Book Chapters

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  A. Petrovskaya, M. Perrollaz, L. Oliveira, L. Spinello, R. Triebel,
  Alexandros Makris, J.D. Yoderzz, C. Laugier, U. Nunes, P. Bessiere
  Awareness of Road Scene Participants for Autonomous Driving.
  In Handbook of Intelligent Vehicles, 2012.
  [ bib ]  [  pdf  ]

Refereed Journal Papers

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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Multiclass Multimodal Detection and Tracking in Urban Environments.
  In International Journal Robotics Research (IJRR), 2010.
  [ bib ] [  pdf-preprint  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]

Refereed Conference Papers

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  A. Eitel, J. T. Springerberg, L. Spinello, M. Riedmiller and W. Burgard
  Multimodal Deep Learning for Robust RGB-D Object Recognition.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  A. Valada, L. Spinello, and W. Burgard
  Deep Feature Learning for Acoustics-based Terrain Classification.
  In Proc. of the Int. Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Sestry, Italy, 2015.
  Oral presentation
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  P. Agarwal, W. Burgard and L. Spinello
  Metric Localization Using Google Street View.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Hamburg, Germany, 2015.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  N. Abdo, C. Stachniss, L. Spinello and W. Burgard
  Robot, Organize my Shelves! Tidying up Objects by Predicting User Preferences.
  Best Conference and Student Paper Finalist
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Seattle, USA, 2015.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  F. Nenci, L. Spinello and C. Stachniss
  Effective Compression of Range Data Streams for Remotely Operating Mobile Robots using H.264.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, USA, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  C. Sprunk, J. Roewekaemper, G. Parent, L. Spinello, G. D.Tipaldi, W. Burgard and M. Jalobeanu
  An Experimental Protocol for Benchmarking Robotic Indoor Navigation.
  In Proc. of the International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) 2014, Marrakech, Morocco, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  M. Mazuran, G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello and W. Burgard
  Nonlinear Graph Sparsification for SLAM.
  In Proc. of the Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), Berkeley, USA, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  T. Naseer, L. Spinello, W. Burgard and C. Stachniss
  Robust Visual Robot Localization Across Seasons using Network Flows.
  In Proc. of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Quebec, Canada, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  N. Abdo, L. Spinello, W. Burgard and C. Stachniss
  Inferring What to Imitate in Manipulation Actions by Using a Recommender System.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  M. Mazuran, G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello, W. Burgard and C. Stachniss
  A Statistical Measure for Map Consistency in SLAM.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  B. Suger, G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello and W. Burgard
  An Approach to Solving Large-Scale SLAM Problems with a Small Memory Footprint.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014.
  Best Conference Paper Finalist
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  P. Agarwal, G. Grisetti, G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello, W. Burgard and C. Stachniss
  Experimental Analysis of Dynamic Covariance Scaling for Robust Map Optimization Under Bad Initial Estimates.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, 2014.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  M. Dakulovic, C. Sprunk, L. Spinello, Ivan Petrovic and W. Burgard
  Efficient Navigation for Anyshape Holonomic Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Tokyo, Japan, 2013.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello and W. Burgard
  Geometrical FLIRT Phrases for Large Scale Place Recognition in 2D Range Data.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ] [  code  ]
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  N. Abdo, H. Kretzschmar, L. Spinello and C. Stachniss
  Learning Manipulation Actions from a Few Demonstrations.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  P. Agarwal, G. D. Tipaldi, L. Spinello, C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Robust Map Optimization using Dynamic Covariance Scaling.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference of Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, 2013.
  Best Student Paper Finalist
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  J. Stork, L. Spinello, J. Silva, K. O. Arras
  Audio-Based Human Activity Recognition Using Non-Markovian Ensemble Voting.
  In Proc. of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMan), Paris, France, 2012.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  M. Luber, L. Spinello, J. Silva and K. O. Arras
  Socially Acceptable Robot Navigation: A Learning Approach.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Villamura, Portugal, 2012.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]
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  L. Spinello and K. O. Arras
  Leveraging RGB-D Data: Adaptive Fusion and Domain Adaptation for Object Detection in RGB-D Data.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, USA, 2012.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]
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  L. Spinello and K. O. Arras
  People Detection in RGB-D Data.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, 2011.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]
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  M. Luber, L. Spinello and K. O. Arras
  People Tracking in RGB-D Data With On-line Boosted Target Models.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, 2011.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]
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  L. Spinello, M. Luber and K. O. Arras
  Tracking People in 3D Using a Bottom-Up Top-Down Detector.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]
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  J. Maye, R. Triebel, L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Bayesian On-line Learning of Driving Behaviors.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, 2011.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel, D. Vasquez, R. Siegwart and K. O. Arras
  Exploiting Repetitive Object Patterns for Model Compression and Completion.
  In Proc. of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Crete, Greece, 2010.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page  ]
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  L. Spinello, K. O. Arras, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  A Layered Approach to People Detection in 3D Range Data.
  In Proc. of the AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence: Physically Grounded AI Track (AAAI), Atlanta, USA, 2010.
  [ bib ] [  pdf  ]  [  Project Page and Video  ]
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  D. Scaramuzza, L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Key Technologies for Intellingent and Safer Cars - from Motion Estimation to Predictive Obstacle Avoidance.
  In Proc. of the Int. Symp. on Industrial Electronics (ISIE), Bari, Italy, 2010.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  J. Maye, L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Inferring the Semantics of Direction Signs in Public Places.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, USA, 2010.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  M. A. Hoepflinger, C. D. Remy, M. Hutter, L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Haptic Terrain Classification for Legged Robots.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, USA, 2010.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, A. Macho, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Detecting Pedestrians at Very Small Scales.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Saint Louis, USA, 2009.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Multiclass Multimodal Detection and Tracking in Urban Environments.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), Boston, USA, 2009.
  Best Conference Paper Finalist
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  D. Engel, L. Spinello, R. Triebel, C. Curio, R. Siegwart and H. Bueltoff
  Medial Features for Superpixel Segmentation.
  In Proc. of the IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA), Tokio, Japan, 2009.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Region of Interest Generation in Dynamic Environments Using Local Entropy Fields.
  In Proc. the Int. Conf. of Computer Vision and Systems (ICVS), Santorini, Greece, 2008.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Multimodal Detection and Tracking of Pedestrians in Urban Environments with Explicit Ground Plane Extraction.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Nice, France, 2008.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  Multimodal People Detection and Tracking in Crowded Scenes.
  In Proc. the AAAI Conf. on Artificial Intelligence: Physically Grounded AI Track (AAAI), Chicago, USA, 2008.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Human Detection using Multimodal and Multidimensional Features.
  In Proc. the Int. Conf. in Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Pasadena, USA, 2008.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Unsupervised Detection of Artificial Objects in Outdoor Environments.
  In Proc. of the Int. Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR), Chamonix, France, 2007.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]
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  L. Spinello, L. Spaghetti, F. Martinelli and V. Di Salvo
  A microcontroller based datalogger for traffic information collection in parking areas.
  In Proc. of the IFAC Conference on Control Systems Design (CSD), Bratislava, Slovak Rep, 2003.
  [ bib ] [ pdf ]

Refereed Workshop Papers

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  L. Spinello, C. Stachniss and W. Burgard
  Scene in the Loop: Towards Adaptation-by-Tracking in RGB-D Data.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on RGB-D: Advanced Reasoning with Depth Cameras (RSS), Sidney, Australia, 2012.
  [ bib ]  [ pdf ]
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  M. Luber, L. Spinello and K. O. Arras
  Learning to Detect and Track People in RGB-D Data.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on RGB-D Cameras (RSS), Los Angeles, USA, 2011.
  [ bib ]
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  L. Spinello, R. Triebel and R. Siegwart
  A Trained System for Multimodal Perception in Urban Environments.
  In Proc. of The Workshop on People Detection and Tracking (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  [ bib ]
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  L. Spinello, M.Rufli and R. Siegwart
  Multi Sensor Perception and Dynamic Motion Planning in Cities.
  In Proc.  the Workshop on Safe Navigation (ICRA), Kobe, Japan, 2009.
  [ bib ]
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  R. Triebel, L. Spinello and R. Siegwart
  Extraction of Dynamic Objects from 3D Point Clouds using Multimodal Detection and Tracking.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on 3D-Mapping (IROS), Nice, France, 2008.
  [ bib ]
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  S. Kolski, K. Macek, L. Spinello and R. Siegwart.
  Secure Autonomous Driving in Dynamic Environments: From Object Detection to Safe Driving.
  In Proc. of the Workshop on Safe Nav. in Open and Dyn. Env.: Applications to Auton. Vehicles (IROS), San Diego, USA, 2007.
  [ bib ]

PhD Thesis

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  L. Spinello.
  Scene Understanding for Mobile Robots.
  PhD Thesis
  Thesis advisor: Prof. Roland Siegwart.
  Committee members: Prof. James L. Crowley (INRIA Prima - Grenoble), Prof. Kai Arras (University of Freiburg)
  Chair: Prof. Robert Riener (ETH Zurich).
  ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 21 December 2009.
  [ bib ]