Alper Aydemir

I am a Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision and Active Perception Lab at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH. I got my BSc degree from Sabanci University on Mechatronics Engineering during which I had a short stint at the Carnegie Mellon NanoRobotics Laboratory , USA. Even before that I was at the Lycée Saint Joseph Istanbul .

Versatile mobile robots need to find objects in their environment and interact with them. I am interested in the search part. Mainly, what are the methods and algorithms needed to robustly localize objects in large environments?

One of the key insights from my studies is that in order to efficiently and robustly localize objects in large scale environments we need a consistent spatial representation and suitable vision algorithms.

• May 2011: I got a paper into RSS'11 workshop on spatial modeling and grounding!
• Feb. 2011: I am organising a workshop at IROS 2011, check it out!

• Active Visual Search
• Semantic Mapping
• Machine Learning

• Andrzej Pronobis, KTH, Sweden
• Kristoffer Sjöö, KTH, Sweden
• Bhaskara Marthi, Willow Garage, USA
• Dirk Holz , University of Bonn, Germany