Publications




3-D Hand Posture Recognition by Training Contour Variation
A. Imai, Nobutaka Shimada, and Y. Shirai
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '04), pp. 895 - 900, May, 2004
A Closed-Form Solution to Non-Rigid Shape and Motion Recovery
Jing Xiao, Jinxiang Chai, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 573 - 587, May, 2004
A non-contact mouse for surgeon-computer interaction
Chauncey Graetzel, Terrence W. Fong, Sebastien Grange, and Charles Baur
Journal Article, Technology and Health Care, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 245 - 257, May, 2004
Active Tremor Compensation in Handheld Instrument for Microsurgery
Wei-Tech Ang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
Creating Multi-Modal, User-Centric Records of Meetings with the Carnegie Mellon Meeting Recorder Architecture
Satanjeev Banerjee, Jason Cohen, Thomas Quisel, Arthur Chan, Yash Patodia, Ziad Al Bawab, Rong Zhang, Alan Black, Richard Stern, Roni Rosenfeld, Alexander Rudnicky, Paul Rybski, and Manuela Veloso
Workshop Paper, ICASSP '04 Meeting Recognition Workshop, May, 2004
Dynamic discovery and coordination of agent-based semantic Web services
K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, J. Soudry, and Naveen Srinivasan
Magazine Article, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 66 - 73, May, 2004
Enhancing Multi-Robot Coordinated Teams with Sliding Autonomy
Jonathan Brookshire
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
Exploiting multiple modalities for interactive video retrieval
Michael G. Christel, Chang Huang, Neema Moraveji, and Norman Papernick
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '04), pp. 1032 - 1035, May, 2004
Hand Shape Estimation under Complex Backgrounds for Sign Language Recognition
Y. Hamada, Nobutaka Shimada, and Y. Shirai
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '04), pp. 589 - 594, May, 2004
Illumination-Invariant Imaging for Machine Vision Applications in Unconstrained Environments
Vladimir Brajovic
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SME Automation and Assembly Summit, May, 2004
Interactive Multi-Modal Robot Programming
Soshi Iba
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-50, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
Learning 3D Appearance Models from Video
Fernando De la Torre Frade, Jordi Casoliva-Rodon, and Jeffrey Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '04), pp. 645 - 651, May, 2004
Logistic Regression for Data Mining and High-Dimensional Classification
Paul Komarek
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-34, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
MCMC-based Multiview Reconstruction of Piecewise Smooth Subdivision Curves with a Variable Number of Control Points
Michael Kaess, Rafal Zboinski, and Frank Dellaert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 329 - 341, May, 2004
Modeling Physical Variability for Synthetic MOUT Agents
Gita Sukthankar, Michael Mandel, Katia Sycara, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS '04), pp. 332 - 341, May, 2004
Multimodal coordination of facial action, head rotation, and eye motion during spontaneous smiles
Jeffrey Cohn, L. I. Reed, Tsuyoshi Moriyama, Jing Xiao, Karen Schmidt, and Zara Ambadar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '04), pp. 129 - 135, May, 2004
Novel method to automatically identify medial node correspondences between two images
Robert J. Tamburo, C. Aaron Cois, Damion Shelton, and George Stetten
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging '04: Image Processing, Vol. 5370, pp. 1225 - 1235, May, 2004
Range-Only Robot Localization and SLAM with Radio
Derek Kurth
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-04-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
Recognizing Objects in Range Data Using Regional Point Descriptors
Andrea Frome, Daniel Huber, Ravi Kolluri, Thomas Bulow, and Jitendra Malik
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 224 - 237, May, 2004
Segmenting Motion Capture Data into Distinct Behaviors
Jernej Barbic, Jia-Yu Pan, Christos Faloutsos, Jessica K. Hodgins, and Nancy Pollard
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI '04), pp. 185 - 194, May, 2004
Segway CMBalance Robot Soccer Player
Jeremy Searock, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Tech. Report, CMU-CS-04-143, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
Tekkotsu: A Rapid Development Framework for Robotics
Ethan Tira-Thompson
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2004
The Smart Wheelchair Component System
Richard C. Simpson, Edmund LoPresti, Steve Hayashi, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, and David R. Miller
Journal Article, Journal of Rehabilitation Research & Development, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 429 - 442, May, 2004
Wasp-based Agents for Distributed Factory Coordination
V. Cicirello and S. F. Smith
Journal Article, Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 237 - 266, May, 2004
An Actuator with Physically Variable Stiffness for Highly Dynamic Legged Locomotion
Jonathan W. Hurst, Joel Chestnutt, and Alfred Rizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 4662 - 4667, April, 2004
Arc carving: obtaining accurate, low latency maps from ultrasonic range sensors
David Silver, Deryck Morales, Ioannis Rekleitis, Brad Lisien, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1554 - 1561, April, 2004
CAMEO: Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer
Paul Rybski, Fernando De la Torre Frade, Raju Patil, Carlos Vallespi-Gonzalez, Manuela Veloso, and Brett Browning
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1634 - 1639, April, 2004
Communication Efficiency in Multi-agent Systems
Mary Koes, Illah Nourbakhsh, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2129 - 2134, April, 2004
Comparison of Control Strategies for an EMG Controlled Orthotic Exoskeleton for the Hand
Matthew DiCicco, Lenny Lucas, and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1622 - 1627, April, 2004
Conductive Polymer 'Molecular Wires' For Neuro-Robotic Interfaces
Alik Sunil Widge, M. Jeffries-El, Carl Lagenaur, Victor Weedn, and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 5058 - 5063, April, 2004
Design and operation of a force-reflecting magnetic levitation coarse-fine teleoperation system
Bertram Unger and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 4147 - 4152, April, 2004
Design of a high-impact survivable robot
D. O'Halloran, A. Wolf , and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3551 - 3558, April, 2004
Development and deployment of a line of sight virtual sensor for heterogeneous teams
Robert Grabowski, Pradeep Khosla, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 3024 - 3029, April, 2004
Development of a soccer-playing dynamically-balancing mobile robot
Brett Browning, Paul Rybski, Jeremy Searock, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 1752 - 1757, April, 2004
Dynamic rate-selection for extending the lifetime of energy-constrained networks
Nevine AbouGhazaleh, Patrick Lanigan, Sameh Gobriel, Daniel Mossé, and Rami Melhem
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Performance, Computing, and Communications (IPCCC '04), pp. 553 - 558, April, 2004
Effective Sampling and Distance Metrics for 3D Rigid Body Path Planning
James Kuffner
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3993 - 3998, April, 2004
Effects of Visual Feedback Distortion for the Elderly and the Motor-Impaired in a robotic Rehabilitation Environment
Bambi Roberts Brewer, Roberta Klatzky, and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 2, pp. 2080 - 2085, April, 2004
Free-roaming planar motors: toward autonomous precision planar mobile robots
Tom Lauwers, Z. K. Edmondson, and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 4498 - 4503, April, 2004
Grasp synthesis from example: tuning the example to a task or object
Nancy S. Pollard and Alon Wolf
Workshop Paper, ICRA '04 Workshop on Multi-point Interaction in Robotics and Virtual Reality, April, 2004
Interface lessons for fully and semi-autonomous mobile robots
Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 3, pp. 2752 - 2757, April, 2004
Introducing robotic origami folding
Devin J. Balkcom and Matthew T. Mason
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3245 - 3250, April, 2004
Limited Communication, Multi-Robot Team Based Coverage
I. Rekleitis, V. Lee-Shue, A. New, and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3462 - 3468, April, 2004
Low Overhead Manipulation of Bound Book Pages
J. Young and I. Nourbakhsh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 4326 - 4331, April, 2004
Motion Planning for a Rod-shaped Robot in R3: Connecting the Rod-HGVG Using the Point-HGVG
J. Y. Lee and H. Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3823 - 3830, April, 2004
Muscle Actuator Design for the ACT Hand
Nicholas Gialias and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3380 - 3385, April, 2004
Neural-Based Control of A Robotic Hand: Evidence for Distinct Muscle Strategies
Pedram Afshar and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 5, pp. 4633 - 4638, April, 2004
Robust normalization of silhouettes for recognition applications
J. Cortadellas, J. Amat, and F. De la Torre
Journal Article, Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 25, No. 5, pp. 591 - 601, April, 2004
The ACT Hand: Design of the Skeletal Structure
J. Michael Vande Weghe, M. Rogers, M. Weissert, and Yoky Matsuoka
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 4, pp. 3375 - 3379, April, 2004
Toward Laser Pulse Waveform Analysis for Scene Interpretation
Nicolas Vandapel, Omead Amidi, and James Ryan Miller
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 1, pp. 950 - 955, April, 2004
A 2D Collision Warning Framework based on a Monte Carlo Approach
Christoph Mertz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ITS America's 14th Annual Meeting and Exposition, April, 2004