Paul Newman
BP Professor of Information Engineering
Pushes navigation and autonomy techniques for mobile robots in endurance and scale, including autonomous vehicles.
Paul Newman's lab at Oxford works on autonomous vehicles & drones and embodied & active vision. 18 papers since 2023, 10 at top venues, mostly ICRA and IROS. 9 PhD students and 3 master's students. 15 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 5/ year
- at T1 venues
- 56%
- PhD students
- 9
- MS students
- 3
- alumni listed
- 15
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 0
- 9 papers2024 · T1 5
- 6 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICRA, IROS, Autonomous Robots, CVPR, NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- scale1 paper
- Autonomous vehicles & drones0 papers
- Embodied & active vision0 papers
- mobile robots0 papers
- techniques0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20261 paper
20252 papers
20249 papers
- ITSCDoppler-aware odometry from FMCW scanning radar (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)Masked γ-SSL: learning uncertainty estimation via masked image modeling (opens in a new tab)
- T-RO (T1)Mitigating distributional shift in semantic segmentation via uncertainty estimation from unlabeled data (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)NeuralFloors++: consistent street-level scene generation from BEV semantic maps (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsOORD: the Oxford Offroad Radar Dataset (opens in a new tab)
- RadarConf24Open-RadVLAD: fast and robust radar place recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)That's my point: compact object-centric LiDAR pose estimation for large-scale outdoor localisation (opens in a new tab)
- ICRA (T1)VDNA-PR: using general dataset representations for robust sequential visual place recognition (opens in a new tab)
- ISERWhat you see is what you get: experience ranking with deep neural dataset-to-dataset similarity for topological localisation (opens in a new tab)
20236 papers
- VaccineInnovative method for rapid detection of falsified COVID-19 vaccines through unopened vials using handheld Spatially Offset Raman Spectroscopy (SORS) (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Off the radar: uncertainty-aware radar place recognition with introspective querying and map maintenance (opens in a new tab)
- Autonomous RobotsPoint-based metric and topological localisation between lidar and overhead imagery (opens in a new tab)
- RSS (T1)Self-supervised Lidar place recognition in overhead imagery using unpaired data (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)Visual DNA: representing and comparing images using distributions of neuron activations (opens in a new tab)
- IROS (T1)Visual servoing on wheels: robust robot orientation estimation in remote viewpoint control (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went15 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 1
Apply to Oxford2027-28
DPhil in Computer Science
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- 2027-28 entry (January round)
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