Olivier Koch
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyComputer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laboratory
Robotics, Vision and Sensor Network Lab (RVSN)
PhD student, supervisor: Prof. Seth Teller
I will be finishing my PhD around December 2009. My research interests include detection, localization and navigation using vision.
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Contact info
The Stata Center Bldg 32-331
32 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
koch@csail.mit.edu
Work phone: +1-617-253-4723
Conference Publications
2009
Body-Relative Navigation using Uncalibrated Cameras, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan (to appear) [PDF]
2007
Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Known 3D Structure, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, USA [PDF]
Other publications
2008
A Vision-based Navigation Assistant, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, ECCV Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired, Marseille, France [PDF]
A Vision-based Navigation Assistant, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, IROS Workshop on 3D Mapping, Nice, France [PDF]
2007
Team MIT Urban Challenge Technical Report, John Leonard et al., MIT CSAILTechnical Report #2007-058 [PDF]
Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Known 3D Structure, Olivier Koch, MS Thesis [PDF]
2005
SLYK: A Transparent Fault-Tolerant Migration Platform, Olivier Koch, Jasper Lin, Jennifer Shu and ShuChyng You, 6.824 Distributed Computer Systems Final Project [PDF]
2002
The City Scanning Project: Validation and Parallel Algorithms, Olivier Koch and Seth Teller, MIT LCS Technical Report [PDF]
Talks
Body-relative Navigation Guidance using Uncalibrated Cameras
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Kyoto, Japan, 2009 [poster (PDF)]
Scene Understanding Symposium (SUNS), MIT, 2009 [PDF]
CSAIL Student Workshop 2008
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Workshop on 3D Mapping, 2008 [PDF]
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Workshop on Computer Vision Applications to the Visually Impaired, 2008 [PDF]
Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Omnidirectional Video
MIT EECS Research Qualifying Exam, Feb 2007 [PDF]
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Minneapolis, USA, 2007 [poster, PDF]
INRIA Rhones-Alpes, PERCEPTION Team, 2007 (invited talk) [PDF]
CSAIL Student Workshop 2006 [PDF]
Software
Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Omnidirectional Video: rvsn.csail.mit.edu/omni3d
Body-relative Navigation Guidance using Uncalibrated Cameras: rvsn.csail.mit.edu/navguide
Relevant Coursework (Cumulative GPA 4.6/5.0)
6.866 Computer Vision (Prof. BKP Horn) [class link]
This class introduces the concept of Robot Vision, BKP Horn, MIT Press, 1986.
6.840 Theory of Computation (Prof M. Sipser) [class link]
An extensive and theoretical treatment of computability and computational complexity theory. Regular and context-free languages. Decidable and undecidable problems, reducibility, recursive function theory. Time and space measures on computation, completeness, hierarchy theorems, inherently complex problems, oracles, probabilistic computation, and interactive proof systems.
6.824 Distribute Systems (Prof R. Morris) [class link]
This class presents abstractions and implementation techniques for engineering distributed systems. Topics include multithreading, remote procedure call, client/server designs, peer-to-peer designs, consistency, fault tolerance, and security, as well as several case studies of distributed systems.
6.839 Advanced Computer Graphics (Prof. F. Durand) [class link]
A graduate level course investigates computational problems in rendering, animation, and geometric modeling. The course draws on advanced techniques from computational geometry, applied mathematics, statistics, scientific computing and other.
Teaching
6.01 Introduction to EECS 1, Teaching Assistant (Prof. L. Kaebling, T. Lozano-Perez), Spring 2008 [class link]
An introduction to the main computer science concepts through robotics: software engineering, feedback and control, circuits, probability and planning. 300+ students! Very intensive class involving a lot of student-teacher interaction in labs.
6.092 Introduction to Software Engineering in Java, Instructor, January 2008 and 2009 [class link]
A hands-on introductory class to Java over four weeks in January. Two instructors, 60 students.
Videos
Ground Robot Navigation using Uncalibrated Cameras, Olivier Koch, Matthew Walter, Albert Huang, Seth Teller, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2010. Submitted. Also available in AVI format: icra2010.avi (244 MB).
Body-relative Navigation Guidance using Uncalibrated Cameras, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, IEEE International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), 2009. Also available in AVI format: iccv2009.avi (56 MB).
Wide-Area Egomotion Estimation from Known 3D Structure, Olivier Koch, Seth Teller, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007. Also available in AVI format: cvpr2007.avi (60 MB).
Omnidirectional view of our lab using the Pointgrey Ladybug. Also available in AVI format: omni3d_sphere.avi (25 MB).