analysis of gaze-object interactions which is useful in a range of human studies (Psychology, user interfaces and even market research!). A combination of SLAM techniques and gaze tracking.

  • HP Labs Innovation Research Award 2008.
    I have been fortunate enough to be leading a project for one of these competitive awards.

  • New paper on Discovering Higher Level Structure to appear in the upcoming IEEE Trans on Robotics special issue on Visual SLAM..
    Work done with my colleagues Andrew Gee, Denis Chekhlov and Andrew Calway

  • Real-time Vision group to lead 1.4M pounds project on interactive annotation and mapping 2 RA posts available see more information here.

  • A brief article in NewScientist about my work on wearable active vision.

  • Outreach: robotics for kids 2008 event.


    Recent Tutorials:

  • Invited Tutorial lecture on 3D Mapping and localisation techniques using computer vision as part of the International INIT Autumn School on 3D Imaging Technologies. Benicassim, Spain, October 3-7, 2011.

  • Tutorial on Real-time Computer Vision for Humanoid localisation and Mapping on the 7th of December 2009 as part of IEEE Humanoids Conference in Paris. Speakers: Andrew Davison (Imperial College), Andrew Calway (Univ of Bristol), Olivier Stasse (AIST/ISRI) and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas (Univ of Bristol).

  • IEEE IROS 2008. Invited Tutorial on Vision for Robotics.
    Speakers: Adrien Bartoli, Selim Benhimane, Andrew Comport, Kurt Konolige, Vincent Lepetit, Philippe Martinet and Walterio Mayol-Cuevas.

  • Invited British Machine Vision Conference BMVC 2007 Tutorial on Visual SLAM. Slides and Description.
    Speakers: Andrew Davison, Andrew Calway and Walterio Mayol.

  • IEEE Int. Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC). Osaka Japan, October 2005. Computer Vision for Wearable Visual Interface (Slides) .
    Speakers: Walterio Mayol and Takeshi Kurata.