Emerging Learning & Algorithmic Methods for Data Association in Robotics - ICRA Workshop

This workshop aims to present the latest results and emerging learning and algorithmic techniques for data association in robotics. Data association, which can be described as identifying relations between sets of measurements, physical objects, labels, etc., is a well-studied field with solutions dating back to 70’s. However, recent results in the fields of optimization, graph theory, and machine learning have opened new and exciting research directions.

Through a series of contributed and invited talks by academic leaders and renowned researchers, emerging algorithmic methods based on optimization or graph-theoretic techniques, learning and end-to-end solutions based on deep neural networks, and the synergy between them will be discussed. These techniques promise new capabilities and performance improvements across a broad range of applications, including but not limited to semantic segmentation, point cloud alignment, sensor fusion for autonomous vehicles, object pose estimation for robotic manipulation, place recognition for simultaneous localization and mapping, and data fusion for multi-agent systems.

The workshop will further facilitate discussion on current challenges and research directions in the next 5-10 years.