Publications
More than 35 papers across robotics, computer vision and applied AI, cited more than 750 times. The list follows Oscar's Google Scholar profile.
2026
HYDRA: Hybrid knowledge distillation and spectral reconstruction algorithm
C. Thirgood, O. Mendez, E. Ling, J. Storey, S. Hadfield
CVPR
2025
HyperGS: Hyperspectral 3D Gaussian splatting
C. T. Thirgood, C. Ling, O. Mendez, J. Storey, S. J. Hadfield
CVPR
2025
The radiance of neural fields: Democratizing photorealistic and dynamic robotic simulation
G. Nuthall, R. Bowden, O. Mendez
ICRA
2025
PEnG: Pose-enhanced geo-localisation
T. Shore, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2025
SpaGBOL: Spatial-graph-based orientated localisation
T. Shore, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield
WACV
2025
SpecBPP: A self-supervised learning approach for hyperspectral representation and soil organic carbon estimation
D. L. Ayuba, J.-Y. Guillemaut, B. Marti-Cardona, O. Mendez
arXiv preprint
2025
Delivering biopsychosocial health care within routine care: Spotlight-AQ pivotal multicenter randomized controlled trial results
R. C. Kelly, H. Price, P. Phiri, M. Cummings, A. Ali, M. Patel, E. Barnard, Y. Liu, O. Mendez, K. Barnard-Kelly
Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology
2024
BEV-CV: Birds-eye-view transform for cross-view geo-localisation
T. Shore, S. Hadfield, O. Mendez
IROS
2024
HyperKon: A self-supervised contrastive network for hyperspectral image analysis
D. L. Ayuba, J.-Y. Guillemaut, B. Marti-Cardona, O. Mendez
Remote Sensing
2024
Utilizing graph neural networks for adverse health detection and personalized decision making in sensor-based remote monitoring for dementia care
N. Bijlani, O. Mendez, R. Nilforooshan, P. Barnaghi, S. Kouchaki et al.
Computers in Biology and Medicine
2024
Two hands are better than one: Resolving hand to hand intersections via occupancy networks
M. Ivashechkin, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
IEEE Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)
2024
Generalizing to new tasks via one-shot compositional subgoals
X. Bian, O. Mendez, L. Zhang, S. Hadfield
ICARA
2024
Graph contrastive learning for anomaly detection and personalized alerting in sensor-based remote monitoring for dementia care
N. Bijlani, O. Mendez, R. Nilforooshan, P. Barnaghi, S. Kouchaki et al.
TechRxiv preprint
2023
Learning adaptive neighborhoods for graph neural networks
A. Saha, O. Mendez, C. Russell, R. Bowden
ICCV
2023
Denoising diffusion for 3D hand pose estimation from images
M. Ivashechkin, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
ICCV Workshops
2023
RaSpectLoc: Raman spectroscopy-dependent robot localisation
C. Thirgood, O. Mendez, E. C. Ling, J. Storey, S. Hadfield
IROS
2023
Improving 3D pose estimation for sign language
M. Ivashechkin, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
ICASSP Workshops
2023
A generalizable unsupervised graph-based approach for anomalous event detection in people living with dementia
N. Bijlani, R. Nilforooshan, O. Mendez, S. Kouchaki
Alzheimer's & Dementia (conference abstract)
2023
Spotlight-AQ RCT and AI results: Improving physical and mental health outcomes for adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes
K. Barnard, R. C. Kelly, L. Cohen, E. Barnard, Y. Liu, P. Phiri, O. Mendez, H. Price
Diabetes (conference abstract)
2022
Translating images into mapsBest Paper Award
A. Saha, O. Mendez, C. Russell, R. Bowden
ICRA
2022
“The pedestrian next to the lamppost”: Adaptive object graphs for better instantaneous mapping
A. Saha, O. Mendez, C. Russell, R. Bowden
CVPR
2022
BEV-SLAM: Building a globally-consistent world map using monocular vision
J. Ross, O. Mendez, A. Saha, M. Johnson, R. Bowden
IROS
2022
AFT-VO: Asynchronous fusion transformers for multi-view visual odometry estimation
N. Kaygusuz, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
IROS
2022
SKILL-IL: Disentangling skill and knowledge in multitask imitation learning
X. Bian, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield
IROS
2022
G-CMP: Graph-enhanced contextual matrix profile for unsupervised anomaly detection in sensor-based remote health monitoring
N. Bijlani, O. Mendez, S. Kouchaki
arXiv preprint
2021
Enabling spatio-temporal aggregation in birds-eye-view vehicle estimation
A. Saha, O. Mendez, C. Russell, R. Bowden
ICRA
2021
MDN-VO: Estimating visual odometry with confidence
N. Kaygusuz, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
IROS
2021
There and back again: Self-supervised multispectral correspondence estimation
C. Walters, O. Mendez, M. Johnson, R. Bowden
ICRA
2021
Multi-camera sensor fusion for visual odometry using deep uncertainty estimation
N. Kaygusuz, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
ITSC
2021
Improving robot localisation by ignoring visual distraction
O. Mendez, M. Vowels, R. Bowden
IROS
2021
Robot in a china shop: Using reinforcement learning for location-specific navigation behaviour
X. Bian, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield
ICRA
2021
Markov localisation using heatmap regression and deep convolutional odometry
O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, R. Bowden
ICRA
2020
SeDAR: Reading floorplans like a human – using deep learning to enable human-inspired localisation
O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, N. Pugeault, R. Bowden
International Journal of Computer Vision
2019
A robust extrinsic calibration framework for vehicles with unscaled sensors
C. Walters, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, R. Bowden
IROS
2018
SeDAR – semantic detection and ranging: Humans can localise without LiDAR, can robots?
O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, N. Pugeault, R. Bowden
ICRA
2018
Localisation via deep imagination: Learn the features not the map
J. Spencer, O. Mendez, R. Bowden, S. Hadfield
ECCV Workshops
2017
Taking the scenic route to 3D: Optimising reconstruction from moving cameras
O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, N. Pugeault, R. Bowden
ICCV
2016
Next-best stereo: Extending next-best view optimisation for collaborative sensors
O. Mendez, S. Hadfield, N. Pugeault, R. Bowden
BMVC
Patents
2026
Bird's eye view (BEV) semantic mapping systems and methods using monocular camera
M. Johnson, J. Ross, R. Bowden, O. Mendez
US Patent 12,633,126
2026
Water non-water segmentation systems and methods
M. Johnson, C. Walters, R. Bowden, O. Mendez
US Patent 12,530,885
2025
Water non-water segmentation systems and methods
J. R. D. Ross, M. Johnson, C. Walters, O. Mendez, R. Bowden
US Patent 12,211,265
2023
Extrinsic sensor calibration systems and methods
C. Walters, R. Bowden, O. Mendez, S. Hadfield
US Patent 11,609,574
Pending
Warehouse labour orchestration
Locus Robotics
Patent application submitted
Doctoral thesis
2017
Collaborative strategies for autonomous localisation, 3D reconstruction and pathplanning
O. Mendez
University of Surrey. Awarded the Sullivan Doctoral Thesis Prize.