Oscar Mendez PhD
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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.