Publications - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

Sebastian Thrun and Joseph O'Sullivan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEE Colloquium on Self Learning Robots, pp. 10 - 12, February, 1996

Physics-Based Segmentation: Looking Beyond Color

Bruce Maxwell and Steven Shafer

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), February, 1996

A Generic Video Parsing System With a Scene Description Language (SDL)

Yihong Gong, H. C. Chua, Y. W. Zhu, and M. Sakauchi

Journal Article, Real-Time Imaging, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 45 - 59, February, 1996

A Sorting Computational Sensor

Vladimir Brajovic and Takeo Kanade

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1996

A Stereo Machine for Video-Rate Dense Depth Mapping and Its New Applications

Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), February, 1996

A Theory of Pattern Rejection

Simon Baker and S. K. Nayar

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), pp. 1161 - 1165, February, 1996

Adaptive Reference Frame Selection for Generalized Video Signal Coding

J. S. McVeigh, Mel Siegel, and Angel Jordan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies, Vol. 2668, pp. 441 - 449, February, 1996

Algorithm for automated eye strain reduction in real stereoscopic images and sequences

J. S. McVeigh, Mel Siegel, and Angel Jordan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Human Vision and Electronic Imaging, Vol. 2657, pp. 307 - 316, February, 1996

An Analytical Approach to Change for the Design of Reusable Real-Time Software

Carol L. Hoover and Pradeep Khosla

Workshop Paper, 2nd Workshop on Object-Oriented Real-Time Dependable Systems (WORDS '96), pp. 144 - 151, February, 1996

An Exploratory Prototype for Air Medical Evacuation Re-Planning

Ora Lassila, Marcel Becker, and Stephen Smith

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1996

Dynamic Vehicle Simulation to Evaluate Countermeasure Systems for Run-Off-Road Crashes

D. B. Pape, V. K. Narendran, M. J. Koenig, J. A. Hadden, J. H. Everson, and Dean Pomerleau

Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Congress & Exposition: SAE Technical Paper 960517, February, 1996

Effects of age and disability on tracking tasks with a computer mouse: accuracy and linearity

Cameron Riviere and N. V. Thakor

Journal Article, Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 6 - 15, February, 1996

Focused Simulated Annealing Search: An Application to Job Shop Scheduling

Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol and Yoichiro Nakakuki

Journal Article, Annals of Operations Research, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 77 - 103, February, 1996

Geometry of Binocular Imaging III: Wide-Angle and Fish-Eye Lenses

V. S. Grinberg and Mel Siegel

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems III, Vol. 2653, pp. 146 - 153, February, 1996

Immersion into Visual Media: New Applications of Image Understanding

Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, IEEE Expert, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 73 - 80, February, 1996

Informedia: News-on-Demand Experiments in Speech Recognition

Howard Wactlar, Alex Hauptmann, and Michael Witbrock

Workshop Paper, DARPA Speech Recognition Workshop (SRW '96), February, 1996

Korper, Roboter, Geist

Hans Moravec

Journal Article, Kunstforum, Vol. 133, pp. 98:112, February, 1996

Laminated High-Aspect-Ratio Microstructures in a Conventional CMOS Process

Gary K. Fedder, Suresh Santhanam, M. L. Reed, Steve Eagle, D. F. Guillou, Michael Lu, and L. R. Carley

Workshop Paper, 9th International Workshop on Micro Electromechanical Systems, pp. 13 - 18, February, 1996

Model-based SAR ATR System

Katsushi Ikeuchi, M. D. Wheeler, Taku Yamazaki, and Takeshi Shakunaga

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), pp. 1263 - 1276, February, 1996

Neural Network-Based Face Detection

Henry Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, and Takeo Kanade

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), February, 1996

Obstacle avoidance via depth from focus

Illah Nourbakhsh, D. Andre, C. Tomasi, and M. Genesereth

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), pp. 1339 - 1344, February, 1996

Rapid Design and Manufacture of Wearable Computers

Susan Finger, M. Terk, E. Subrahmanian, C. Kasabach, Fritz B. Prinz, Daniel Siewiorek, A. Smailagic, J. Stivorek, and Lee Weiss

Journal Article, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 63 - 70, February, 1996

Recognition of the Multi Specularity Objects using the Eigen-Window

Kohtaro Ohba and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Tech. Report, CMU-CS-96-105, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 1996

Robotics Laboratory Exercises

Eric Krotkov

Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 94 - 97, February, 1996

Segmentation Based Coding of Stereoscopic Image Sequences

S. Sethuraman, Mel Siegel, and Angel Jordan

Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies, Vol. 2668, pp. 420 - 429, February, 1996

The Virtual Environment Vehicle Interface: a dynamic, distributed, and flexible virtual environment

Laurent Piguet, Butler Hine, Phillip Hontalas, Terrence W. Fong, and Erik Nygren

Conference Paper, Proceedings of IMAGINA '96: New Frontiers of CyberExistence, February, 1996

Three-Dimensional Grouping and Information Fusion for Site Modeling from Aerial Images

C. Jaynes, F. Stolle, H. Schultz, Robert Collins, A. Hanson, and E. Riseman

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), pp. 479 - 490, February, 1996

UMass Progress in 3D Building Model Acquisition

Robert Collins, A. Hanson, E. Riseman, C. Jaynes, F. Stolle, X. Wang, and Y. Cheng

Workshop Paper, DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW '96), pp. 305 - 315, February, 1996

(DM)^2: a modular solution for robotic lunar missions

Christopher Lee and Yangsheng Xu

Journal Article, International Journal of Space Technology, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 49 - 58, 1996

A Computational Representation for Rigid and Articulated Assembly

Yanxi Liu

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-97-66, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

A Scheduling Ontology: Informal Concept Descriptions

Stephen Smith, O. Lassila, and Marcel Becker

Miscellaneous, ICLL Working Paper, 1996

A Sighted Robot

Illah Nourbakhsh

Journal Article, The Robot Practitioner, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996

An anatomically grounded theory of rodent navigation

A. D. Redish and David S. Touretzky

Journal Article, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 22, pp. 678, 1996

CAD Modeling of the Birth Process: II

Yanxi Liu, M. Scudder, and M. L. Gimovsky

Conference Paper, Proceedings of Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference IV, 1996

Coalition Formation Among Rational Information Agents

Matthias Klusch and Onn Shehory

Workshop Paper, 7th European Workshop on Modelling Autonomous Agents in a Multi-Agent World, pp. 204 - 217, 1996

Computational Sensors for Global Operations in Vision

Vladimir Brajovic

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

Data Analysis of 980 nm Pump Laser Diode Devices

Marc Boehlen

Miscellaneous, IBM Confidential Report, 1996

Gerbils regularly return to their starting point when exploring a novel environment

David S. Touretzky, S. J. C. Gaulin, and A. D. Redish

Journal Article, Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, Vol. 22, pp. 449, 1996

Linear-Time Dynamics using Lagrange Multipliers

David Baraff

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-95-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

My Experiences on International Information Exchange (18); International, Japanese and Foreign

Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, TV Cafe, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 68 - 70, 1996

Name-It: Naming and Detecting Faces in News Video

S. Satoh, Toshio Sato, Michael Smith, Y. Nakamura, and Takeo Kanade

Journal Article, Network-Centric Computing Special Issue, 1996

Optical Chinese Character Recognition using Probabilistic Neural Networks

Richard Romero, David Touretzky, and Robert H. Thibadeau

Miscellaneous, 1996

Sidewinder II

Richard LaBarca and et al.

Miscellaneous, Walking Machine Decathlon, 1996

Tessellator Robot Design Document

Kevin Dowling

Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-95-43, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

The Effect of Representation and Knowledge on Goal-Directed Exploration with Reinforcement-Learning Algorithms

Sven Koenig and Reid Simmons

Journal Article, Machine Learning, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 227 - 250, 1996

Vision Based Tactical Driving

Todd Jochem

PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-96-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

Iterative Estimation of Rotation and Translation using the Quaternion

M. D. Wheeler and Katsushi Ikeuchi

Tech. Report, CMU-CS-95-215, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 1995

Robot Navigation: Integrating Perception, Environmental Constraints and Task Execution Within a Probabilistic Framework

Alberto Elfes

Workshop Paper, International Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR '95), pp. 93 - 130, December, 1995

SDM: Selective Dynamic Manipulation of Visualizations

Mei Chuah, Steven F. Roth, Joseph Mattis, and John Kolojejchick

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '95), pp. 61 - 70, December, 1995

An Automatic Video Parser for TV Soccer Games

Yihong Gong, H. C. Chua, and T. S. Lim

Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV '95), Vol. 2, pp. 509 - 513, December, 1995