Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV)

Not-for-profit

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ACRV is working to allow robots to see, to understand their environment using the sense of vision. The Centre is delivering the breakthrough science and technologies to create a new generation of robots that can visually sense and understand complex and unstructured real-world environments. The Centre has already created an underwater robot that culls crown of thorns starfish – addressing an impending ecological crisis, without the cost and risk involved in using human divers; created an agricultural robot that can see the difference between weeds and crops and apply the correct dose of the correct herbicide precisely on the weed – potentially reducing herbicide usage by 70%; and created a fruit picking robot that picks the right fruit the right way every time 24?7.

Website http://roboticvision.org/

Key science sectors

• Advanced manufacturing
• Defence, aviation and space
• Engineering
• Environment and nature
• Food and agriculture
• Health and medical
• ICT and multimedia
• Life sciences

Strengths and capabilities

• Machine learning techniques for application to robotic vision
• Scene understanding for robotic vision
• Knowledge representations and visual question answering (VQA) applied to robotics
• Understanding of human activities and intent

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

S Block, Level 11, QUT Gardens Point, 2 George Street, Brisbane QLD 4000

Organisation type

• Research Centre of Excellence – Headquarters