Riku Murai
I am a PostDoc at Imperial College London, working on distributed many-device optimisation, low-power unconventional sensing, and 3D scene representation for SLAM.
Before that, I was a PhD student jointly supervised by Prof. Paul H. J. Kelly and Prof. Andrew J. Davison, and during my PhD, I was a research scientist intern at Meta, Embodied AI team within FAIR.
Publications
![Image of PixRO: Pixel-Distributed Rotational Odometry with Gaussian Belief Propagation](./assets/pixro.png)
"PixRO: Pixel-Distributed Rotational Odometry with Gaussian Belief Propagation"
arXiv preprint, 2024
![Image of Gaussian Splatting SLAM](./assets/gaussian-splatting-slam.png)
"Gaussian Splatting SLAM" (Highlight)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024
(*equal contribution)
![Image of Distributed Simultaneous Localisation and Auto-Calibration using Gaussian Belief Propagation](./assets/Autocalibration.png)
"Distributed Simultaneous Localisation and Auto-Calibration using Gaussian Belief Propagation"
Robotics and Automation Letters, 2024
![Image of A Robot Web for Distributed Many-Device Localisation](./assets/robotweb.png)
![Image of Distributing Collaborative Multi-Robot Planning With Gaussian Belief Propagation](./assets/multirobot-pathplanning.png)
"Distributing Collaborative Multi-Robot Planning With Gaussian Belief Propagation"
Robotics and Automation Letters, 2023
![Image of Cain: Automatic Code Generation for A Simultaneous Convolutional Kernels on A Focal-plane Sensor-processors](./assets/conf-Cain.png)
"Cain: Automatic Code Generation for A Simultaneous Convolutional Kernels on A Focal-plane Sensor-processors"
Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, 2022
An extended version is published in Autonomous Robots, 2022, paper
![Image of PathBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Classical and Learned Path Planning Algorithms](./assets/journal-path-bench.png)
"PathBench: A Benchmarking Platform for Classical and Learned Path Planning Algorithms" (Best Robotics Paper)
Conference on Robot and Vision, 2021
An extended version is published in Advanced Robotics, 2022, paper
![Image of BIT-VO: Visual Odometry at 300 FPS using Binary Features from the Focal Plane](./assets/journal-BIT-VO.png)
"BIT-VO: Visual Odometry at 300 FPS using Binary Features from the Focal Plane"
Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020
An extended version is published in Autonomous Robots, 2023, paper