Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

2003

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

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

A Closed-Form Solution to Nonrigid Shape and Motion Recovery

Jing Xiao, Jinxiang Chai, and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003

A Quantified Study of Facial Asymmetry in 3D Faces

Yanxi Liu and Jeff Palmer

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003

Agent-based e-Supply Chain Decision Support

Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol, David W. Hildum, and Dag Kjenstad

Journal Article, Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 225 - 241, June, 2003

Ambiguities in Visual Tracking of Articulated Objects Using Two- and Three-Dimensional Models

Jim Rehg, Daniel D. Morris, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 22, No. 6, pp. 393 - 418, June, 2003

An Efficient Recognition Technique for Mine-Like Objects Using Nearest-Neighbor Classification

Sudha Reese, Gita Sukthankar, and Rahul Sukthankar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Undersea Defense Technology Europe, June, 2003

An Embedded Experiment to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Vocabulary Previews in an Automated Reading Tutor

Jack Mostow, Joseph E. Beck, Juliet Bey, Andrew Cuneo, J. Sison, and Brian Tobin

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, June, 2003

An Image Preprocessing Algorithm for Illumination Invariant Face Recognition

Ralph Gross and Vladimir Brajovic

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

Assessing student proficiency in a Reading Tutor that listens

Joseph E. Beck, P. Jia, and Jack Mostow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM '03), pp. 323 - 327, June, 2003

Automated Feature-Based Range Registration of Urban Scenes of Large Scale

Ioannis Stamos and Marius Leordeanu

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 555 - 561, June, 2003

Can Automated Emotional Scaffolding Affect Student Persistence? A Baseline Experiment

Jack Mostow, Joseph E. Beck, and J. Valeri

Workshop Paper, UM '03 Workshop on Assessing and Adapting to User Attitudes and Affect: Why, When and How?, pp. 61 - 64, June, 2003

Compact Encoding of Robot-Generated 3D Maps for Efficient Wireless Transmission

Michael Kaess, Ronald C. Arkin, and Jarek Rossignac

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR '03), pp. 324 - 331, June, 2003

Contrast Restoration of Weather Degraded Images

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan and Shree K. Nayar

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 713 - 724, June, 2003

Design and Flight Testing of a Gain-Scheduled H-infinity Loop Shaping Controller for Wide-Envelope Flight of a Robotic Helicopter

Marco La Civita, G. Papageorgiou, William Messner, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '03), pp. 4195 - 4200, June, 2003

Experimental Validation of Hip Range of Motion Simulator

Kort Eckman, Constantinos Nikou, R. Lattanzi, Branislav Jaramaz, and Anthony M. Digioia

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, pp. 98 - 99, June, 2003

Inferring Human Upper Body Motion Using Belief Propagation

Jiang Gao and Jianbo Shi

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003

LADAR-Based Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects from a Ground Vehicle at High Speeds

Chieh-Chih Wang, Chuck Thorpe, and Arne Suppe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '03), pp. 416 - 421, June, 2003

Mean-shift Blob Tracking through Scale Space

Robert Collins

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

Multiple Sensor Fusion for Detecting Location of Curbs, Walls, and Barriers

Romuald Aufrere, Christoph Mertz, and Chuck Thorpe

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV '03), pp. 126 - 131, June, 2003

Precision Freehand Sculpting of Bone

Gabriel Brisson, Takeo Kanade, Anthony M. Digioia, and Branislav Jaramaz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery, June, 2003

Predicting student help-request behavior in an intelligent tutor for reading

Joseph E. Beck, P. Jia, J. Sison, and Jack Mostow

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Conference on User Modeling (UM '03), pp. 303 - 312, June, 2003

Reckless motion estimation from omnidirectional image and inertial measurements

Dennis Strelow and Sanjiv Singh

Workshop Paper, CVPR '03 Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision and Camera Networks (OMNIVIS '03), pp. 80, June, 2003

Results of the Inflatable Robotic Rover Testbed

Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, Michael D. Wagner, Stuart Heys, and James Teza

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003

Shadow Elimination and Occluder Light Suppression for Multi-Projector Displays

Tat-Jen Cham, Jim Rehg, Rahul Sukthankar, and Gita Sukthankar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 513 - 520, June, 2003

Shape-based Recognition Of Wiry Objects

Owen Carmichael and Martial Hebert

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 394 - 401, June, 2003

Shape-From-Silhouette of Articulated Objects and its Use for Human Body Kinematics Estimation and Motion Capture

Kong Man Cheung, Simon Baker, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 77 - 84, June, 2003

Shedding Light on the Weather

Srinivasa G. Narasimhan and Shree K. Nayar

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 665 - 672, June, 2003

Stereo Matching with Reflections and Translucency

Yanghai Tsin, Sing Bing Kang, and Richard Szeliski

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 702 - 709, June, 2003

System Identification, Using Vision-Based Localisation, for a Hexapod Robot

David Maiwand

Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-24, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2003

The arc-transversal median algorithm: a geometric approach to increasing ultrasonic sensor azimuth accuracy

H. Choset, K. Nagatani, and N. A. Lazar

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 513 - 521, June, 2003

Towards a Semantic Choreography of Web Services: from WSDL to DAML-S

Massimo Paolucci, Naveen Srinivasan, Katia Sycara, and Takuya Nishimura

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '03), pp. 22 - 26, June, 2003

Transforming Camera Geometry to A Virtual Downward-Looking Camera: Robust Ego-Motion Estimation and Ground-Layer Detection

Qifa Ke and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 390 - 397, June, 2003

Visual Hull Alignment and Refinement Across Time: A 3D Reconstruction Algorithm Combining Shape-From-Silhouette with Stereo

Kong Man Cheung, Simon Baker, and Takeo Kanade

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 375 - 382, June, 2003

Positive force feedback in bouncing gaits?

Hartmut Geyer, Andre Seyfarth, and Reinhard Blickhan

Journal Article, Phil Trans R Soc B, Vol. 270, pp. 2173 - 2183, May, 2003

A Market Approach to Tightly-Coupled Multi-Robot Coordination: First Results

Nidhi Kalra and Anthony (Tony) Stentz

Conference Paper, Proceedings of ARL Collaborative Technologies Alliance Symposium, May, 2003

A Real-Time Rover Executive Based On Model-Based Reactive Planning

M. Bernardine Dias, Solange Lemai, and Nicola Muscettola

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '03), May, 2003

A Survey of Space Robotics

L. Pedersen, D. Kortenkamp, D. Wettergreen, and I. Nourbakhsh

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '03), May, 2003

Computational Models of Perceptual Organization

Stella Yu

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003

Computing Conditional Probabilities in Large Domains by Maximizing Renyi's Quadratic Entropy

Charles Zitnick

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003

Delivering Semantic Web Services

Massimo Paolucci, Katia Sycara, and Takahiro Kawamura

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-02-32, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003

Efficient Monitoring for Planetary Rovers

Vandi Verma, Geoffrey Gordon, and Reid Simmons

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS '03), May, 2003

Finding (Un)Usual Events in Video

Hua Zhong and Jianbo Shi

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-05, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003

Force Guided Assembly Under Bias

Peter Staritz

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-03-17, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2003

Lossless Non-Arbitrated Address-Event Coding

Vladimir Brajovic

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '03), Vol. 5, pp. 825 - 828, May, 2003