Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Vision meets robotics: The KITTI dataset

We present a novel dataset captured from a VW station wagon for use in mobile robotics and autonomous driving research. In total, we recorded 6 hours of traffic scenarios at 10–...

Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

End-to-End Recovery of Human Shape and Pose

We describe Human Mesh Recovery (HMR), an end-to-end framework for reconstructing a full 3D mesh of a human body from a single RGB image. In contrast to most current methods tha...

Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations

The plant Arabidopsis thaliana occurs naturally in many different habitats throughout Eurasia. As a foundation for identifying genetic variation contributing to adaptation to di...

Optimization for Machine Learning

An up-to-date account of the interplay between optimization and machine learning, accessible to students and researchers in both communities. The interplay between optimization ...

Reversible Formation and Decomposition of LiF Clusters Using Transition Metal Fluorides as Precursors and Their Application in Rechargeable Li Batteries

A LiF/M nanocomposite in which LiF is dispersed with a transition metal (TM) on an atomic or nanometer scale can be obtained by a complete electrochemical insertion of Li into T...

Dense connectomic reconstruction in layer 4 of the somatosensory cortex

Brain anatomy revealed in startling detail The mammalian cerebral cortex is an enormously complex network of neuronal processes that are long and thin, branching, and extremely ...

Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization

In this paper we propose an affordable solution to self-localization, which utilizes visual odometry and road maps as the only inputs. To this end, we present a probabilistic mo...