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Books

(2) Robotics: Science and Systems VI

Edited by Y. Matsuoka, H. Durrant-Whyte and J. Neira

The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51681, September 2011

(1) Underwater SLAM for Structured Environments Using an Imaging Sonar

D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. Neira

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Vol. 65, 2010, ISBN: 978-3-642-14039-6

Journal papers

(18) Real-time 6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM over Large Scale Environments

J.B. Mcdonald, M. Kaess, C. Cadena, J. Neira, J.J. Leonard

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2013

(17) Robust Place Recognition with Stereo Sequences

C. Cadena, D. Gálvez, J. D. Tardos, Neira

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 28 (4), 871-885, 2012

(16) SLAM in O(log n) with the Combined Kalman - Information Filter

C. Cadena, J. Neira

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 58, Issue 11, 30 November 2010

(15) Editorial: Visual Navigation and Mapping Outdoors

C. Stachniss, S. Williams, J. Neira

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 27, Issue 5, September/October 2010.

(14) Editorial: Inside Data Association

J. Neira, U. Frese

Robotics and Autonomous Systems 57 (12), 1155-1156.

(13) A comparison of loop closing techniques in monocular SLAM

B. Williams, M. Cummins, J. Neira, P. Newman, I. Reid, J. D. Tardos

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 57, Issue 12, December 2009.

(12) Guest editorial: selected papers from Robotics: Science and Systems 2008

J. Neira and J. Trinkle

Autonomous Robots, Vol 26, Number 2, April, 2009.

(11) Underwater SLAM in Man-Made Structured Environments

D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. D. Tardos and J. Neira

Journal of Field Robotics, Vol 25, No 11-12, pp 898-921. November 2008.

(10) Guest Editorial, Special Issue on Visual SLAM

J. Neira, AJ Davison, J. Leonard

IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol 24, Number 5, pp 929-931, October 2008

(9) Large Scale 6DOF SLAM with Stereo-in-Hand

L.M. Paz, P. Piníes, J.D. Tardós, J. Neira

IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol 24, Number 5, pp 946-957, October 2008

(8) Divide and Conquer: EKF SLAM in O(n)

L.M. Paz, J.D. Tardós, J. Neira

IEEE Transactions on Robotics Vol 24, Number 5, pp 1107-1120, October 2008

(7) Robocentric Map Joining: Improving the Consistency of EKF-SLAM
J.A. Castellanos, R. Martinez-Cantin, J.D. Tardós and J. Neira
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 21-2, 31 January 2007

(6) Hierarchical SLAM: real-time accurate mapping of large environments
C. Estrada, J. Neira, J.D. Tardós
 IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol: 21,  Issue: , pages: 588- 596, August 2005

(5) Robust Mapping and Localization in Indoor Environments using Sonar Data
J.D. Tardós, J. Neira, P. Newman, and J. Leonard.
The International Journal of Robotics Research,  Vol. 21, No. 4, April, 2002, pp 311 –330

(4) Data Association in Stochastic Mapping using the Joint Compatibility Test
J. Neira and Juan D. Tardós
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation  Vol. 17, No. 6, Dec 2001, pp 890 –897

(3) Multisensor Fusion for Simultaneous Localization and Map Building
J.A. Castellanos, J. Neira and  J.D. Tardós
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation  Vol. 17, No. 6, Dec 2001, pp 908 –911

(2) The SPmap: A Probabilistic Framework for Simultaneous Localization and Map Building
J.A. Castellanos, J.M.M. Montiel, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Vol. 15, No. 5, Oct 1999, pp 948-953.

(1) Fusing Range and Intensity Images for Mobile Robot Localization
Neira J., Horn J., Tardós J.D. and Schmidt G.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 15, No. 1, Feb 1999, pp 76-84.

Book chapters

(2) Map Building and SLAM Algorithms
J.A. Castellanos, J. Neira, J. D. Tardós
Autonomous Mobile Robots: Sensing, Control, Decision-Making and Applications.  Shuzhi Sam Ge, Frank L. Lewis (eds) T&F, May 2006

(1) Mobile Robot Localization using Range and Vision
Neira J., Horn J., Tardós J.D. and Schmidt G.
Advances in Robotics. The ERNET Perspective, edited by C. Bonivento et al., World Scientific Publishing Co., New Jersey, USA, September 1996, pages 183-190.

Conference papers

(35) 6-DOF Multi-session Visual SLAM using Anchor Nodes

J. McDonald, M. Kaess, C. Cadena, J. Neira, J. Leonard

5th European Conference on Mobile Robotics, Sep 7-9, 2011, Örebro, Sweden

(34) SLAM in O(log n) with the Combined Kalman - Information Filter

C. Cadena and J. Neira

2009 IEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October  11-15, St. Louis, USA

(33) Efficient large scale SLAM including data association using the Combined Filter

C. Cadena, F. Ramos and J. Neira

4th European Conference on Mobile Robotics, September  23-25, 2009, Mlini/Dubrovnik, Croatia

(32) Finding good cycle constraints for large scale multi-robot SLAM

C. Estrada, J. Neira and J. D. Tardos

2009 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan, May, 2009.

(31) An Image–to–map Loop Closing Method for Monocular SLAM

B. Williams, M. Cummins, J. Neira, P. Newman, I. Reid, J. D. Tardos

2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Nice, France. September 22,2008.

(30) A Method for Extracting Lines and their Uncertainty from Acoustic Underwater Images for SLAM
D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. Neira and J. D. Tardós
6th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Toulouse, France, September 3-5  2007

(29) Mapping Large Loops with a Single Hand-Held Camera
L. Cleente, A. Davison, I. Reid, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós
2007 Robotics: Science and Systems, June 27-30, Atlanta, USA

(28) Data association in O(n) for Divide and Conquer SLAM
L.M. Paz, J. Guivant, J.D. Tardós and J. Neira
2007 Robotics: Science and Systems, June 27-30, Atlanta, USA

(27) Line Extraction from Mechanically Scanned Imaging Sonar
D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. Neira and J. D. Tardós
3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, June 6-8, 2007.

LNCS 4477, pp. 322–329, 2007.

(26) EKF SLAM updates in O(n) with Divide and Conquer SLAM
L.M. Paz, P. Jensfelt, J.D. Tardós and J. Neira
2007 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Rome, Italy, April, 2007.

(25) SLAM using an Imaging Sonar for Partially Structured Underwater Environments
D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. Neira, J. D. Tardós
2006 IEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October  9-15, Beijing, China

(24) Localization of Avalanche Victims Using Robocentric SLAM
P. Piníes, Juan D. Tardós, J. Neira
2006 IEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October  9-15, Beijing, China

(23) Optimal Local Map Size for EKF-based SLAM
L.M. Paz, J. Neira
2006 IEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October  9-15, Beijing, China

(22) AUV Localization in Structured Underwater Environments using an A Priori Map
D. Ribas, P. Ridao, J. Neira, J.D. Tardós
MCMC´2006 - 7th Conference on Manoeuvring and Control of Marine Craft, Lisbon, Portugal, September 20-22, 2006

(21) Global Localization in SLAM in Bilinear Time
L.M. Paz, P. Piníes, J. Neira, J.D. Tardós
2005 IEE/RSJ Int.Conf.on Intelligent Robots and Systems, August 2-6, Edmonton, Canada

(20) Limits to the Consistency of EKF-based SLAM
J.A. Castellanos, J. Neira, J.D. Tardós
5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, July 2004.

(19) Relocation using Laser and Vision
D. Ortín, J. Neira, J.M.M. Montiel
2004 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, USA, April, 2004.

(18) Linear time vehicle relocation in SLAM
J. Neira, J.D. Tardós, J.A. Castellanos
2003 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Taipei, Taiwan, May, 2003.

(17) Explore and Return: Experimental Validation of Real Time Concurrent Mapping and Localization
P. M. Newman, J. J. Leonard, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós.
2002 IEEE Int. Conf. Robotics and Automation, Washington D.C., May, 2002, pp 1802-1809.

(16) Towards Robust Data Association and Feature Modeling for Concurrent Mapping and Localization
J. J. Leonard, P. M. Newman, R. J. Rikoski, J. Neira, and J. D.Tardós.
10th International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR'2001). Nov, 2001, Lorne, Victoria, Australia.
Robotics Research, the Tenth International Symposium. Ray Jarvis and Alex Zelinsky (eds.). Springer-Verlag, 2002.

(15) Continuous Mobile Robot Localization: Vision vs. Laser
J.A. Pérez, J.A. Castellanos, J.M.M. Montiel, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós
1999 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'99, Detroit, Michigan, USA, 10-15 May 1999.

(14) Sensor Influence in the Performance of Simultaneous Mobile Robot Localization and Map Building
J.A. Castellanos, J.M.M. Montiel, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós
Sixth Int. Symp. on Experimental Robotics, ISER'99, Sydney, Australia, 26-28 March 1999, pp. 203 - 212.
Experimental Robotics VI, Peter Corke and James Trevelyan (eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Vol. 250, pp. 287-296, Springer Verlag, 2000.

(13) Simultaneous Map Building and Localization for Mobile Robots: A Multisensor Fusion Approach
J.A. Castellanos, J.M. Martínez, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós
1998 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, ICRA'98 , Leuven, Belgium, 16-21 May 1998, pp. 1244-1249.

(12) Experiments in Multisensor Mobile Robot Localization and Map Building
J.A. Castellanos, J.M. Martínez, J. Neira and J.D. Tardós
3rd IFAC Symp. on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, IAV'98 , Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, 25-27 March 1998, pp. 173-178.

(11) Mobile Robot Localization and Map Building using Monocular Vision
J. Neira, M. I. Ribeiro and J.D. Tardós
5th Int. Symp. on Intelligent Robotic Systems ' 97, pages 275-284, Stockholm, Sweden, 8-11 Jul 1997.

(10) Detecting High Level Features for Mobile Robot Localization
J.A. Castellanos, J. Neira, O. Strauss and J.D. Tardós.
1996 IEEE Int. Conf. on Multisensor Fusion and Integration, MFI'96 , Washington D.C., USA, 8-11 Dec 1996.

(9) Multisensor Mobile Robot Localization
Neira J., Horn J., Tardós J.D. and Schmidt G.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation ICRA'96, pages 673-679, Minneapolis, USA, May 1996.

(8) Constraint-Based Mobile Robot Localization
José A. Castellanos, Juan D. Tardós and José Neira.
Int. Workshop on Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Machines, ARIM'96 , Paper No. 14, University of Salford, Manchester, U.K., 2-3 April 1996.

(7) Fusing laser range and intensity images for mobile robot localization.
J. Neira, J. Horn, J.D. Tardós, G. Schmidt
ERNET Workshop in TELEMAN Telerobotics Research Conference, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands. July, 1995.

(6) Selective Attention in Multisensor Object Recognition
Neira J., Tardós J.D., Montano L.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, pages 5:158-5:164, Le Touquet, France, October 1993.

(5) Goal-Directed Perception in Multisensor Object Recognition Systems
Neira J., Tardós J.D., Montano L.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Control, pages 338-345, Chicago, USA, August 1993.

(4) Constraint-Based Object Recognition in Multisensor Systems
Neira J., Montano L., Tardós J.D.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, pages 3:135-3:142, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1993.

(3) Multisensor Object Recognition under Uncertainty
Tardós J.D., Neira J., Montano L.
23rd Int. Symp. on Industrial Robots, pages 41-46, Barcelona, Spain, October 1992.

(2) A Testbed for Research on Multisensor Object Recognition in Robotics
Neira J., Montano L., Tardós J.D.
IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Components and Instruments for Control

Applications (SICICA’92), Málaga, Spain, May 1992.

(1) Guarded and Compliant Motions using Force and Proximity Sensors.
Sagüés C., Neira J., Montano L.
Intl. Workshop on Sensorial Integration for Industrial Robots: Architectures

and Applications (SIFIR’89), Zaragoza, Spain. November, 1989.

Ph.D. Thesis

Geometric Object Recognition in Multisensor Systems
J. Neira
PhD Thesis, Dep. Ingeniería Eléctrica e Informática, Universidad de Zaragoza, Agosto. 1993, 225 pages.

Past events

· RSS 2011:  Robotics: Science and Systems, June 27-July 1, Los Angeles, USA

· IAV 2010:  IFAC 7th Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles,, September 6-8, 2010, Lecce, Italia.

· RSS 2010: Robotics: Science and Systems, June 29-July 2, Zaragoza, Spain

· IROS 2009: 2009 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 11-15, St. Louis, USA

· ECMR-09: 4th European Conference on Mobile Robots, September 23-25, Mlini/Dubrovnik, Croatia

· IJCAI-09: Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, July 11 - 17, Pasadena, USA

· RSS 2009: Robotics: Science and Systems, June 28-July 1, Seattle, WA, USA

· ICRA 2009: IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 12-17, Kobe, Japan

· SAC 2009: 24rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Special track on Robotics: Hardware, Software and Embedded Systems,  March 8 - 12, 2009, Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

· SAC 2008: 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Special track on Robotics: Hardware, Software and Embedded Systems,  March 16-20, Fortaleza, Brasil

· ICRA 2008, IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 19-23, Pasadena, USA

· IROS 2007: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 29 – November 2, San Diego, USA

· CEDI 2007: II Congreso Español de Informática, Septiembre 11 – 14, Zaragoza, Spain

· ROBOT2007: I Workshop de Robótica, Septiembre 11 – 14, Zaragoza,  Spain

· RSS 2007:  (member of the program committee) 2007 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, June 27-30, Atlanta, USA

· ICRA 2007: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 10-14, 2007, Rome, Italy

· Tutorial on Active estimation in Mobile Robotics: at IROS 2006, Beijing, China, October 10, 2006

· SLAM Summer School 2006: Oxford, UK – August 27-31, 2006

· IROS 2005 Advanced Tutorial on SLAM: Getting it Working in Real World Applications, August 2, 2005, Edmonton, Canada

· ICRA 2005:  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 18-22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain

· SLAM Summer School 2004:  2nd Summer School on Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping, August 3 - 7, 2004, Toulouse, France

· IAV 2004:  5th IFAC Symposium on Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, Lisbon, from 5 to 7 July 2004.

· ICRA 2004:  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April, 2003, New Orleans, USA

· ICRA 2003:  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 12-17 2003, Taipei, Taiwan

· ICRA 2002:  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 11-15 2002, Washington, USA

· SIRS 2001 ,  9th Symposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems ,  July 18-20 2001, Toulouse,  France.

· ICRA 2001: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 21-26 2001, Seoul, Korea

· ICRA 2000: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 24-28 2000, San Francisco, USA

· W4: Workshop Mobile Robot Navigation and Mapping , at ICRA 2000 , April 28 2000, San Francisco, USA

· ISRR'99 : 9th International Symposium of Robotics Research, October 9-12, 1999, Snowbird, USA

Coauthors

From my institution:

· César Cadena

· José A. Castellanos

· Rubén Martínez-Cantín

· Laura Clemente

· José M. Martínez-Montiel

· Luis Montano

· Diego Ortín

· Lina Paz

· José Antonio Pérez

· Pedro Pinies

· Juan Tardós

· Carlos Sagüés

From other institutions:

· Marc Cummins, Univ. Oxford

· Andrew Davison, Imperial College London

· Patric Jensfelt, KTH Sweden

· José Guivant, Univ. Sydney

· Joaquim Horn, TU Munich

· John Leonard, MIT

· Paul Newman, Univ. Oxford

· Fabio Ramos, Univ. Sydney

· Ian Reid, Univ. Oxford

· David Ribas, Univ. Girona

· Pere Ridao, Univ. Girona

· Isabel Ribeiro, IST Lisbon

· Rick Rikoski, MIT

· Günter Schmidt, TU Munich

· Cyrill Stachniss, Univ. Freiburg

· Brian Williams, Univ. Oxford

· Stefan Williams, Univ. Sydney

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