2022 Speaking Engagements

February 2, 2022 Author: Michael

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Hosting the Acting Australian Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Hon Richard Marles tour at the QUT Centre for Robotics

2022

  • Feb 21 – IEEE Robotics Podcast, Paris (online)
  • [deferred] 11 March, “Robotics, AI and automation: What Could Possibly Go Wrong” – Mercury IT Tech Connect Series, City Winery, Brisbane
  • [can’t attend due to international travel restrictions] 3 March, The Queensland Robotics and Autonomous Future, Future Cities VIP event at Expo 2020 Dubai, UAE.
  • March 18, “Neuroscience-inspired SLAM and navigation: Where are we coming from and where could we go?” at 7th Universal Positioning, Indoor Navigation and Location-Based Services International Conference (UPINLBS 2022), Wuhan (online)
  • March 27, “Biologically-inspired SLAM: Where are we coming from and where could we go?”, ICACAR 2022 Keynote Speaker, online / China
  • 11 April, “Hacking Academia”, QUT HDR Careers Week
  • 13 April, “Supercharging Spatial, Sensory And Spiking Neural Network Scales for Visual Place Recognition and Navigation”, AUSMURI US-Australia Review, online
  • 26 April, “Profile Building for the Modern Researcher with the Aid of Technology”, publicly broadcast QUT Centre for Robotics seminar
  • [cancelled] 28 April, “QUT Council Dinner Invited Speaker”
  • 28 April (29 April in Australia), “Royal Institute of Navigation”, United Kingdom (online)
  • [workshop not going ahead] May 23-27, ICRA2022 proposed workshop, Towards Dependable Robotics: between performance and safety requirements. Which role can bio-inspiration play?
  • May 6, Smart Community Podcast (online podcast)
  • May 11, “Automation – Decision Making in Industry and Society” panel, GLASS Automation Panel Event, The Calile, Brisbane, Australia
  • May 23 – 27 ICRA2022
    • May 23, ICRA2022 Workshop, The Future of Construction Using Robotics
    • May 24, ICRA2022 Competition, General Place Recognition
    • [team member / co-author] Paper presentation: OpenSceneVLAD: Appearance Invariant, Open Set Scene Classification
    • [team member / co-author] Paper presentation: An Efficient and Scalable Collection of Fly-Inspired Voting Units for Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments
    • [team member / co-author] Paper presentation: Spiking Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition Via Weighted Neuronal Assignments
    • [team member / co-author] Paper presentation: Improving Road Segmentation in Challenging Domains Using Similar Place Priors
    • [team member / co-author] Paper presentation: MultiRes-NetVLAD: Augmenting Place Recognition Training with Low-Resolution Imagery
  • 22 June, “Now That The Hype is Settling, What Can Mining Gain from Robotics, Autonomous Vehicles and Artificial Intelligence?”, BMA Technical Services Forum, The University of Queensland, Brisbane
  • 29 June, Advancing Health Tech Panel, Australian Medical Association Queensland, online / Uluru
  • July 6, “RatSLAM and neuro-inspired mapping and navigation”, 2022 Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, online
  • July 8, Invited keynote, International Summit Forum of Engineering Science and Technology on “Beidou Navigation and Location Service in Intelligent Era”, online
  • July 11th, 11am-1pm, ECR career session talk and Q&A, The Australasian Brain and Psychological Sciences Meeting, UQ, Brisbane
  • July 18, “Hacking Academia”, The Australian Institute of Policy and Science (online)
  • July 21, 2:15 pm, “Positioning resilience in GPS- and comms-denied environments”, accepted oral presentation at the Australian Defence Science and Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit, Sydney, Australia
  • July 20-22, “AI for Defence: optimality vs explainability vs verifiability of AI solutions” Panel, Australian Defence Science and Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit, Sydney, Australia
  • 08 August, Acting Australian Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Hon Richard Marles tour at QUT Centre for Robotics
  • 11 August, Making STEM More Accessible, RISS RoboLaunch Initiative, CMU [online]
  • [cancelled] 12 August, speaker, “Researching for impact”, C4IE Masterclass: Researching for impact, QUT
  • 23 August, Summary of the Berlin Robotics Summit, QUT Center for Robotics weekly seminar
  • 5 October, Autonomous and robotic systems for Defence: Why, when and how?, Panel Discussion at Asia Pacific Automotive Engineering Conference (APAC), Melbourne.
  • 6 October, Driverless Cars, Legal Firm, Melbourne
  • 18 October, invited speaker “Bridging the Divide Between Long Term Navigation Autonomy in Nature and Robots”, Crete Neuroscience and AI symposium and workshop, Crete, Greece, EU
  • 26 October, “Developing Digital Literacy” Panel Speaker, ATSE ACTIVATE, Sydney, Australia.
  • 23 – 27 October, IROS2022, 6 x paper talks by collaborators and team members, Kyoto, Japan
    • Predicting to Improve: Integrity Measures for Assessing Visual Localization Performance, Helen Carson, Jason Ford, Michael J Milford (IEEE RA-L paper)
    • Improving Worst Case Visual Localization Coverage with Dynamic Camera Selection, Stephen Hausler, Ming Xu, Sourav Garg, Punarjay Chakravarty (Ford Motor Corporation), Shubham Shrivastava (Ford), Ankit Vora (Ford), Michael J Milford (IEEE RA-L paper)
    • A RoboStack Tutorial: Using the Robot Operating System alongside the Conda and Jupyter Data Science Ecosystem, Tobias Fischer, Wolf Kristian Vollprecht, Silvio Traversaro, Sean Yen, Carlos Herrero, Michael J Milford (IEEE RAM paper)
    • SwitchHit: A Probabilistic, Complementarity-Based Switching System for Improved Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments Priors, Maria Waheed, Michael J Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan
    • Highly-Efficient Binary Neural Networks for Visual Place Recognition, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael J Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan (original stand-alone conference paper)
    • Binary Neural Networks for Memory-Efficient and Effective Visual Place Recognition in Changing Environments, Bruno Ferrarini, Michael J Milford, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Shoaib Ehsan (IEEE TRO paper)
  • 31 Oct – 1 Nov, Invited Talk at T-Tech Future Transport Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
  • 08 November, Customer of the future – what we need to know to prepare, Translink Panel, Online
  • 09 November, Research Overview Talk at Centre for Advanced Defence Research in Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Adelaide, Australia.
  • 14 November, plenary talk for “Optimised networks for people and goods movement” session at iMOVE Conference 2022 – collaborating our way to a sustainable transport future, Sydney, Australia
  • 15 November, panel speaker “Latest developments in robotics and vehicle automation” at iMOVE Conference 2022 – collaborating our way to a sustainable transport future, Sydney, Australia
  • 23 November, speaker at Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre-Queensland Defence Science Alliance Networking Event, 1 William St, Brisbane
  • 28 November [tentative], Cutting-Edge Solutions to Shared Challenges – Australia and Japan Webinar Series, Panel Talk, online.
  • 7-9 December, “Combining bio-inspired, algorithmic and learning-based approaches to localization and perception for robots and autonomous vehicles”, Invited Speaker at the 10th Int’l Conf. on RiTA (Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications), Gold Coast, Queensland
  • [workshop not going ahead] 14-18 December, “Representations for Place Recognition”, invited talk, “Representations for Robot Learning” workshop, 2022 Conference on Robot Learning, Auckland, New Zealand.
  • 15-18 December, Krishan Rana (PhD researcher), “Residual Skill Policies: Learning an Adaptable Skill-based Action Space for Reinforcement Learning for Robotics”, poster presentation at Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL2022)