8 research outputs found
CalibNet: Geometrically Supervised Extrinsic Calibration using 3D Spatial Transformer Networks
3D LiDARs and 2D cameras are increasingly being used alongside each other in
sensor rigs for perception tasks. Before these sensors can be used to gather
meaningful data, however, their extrinsics (and intrinsics) need to be
accurately calibrated, as the performance of the sensor rig is extremely
sensitive to these calibration parameters. A vast majority of existing
calibration techniques require significant amounts of data and/or calibration
targets and human effort, severely impacting their applicability in large-scale
production systems. We address this gap with CalibNet: a self-supervised deep
network capable of automatically estimating the 6-DoF rigid body transformation
between a 3D LiDAR and a 2D camera in real-time. CalibNet alleviates the need
for calibration targets, thereby resulting in significant savings in
calibration efforts. During training, the network only takes as input a LiDAR
point cloud, the corresponding monocular image, and the camera calibration
matrix K. At train time, we do not impose direct supervision (i.e., we do not
directly regress to the calibration parameters, for example). Instead, we train
the network to predict calibration parameters that maximize the geometric and
photometric consistency of the input images and point clouds. CalibNet learns
to iteratively solve the underlying geometric problem and accurately predicts
extrinsic calibration parameters for a wide range of mis-calibrations, without
requiring retraining or domain adaptation. The project page is hosted at
https://epiception.github.io/CalibNetComment: Appeared in the proccedings of the IEEE International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 201
CAMP: a useful resource for research on antimicrobial peptides
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are gaining popularity as better substitute to antibiotics. These peptides are shown to be active against several bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa and cancerous cells. Understanding the role of primary structure of AMPs in their specificity and activity is essential for their rational design as drugs. Collection of Anti-Microbial Peptides (CAMP) is a free online database that has been developed for advancement of the present understanding on antimicrobial peptides. It is manually curated and currently holds 3782 antimicrobial sequences. These sequences are divided into experimentally validated (patents and non-patents: 2766) and predicted (1016) datasets based on their reference literature. Information like source organism, activity (MIC values), reference literature, target and non-target organisms of AMPs are captured in the database. The experimentally validated dataset has been further used to develop prediction tools for AMPs based on the machine learning algorithms like Random Forests (RF), Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Discriminant Analysis (DA). The prediction models gave accuracies of 93.2% (RF), 91.5% (SVM) and 87.5% (DA) on the test datasets. The prediction and sequence analysis tools, including BLAST, are integrated in the database. CAMP will be a useful database for study of sequence-activity and -specificity relationships in AMPs. CAMP is freely available at http://www.bicnirrh.res.in/antimicrobial