Australian Centre for Robotic Vision (ACRV)
Not-for-profit

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
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