Andrew Davison

I hold the position of Reader in Robot Vision at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, and lead the Robot Vision Research Group. I am working in computer vision and robotics: specifically my main research over the past few years has been on SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) using vision, with a particular emphasis on methods that work in real-time with a single camera which can be classed as Real-Time Structure from Motion, or as I would rather call it Single Camera SLAM or MonoSLAM (vision-based, monocular, bearing-only SLAM, in full 3D and without inertial sensing). This is technology that could provide cheap real-time localisation for domestic robots, humanoid robots, wearable sensors, game interfaces or other devices. This work derives from my early research at the University of Oxford where I developed one of the very first real-time SLAM systems for robot navigation, and the first using vision as its primary sensor (ECCV 1998). Currently my main inte