ROS NeuralRecon

Check out the ros_neuralrecon repo here! About a month ago, we remarked on some exciting modifications to NeuralRecon, which can generate dense scene reconstructions in real-time using TSDF fusion on posed monocular video. Specifically, we noted that the image feature extraction could be shifted to the edge using depthai cameras after converting the MnasMulti backbone to .blob. Trained on ScanNet, the researchers recommend custom data capture with ARKit using ios_logger. We found this works well if you have Xcode on a Mac and an iphone....

 · 4 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin

Adding Vision to the Turtlebot3

Turtlebot open-sourced designs for many low-cost, personal robot kits and the Burger is a great platform to learn ROS and mobile robotics. The documentation progresses from setup to more advanced robot behavior including SLAM, navigation, autonomous driving and more! Our Build Since the turtlebot3 burger kit doesn’t include a camera, we added the OAK-FFC-3P camera made by Luxonis with a 100 degree Arducam to our build. This device includes deep learning accelerators on the camera so we can reduce the compute needs on the raspberry pi host....

 · 2 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin

Protecting Privacy With Computer Vision

Check out and contribute to our collection of data privacy resources! AI researchers developed models to identify image pixels featuring people. We apply this to promote privacy by helping you redact personally identifiable info in images. This demo is powered by Tensorflow.js! Drop an image and retrieve the redacted output without ever sending data over the internet. Click on your redacted image when it’s done to save. Consider another use case of delivery robots roaming the streets....

 · 1 min · Terry Rodriguez & Salma Mayorquin