Lauri Suomela

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I am a doctoral student at Computer Vision Group, Tampere University, Finland. My work focuses on machine learning for autonomous robot navigation, which I investigate under the supervision of Prof. Joni Kämäräinen and Prof. Harry Edelman. The long-term goal of my research is to enable long-term autonomy for robots operating in GPS-denied environments.

News

Sep 6, 2025 Synthetic vs. Real Training Data for Visual Navigation accepted to CoRL 2025 workshop on Making Sense of Data in Robotics!
Jun 9, 2025 2nd Place in the 2025 Earth Rover Challenge!

Research

2025

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    Synthetic vs. Real Training Data for Visual Navigation
    Lauri SuomelaSasanka Kuruppu ArachchigeGerman F. Torres, and 2 more authors
    In CoRL Workshop on Making Sense of Data in Robotics, 2025

2024

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    PlaceNav: Topological Navigation through Place Recognition
    Lauri SuomelaJussi KalliolaHarry Edelman, and 1 more author
    In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

2023

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    Benchmarking Visual Localization for Autonomous Navigation
    Lauri SuomelaJussi KalliolaAtakan Dag, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan 2023