Publications




Automated Action Selection and Embodied Simulation for Socially Assistive Robots using Standardized Interactions
Kim Baraka
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, July, 2020
Hierarchical U-shape attention network for salient object detection
Sanping Zhou, Jinjun Wang, Jimuyang Zhang, Le Wang, Dong Huang, Shaoyi Du, and Nanning Zheng
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 29, pp. 8417 - 8428, July, 2020
Learning Off-Policy with Online Planning
Harshit Sikchi, Wenxuan Zhou, and David Held
Workshop Paper, ICML '20 Inductive Biases, Invariances and Generalization in Reinforcement Learning Workshop, July, 2020
Coping with sample inefficiency of deep-reinforcement learning (DRL) for embodied AI
Vidhi Jain, Simin Liu, and Ganesh Iyer
Miscellaneous, July, 2020
Learning Active Task-Oriented Exploration Policies for Bridging the Sim-to-Real Gap
Jacky Liang, Saumya Saxena, and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '20), July, 2020
Online Connectivity-aware Dynamic Distribution for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems
Chendi Lin, Wenhao Luo, and Katia Sycara
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Task Allocation and Coordination, July, 2020
“Provably Safe” in the Wild: Testing Control Barrier Functions on a Vision-Based Quadrotor in an Outdoor Environment
Cherie Ho, Katherine Shih, Jaskaran Singh Grover, Changliu Liu, and Sebastian Scherer
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 2nd Workshop on Robust Autonomy: Safe Robot Learning and Control in Uncertain Real-World Environments, July, 2020
Adaptive Tube Library for Safe Online Planning under Unknown Tracking Performance
Cherie Ho, Jay Patrikar, Rogerio Bonatti, and Sebastian Scherer
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 2nd Workshop on Robust Autonomy: Safe Robot Learning and Control in Uncertain Real-World Environments, July, 2020
An Active Perception Approach for Mid-Water Localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, and Jing Sun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '20), pp. 671 - 676, July, 2020
Cooperation-Aware Lane Change Maneuver in Dense Traffic based on Model Predictive Control with Recurrent Neural Network
Sangjae Bae, Dhruv Saxena, Alireza Nakhaei, Chiho Choi, Kikuo Fujimura, and Scott Moura
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '20), pp. 1209 - 1216, July, 2020
Enhancing Perceptual Loss with Adversarial Feature Matching for Super-Resolution
Akella Ravi Tej, Shirsendu Sukanta Halder, Arunav Pratap Shandeelya, and Vinod Pankajakshan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN '20), July, 2020
Learning Robot Skills with Temporal Variational Inference
Tanmay Shankar and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 8624 - 8633, July, 2020
Medieval Robots: The Role of Historical Automata in the Design of Future Robots
Michal Luria, Juliet Pusateri, Judeth Oden Choi, Reuben Aronson, Nur Yildirim, and Molly Wright Steenson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion Publication of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20), pp. 191 - 195, July, 2020
Pixel-Wise Motion Deblurring of Thermal Videos
S. Manikandasriram, R. Vasudevan, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '20), July, 2020
Planning and Execution using Inaccurate Models with Provable Guarantees
Anirudh Vemula, Yash Oza, J. Andrew Bagnell, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '20), July, 2020
Policy Iteration with Gaussian Process based Value Function Approximation
Ashwin Khadke and Akshara Rai
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 Robotics Retrospectives Workshop (RobRetro '20), July, 2020
Reachable Sets for Safe, Real-Time Manipulator Trajectory Design
P. Holmes, S. Kousik, B. Zhang, D. Raz, C. Barbalata, M. Johnson-Roberson, and R. Vasudevan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS '20), July, 2020
Robust Energy-optimal Path Following Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Ocean Currents
Niankai Yang, Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, and Jing Sun
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '20), pp. 5119 - 5124, July, 2020
Stator Temperature Estimation in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors for Low Speed direct-drive Systems
Nathan Estansi, Ankit Bhatia, and Aaron M. Johnson
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 Workshop on "Reacting to Contact'', July, 2020
Touch Sensing for Robots: What is the Next?
Wenzhen Yuan
Workshop Paper, RSS '20 Robotics Retrospectives Workshop (RobRetro '20), July, 2020
A real-time multi-constraints obstacle avoidance method using LiDAR
Wei Chen, Jian Sun, Weishuo Li, and Dapeng Zhao
Journal Article, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 119 - 131, July, 2020
Interactions Between Different Age-Related Factors Affecting Balance Control in Walking
Hendrik Reimann, Rachid Ramadan, Tyler Fettrow, Jocelyn F. Hafer, Hartmut Geyer, and John J. Jeka
Journal Article, Frontiers in Sports and Active Living: Biomechanics and Control of Human Movement, Vol. 2, No. 94, July, 2020
Interferometric transmission probing with coded mutual intensity
Alankar Kotwal, Anat Levin, and Ioannis Gkioulekas
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 39, No. 4, July, 2020
Measuring Similarity of Interactive Driving Behaviors Using Matrix Profile
Qin Lin, Wenshuo Wang, Yihuan Zhang, and John Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of American Control Conference (ACC '20), pp. 3965 - 3970, July, 2020
Multi-Modal Transfer Learning for Grasping Transparent and Specular Objects
Thomas Weng, Amith Pallankize, Yimin Tang, Oliver Kroemer, and David Held
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3791 - 3798, July, 2020
Perceived relevance of digital badges predicts longitudinal change in program engagement
Ross Higashi and Christian D. Schunn
Journal Article, Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 112, No. 5, pp. 1020 - 1041, July, 2020
SilhoNet-Fisheye: Adaptation of A ROI-Based Object Pose Estimation Network to Monocular Fisheye Images
Gideon Billings and M. Johnson-Roberson
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 4241 - 4248, July, 2020
Soft Magnetic Tactile Skin for Continuous Force and Location Estimation using Neural Networks
Tess Hellebrekers, Nadine Chang, Keene Chin, Michael Ford, Oliver Kroemer, and Carmel Majidi
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3892 - 3898, July, 2020
Stabilization of a brain-computer interface via the alignment of low-dimensional spaces of neural activity
Alan D. Degenhart, William E. Bishop, Emily R. Oby, Elizabeth C. Tyler-Kabara, Steven M. Chase, Aaron P. Batista, and Byron M. Yu
Journal Article, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 672 - 685, July, 2020
Tunable Multi-Modal Locomotion in Soft Dielectric Elastomer Robots
Mihai Duduta, Florian Berlinger, Radhika Nagpal, David R. Clarke, Robert J. Wood, and F. Zeynep Temel
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 3868 - 3875, July, 2020
Why Does Symmetry Cause Deadlocks?
Jaskaran Singh Grover, Changliu Liu, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, IFAC-PapersOnLine: 21th IFAC World Congress, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 9746 - 9753, July, 2020
IBB-Net: Fast Iterative Bounding Box Regression for Detection on Point Clouds
Brendan Miller
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-21, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2020
Fast and High-Quality GPU-based Deliberative Perception for Object Pose Estimation
Aditya Agarwal
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2020
Characterizing Marginalization and Incremental Operations on the Bayes Tree
Dehann Fourie, Antonio T. Espinoza, Michael Kaess, and John J. Leonard
Workshop Paper, International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '20), June, 2020
Automatic Estimation of Self-Reported Pain by Interpretable Representations of Motion Dynamics
Benjamin Szczapa, Mohamed Daoudi, Stefano Berretti, Pietro Pala, Alberto Del Bimbo, and Zakia Hammal
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '20), pp. 2544 - 2550, June, 2020
Generative Hybrid Representations for Activity Forecasting with No-Regret Learning
Jiaqi Guan, Ye Yuan, Kris Kitani, and Nicholas Rhinehart
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 170 - 179, June, 2020
Just Go With the Flow: Self-Supervised Scene Flow Estimation
Himangi Mittal, Brian Okorn, and David Held
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 11174 - 11182, June, 2020
Multiple Anchor Learning for Visual Object Detection
Wei Ke, Tianliang Zhang, Zeyi Huang, Qixiang Ye, Jianzhuang Liu, and Dong Huang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 10203 - 10212, June, 2020
Optical Non-Line-of-Sight Physics-based 3D Human Pose Estimation
Mariko Isogawa, Ye Yuan, Matthew O'Toole, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 7011 - 7020, June, 2020
GNN3DMOT: Graph Neural Network for 3D Multi-Object Tracking With 2D-3D Multi-Feature Learning
Xinshuo Weng, Yongxin Wang, Yunze Man, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 6499 - 6508, June, 2020
GNN3DMOT: Graph Neural Network for 3D Multi-Object Tracking with 2D-3D Multi-Feature Learning
Xinshuo Weng, Yongxin Wang, Yunze Man, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, June, 2020
"You are asking me to pay for my legs": Exploring the Experiences, Perceptions, and Aspirations of Informal Public Transportation Users in Kampala and Kigali
Lynn Kirabo, Elizabeth J. Carter, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '20), pp. 136 - 147, June, 2020
3DQ-Nets: Visual Concepts Emerge in Pose Equivariant 3D Quantized Neural Scene Representations
Mihir Prabhudesai, Shamit Lal, Hsiao-Yu Fish Tung, Adam W. Harley, Shubhankar Potdar, and Katerina Fragkiadaki
Workshop Paper, CVPR '20 Workshops, pp. 388 - 389, June, 2020
4D Visualization of Dynamic Events From Unconstrained Multi-View Videos
Aayush Bansal, Minh Vo, Yaser Sheikh, Deva Ramanan, and Srinivasa Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 5365 - 5374, June, 2020
An Extensible Multi-Sensor Fusion Framework for 3D Imaging
Talha Ahmad Siddiqui, Rishi Madhok, and Matthew O'Toole
Workshop Paper, CVPR '20 Workshop on Autonomous Driving, pp. 4344 - 4353, June, 2020
Articulation-Aware Canonical Surface Mapping
Nilesh Kulkarni, Abhinav Gupta, David Fouhey, and Shubham Tulsiani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 449 - 458, June, 2020
Bodies at Rest: 3D Human Pose and Shape Estimation From a Pressure Image using Synthetic Data
Henry M. Clever, Zackory Erickson, Ariel Kapusta, Greg Turk, Karen Liu, and Charles C. Kemp
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 6215 - 6224, June, 2020
Dataless Model Selection With the Deep Frame Potential
Calvin Murdock and Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 11254 - 11262, June, 2020
Diverse Image Generation via Self-Conditioned GANs
Steven Liu, Tongzhou Wang, David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, and Antonio Torralba
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 14274 - 14283, June, 2020
Efficient Contact Mode Enumeration in 3D
Eric Huang, Xianyi Cheng, and Matthew T. Mason
Workshop Paper, 14th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '20), June, 2020