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Sebastian Andreas Scherer

Background

  • Since January 2010: Research assistant at the Department of Computer Architecture, University of Tübingen
  • 2006-2007: Exchange Student at David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
  • 2003-2009: Studies of Computer Science, University of Tübingen

 

Research Interests

  • Computer Vision
  • Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
  • Autonomous Flying Robots

 

Publications

[1] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Xiaodong Yi, and Andreas Zell. Multi-camera visual {SLAM} for autonomous navigation of micro aerial vehicles. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 93:116 -- 134, 2017. [ DOI | link ]
[2] Sebastian Otte, Christian Weiss, Tobias Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Recurrent Neural Networks for Fast and Robust Vibration-based Ground Classification on Mobile Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Stockholm, Sweden, May 2016.
[3] Sebastian A. Scherer, Shaowu Yang, and Andreas Zell. Dctam: Drift-corrected tracking and mapping for autonomous micro aerial vehicles. In Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2015 International Conference on, pages 1094--1101, Denver, CO, USA, June 2015. [ details | link | pdf ]
[4] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Robust onboard visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs. In 2014 International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-13), Padova, Italy, July 2014. [ details | pdf ]
[5] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Visual SLAM for autonomous MAVs with dual cameras. In 2014 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'14), Hongkong, China, June 2014. [ details | pdf ]
[6] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Autonomous Landing of MAVs on Arbitrarily Textured Landing Sites using Onboard Monocular Vision. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 74(1-2):27--43, 2014. [ DOI | details | link | pdf ]
[7] Lixing Jiang, Artur Koch, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Multi-class fruit classification using RGB-D data for indoor robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenzhen, China, December 2013. [ details | pdf ]
[8] Sebastian A. Scherer and Andreas Zell. Efficient Onboard RGBD-SLAM for Fully Autonomous MAVs. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Tokyo Big Sight, Japan, November 2013. [ details | pdf ]
[9] Sebastian A. Scherer, Alina Kloss, and Andreas Zell. Loop Closure Detection using Depth Images. In European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2013), Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, September 2013. [ details | pdf ]
[10] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, Konstantin Schauwecker, and Andreas Zell. Onboard Monocular Vision for Landing of an MAV on a Landing Site Specified by a Single Reference Image. In 2013 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'13), pages 317--324, Atlanta, GA, USA, May 2013. [ details | link | pdf ]
[11] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An onboard monocular vision system for autonomous takeoff, hovering and landing of a micro aerial vehicle. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 69(1--4):499--515, January 2013. [ details | link | pdf ]
[12] Konstantin Schauwecker, Nan Rosemary Ke, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. Markerless Visual Control of a Quad-Rotor Micro Aerial Vehicle by Means of On-Board Stereo Processing. In 22nd Conference on Autonomous Mobile Systems (AMS), pages 11--20, Stuttgart, Germany, September 2012. Springer. [ link | pdf ]
[13] Shaowu Yang, Sebastian A. Scherer, and Andreas Zell. An Onboard Monocular Vision System for Autonomous Takeoff, Hovering and Landing of a Micro Aerial Vehicle. In 2012 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS'12), Philadelphia, PA, USA, June 2012. [ details ]
[14] Sebastian A. Scherer, Daniel Dube, and Andreas Zell. Using Depth in Visual Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, May 2012. [ details | pdf ]
[15] Sebastian A. Scherer, Daniel Dube, Philippe Komma, Andreas Masselli, and Andreas Zell. Robust Real-Time Number Sign Detection on a Mobile Outdoor Robot. In Proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR 2011), Örebro, Sweden, September 2011. [ details | pdf ]

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Teaching

envelope Address, Phone, Fax, Email

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik
Lehrstuhl Rechnerarchitektur
Sand 1
D - 72076 Tübingen
 
Germany
Tel: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 78982
Fax: (+49/0) 7071 / 29 5091
Email: sebastian.scherer at uni-tuebingen.de