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SEMANTICFUSION SOFTWARE

LICENCE AGREEMENT

WE (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, (“Imperial College London”))
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SCHEDULE 1

The Software

SemanticFusion is a real-time visual SLAM system capable of semantically annotating a dense
3D scene using Convolutional Neural Networks. It is based on the techniques described in the
following publication:

John McCormac, Ankur Handa, Andrew J Davison, Stefan Leutenegger. SemanticFusion:
Dense 3D Semantic Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017

Acknowledgments

If you use the software, you should reference the following paper in any publication:

John McCormac, Ankur Handa, Andrew J Davison, Stefan Leutenegger. SemanticFusion:
Dense 3D Semantic Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks. IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2017