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Enabling Robotic, AR and VR systems
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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What do these all have in common?
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Need to answer two fundamental questions
Where am I in the world?
What does my world look like?
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Simultaneous Localisation And Mapping
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a stream of data from one or more sensors
Inputs Outputs
This is what we do
Where am I in the world?
What does my world look like?
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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SLAM is the key enabler to these industries
Driverless Cars
Mobile Robotics
$42BN by 2025
$10BN by 2020
Small Drones
$18BN by 2020 $30BN by 2020
$90BN by 2020
Virtual Reality
Augmented Reality
Potential Market size of > $70BN by 2025
Potential Market size of> $120BN by 2020
Potential Market size of> $450BN by 2019
Currently at $420BN
Mobile Phones
$25BN by 2019
Wearables
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Robotic and Autonomous Vehicles
Augmented and Virtual Reality Systems
Wearable and Mobile Devices
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Current SLAM solutions are not good enough
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Self Driving cars are easily blinded
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DARPA Grand Challenge robots
could not cope with unstructured
environments
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Autonomous Drones lose tracking during aggressive manoeuvres
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50% of VR users suffer motion sickness due to latency
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Enabling Robots, AR and VR Systems
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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Jacek ZienkiewiczCo-Founder
PhD project: “Dense vision for mobile robot guidance”
Co-inventor of Multi-scale Monocular Fusion
over 5 yrs related industrial experience, 2 patents
Dr Stefan LeuteneggerCo-Founder (CTO)
Lecturer in Robot Vision at Imperial College London
Co-inventor of BRISK and OKVIS
over 30 publications and 1,700 citations, 4 patents
Prof. Andrew DavisonCo-Founder (Chair)
Professor in Robot Vision at Imperial College London
Co-inventor of MonoSLAM, DTAM, KinectFusion and
SLAM++
120 publications, over 13,000 citations, 4 patents
Hanme KimCo-Founder
PhD project: “Visual SLAM with an event camera”
Co-inventor of ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D
over 12 yrs related industrial experience
Owen NicholsonCo-Founder (CEO)
Specialist in early stage R&D, innovation and Project
Management
Over 10 yrs related industrial experience
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We have the TeamOur team has the most consistent history of innovation in visual SLAM over more than 20 years.
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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Investor 1
Investor 2
We have the MoneyJust closed a £1M seed round
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The Event Camera
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We have the Technology
Traditional Sensors
Slamcore can produce solution with both traditional sensors and new architectures
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enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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A completely new architectureEvent camera’s provide a paradigm shift in camera design
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Key benefits of Event Camera Technology
14mW 100mWvs
400kB/s 10MB/svs
High Dynamic Range
High speed and low latency
10x decrease in power and data rate
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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Event Camera | ChallengesConventional methods cannot be directly applied to its fundamentally different visual measurement stream.
feature detection & matching[Leutenegger et al., ICCV’11]
image alignment
a sequence of events
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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Event Camera | ChallengesConventional methods cannot be directly applied to its fundamentally different visual measurement stream.
feature detection & matching[Leutenegger et al., ICCV’11]
image alignment
a sequence of events
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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Event Camera | ChallengesConventional methods cannot be directly applied to its fundamentally different visual measurement stream.
feature detection & matching[Leutenegger et al., ICCV’11]
image alignment
a sequence of events
enabling robots. enabling AR and VR.
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ETAM 3D
Best PaperECCV 2016
The first real time, 3D SLAM solution for an Event Camera
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