Ioannis Havoutis
Associate Professor
Works on robot learning for legged locomotion and manipulation, including learning motion skills from demonstration.
Ioannis Havoutis's lab at Oxford works on manipulation & robot learning and legged locomotion & humanoids. 40 papers since 2023, 16 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 8 PhD students. 12 alumni, most often to Amazon and Systems Engineer. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 10/ year
- at T1 venues
- 40%
- PhD students
- 8
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 12
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 16 papers2025 · T1 5
- 12 papers2024 · T1 7
- 10 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, RA-L, RSS, CoRL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning3 papers
- Legged locomotion & humanoids3 papers
- skills0 papers
- demonstration0 papers
- legged locomotion0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
202516 papers
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsAutoInspect: Toward Long-Term Autonomous Inspection and Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Boxi: Design Decisions in the Context of Algorithmic Performance for Robotics (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsBuilding Forest Inventories With Autonomous Legged Robots—System, Lessons, and Challenges Ahead (opens in a new tab)
- Recent Advances in Robotic Perception for ForestryDigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry (opens in a new tab)
- —Exosense: A Vision-Centric Scene Understanding System For Safe Exoskeleton Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- CoRL (T1)ImLPR: Image-based LiDAR Place Recognition using Vision Foundation Models (opens in a new tab)
- The SLAM Handbook: From Localization and Mapping to Spatial IntelligenceLiDAR SLAM (opens in a new tab)
- Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPSOpenLex3D: A Tiered Evaluation Benchmark for Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Representations (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE AccessPerceptive Locomotion Through Whole-Body MPC and Optimal Region Selection (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)PlanarMesh: Building Compact 3D Meshes from LiDAR using Incremental Adaptive Resolution Reconstruction (opens in a new tab)
- Waste Management ConferenceSafeMove: Multi-Model Navigation for Fail-Resistant Autonomous Nuclear Material Transport (opens in a new tab)
- —Sapling-NeRF: Geo-Localised Sapling Reconstruction in Forests for Ecological Monitoring (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- IEEE Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications3D Bone Surface Image Reconstruction from Freehand Ultrasound using Visual-Inertial Odometry and Deep Inertial Odometry (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Evaluation and Deployment of LiDAR-based Place Recognition in Dense Forests (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles SymposiumIMU-based Online Multi-lidar Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Language-EXtended Indoor SLAM (LEXIS): A Versatile System for Real-time Visual Scene Understanding (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)LiSTA: Geometric Object-Based Change Detection in Cluttered Environments (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Markerless Aerial-Terrestrial Co-Registration of Forest Point Cloudsusing a Deformable Pose Graph (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Online Tree Reconstruction and Forest Inventory on a Mobile Robotic System (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Field RoboticsOsprey: Multi-Session Autonomous Aerial Mapping with LiDAR-based SLAM and Next Best View Planning (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)SiLVR: Scalable Lidar-Visual Reconstruction with Neural Radiance Fields for Robotic Inspection (opens in a new tab)
- Field Robotics JournalTeam Cerberus wins the DARPA Subterranean Challenge: Technical overview and lessons learned (opens in a new tab)
- —The Bare Necessities: Designing Simple, Effective Open-Vocabulary Scene Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Tree Instance Segmentation and Traits Estimation for Forestry Environments Exploiting LiDAR Data Collected by Mobile Robots (opens in a new tab)
202310 papers
- ICRA WorkshopAutonomous Aerial Mapping for Construction (opens in a new tab)
- —Batch Differentiable Pose Refinement for In-The-Wild Camera/LiDAR Extrinsic Calibration (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LDeep IMU Bias Inference for Robust Visual-Inertial Odometry with Factor Graphs (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Extrinsic Calibration of Camera to LIDAR using a Differentiable Checkerboard Model (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Factor Graph Fusion of Raw GNSS Sensing with IMU and Lidar for Precise Robot Localization without a Base Station (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Fast Traversability Estimation for Wild Visual Navigation (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LHilti-Oxford Dataset: A Millimetre-Accurate Benchmark for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)InstaLoc: One-shot Global Lidar Localisation in Indoor Environments through Instance Learning (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Intelligent Vehicles SymposiumM-LIO: Multi-lidar, multi-IMU odometry with sensor dropout tolerance (opens in a new tab)
- RA-LObservability-aware online multi-lidar extrinsic calibration (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went12 listed, 22% to industry
Industry 2Academia 7
Most often to
- Amazon
- Systems Engineer
Also to
- Honk Kong Polytechnic University
- Imperial College London
Apply to Oxford2027-28
DPhil in Computer Science
- Round
- 2027-28 entry (January round)
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