SLAM is being gradually developed towards Spatial AI, the common sense spatial reasoning which will enable robots and other artificial devices to operate[..]
Professor Andrew Davison
Professor Davison is a co-founder of SLAMcore and Professor of Robot Vision at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and leads Imperial’s Robot Vision Research Group. He has spent 20 years conducting pioneering research in visual SLAM, with a particular emphasis on methods that work in real-time with commodity cameras. He has developed and collaborated on breakthrough SLAM systems including MonoSLAM and KinectFusion, and his research contributions have over 15,000 academic citations. He also has extensive experience of collaborating with industry on the application of SLAM methods to real products.