Insights

Field notes from the last mile of AI.

Guides, perspectives and published research from the people doing the work.

Researcher reviewing SLAM point-cloud output on screen
01 · Guides and perspectives

Worth a read.

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Guide

How to source data for AI and ML

Collect, license, simulate or partner. How to choose, and how to get the edge cases your model is missing.

Read the guide →
Pilot project dashboard on a meeting-room screen
Perspective · coming soon

Why most AI pilots never reach production

Where pilots stall, and the questions that keep them moving.

Wall of CCTV monitors in a store back office
Perspective · coming soon

Less than 1% of CCTV is ever watched

Why the cameras you already own are your most overlooked retail asset.

02 · Published research

Peer-reviewed, and in the open.

Our research runs with the Centre of Intelligent Robotics at IIIT Allahabad and other academic partners.

Journals

Sequential visual place recognition using semantically-enhanced featuresPaturkar, Yadav, Kala · Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024Read →Locality-constrained continuous place recognition for SLAM in extreme conditionsYadav, Pani, Mishra, Tiwari, Kala · Applied Intelligence, 2023Read →Fusion of visual odometry and place recognition for SLAM in extreme conditionsYadav, Kala · Applied Intelligence, 2022Read →Improving RGB-D SLAM in dynamic environments using semantic aided segmentationKenye, Kala · Robotica, 2022Read →Feature-based correspondence filtering using structural similarity index for visual odometryKenye, Kala · IJPRAI, 2022Read →An ensemble of spatial clustering and temporal error profile based dynamic point removal for visual odometryKenye, Kala · Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2022Read →Optimistic motion planning using recursive sub-samplingKenye, Kala · IJIMAI, 2022Read →Motion planning of autonomous vehicles in a non-autonomous vehicle environment without speed lanesKala, Warwick · Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2013Read →

Conferences

Low-cost SLAM using occupancy grid, place recognition and semantic priorsKenye, Kala · IEEE RO-MAN, 2023Read →SLAM and map learning using hybrid semantic graph optimizationAgrawal et al. · MED, 2022Read →Predictive risk analysis using deep learning in Indian trafficJha, Rai, Kala · IEEE ITSC, 2021Read →Re-localization for self-driving cars using semantic mapsKenye et al. · IEEE IRC, 2020Read →

Books

Autonomous Mobile Robots: Planning, Navigation and SimulationRahul Kala · Elsevier, 2023Read →Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic ApproachesTiwari, Shukla, Kala · IGI Global, 2013Read →Advances in Cyber Security and Intelligent AnalyticsCo-edited by Prof. Vrijendra Singh et al. · CRC PressRead →

Open data

METEOR: a dense, heterogeneous and unstructured traffic dataset with rare behavioursWith IIIT and the University of MarylandRead →
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