Kai Ni


I am currently a researcher at Microsoft, and I got my Ph.D. from College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology. My research interests include computer vision, robotics, and machine learning. More specifically, I work on SfM/SLAM problems as well as place recognition. Frank Dellaert is my advisor. Check out the Research page, the Publications page, and the Software page to find out more. You may also find something interesting from my blog and albums.

Automated SLAM Evaluation Workshop

Sunday, June 05, 2011
On July 1st, Michael, Grisetti, and I will organize the workshop on Automated SLAM Evaluation in the 2011 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference at USC. Submissions are open now!

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Thesis Defense

Thursday, April 21, 2011
I passed my thesis defense today. Thanks my thesis committee (Dr. Marc Pollefeys, Dr. Eric N. Johnson, Dr. Irfan Essa, Dr. Henrik I. Christensen, and Dr. Frank Dellaert) and my fellow students for the effort and the support! Meanwhile, I have started working at Microsoft as a researcher.


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Visibility Learning, ICRA 2011

Friday, February 11, 2011
Our recent work with Pablo F. Alcantarilla has been accepted in ICRA 2011. The paper is about learning to predict which 3D features from a large environment model will be detected in a camera image, which can cut down tremendously on computational cost in localizing the camera, e.g., in robot or phone localization.

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SU-VLPR 2010

Tuesday, August 03, 2010
I just got back from Xi’an (a city with more than 3,100 years of history) for SU-VLPR 2010. Some pictures I took from this trip are here.

IROS papers are online now

Friday, July 23, 2010
The camera-ready version of two IROS papers is online now: Tectonic Smoothing and Mapping 2.0 and SPCG for SLAM. The details can be viewed here.