Today I’m going to give a presentation on IROS2011 ASP-AVS workshop. This is my first ever conference/workshop presentation. //Excited!! Robust Semantic Place Recognition with Vocabulary Tree and Landmark Detection Links: PDF | Video Formal links of this publication will be … Continue reading
As I’m moving out of my previous office EE51, I found myself staying in MSEE189 for a lot of time. The bad thing about these linux machines are that you do not have root permission to install softwares you want. … Continue reading
Lin Yuan is a -year PhD student in Department of at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of Purdue University. His research interests are Machine Learning and Cognitive Robotics.
ROS is publishing ros-electric distribution in a few months, and opencv2 package is going to be deprecated. We are going to need opencv by ourselves again (hooray). But before an ros-electric release comes, there are still some problems with using … Continue reading
Basically I followed the excellent tutorial written by Nikhil Soni: http://thebattlegoeson.blogspot.com/2011/06/xyz.html except that I want to make a few notes: 1. The default sicktoolbox package I get from apt-get ros-diamondpack-laser-drivers didn’t work. I had to apt-get remove it and svn … Continue reading
Description: running ROS on Ubuntu10.04 with built-in OpenCV 2.2, wanted to show an image in an HighGUI window. I added cv::namedWindow(“Image Window”, CV_WINDOW_AUTOSIZE); in the constructor and cv::imshow(“Image Window”, image); //cv::Mat image; in the main loop. but the image window … Continue reading
Semantic Place Recognition
Recently I got several inquiries on how to setup a wordpress blog style homepage using Purdue ITAP’s web server. So I decided to write up this “how to” tutorial. Step 0: Preparation Download wordpress to your own computer: http://wordpress.org/latest.zip Download … Continue reading
This post is out-dated. For the most recent documents, see this (Mobile devices) and this (Email clients). Purdue Mymail configuration: Mobile Devices: https://www.purdue.edu/goldanswers/app/portlets/results/viewsolution.jsp?solutionid=041027917252509&isguest=true Thunderbird: Normally you only need to change the original “username.mail.purdue.edu” to “mymail.purdue.edu” With the original “STARTTLS” + … Continue reading