Michael Kaess

Orcid: 0000-0002-7590-3357

Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Cambridge, USA (former)


According to our database1, Michael Kaess authored at least 149 papers between 2002 and 2024.

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2024
AONeuS: A Neural Rendering Framework for Acoustic-Optical Sensor Fusion.
CoRR, 2024

2023
ASH: A Modern Framework for Parallel Spatial Hashing in 3D Perception.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell., May, 2023

Neural feels with neural fields: Visuo-tactile perception for in-hand manipulation.
CoRR, 2023

Multi-Radar Inertial Odometry for 3D State Estimation using mmWave Imaging Radar.
CoRR, 2023

SONIC: Sonar Image Correspondence using Pose Supervised Learning for Imaging Sonars.
CoRR, 2023

Asynchronous Distributed Smoothing and Mapping via On-Manifold Consensus ADMM.
CoRR, 2023

Learning Covariances for Estimation with Constrained Bilevel Optimization.
CoRR, 2023

Learning Observation Models with Incremental Non-Differentiable Graph Optimizers in the Loop for Robotics State Estimation.
CoRR, 2023

Group-k consistent measurement set maximization via maximum clique over k-Uniform hypergraphs for robust multi-robot map merging.
CoRR, 2023

Efficient Bundle Adjustment for Coplanar Points and Lines.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Neural Implicit Surface Reconstruction using Imaging Sonar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Robust Incremental Smoothing and Mapping (riSAM).
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Conditional GANs for Sonar Image Filtering with Applications to Underwater Occupancy Mapping.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

Neural Radiance Fields with LiDAR Maps.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023

2022
$\mathcal {PLC}$-LiSLAM: LiDAR SLAM With Planes, Lines, and Cylinders.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

Information-Theoretic Online Multi-Camera Extrinsic Calibration.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2022

TartanCalib: Iterative Wide-Angle Lens Calibration using Adaptive SubPixel Refinement of AprilTags.
CoRR, 2022

Learned Depth Estimation of 3D Imaging Radar for Indoor Mapping.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

InCOpt: Incremental Constrained Optimization using the Bayes Tree.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

HoloOcean: Realistic Sonar Simulation.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

Acoustic Localization and Communication Using a MEMS Microphone for Low-cost and Low-power Bio-inspired Underwater Robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

Group-k Consistent Measurement Set Maximization for Robust Outlier Detection.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

EDPLVO: Efficient Direct Point-Line Visual Odometry.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

ShapeMap 3-D: Efficient shape mapping through dense touch and vision.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

PatchGraph: In-hand tactile tracking with learned surface normals.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

HoloOcean: An Underwater Robotics Simulator.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

GPS-Denied Global Visual-Inertial Ground Vehicle State Estimation via Image Registration.
Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2022

Long-term Visual Map Sparsification with Heterogeneous GNN.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022

MidasTouch: Monte-Carlo inference over distributions across sliding touch.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 2022

2021
DPLVO: Direct Point-Line Monocular Visual Odometry.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., October, 2021

LiDAR SLAM With Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

A Complete, Accurate and Efficient Solution for the Perspective-N-Line Problem.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2021

Real-time Registration and Reconstruction with Cylindrical LiDAR Images.
CoRR, 2021

Efficient shape mapping through dense touch and vision.
CoRR, 2021

LEO: Learning Energy-based Models in Graph Optimization.
CoRR, 2021

CMU-GPR Dataset: Ground Penetrating Radar Dataset for Robot Localization and Mapping.
CoRR, 2021

Characterizing Marginalization and Incremental Operations on the Bayes Tree.
Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XIV, 2021

Map Compressibility Assessment for LiDAR Registration.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

Ground Encoding: Learned Factor Graph-based Models for Localizing Ground Penetrating Radar.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

π-LSAM: LiDAR Smoothing and Mapping With Planes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Tactile SLAM: Real-time inference of shape and pose from planar pushing.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Learning Tactile Models for Factor Graph-based Estimation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

Compositional and Scalable Object SLAM.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

HyperMap: Compressed 3D Map for Monocular Camera Registration.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

A Graph-Based Method for Joint Instance Segmentation of Point Clouds and Image Sequences.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

LEO: Learning Energy-based Models in Factor Graph Optimization.
Proceedings of the Conference on Robot Learning, 8-11 November 2021, London, UK., 2021

2020
Windowed Bundle Adjustment Framework for Unsupervised Learning of Monocular Depth Estimation With U-Net Extension and Clip Loss.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2020

Learning Tactile Models for Factor Graph-based State Estimation.
CoRR, 2020

Compositional Scalable Object SLAM.
CoRR, 2020

An Efficient Planar Bundle Adjustment Algorithm.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, 2020

A Theory of Fermat Paths for 3D Imaging Sonar Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Efficient Trajectory Library Filtering for Quadrotor Flight in Unknown Environments.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

A Robust Multi-Stereo Visual-Inertial Odometry Pipeline.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

ARAS: Ambiguity-aware Robust Active SLAM based on Multi-hypothesis State and Map Estimations.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

Efficient Multiresolution Scrolling Grid for Stereo Vision-based MAV Obstacle Avoidance.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2020

A Fast and Accurate Solution for Pose Estimation from 3D Correspondences.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

A Volumetric Albedo Framework for 3D Imaging Sonar Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

Active SLAM using 3D Submap Saliency for Underwater Volumetric Exploration.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

ICS: Incremental Constrained Smoothing for State Estimation.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019
Through-Water Stereo SLAM With Refraction Correction for AUV Localization.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2019

Do not Omit Local Minimizer: a Complete Solution for Pose Estimation from 3D Correspondences.
CoRR, 2019

EyeSAM: graph-based localization and mapping of retinal vasculature during intraocular microsurgery.
Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg., 2019

An Efficient and Accurate Algorithm for the Perspecitve-n-Point Problem.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Wide Aperture Imaging Sonar Reconstruction using Generative Models.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Dense, Sonar-based Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Online and Consistent Occupancy Grid Mapping for Planning in Unknown Environments.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Degeneracy-Aware Factors with Applications to Underwater SLAM.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

GPU Accelerated Robust Scene Reconstruction.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2019

Surfel-Based Dense RGB-D Reconstruction With Global And Local Consistency.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Multi-view Reconstruction of Wires using a Catenary Model.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Dense Surface Reconstruction from Monocular Vision and LiDAR.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

MH-iSAM2: Multi-hypothesis iSAM using Bayes Tree and Hypo-tree.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

A Robust and Efficient Algorithm for the PnL Problem Using Algebraic Distance to Approximate the Reprojection Distance.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2019

2018
Pose-Graph SLAM Using Forward-Looking Sonar.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2018

Unsupervised Learning of Monocular Depth Estimation with Bundle Adjustment, Super-Resolution and Clip Loss.
CoRR, 2018

Automatic Extrinsic Calibration of a Camera and a 3D LiDAR Using Line and Plane Correspondences.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Multibeam Data Processing for Underwater Mapping.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Information Sparsification in Visual-Inertial Odometry.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Virtual Occupancy Grid Map for Submap-based Pose Graph SLAM and Planning in 3D Environments.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018

Feature-Based SLAM for Imaging Sonar with Under-Constrained Landmarks.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

Dense Planar-Inertial SLAM with Structural Constraints.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018

A Stable Algebraic Camera Pose Estimation for Minimal Configurations of 2D/3D Point and Line Correspondences.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ACCV 2018, 2018

2017
Direct Visual Odometry in Low Light Using Binary Descriptors.
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2017

Factor Graphs for Robot Perception.
Found. Trends Robotics, 2017

Robust Keyframe-based Dense SLAM with an RGB-D Camera.
CoRR, 2017

A real-time method for depth enhanced visual odometry.
Auton. Robots, 2017

GravityFusion: Real-time dense mapping without pose graph using deformation and orientation.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2017

Robust stereo matching with surface normal prediction.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

The manifold particle filter for state estimation on high-dimensional implicit manifolds.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

Keyframe-based dense planar SLAM.
Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2017

2016
Articulated Robot Motion for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (ARM-SLAM).
IEEE Robotics Autom. Lett., 2016

Pop-up SLAM: Semantic monocular plane SLAM for low-texture environments.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Underwater inspection using sonar-based volumetric submaps.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Incremental data association for acoustic structure from motion.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

Long-range GPS-denied aerial inertial navigation with LIDAR localization.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

A nonparametric belief solution to the Bayes tree.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

On degeneracy of optimization-based state estimation problems.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016

2015
Consistent unscented incremental smoothing for multi-robot cooperative target tracking.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2015

Real-time large-scale dense RGB-D SLAM with volumetric fusion.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2015

Bridging text spotting and SLAM with junction features.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

Towards acoustic structure from motion for imaging sonar.
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2015

Building 3D mosaics from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Doppler velocity log, and 2D imaging sonar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

Simultaneous localization and mapping with infinite planes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015

2014
RISE: An Incremental Trust-Region Method for Robust Online Sparse Least-Squares Estimation.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2014

Generic Node Removal for Factor-Graph SLAM.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2014

Concurrent filtering and smoothing: A parallel architecture for real-time navigation and full smoothing.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2014

Real-time depth enhanced monocular odometry.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2014

Towards consistent visual-inertial navigation.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

Efficient incremental map segmentation in dense RGB-D maps.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2014

2013
Real-time 6-DOF multi-session visual SLAM over large-scale environments.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2013

Information fusion in navigation systems via factor graph based incremental smoothing.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2013

Autonomous Flight in GPS-Denied Environments Using Monocular Vision and Inertial Sensors.
J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst., 2013

The MIT Stata Center dataset.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2013

Deformation-based loop closure for large scale dense RGB-D SLAM.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2013

Robust real-time visual odometry for dense RGB-D mapping.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Robust incremental online inference over sparse factor graphs: Beyond the Gaussian case.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Temporally scalable visual SLAM using a reduced pose graph.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2013

Analytically-selected multi-hypothesis incremental MAP estimation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, 2013

Mapping 3D Underwater Environments with Smoothed Submaps.
Proceedings of the Field and Service Robotics, 2013

Unscented iSAM: A consistent incremental solution to cooperative localization and target tracking.
Proceedings of the 2013 European Conference on Mobile Robots, 2013

Consistent sparsification for graph optimization.
Proceedings of the 2013 European Conference on Mobile Robots, 2013

Toward lifelong object segmentation from change detection in dense RGB-D maps.
Proceedings of the 2013 European Conference on Mobile Robots, 2013

2012
iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping using the Bayes tree.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2012

Advanced perception, navigation and planning for autonomous in-water ship hull inspection.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2012

Dynamic pose graph SLAM: Long-term mapping in low dynamic environments.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

An incremental trust-region method for Robust online sparse least-squares estimation.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2012

Concurrent filtering and smoothing.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2012

Factor graph based incremental smoothing in inertial navigation systems.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, 2012

2011
iSAM2: Incremental smoothing and mapping with fluid relinearization and incremental variable reordering.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

Efficient AUV navigation fusing acoustic ranging and side-scan sonar.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM using Anchor Nodes.
Proceedings of the 5<sup>th</sup> European Conference on Mobile Robots, 2011

2010
Probabilistic structure matching for visual SLAM with a multi-camera rig.
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 2010

The Bayes Tree: An Algorithmic Foundation for Probabilistic Robot Mapping.
Proceedings of the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics IX, 2010

Imaging sonar-aided navigation for autonomous underwater harbor surveillance.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Multiple relative pose graphs for robust cooperative mapping.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2010

2009
Covariance recovery from a square root information matrix for data association.
Robotics Auton. Syst., 2009

Flow separation for fast and robust stereo odometry.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009

2008
iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2008

Place recognition-based fixed-lag smoothing for environments with unreliable GPS.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

2007
Fast 3D pose estimation with out-of-sequence measurements.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 29, 2007

Loopy SAM.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

Fast Incremental Square Root Information Smoothing.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

iSAM: Fast Incremental Smoothing and Mapping with Efficient Data Association.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2007

2006
Square Root SAM: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping via Square Root Information Smoothing.
Int. J. Robotics Res., 2006

2005
A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach to Closing the Loop in SLAM.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

2004
MCMC-Based Multiview Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Subdivision Curves with a Variable Number of Control Points.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision, 2004

2003
Reconstruction of Objects with Jagged Edges through Rao-Blackwellized Fitting of Piecewise Smooth Subdivision Curves.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE 1st International Workshop on Higher-Level Knowledge in 3D Modeling and Motion Analysis (HLK 2003), 2003

2002
The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets: A Marsupial Team for Urban Search and Rescue.
Proceedings of the AAAI Mobile Robot Competition 2002, Papers from the AAAI Workshop, 28 July, 2002

Learning Behavioral Parameterization using Spatio-Temporal Case-Based Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002


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