Papers
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Total Citations
288
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About
Guillaume Caron is a leading researcher at the intersection of robotics, computer vision, and assistive technologies, with a focus on omnidirectional vision and human-robot interaction. His pioneering work on photometric visual servoing for omnidirectional cameras (50 citations) established a foundation for direct image-based robot control using wide field-of-view sensors. Caron’s major contributions include developing spherical visual gyroscopes and dense visual compasses that enable robust robot orientation estimation without traditional inertial sensors, as demonstrated in his highly cited 2018 paper on the Mixture of Photometric Potentials (19 citations). He has significantly advanced humanoid loco-manipulation through combined fast 3D tracking and SLAM with wide-angle depth images (21 citations), integrating vision-based perception into whole-body control. Caron’s impact extends to assistive robotics, where he co-designed modular technologies for smart wheelchairs within the EU’s ADAPT project (30 citations). He also created the PanoraMIS dataset (17 citations), a benchmark for ultra-wide field of view image-based robot motion estimation. His recent work on cybernetic avatar systems for telepresence (18 citations) and immersive humanoid teleoperation with enhanced visual feedback (15 citations) demonstrates his ongoing commitment to bridging perception and action in robotic systems.
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- 1Photometric visual servoing for omnidirectional cameras50 citations · 2013
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- 83D model based pose estimation for omnidirectional stereovision14 citations · 2009
- 93D model based tracking for omnidirectional vision: A new spherical approach13 citations · 2012
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