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TOURANI Ali

University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > Automation

ORCID
0000-0002-6955-1172
Main Referenced Co-authors
SANCHEZ LOPEZ, Jose Luis  (18)
VOOS, Holger  (18)
BAVLE, Hriday  (13)
AVSAR, Deniz Isinsu  (4)
EJAZ, Saad  (4)
Main Referenced Keywords
Robotics (9); Visual SLAM (7); Computer Vision (6); SLAM (6); Fiducial Markers (3);
Main Referenced Unit & Research Centers
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > ARG - Automation & Robotics (18)
Main Referenced Disciplines
Computer science (18)
Engineering, computing & technology: Multidisciplinary, general & others (2)
Physics (1)

Publications (total 21)

The most downloaded
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (29 November 2022). Visual SLAM: What Are the Current Trends and What to Expect? Sensors, 22 (23), 9297. doi:10.3390/s22239297 https://hdl.handle.net/10993/53588

The most cited

103 citations (OpenAlex)

TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (29 November 2022). Visual SLAM: What Are the Current Trends and What to Expect? Sensors, 22 (23), 9297. doi:10.3390/s22239297 https://hdl.handle.net/10993/53588

CHEKAM, I. M., Pastor-Martinez, I., TOURANI, A., MILLÁN ROMERA, J. A., RIBEIRO, L., BASTOS SOARES, P. M., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (November 2025). Interpretable Robot Control via Structured Behavior Trees and Large Language Models. IEEE Access, 13, 200905-200916. doi:10.1109/access.2025.3635471
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RIBEIRO, L., SHAHEER, M., FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, M., TOURANI, A., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (2025). Human Interaction for Collaborative Semantic SLAM using Extended Reality. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/67221. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2509.14949

BIKANDI NOYA, A., FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, M., SHAHEER, M., TOURANI, A., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (2025). BIM Informed Visual SLAM for Construction Monitoring. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/66617.

BASTOS SOARES, P. M., TOURANI, A., FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, M., BIKANDI NOYA, A., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (2025). SMapper: A Multi-Modal Data Acquisition Platform for SLAM Benchmarking. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/66783. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2509.09509

TOURANI, A., EJAZ, S., BAVLE, H., FERNANDEZ CORTIZAS, M., David Morilla Cabello, SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (2025). vS-Graphs: Tightly Coupling Visual SLAM and 3D Scene Graphs Exploiting Hierarchical Scene Understanding. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/66781.

EJAZ, S., GIBERNA, M., SHAHEER, M., MILLÁN ROMERA, J. A., TOURANI, A., KREMER, P., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (2025). Situationally-aware Path Planning Exploiting 3D Scene Graphs. ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/66784. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2508.06283

TOURANI, A., AVSAR, D. I., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., LAGERWALL, J., & VOOS, H. (2025). Unveiling the Potential of iMarkers: Invisible Fiducial Markers for Advanced Robotics. (4). ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/66711. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.15505

TOURANI, A., EJAZ, S., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (15 October 2024). Towards Localizing Structural Elements: Merging Geometrical Detection with Semantic Verification in RGB-D Data [Paper presentation]. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'24), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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Ghari, B., TOURANI, A., Shahbahrami, A., & Gaydadjiev, G. (August 2024). Pedestrian detection in low-light conditions: A comprehensive survey. Image and Vision Computing, 148, 105106. doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2024.105106
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., AVSAR, D. I., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., Munoz-Salinas, R., & VOOS, H. (16 July 2024). Vision-Based Situational Graphs Exploiting Fiducial Markers for the Integration of Semantic Entities. Robotics, 13 (7), 106. doi:10.3390/robotics13070106
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., EJAZ, S., Morilla-Cabello, D., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (13 May 2024). Late Breaking Results on vS-Graphs: Integrating Visual SLAM and Situational Graphs for Multi-level Scene Understanding​ [Poster presentation]. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'24), Yokohama, Japan.
Editorial reviewed

TOURANI, A., Rahmani, H., Deldjoo, Y., & Naghiaei, M. (2024). CAPRI: Context-Aware Interpretable Point-of-Interest Recommendation Framework. Software Impacts. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2306.11395
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Radwan, A., TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., VOOS, H., & SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L. (2024). UAV-Assisted Visual SLAM Generating Reconstructed 3D Scene Graphs in GPS-Denied Environments. In 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, ICUAS 2024. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556948
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., Munoz Salinas, R., & VOOS, H. (01 October 2023). Marker-based Visual SLAM leveraging Hierarchical Representations [Paper presentation]. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'23). doi:10.48550/arXiv.2303.01155
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., VOOS, H., & Munoz Salinas, R. (01 October 2023). Late Breaking Results on Visual S-Graphs for Robust Semantic Scene Understanding and Hierarchical Representation [Poster presentation]. 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'23). doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.16794.82883
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., AVSAR, D. I., Munoz Salinas, R., & VOOS, H. (2023). Vision-based Situational Graphs Generating Optimizable 3D Scene Representations. (1). ORBilu-University of Luxembourg. https://orbilu.uni.lu/handle/10993/57373. doi:10.48550/arXiv.2309.10461

TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., Munoz Salinas, R., & VOOS, H. (June 2023). Hierarchical Visual SLAM based on Fiducial Markers [Paper presentation]. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2023), London, United Kingdom.
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BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., Cimarelli, C., TOURANI, A., & VOOS, H. (May 2023). From SLAM to Situational Awareness: Challenges and Survey. Sensors, 23 (10), 4849. doi:10.3390/s23104849
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TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., & VOOS, H. (29 November 2022). Visual SLAM: What Are the Current Trends and What to Expect? Sensors, 22 (23), 9297. doi:10.3390/s22239297
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AGHA, H., GENG, Y., MA, X., AVSAR, D. I., KIZHAKIDATHAZHATH, R., ZHANG, Y., TOURANI, A., BAVLE, H., SANCHEZ LOPEZ, J. L., VOOS, H., schwartz, M., & LAGERWALL, J. (25 October 2022). Unclonable human-invisible machine vision markers leveraging the omnidirectional chiral Bragg diffraction of cholesteric spherical reflectors. Light: Science and Applications, 11 (309), 10.1038/s41377-022-01002-4. doi:10.1038/s41377-022-01002-4
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Rahmani, H. A., Naghiaei, M., TOURANI, A., & Deldjoo, Y. (2022). Exploring the Impact of Temporal Bias in Point-of-Interest Recommendation. In RecSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (pp. 598-603). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi:10.1145/3523227.3551481
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