Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Hybrid Simultaneous Localization and Map Building: A Natural Integration of Topological and Metric

Nicola Tomatis, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and Roland Siegwart

Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 3 - 14, July, 2003

Information discovery and fusion: semantics on the battlefield

K. Sycara, M. Paolucci, and M. Lewis

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 6th International Conference of Information Fusion (FUSION '03), pp. 538 - 544, July, 2003

Investigating Semantic Knowledge for Text Learning

Anupriya Ankolekar, Young-Woo Seo, and Katia Sycara

Workshop Paper, SIGIR '03 Workshop on Semantic Web, July, 2003

New Results for Integrated Air/Ground Vehicle System for Semi-Autonomous Off-Road Navigation

T. Stentz, A. Kelly, H. Herman, P. Rander, and R. Mandelbaum

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems Symposium (AUVSI '03), July, 2003

Robust parameterized component analysis: Theory and applications to 2D facial appearance models

F. De la Torre and M. J. Black

Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 91, No. 1, pp. 53 - 71, July, 2003

Task Allocation Using a Distributed, Market-based Planning Mechanism

D. Goldberg, V. Cicirello, M. B. Dias, R. Simmons, S. F. Smith, and A. Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '03), pp. 996 - 997, July, 2003

Team Oriented Programming and Proxy Agents: The Next Generation

Paul Scerri, D. Pynadath, N. Schurr, A. Farinelli, S. Gandhe, and M. Tambe

Workshop Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems (ProMAS '03), pp. 131 - 148, July, 2003

A Semi-Autonomous Robot for Stripping Paint from Large Vessels

John Bares and Christopher Fromme

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 617 - 626, July, 2003

Automatic 3D underground mine mapping

Daniel Huber and Nicolas Vandapel

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '03), pp. 497 - 506, July, 2003

Boosting Stochastic Problem Solvers Through Online Self-Analysis of Performance

Vincent Cicirello

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2003

Can automated questioning help children's reading comprehension?

Joseph E. Beck, Jack Mostow, Andrew Cuneo, and Juliet Bey

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '03), pp. 380 - 382, July, 2003

Case Studies of a Borehole Deployable Robot for Limestone Mine Profiling and Mapping

Aaron Christopher Morris, Derek Kurth, Daniel Huber, Chuck Whittaker, and Scott Thayer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference of Field and Service Robotics (FSR '03), pp. 189 - 198, July, 2003

Distributed Search and Rescue with Robot and Sensor Teams

George A. Kantor, Sanjiv Singh, R. Peterson, Daniela Rus, A. Das, V. Kumar, G. Pereira, and J. Spletzer

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '03), pp. 529 - 538, July, 2003

Efficient Design of Advanced Correlation Filters for Robust Distortion-Tolerant Face Identification

Marios Savvides and B. V. K. Vijaya Kumar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS '03), pp. 45 - 52, July, 2003

Efficient Synthesis of Physically Valid Human Motion

Anthony Fang and Nancy Pollard

Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 417 - 426, July, 2003

Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters from Video

Kiran Bhat, Christopher D. Twigg, Jessica K. Hodgins, Pradeep Khosla, Zoran Popovic, and Steven Seitz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '03), pp. 37 - 51, July, 2003

Evaluation of an automated Reading Tutor that listens: Comparison to human tutoring and classroom instruction

Jack Mostow, Gregory Aist, Paul Burkhead, A. Corbett, Andrew Cuneo, S. Eitelman, Cathy Huang, Brian Junker, Mary Beth Sklar, and Brian Tobin

Journal Article, Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 61 - 117, July, 2003

Facial Asymmetry Quantification for Expression Invariant Human Identification

Yanxi Liu, Karen Schmidt, Jeffrey Cohn, and Sinjini Mitra

Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 91, No. 2, pp. 138 - 159, July, 2003

FastSLAM: A Factored Solution to the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem with Unknown Data Association

Michael Montemerlo

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-28, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2003

Fully automatic registration of multiple 3D data sets

Daniel Huber and Martial Hebert

Journal Article, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 637 - 650, July, 2003

GRISLEE: Gasmain Repair and Inspection System for Live Entry Environments

Hagen Schempf, Edward Mutschler, Vitaly Goltsberg, and William Crowley

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 603 - 616, July, 2003

Initial Field Testing Results from Spinner, a High Mobility Hybrid UGCV.

John Bares, David Stager, S. McFadden, and C. Richards

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems Symposium (AUVSI '03), July, 2003

Learning Predictions of the Load-Bearing Surface for Autonomous Rough-Terrain Navigation in Vegetation

Carl Wellington and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '03), pp. 83 - 92, July, 2003

Market-based Multirobot Coordination Using Task Abstraction

Robert Michael Zlot and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR '03), pp. 167 - 177, July, 2003

Multi-Subregion Based Probabilistic Approach Toward Pose-Invariant Face Recognition

Takeo Kanade and Akihiko Yamada

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA '03), pp. 954 - 959, July, 2003

Path Planning for Robotic Demining: Robust Sensor-Based Coverage of Unstructured Environments and Probabilistic Methods

Ercan Acar, Howie Choset, Yangang Zhang, and Mark Schervish

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 441 - 466, July, 2003

PdaDriver: A Handheld System for Remote Driving

Terrence W. Fong, Chuck Thorpe, and Betty Glass

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '03), pp. 88 - 93, July, 2003

Perceptual Metrics for Character Animation: Sensitivity to Errors in Ballistic Motion

Paul Reitsma and Nancy Pollard

Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 537 - 542, July, 2003

Precomputing Interactive Dynamic Deformable Scenes

Doug James and Kayvon Fatahalian

Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 879 - 887, July, 2003

Project LISTEN's Reading Tutor: Interactive Event Description

Jack Mostow and Joseph E. Beck

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED '03) (supplemental), pp. 30 - 32, July, 2003

Reactive Nonholonomic Trajectory Generation via Parametric Optimal Control

Alonzo Kelly and Bryan Nagy

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 8, pp. 583 - 601, July, 2003

Real-Time, Multi-Perspective Perception for Unmanned Ground Vehicles

Anthony (Tony) Stentz, Alonzo Kelly, Peter Rander, Herman Herman, Omead Amidi, Robert Mandelbaum, Garbis Salgian, and Jorgen Pedersen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems Symposium (AUVSI '03), July, 2003

Tele-Graffiti: A Camera-Projector Based Remote Sketching System with Hand-Based User Interface and Automatic Session Summarization

Naoya Takao, Jianbo Shi, and Simon Baker

Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 115 - 133, July, 2003

The RETSINA MAS Infrastructure

Katia Sycara, Massimo Paolucci, Martin Van Velsen, and Joseph Andrew Giampapa

Journal Article, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 29 - 48, July, 2003

Ultra-rugged Soldier-Robot for Urban Conflict Missions

Hagen Schempf

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Unmanned Systems Symposium (AUVSI '03), July, 2003

Vision-based Control of 3D Facial Animation

Jinxiang Chai, Jing Xiao, and Jessica K. Hodgins

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA '03), pp. 193 - 206, July, 2003

A user-centered drowsy driver detection and warning system

Ellen M. Ayoob, Richard Grace, and Aaron Steinfeld

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Designing for User Experiences (DUX '03), June, 2003

An Agent-based Framework for Dynamic Multi-Period Continuous Double Auctions in B2B Exchanges

L. Li and S. F. Smith

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC ’03), pp. 204 - 205, June, 2003

An evaluation of visual speech features for the tasks of speech and speaker recognition

S. Lucey

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA '03), pp. 260 - 267, June, 2003

Belt Vision System For Monitoring Mechanical Splices

B. Bancroft, Christopher Fromme, and Thomas Pilarski

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Longwall USA International Exhibition and Conference '03, June, 2003

Developing a Testbed for Studying Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue

M. Lewis, K. Sycara, and I. Nourbakhsh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI '03), pp. 22 - 27, June, 2003

Efficient Parametric Synthesis of Optimal Mobile Robot Trajectories

A. Kelly

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '03), June, 2003

Finding and Tracking People from the Bottom Up

Deva Ramanan and David A. Forsyth

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2003

Improved Audio-Visual Speaker Recognition via the Use of a Hybrid Combination Strategy

Simon Lucey and Tsuhan Chen

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA '03), pp. 929 - 936, June, 2003

Man-Made Structure Detection in Natural Images using a Causal Multiscale Random Field

Sanjiv Kumar and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 119 - 126, June, 2003

Medial Node Correspondences towards Automated Registration

Robert Tamburo, Aaron Cois, Damion Shelton, and George Stetten

Workshop Paper, International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration (WBIR '03), pp. 339 - 348, June, 2003

The Design of the Smart Wheelchair Component System

Edmund F. LoPresti, Richard C. Simpson, Stephen T. Hayashi, Illah Nourbakhsh, and David Miller

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th Annual Rehabilitation Engineering Conference (RESNA '03), June, 2003

The Optimal Distance Measure for Object Detection

Shyjan Mahamud and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 248 - 255, June, 2003

Value-Based Observation with Robot Teams (VBORT) Using Probabilistic Techniques

Ashley Stroupe and Tucker Balch

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '03), June, 2003

3D Modeling Using a Statistical Sensor Model and Stochastic Search

Daniel Huber and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 858 - 865, June, 2003