Publications




Detection, Prediction, and Avoidance of Dynamic Obstacles in Urban Environments
David Ferguson, Michael Darms, Christopher Urmson, and Sascha Kolski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '08), pp. 1149 - 1154, June, 2008
Directional Associative Markov Network for 3-D Point Cloud Classification
Daniel Munoz, Nicolas Vandapel, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPVT '08), June, 2008
Does help help? Introducing the Bayesian Evaluation and Assessment methodology
Joseph E. Beck, Kai-min Chang, Jack Mostow, and Albert Corbett
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS '08), pp. 383 - 394, June, 2008
Efficient Mean Shift Belief Propagation for Vision Tracking
Minwoo Park, Yanxi Liu, and Robert Collins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Enforcing Convexity for Improved Alignment with Constrained Local Models
Yang Wang, Simon Lucey, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Enforcing Non-Positive Weights for Stable Support Vector Tracking
Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Evaluating the Contributions of Video Representation for a Life Oral History Collection
Michael Christel and Michael Frisch
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL '08), pp. 241 - 250, June, 2008
GPU-accelerated Real-Time 3D Tracking for Humanoid Autonomy
Philipp Michel, Joel Chestnutt, Satoshi Kagami, Koichi Nishiwaki, James Kuffner, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of JSME Robotics and Mechatronics Conference (ROBOMEC '08), June, 2008
Grasp Synthesis in Cluttered Environments for Dexterous Hands
Dmitry Berenson and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, RSS '08 Workshop on Robot Manipulation: Intelligence in Human Environments, June, 2008
High Performance Outdoor Navigation from Overhead Data using Imitation Learning
David Silver, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), pp. 262 - 269, June, 2008
IM2GPS: estimating geographic information from a single image
James H. Hays and Alexei A. Efros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Image De-fencing
Yanxi Liu, Tamara Belkina, James H. Hays, and Roberto Lublinerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Interactive Physically-Based Control of Skeleton-Driven Deformable Characters
Junggon Kim and Nancy Pollard
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2008
Learning Patch Correspondences for Improved Viewpoint Invariant Face Recognition
Ahmed Bilal Ashraf, Simon Lucey, and Tsuhan Chen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Least Squares Congealing for Unsupervised Alignment of Images
Mark Cox, Simon Lucey, Sridha Sridharan, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Linear Motion Estimation for Systems of Articulated Planes
Ankur Datta, Yaser Ajmal Sheikh, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Local Minima Free Parameterized Appearance Models
Minh Hoai Nguyen and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Multi-Scale Interest Regions from Unorganized Point Clouds
Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Martial Hebert
Workshop Paper, CVPR '08 Workshop on Search in 3D (S3D '08), June, 2008
On Controlling Light Transport in Poor Visibility Environments
Mohit Gupta, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Yoav Y. Schechner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Parameterized Kernel Principal Component Analysis: Theory and Applications to Supervised and Unsupervised Image Alignment
Fernando De la Torre Frade and Minh Hoai Nguyen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Performance Evaluation of State-of-the-Art Discrete Symmetry Detection Algorithms
Minwoo Park, Seungkyu Lee, Po-Chun Chen, Somesh Kashyap, Asad A. Butt, and Yanxi Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Prior Data and Kernel Conditional Random Fields for Obstacle Detection
Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), pp. 57 - 64, June, 2008
Proofs and Experiments in Scalable, Near-Optimal Search by Multiple Robots
Geoffrey Hollinger and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '08), pp. 206 - 213, June, 2008
Real-time Computerized Annotation of Pictures
Jia Li and James Z. Wang
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 30, No. 6, pp. 985 - 1002, June, 2008
Recognition by Association via Learning Per-exemplar Distances
Tomasz Malisiewicz and Alexei A. Efros
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Rotation Symmetry Group Detection Via Frequency Analysis of Frieze-Expansions
Seungkyu Lee, Robert Collins, and Yanxi Liu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Semi-Supervised Learning of Multi-Factor Models for Face De-Identification
Ralph Gross, Latanya Sweeney, Fernando De la Torre Frade, and Simon Baker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Shape Reconstruction from Endoscopic Images
Chenyu Wu, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan, and Branislav Jaramaz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS' 08), June, 2008
Smart Ocean Sensing Using the Telesupervised Adaptive Ocean Sensor Fleet
John M. Dolan, Gregg Podnar, Stephen B. Stancliff, Ellie Lin Ratliff, Alberto Elfes, John HIginbotham, Jeff Hosler, John Moisan, and Tiffany Moisan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of NASA Earth Science Technology Conference (ESTC '08), June, 2008
Smoothing-based Optimization
Marius Leordeanu and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
State Space Sampling of Feasible Motions for High-Performance Mobile Robot Navigation in Complex Environments
Thomas Howard, Colin Green, David Ferguson, and Alonzo Kelly
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 325 - 345, June, 2008
Towards Unsupervised Whole-Object Segmentation: Combining Automated Matting with Boundary Detection
Andrew Stein, Thomas Stepleton, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Unsupervised Modeling of Object Categories Using Link Analysis Techniques
Gunhee Kim, Christos Faloutsos, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2008
Efficiently Using Cost Maps For Planning Complex Maneuvers
Dave Ferguson and Maxim Likhachev
Workshop Paper, ICRA '08 Workshop on Planning with Cost Maps, May, 2008
Information Value-Driven Approach to Path Clearance with Multiple Scout Robots
Maxim Likhachev and Anthony Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2651 - 2656, May, 2008
Duration prediction for proactive replanning
Brennan Sellner and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1365 - 1371, May, 2008
Hybrid Variants for Iterative Flattening Search
A. Oddi, A. Cesta, N. Policella, and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research (CPAIOR '08), pp. 355 - 360, May, 2008
Recovering from Inconsistency in Distributed Simple Temporal Networks
A. Gallagher and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS '08), pp. 549 - 554, May, 2008
Toroidal Skin Drive for Snake Robot Locomotion
J. McKenna, D. Anhalt, F. Bronson, B. Brown, M. Schwerin, E. Shammas, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1150 - 1155, May, 2008
A Decentralized Approach to Cooperative Situation Assessment in Multi-Robot Systems
Giuseppe Paolo Settembre, A. Farinelli, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '08), Vol. 1, pp. 31 - 38, May, 2008
A few good agents: Multi-agent social learning
Jean Hyaejin Oh and Stephen Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '08), Vol. 1, pp. 339 - 346, May, 2008
A Least-Squares Unified View of PCA, LDA, CCA and Spectral Graph Methods
Fernando De la Torre Frade
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008
A Miniature Mobile Robot for Precise and Stable Access to the Beating Heart
Nicholas Patronik
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-13, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008
Adaptive Multi-Robot Wide-Area Exploration and Mapping
Kian Hsiang Low, John M. Dolan, and Pradeep Khosla
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '08), pp. 23 - 30, May, 2008
Adaptive rate-dependent feedforward controller for hysteretic piezoelectric actuator
U-Xuan Tan, Ferdinan Widjaja, Win Tun Latt, K. C. Veluvolu, C. Y. Shee, Cameron Riviere, and Wei-Tech Ang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 787 - 792, May, 2008
Adaptive Workspace Biasing for Sampling Based Planners
Matthew Zucker, James Kuffner, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3757 - 3762, May, 2008
Advising busy users on how to cut corners
Pradeep R. Varakantham and Stephen Smith
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008
An easy calibration for oblique-viewing endoscopes
Chenyu Wu and Branislav Jaramaz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1424 - 1429, May, 2008
An efficient system for combined route traversal and collision avoidance
Bradley Hamner, Sanjiv Singh, Stephan Roth, and Takeshi Takahashi
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 365 - 385, May, 2008
An Optimization Approach to Planning for Mobile Manipulation
Dmitry Berenson, Howie Choset, and James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1187 - 1192, May, 2008