PhD Thesis Defense
Venkatraman Narayanan
Carnegie Mellon University

Deliberative Perception

Newell-Simon Hall 3305

Abstract: A recurrent and elementary robot perception task is to identify and localize objects of interest in the physical world. In many real-world situations such as in automated warehouses and assembly lines, this task entails localizing specific object instances with known 3D models. Most modern-day methods for the 3D multi-object localization task employ scene-to-model feature [...]