Maurice Fallon

Professor of Robotics at University of Oxford. I mostly tweet as @dynamicrobots, my research group. European. Irish. Iarmhí Abú!

[Alexandre Morgand @Almorgand]

"FoundationVIO: Enforcing Metric Scale in Feed-forward Visual-Inertial Odometry"

TLDR: 3D foundation models + IMU measurements and factor-graph optimization to recover metric-scale camera trajectories and dense 3D reconstructions, with loop closure for globally consistent SLAM.

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

I have two PhD studentships for 2026.

Apply before 13 February!

[Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems @dynamicrobots]

🚨 2x Funded PhD Projects - Please share! 🚨

PROJECT 1: Long-Term 3D Change Detection of Industrial Facilities
• Apply via: RAINZ CDT
• UK applicants for £31,000 tax-free stipend plus fees.
• Deadline: 13 February

Project listing:
https://t.co/LhpDew4lpQ

[Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems @dynamicrobots]

🛠️ Software Release 🛠️

PlanarMesh is a real-time algorithm for minimal LiDAR mesh reconstruction:
https://t.co/kBXhTfYWJa

PlanarMesh directly estimates planar surfaces with high fidelity and data compactness - 10x smaller than SotA methods.

[Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems @Oxford @aims_oxford]

The CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems is part of the TechExpert pilot offering stipends of £31,000 for students eligible for home fee status.

Join us and help grow the UK’s national capability in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems.
https://t.co/WOO4n49W1H

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

The candidate has the opportunity to interact with other groups in ORI as well as our collaborators in Seoul National University, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech, Hilti and elsewhere on some very exciting projects.

My research group:
https://t.co/urns6OgPQF

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position on 3D Reconstruction and Mapping!

🕒 Deadline: 27 Nov 2025
📚 Duration: 2 year role
📍 Location: Oxford, UK

Focus areas: visual SLAM, semantic segmentation, NeRF/3DGS but also legged robots

Apply here:
https://t.co/a3tFNHxi9W

[Christina Kassab @ckassab1]

Our paper OpenLex3D is accepted to NeurIPS 2025!

tldr; a new benchmark for open-vocabulary scene understanding methods.

Page: https://t.co/eZlwJGZBpI

With thanks to @SachMorin, Martin Büchner, @mmattamala, @kumaraditya_gup, Abhinav Valada, @duckietown_coo & @MauriceFallon

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

@AjdDavison It is Meta’s slam running on meta’s data from its own hardware. Heavily optimised by maybe 20 people.

It’s really only okvis and openvins that are comparable. Openvins does pretty well from my experiments.

The other systems are mono - so incomparable.

[New College, Oxford @NewCollegeOx]

We had a visit from @oxfordrobots this morning! Reglisse was particularly intrigued at the four-legged competition 🐕🦾

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

Closing in week - new post doc position in my group

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position at @oxfordrobots!

I have a new collaborative project working with @DrStephenMellon to further develop our vision-based ultrasound reconstruction system - called ScanLite. Deadline: 8 Sept 2025

Apply here:
https://t.co/68w2vrR2jG

[DigiForest Research Project @digiforest_eu]

DigiForest researchers from @oxfordrobots demonstrating their mapping technology to students of the Summer School on Forest Ecosystems organised by @m_mokros (@3DForEcoTech ) Sruthi Moorthy (@SalGoTeam)

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

@OOEC_Oxford @ndorms @OUHospitals

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

🚨 HIRING: New Post-Doc Position at @oxfordrobots!

I have a new collaborative project working with @DrStephenMellon to further develop our vision-based ultrasound reconstruction system - called ScanLite. Deadline: 8 Sept 2025

Apply here:
https://t.co/68w2vrR2jG

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

The focus is vision-based tracking and ultrasound reconstruction for medical applications

Collaborators include @OOEC_Oxford @ndorms as well as clinical partners in @OUHospitals

Details on the project
https://t.co/TePwdZgknT
https://t.co/urns6OgPQF

#slam #3dvision #ultrasound

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

@gabriberton @wenjing_bian @Yifu_Tao thanks for the input! i guess the tables with our dataset are consistency your own paper - even on challenging night images.

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

It was fantastic to work with Juan Suarez of @ForestryComm in @digiforest_eu. Our team has been working with European partners to develop robot & sensing tech to digitise forests quickly & accurately.

Papers: https://t.co/yWnlO9PyZ0
Digiforest website: https://t.co/F7RZrQOxPZ

[University of Oxford @UniofOxford]

🌍 | Oxford researchers are using robotics to transform sustainable forest management practices in the pioneering DigiForest project, joining a wider @HorizonEU team with partners across Europe @digiforest_eu.

#OxfordClimate | @dynamicrobots | @oxfordrobots | @oxengsci

[Zhenjun Zhao @zhenjun_zhao]

Seeing in the Dark: Benchmarking Egocentric 3D Vision with the Oxford Day-and-Night Dataset

@ziruiwang_, @wenjing_bian, @li_xinghui, @Yifu_Tao, Jianeng Wang, @MauriceFallon, Victor Adrian Prisacariu

tl;dr: egocentric dataset with GT 3D and lighting variation for benchmarking NVS and visual relocalization

https://t.co/jq2KGfVQlz

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

@AjdDavison @AjdDavison - an actual slide from the 3rd year introductory vision course. I think AZ or DWM would have made it. LOL

[Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems @dynamicrobots]

🚨🚨 New #SLAM #RealityCapture Dataset! 🚨🚨

The Oxford Spires Dataset.

New mapping benchmark in Oxford's famous colleges and Blenheim Palace focusing on high quality reconstruction (#nerf #gaussiansplatting) and colorization.

https://t.co/PGeENpxVeG

#spatialai #oxford

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

Program involves 1 yr of training at Uni. of Manchester before moving to Oxford, Glasgow, or Manchester for Yr2-4.

Positions will mostly for students from UK and Ireland (🇮🇪!). A fraction can fund internationals students (~30%).

Full details on RAINZ:
https://t.co/MwMpNxZaPt

[Maurice Fallon @MauriceFallon]

🚨🚨 Last Reminder: 17 Funded Robotics PhD Positions! 🚨🚨

In the new RAINZ PhD training programme. The deadline for application is 11th February 2025.

We have four RAINZ positions at the Oxford Robotics Institute. Details here:
https://t.co/0wYyE5x9qs