The deal with 6D.ai was months, or years, in the making, as the companies have always enjoyed a close relationship. “Funnily enough, just as we were starting 6D.ai,” said Miesnieks in his post.

The study uses 6D object pose tracking in the Rao-Blackwellized particle filtering framework, where the 3D rotation and the 3D translation of an object are separated.

6D.ai, a young startup emerging from Oxford University's Active Vision Lab, is aiming to use smartphone cameras to build a cloud-based, crowdsourced three-dimensional map of the world that will ...