Ethan Eade MIL Group

Introduction

I finished my PhD in September 2008, and I've been a scientist at Evolution Robotics since then. Contact me at ethan-at-evolution-dot-com.

Until September 2008, I was a research student in Cambridge University Engineering Department, in the Machine Intelligence lab of the Information Engineering division. I was previously a student at Duke University, where I graduated in 2004 with undergraduate degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics.

My work at Cambridge from 2004 to 2006 was funded by a Marshall Scholarship, and since 2006 it was funded by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, with additional funding in 2006-2007 from Boeing.

Research

I did my PhD work on simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) with a single video camera in real time. I'm more generally interested in vision-based localisation and map building for large environments.

Thesis

• Ethan Eade
  Monocular Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping
  Supervisor: Tom Drummond
  Cambridge University, 2008.

Publications (peer-reviewed)

• Ethan Eade and Tom Drummond
  Unified Loop Closing and Recovery for Real Time Monocular SLAM
  In Proc. BMVC'08, September 2008,
  Leeds, UK.
  
  Watch the indoor and outdoor videos (in hi-res: indoor and outdoor).


• Ethan Eade and Tom Drummond
  Monocular SLAM as a Graph of Coalesced Observations
  In Proc. ICCV'07, October 2007,
  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [BibTeX]
  
  Watch the video.


• Ethan Eade and Tom Drummond
  Edge Landmarks in Monocular SLAM
  In Proc. BMVC'06, September 2006,
  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [BibTeX]
  
  See the slides from my talk.
  
  Watch it work (in real-time) on a desktop sequence.
  
  The journal paper of this work, in press for Image and Vision Computing, is now available online [BibTeX].


• Ethan Eade and Tom Drummond
  Scalable Monocular SLAM
  In Proc. CVPR'06, June 2006,
  New York, New York, USA. [BibTeX]
  
  See the slides from my talk.
  
  Watch it work (in real-time) on an indoor sequence with more than 200 landmarks.


• Gerhard Reitmayr, Ethan Eade and Tom Drummond
  Localisation and Interaction for Augmented Maps
  In Proc. IEEE ISMAR'05, October 5-8, 2005,
  Vienna, Austria. [BibTeX]
  
  See augmented maps.

Contact Information

• E-mail: ee231@cam.ac.uk
• Department Address: University of Cambridge, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
• Telephone:+44 1223 766972
• Fax:+44 1223 332662