Roni Sengupta

@ronisen.bsky.social

Asst. Prof. UNC Chapel Hill CS Computer Vision & Graphics. https://www.cs.unc.edu/~ronisen/

🚨 We have postdoc openings at UNC 🙂 Exciting+diverse NLP/CV/ML topics**, freedom to create research agenda, competitive funding, very strong students, mentorship for grant writing, collabs w/ many faculty+universities+companies, superb quality of life/weather. Please apply + help spread the word 🙏

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SLAM algorithms struggle on endoscopy videos - specularity, textureless, & dynamic lighting. We introduce a Near-Field Light Bundle Adjst. loss (NFL-BA): improves performance of SOTA SLAM, e.g. MonoGS (⬆️35% in tracking, ⬆️48% in mapping). See asdunnbe.github.io/NFL-BA/ Led by Andrea & Daniel

Its almost time to recruit PhD students, any advice on how people identify the best students for their labs? This feels like the hardest and possibly the most consequential decision I have to make (so far I have been reasonably lucky). What qualities do you look for and any red flags to watch out?

We are in the process of editing a SLAM handbook, to be published by Cambridge University Press, with many *stellar* contributors. Part 1 is available as an online draft for public comments. Help us find bugs/problems! Link to release repo is here: lnkd.in/gZhTkaxb

GitHub - SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release: Release repo for our SLAM Handbook

Release repo for our SLAM Handbook. Contribute to SLAM-Handbook-contributors/slam-handbook-public-release development by creating an account on GitHub.

lnkd.in

Starting out the bluesky journey looking for a strong PhD student in 3D Vision! If you are interested in 3D Vision - specially in using light & camera motion for reconstruction - MVS, SFM, SLAM with Photometric Stereo, and its application in robotics and medical imaging please reach out to me!