Publications




A Hierarchical Image Analysis for Extracting Parking Lot Structures from Aerial Images
Young-Woo Seo and Christopher Urmson
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
An Integrated Approach to High-Level Information Fusion
Katia Sycara, Robin Glinton, Bin Yu, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Sean R. Owens, and LTC Charles Grindle
Journal Article, Information Fusion: Special Issue on High-level Information Fusion and Situation Awareness, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 25 - 50, 2009
Automated Metadata in Multimedia Information Systems: Creation, Refinement, Use in Surrogates, and Evaluation
Michael Christel
Book, 2009
Characterization of Three Algorithms for Detecting Surface Flatness Defects from Dense Point Clouds
Pingbo Tang, Burcu Akinci, and Daniel Huber
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IS&T/SPIE Conference on Electronic Imaging, Science and Technology, Vol. 7239, 2009
Design and Experimentation of a Rover Concept for Lunar Crater Resource Survey
David Wettergreen, Dominic Jonak, David Kohanbash, Scott Jared Moreland, Spencer Spiker, James Teza, and William (Red) L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, 2009
Hierarchical Segmentation of Piecewise Pseudoextruded Surfaces for Uniform Coverage
Prasad N. Atkar, David C. Conner, Aaron Greenfield, Howie Choset, and Alfred A. Rizzi
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 107 - 120, 2009
Keepon: A playful robot for research, therapy, and entertainment
Hideki Kozima, Marek Piotr Michalowski, and Cocoro Nakagawa
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2009
Localization, Mapping, and Planning in 3D Environments
Nathaniel Fairfield
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Minimum Wheel-Rotation Paths for Differential-Drive Robots
Hamidreza Chitsaz, Steven M. LaValle, Devin J. Balkcom, and Matthew T. Mason
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 66 - 80, 2009
Prioritized Multihypothesis Tracking by a Robot with Limited Sensing
Paul Rybski and Manuela Veloso
Journal Article, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, pp. 138 - 154, 2009
The role of humans in information propagation in Large Scale Heterogeneous Teams
Praveen Paruchuri, Robin Glinton, Paul Scerri, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems (DIS '09), 2009
Traverse Planning for Robotic Recon and Human Exploration of Hadley Rille
Terrence W. Fong, Michael Broxton, Matthew Deans, Mark Helper, Kip V. Hodges, Gerald. G. Schaber, Harrison H. Schmitt, and Trey Smith
Miscellaneous, Technical Memorandum TM-2008-215367, 2009
What Do the Sun and Sky Tell Us About the Camera?
Jean-Francois Lalonde, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Alexei A. Efros
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-09-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
Incremental smoothing and mapping
Michael Kaess
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, December, 2008
Planner for 3D navigation with full-body collision checking (ROS package)
Maxim Likhachev
Miscellaneous, software - open-source and is available under http://www.sbpl.net (under software tab), December, 2008
Dynamic Network Model for Predicting Occurrences of Salmonella at Food Facilities
Purnamrita Sarkar, Lujie Chen, and Artur Dubrawski
Workshop Paper, International Workshop on Biosurveillance and Biosecurity (BioSecure '08), pp. 56 - 63, December, 2008
Synthesis of Constrained Walking Skills
Stelian Coros, Philippe Beaudoin, KangKang Yin, and Michiel van de Panne
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH Asia '08, December, 2008
Learning the Semantic Correlation: An Alternative Way to Gain from Unlabeled Text
Y. Zhang, J. Schneider, and A. Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1945 - 1952, December, 2008
A Shape Aware model for semi-supervised Learning of Objects and its Context
Abhinav Gupta, Jianbo Shi, and Larry S. Davis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 577 - 584, December, 2008
A State Transition Diagram for Simultaneous Collisions with Application in Billiard Shooting
Yan-Bin Jia, Matthew T. Mason, and Michael Erdmann
Workshop Paper, 8th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '08), pp. 135 - 150, December, 2008
Accelerometer-based User Interfaces for the Control of a Physically Simulated Character
Takaaki Shiratori and Jessica K. Hodgins
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 27, No. 5, December, 2008
Addressing Insider Threat through Cost-Sensitive Document Classification
Young-Woo Seo and Katia Sycara
Book Section/Chapter, Terrorism Informatics, pp. 451 - 472, December, 2008
Advances in Web Semantics I: Ontologies, Web Services and Applied Semantic Web
T. Dillon and Katia Sycara
Book, December, 2008
Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception
Kevin A. Pelphrey and Elizabeth J. Carter
Journal Article, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 1145, No. 1, pp. 283 - 299, December, 2008
Characterization of Tactors Used in Vibrotactile Displays
L. A. Jones and David Held
Journal Article, Journal of Computing and Information Sciences in Engineering: Special Issue on Haptics, Tactile, and Multimodal Interfaces, Vol. 8, No. 4, December, 2008
Differentiable Sparse Coding
David Bradley and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 113 - 120, December, 2008
Grasp Synthesis in Cluttered Environments for Dexterous Hands
Dmitry Berenson and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '08), pp. 189 - 196, December, 2008
iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 24, No. 6, pp. 1365 - 1378, December, 2008
Manipulation Planning with Caging Grasps
Rosen Diankov, Siddhartha Srinivasa, David Ferguson, and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '08), pp. 285 - 292, December, 2008
Nonrigid Structure from Motion in Trajectory Space
Ijaz Akhter, Yaser Ajmal Sheikh, Sohaib Khan, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 41 - 48, December, 2008
On the Topology of Plans
Michael Erdmann
Workshop Paper, 8th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '08), pp. 267 - 282, December, 2008
Pairwise Grouping Using Color
Marius Leordeanu and Martial Hebert
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2008
Planning for Human-Robot Interaction:Representing Time And Human Intention
Frank Broz
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-49, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2008
Preparatory object rotation as a human-inspired grasping strategy
Lillian Y. Chang, Garth Zeglin, and Nancy Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE-RAS 8th International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '08), pp. 527 - 534, December, 2008
Process Mediation of OWL-S Web Services
Katia Sycara and Roman Vaculin
Book Section/Chapter, Advances in Web Semantics I, pp. 324 - 345, December, 2008
Recovering the Basic Structure of Human Activities from Noisy Video-based Symbol Strings
Kris M. Kitani, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Journal Article, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 1621 - 1646, December, 2008
Robust Kernel Principal Component Analysis
Minh Hoai Nguyen and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1185 - 1192, December, 2008
Shape recovery by a generalized topology preserving SOM
Dong Huang and Zhang Yi
Journal Article, Neurocomputing, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 573 - 580, December, 2008
Software Infrastructure for an Autonomous Ground Vehicle
Matthew McNaughton, Christopher R. Baker, Tugrul Galatali, Bryan Salesky, Christopher Urmson, and Jason Ziglar
Journal Article, Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information, and Communication, Vol. 5, No. 12, pp. 491 - 505, December, 2008
Tiered auctions for multi-agent coordination in domains with precedence constraints
Edward Jones, M. Bernardine Dias, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th Army Science Conference (ASC '08), December, 2008
Toward Identifying Process Models in Ad Hoc and Distributed Teams
Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, and Gita Sukthankar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Working Conference on Human Factors and Computational Models in Negotiation (HuCom '08), pp. 55 - 62, December, 2008
Two finger caging: squeezing and stretching
Alberto Rodriguez and Matthew T. Mason
Workshop Paper, 8th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '08), pp. 119 - 133, December, 2008
Recognizing Overlapped Human Activities from a Sequence of Primitive Actions via Deleted Interpolation
Kris M. Kitani, Yoichi Sato, and Akihiro Sugimoto
Journal Article, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 22, No. 7, pp. 1343 - 1362, November, 2008
Collision-free motion coordination of heterogeneous robots
Nak Yong Ko, Dong Jin Seo, and Reid G. Simmons
Journal Article, Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology, Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 2090 - 2098, November, 2008
Detecting linkages between human illness and Salmonella isolates in food using a new tool for spatio-temporal analysis of multi-stream data
Lujie Chen, Artur W. Dubrawski, Saswati Ray, Michael Baysek, Lynda Kelley, Adrienne Dunham, Mark Huckabee, Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Charlene Jackson, and Beth McGlinchey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium, pp. 900, November, 2008
Inference Grids for Environmental Mapping and Mission Planning of Autonomous Mobile Environmental Robots
Alberto Elfes, Gregg Podnar, R. F. Tavares Filho, and A. Pavani Filho
Workshop Paper, Sensing a Changing World Workshop, November, 2008
Interactive Manipulation, Visualization and Analysis of Large Sets of Multidimensional Time Series in Health Informatics
Artur Dubrawski, Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Saswati Ray, Michael Baysek, Lujie Chen, John Ostlund, and Michael Knight
Workshop Paper, 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (DM-HI '08), November, 2008
Learning Detectors of Events in Multivariate Time Series
Josep Roure, Artur Dubrawski, and Jeff Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium, pp. 171, November, 2008
Networked Architecture for Robotic Environmental Ocean Science Sensors
Gregg Podnar, John M. Dolan, and Alberto Elfes
Workshop Paper, Sensing a Changing World Workshop, November, 2008
T-Cube Web Interface: A Tool for Immediate Visualization, Interactive Manipulation and Analysis of Large Sets of Multivariate Time Series
Saswati Ray, Anna Michalska, Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Artur Dubrawski, Michael Baysek, Lujie Chen, and John Ostlund
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AMIA Annual Symposium, pp. 1106, November, 2008