Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2005

Generating near minimal spanning control sets for constrained motion planning in discrete state spaces

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3231 - 3237, August, 2005

Grasp Synthesis from Example: Tuning the Example to a Task or Object

Nancy Pollard and Alon Wolf

Book Section/Chapter, Multi-point Interaction with Real and Virtual Objects, pp. 77 - 90, August, 2005

Guiding Vascular Access with the Sonic Flashlight - Preclinical Development and Validation

Wilson Chang

Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, August, 2005

Improving cost estimation in market-based coordination of a distributed sensing task

M. Bernardine Dias, B. Ghanem, and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3972 - 3977, August, 2005

Models for Learning Spatial Interactions in Natural Images for Context-Based Classification

Sanjiv Kumar

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-CS-05-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2005

Multimodal Oriented Discriminant Analysis

Fernando De la Torre Frade and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 177 - 184, August, 2005

Multiple-Object Detection in Natural Scenes with Multiple-View Expectation Maximization Clustering

David R. Thompson and David Wettergreen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 448 - 453, August, 2005

N-Dimensional Path Optimization: The Implementation of a Novel Algorithm in ITK

John Galeotti and George D. Stetten

Workshop Paper, MICCAI '05 Workshop on Open-Source Software issue of The Insight Journal, August, 2005

Observations of a science team during an advanced planetary rover prototype field test

J. Glasgow, E. Pudenz, G. Thomas, P. Coppin, N. Cabrol, and D. Wettergreen

Workshop Paper, IEEE Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '05), pp. 137 - 142, August, 2005

Performance Animation from Low-dimensional Control Signals

Jinxiang Chai and Jessica K. Hodgins

Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 24, No. 3, August, 2005

Planning with Uncertainty in Position: An Optimal and Efficient Planner

Juan Pablo Gonzalez and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2435 - 2442, August, 2005

Real-time image-based topological localization in large outdoor environments

David Bradley, Rashmi Patel, Nicolas Vandapel, and Scott Thayer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3670 - 3677, August, 2005

Real-Time Ultrasound Image Analysis for the Insight Toolkit

David C. Wang, Wilson Chang, and George D. Stetten

Workshop Paper, MICCAI '05 Workshop on Open-Source Software issue of The Insight Journal, August, 2005

Shape-From-Silhouette Across Time: Part II: Applications to Human Modeling and Markerless Motion Tracking

Kong Man Cheung, Simon Baker, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 225 - 245, August, 2005

Three Dimensional Evidence Grids for SLAM in Complex Underwater Environments

Nathaniel Fairfield, George A. Kantor, and David Wettergreen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th International Symposium of Unmanned Untethered Submersible Technology (UUST '05), August, 2005

Towards a Predictive Model of Mobile Robot Reliability

Stephen B. Stancliff, John M. Dolan, and Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2005

Using projected dynamics to plan dynamic contact manipulation

Siddhartha Srinivasa, Michael Erdmann, and Matthew T. Mason

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 3618 - 3623, August, 2005

Adaptive A*

Sven Koenig and Maxim Likhachev

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '05), pp. 1311 - 1312, July, 2005

Analyzing the Physical Correctness of Interpolated Human Motion

Jessica K. Hodgins

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '05), pp. 171 - 180, July, 2005

Automatic Photo Pop-up

Derek Hoiem, Alexei A. Efros, and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '05, pp. 577 - 584, July, 2005

Behavior Planning for Character Animation

Manfred Lau and James Kuffner

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '05), pp. 271 - 280, July, 2005

Combining Verification Decisions in a Multi-Vendor Environment

Michael Beattie, B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar, Simon Lucey, and Ozan K. Tonguz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA '05), pp. 406 - 415, July, 2005

Discovery of information sources across organizational boundaries

M. Paolucci, X. Liu, Naveen Srinivasan, K. Sycara, and P. Kogut

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC '05), Vol. 1, pp. 95 - 102, July, 2005

Electronic trading in order-driven markets: efficient execution

Y. Nevmyvaka, M. Kearns, M. Papandreou, and K. Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th IEEE International Conference on E-Commerce Technology (CEC '05), pp. 190 - 197, July, 2005

Exploiting Temporal Flexibility to Obtain High Quality Schedules

N. Policella, X. Wang, S. F. Smith, and A. Oddi

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '05), Vol. 3, pp. 1199 - 1204, July, 2005

Improved Speech Reading through a Free-Parts Representation

S. Lucey and P. Lucey

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP '05), pp. 85 - 86, July, 2005

Interactive demonstration of a generic tool to browse tutor-student interactions

Jack Mostow, Joseph Beck, Hao Cen, Evandro Gouvea, and Cecily Heiner

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '05), pp. 29 - 32, July, 2005

Physically Based Grasping Control from Example

Nancy Pollard and Victor B. Zordan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '05), pp. 311 - 318, July, 2005

Reasoning About Joint Beliefs for Execution-Time Communication Decisions

Maayan Roth, Reid Simmons, and Manuela Veloso

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '05), pp. 786 - 793, July, 2005

Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat

Marek Piotr Michalowski, Didac Busquets Font, Carl Francis DiSalvo, Laura Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, Reid Simmons, and Selma Sabanovic

Workshop Paper, AAAI '05 Workshop: Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition, pp. 40 - 44, July, 2005

Tekkotsu: A framework for AIBO cognitive robotics

David S. Touretzky and Ethan Tira-Thompson

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 20th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '05), Vol. 4, pp. 1741 - 1742, July, 2005

Vortex Fluid for Gaseous Phenomena

Sang Il Park and Myoung Jun Kim

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '05), pp. 261 - 270, July, 2005

A Cost Minimization Approach to Human Behavior Recognition

Gita Sukthankar and Katia Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '05), pp. 1067 - 1074, July, 2005

A Decentralized Variable Ordering Method for Distributed Constraint Optimization

Anton Chechetka and Katia Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '05), pp. 1307 - 1308, July, 2005

A fusion process based on belief theory for classification of facial basic emotions

Z. Hammal, A. Caplier, and M. Rombaut

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION '05), July, 2005

Assessment of visualization software for support of construction site inspection tasks using data collected from reality capture technologies

Chris Gordon, Burcu Akinci, Frank Boukamp, and Daniel Huber

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASCE International Conference on Computing in Civil Engineering (ICCC '05), July, 2005

Automatic Recognition of Human Team Behaviors

Gita Sukthankar and Katia Sycara

Workshop Paper, IJCAI '05 Workshop on Modeling Others from Observations (MOO '05), July, 2005

Collaborative Virtual Environments for Control of Planetary Exploration Rovers

G. Thomas, P. Coppin, N. Cabrol, D. Wettergreen, E. Pudenz, and J. Glasgow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Human-Computer Interaction / Virtual Reality Conference: Special Session on Human Robot Interaction, July, 2005

Constrained Motion Planning in Discrete State Spaces

Mikhail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '05), pp. 269 - 280, July, 2005

Efficient Braking Model for Off-Road Mobile Robots

Mikhail Pivtoraiko, Alonzo Kelly, and Pete Rander

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '05), pp. 541 - 552, July, 2005

Extending the Path-planning Horizon

Bart Nabbe

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2005

Fast Extrinsic Calibration of a Laser Rangefinder to a Camera

Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Martial Hebert

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-09, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2005

Further Results with Localization and Mapping using Range from Radio

Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, and Peter Ian Corke

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '05), pp. 231 - 242, July, 2005

Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction: The Personal Exploration Rover and Museum Docents

Kristen Stubbs, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, and Illah Nourbakhsh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '05), pp. 621 - 628, July, 2005

Measuring Pelvic Flexion from Lateral Radiographs

Kort Eckman, M. A. Hafez, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 5th World Congress of Biomechanics, July, 2005

Normative Approach to Market Microstructure Analysis

Yuriy Nevmyvaka

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2005

Point-based POMDP Algorithms: Improved Analysis and Implementation

Trey Smith and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '05), pp. 542 - 549, July, 2005

Preliminary Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Device for Navigation and Intervention on the Beating Heart

Nicholas Patronik, Marco A. Zenati, and Cameron Riviere

Journal Article, Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 225 - 232, July, 2005

Michael Erdmann

Journal Article, Journal of Computational Biology, Vol. 12, No. 6, pp. 609 - 637, July, 2005