Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Face Databases

Ralph Gross

Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of Face Recognition, February, 2005

Spring-mass running: simple approximate solution and application to gait stability

Hartmut Geyer, Andre Seyfarth, and Reinhard Blickhan

Journal Article, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 232, No. 3, pp. 315 - 328, February, 2005

Enhancing Stochastic Search Performance by Value-Biased Randomization of Heuristics

V. Cicirello and S. F. Smith

Journal Article, Journal of Heuristics, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 5 - 34, January, 2005

Bearings based robot homing with robust landmark matching and limited horizon view

Ivan Kirigin and Sanjiv Singh

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Calibrating Courier/Overhead Manipulator Pairs in Minifactory

Robert Schlender

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, 2005

Digital Papercutting

Yanxi Liu, James H. Hays, Ying-Qing Xu, and Heung-Yeung Shum

Miscellaneous, Technical Sketch, SIGGRAPH, 2005

Distributed Multimodal Sensing: Sensor Suitability

Luis Ernesto Navarro-Serment

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, 2005

Dynamic Outside Options in Alternating-Offers Negotiations

Cuihong Li, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, and Katia Sycara

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '05), 2005

Extraction des traits caracteristiques du visage à l'aide de modèle paramétriques adaptés (Parametric models for facial features segmentation)

Z. Hammal, N. Eveno, A. Caplier, and P-Y Coulon

Journal Article, Traitement du signal (TS 2005), Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 59 - 71, 2005

GasNetTM: Sensing and communications network system for low- and high-pressure distribution gas mains

Hagen Schempf

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Natural Gas Technologies III Conference, 2005

Human-Robot Teaming for Search and Rescue

Illah Nourbakhsh, Katia Sycara, Mary Koes, Mark Yong, and Steve Burion

Journal Article, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 72 - 78, 2005

Incorporating Background Invariance into Feature-Based Object Recognition

Andrew Stein and Martial Hebert

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 37 - 44, 2005

Interactive Multimodal Robot Programming

Soshi Iba, Chris Paredis, and Pradeep Khosla

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 83 - 104, 2005

Measurements of Acetabular Cup Position and Pelvic Spatial Orientation After Total Hip Arthroplasty Using Computed Tomography/Radiography Matching

Sorin Blendea, Kort Eckman, Branislav Jaramaz, Timothy J. Levison, and Anthony M. DiGioia III

Journal Article, Computer Aided Surgery, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 37 - 43, 2005

Measures of Similarity

Ranjith Unnikrishnan and Martial Hebert

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 394 - 400, 2005

Measuring facial action by manual coding, facial EMG, and automatic facial image analysis

Jeffrey Cohn and P. Ekman

Book Section/Chapter, Handbook of nonverbal behavior research methods in the affective sciences, 2005

Modeling Multi-attribute Negotiations in the Navy Detailing Process

Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Multilevel Spectral Partitioning for Efficient Image Segmentation and Tracking

David Tolliver, Simon Baker, and Robert Collins

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 414 - 420, 2005

Multimodal Oriented Discriminant Analysis

Fernando De la Torre Frade and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Omnidirectional Video Capturing, Multiple People Tracking and Identification for Meeting Monitoring

Fernando De la Torre Frade, Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Paul Rybski, Manuela Veloso, and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

On the use of computable features for film classification

Z. Rasheed, Y. Sheikh, and M. Shah

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 52 - 64, 2005

Robust Probabilistic Filtering in Distributed Systems

Stanislav Funiak, Carlos Ernesto Guestrin, Mark Paskin, and Rahul Sukthankar

Tech. Report, CMU-CALD-05-111, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 2005

Semi-Supervised Self-Training of Object Detection Models

Charles Rosenberg, Martial Hebert, and Henry Schneiderman

Workshop Paper, 7th IEEE Workshops on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV/MOTION '05), pp. 29 - 36, 2005

Sun-Synchronous Robotic Exploration: Technical Description and Field Experimentation

David Wettergreen, Paul Tompkins, Christopher Urmson, Michael D. Wagner, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 3 - 30, 2005

The Robotic Autonomy Mobile Robotics Course: Robot Design, Curriculum Design and Educational Assessment

Illah Nourbakhsh, Kevin Crowley, Ajinkya Bhave, Emily Hamner, Thomas Hsiu, Andres Santiago Perez-Bergquist, Steve Richards, and Katie Wilkinson

Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 103 - 127, 2005

Planning for Markov Decision Processes with Sparse Stochasticity

Maxim Likhachev, Geoff Gordon, and Sebastian Thrun

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 785 - 792, December, 2004

Seeing Through Water

Alexei A. Efros, Volkan Isler, Jianbo Shi, and Mirko Visontai

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 393 - 400, December, 2004

A regional point descriptor for global localization in subterranean environments

David Bradley, David Silver, and Scott Thayer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM '05), Vol. 1, pp. 440 - 445, December, 2004

A Study of Polynomial Curvature Clothoid Paths for Motion Planning for Car-like Robots

Mikhail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-68, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004

Autonomous exploration and mapping of abandoned mines

Sebastian Thrun, Scott Thayer, Chuck Whittaker, Christopher R. Baker, Wolfram Burgard, David Ferguson, Dirk Haehnel, Michael Montemerlo, Aaron Christopher Morris, Zachary Omohundro, Carlos Reverte, and William (Red) L. Whittaker

Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 79 - 91, December, 2004

Autonomous River Navigation

Franklin D. Snyder, Daniel D. Morris, Paul H. Haley, Robert Collins, and Andrea M. Okerholm

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Mobile Robots XVII, Vol. 5609, pp. 221 - 232, December, 2004

Cadaveric central venous access using the Sonic Flashlight, a novel ultrasound display system

Wilson Chang, N. Amesur, A. Zajko, and George D. Stetten

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Radiological Society of North America Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, December, 2004

Controlling a motorized marionette with human motion capture data

Katsu Yamane, Jessica K. Hodgins, and H. Benjamin Brown

Journal Article, International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 651 - 669, December, 2004

Creating Realistic Animations Using Video

Kiran Bhat

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004

Extending the OneSAF Testbed into a C4ISR Testbed

Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Katia Sycara, Sean R. Owens, Robin Glinton, Young-Woo Seo, Bin Yu, and Charles E. Grindle

Journal Article, SIMULATION: Special Issue on Military Simulation Systems and Command and Control Systems Interoperability, Vol. 80, No. 12, pp. 681 - 691, December, 2004

Integrated Collision Warning System Final Technical Report

U. of C. PATH and CMU RI

Miscellaneous, Carnegie Mellon University, FTA-PA-26-7006-04.1, December, 2004

Layered Detection for Multiple Overlapping Objects

Hironobu Fujiyoshi and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Vol. 87, No. 12, pp. 2821 - 2827, December, 2004

Literature Review on Multi-attribute Negotiations

Guoming Lai, Cuihong Li, Katia Sycara, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-66, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004

Looking Ahead to Select Tutorial Actions: A Decision-Theoretic Approach

R. C. Murray, K. VanLehn, and Jack Mostow

Journal Article, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 235 - 278, December, 2004

Motion estimation from image and inertial measurements

Dennis Strelow and Sanjiv Singh

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 1157 - 1195, December, 2004

Prototype Epicardial Crawling Device for Intrapericardial Intervention on the Beating heart

Cameron Riviere, Nicholas Patronik, and Marco A. Zenati

Journal Article, Heart Surgery Forum, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 639 - 643, December, 2004

Real-Time and 3D Vision for Autonomous Small and Micro Air Vehicles

Takeo Kanade, Omead Amidi, and Qifa Ke

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC '04), Vol. 2, pp. 1655 - 1662, December, 2004

Scan Matching for Flooded Subterranean Voids

David Silver, David Bradley, and Scott Thayer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM '05), Vol. 1, pp. 422 - 427, December, 2004

Shape-based recognition of wiry objects

O. Carmichael and M. Hebert

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 26, No. 12, pp. 1537 - 1552, December, 2004

SnapFind: brute force interactive image retrieval

L. Huston, Rahul Sukthankar, Derek Hoiem, and Jiaying Zhang

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Image and Graphics (ICIG '04), pp. 154 - 159, December, 2004

The Personal Exploration Rover: The Ground-up Design, Deployment and Educational Evaluation of an Educational Robot for Unmediated Informal Learning Sites

Illah Nourbakhsh, Emily Hamner, Debra Bernstein, Kevin Crowley, Eric Porter, Thomas Hsiu, Brian Dunlavey, Ellen M. Ayoob, Mark Lotter, Skip Shelly, Anuja Parikh, and Daniel Clancy

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004

Non-linear dimensionality reduction by locally linear isomaps

Ashutosh Saxena, Abhinav Gupta, and Amitabha Mukerjee

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP '04), pp. 1038 - 1043, November, 2004

Confounded Expectations: Informedia at TRECVID 2004

Alexander G. Hauptmann, Ming-yu Chen, Michael G. Christel, C. Huang, Wei-Hao Lin, Tobun D. Ng, Norman Papernick, A. Velivelli, J. Yang, Rong Yan, H. Yang, and Howard D. Wactlar

Workshop Paper, TREC '04 TRECVID Workshop, November, 2004

Development of Humanoid Robot Platform KHR-2

Ill-Woo Park, Jung-Yup Kim, Seo-Wook Park, and Jun-Ho Oh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '04), pp. 292 - 310, November, 2004

Navigation Among Movable Obstacles: Real-time Reasoning in Complex Environments

Michael Stilman and James Kuffner

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th IEEE/RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids '04), pp. 322 - 341, November, 2004