Publications




Combining Semantic and Geometric Understanding for Modern Visual Recognition Tasks
Xia Chen
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2020
Terrain Relative Navigation for Lunar Polar Roving: Exploiting Geometry, Shadows, and Planning
Eugene Fang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-11, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2020
CARSS: Client-Aware Resource Sharing and Scheduling for Heterogeneous Applications
Iljoo Baek, Matthew Harding, Akshit Kanda, Kyung Ryeol Choi, Soheil Samii, and Ragunathan Raj Rajkumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '20), pp. 324 - 335, April, 2020
Communication learning via backpropagation in discrete channels with unknown noise
Benjamin Freed, Guillaume Sartoretti, Jiaheng Hu, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), pp. 7160 - 7168, April, 2020
Conversational agency in augmentative and alternative communication
S. Valencia, A. Pavel, J. S. Maria, S. G. Yu, J. P. Bigham, and H. Admoni
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Digital Fabrication Tools at Work: Probing Professionals' Current Needs and Desired Futures
Nur Yildirim, James McCann, and John Zimmerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Discovering Motor Programs by Recomposing Demonstrations
Tanmay Shankar, Shubham Tulsiani, Lerrel Pinto, and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, April, 2020
Efficient non-line-of-sight imaging with computational single-photon imaging
David Lindell, Matthew O’Toole, and Gordon Wetzstein
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Advanced Photon Counting Techniques XIV, Vol. 11386, April, 2020
Leveraging Title-Abstract Attentive Semantics for Paper Recommendation
Guibing Guo, Bowei Chen, Xiaoyan Zhang, Zhirong Liu, Zhenhua Dong, and Xiuqiang He
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), pp. 67 - 74, April, 2020
Neural Dynamical Systems
Viraj Mehta, Ian Char, Willie Neiswanger, Youngseog Chung, Andrew Oakleigh Nelson, Mark D. Boyer, Egemen Kolemen, and Jeff Schneider
Workshop Paper, ICLR '20 Workshop on Integration of Deep Neural Models and Differential Equations, April, 2020
Pedestrian detection with wearable cameras for the blind: A two-way perspective
Kyungjun Lee, Daisuke Sato, Saki Asakawa, Hernisa Kacorri, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Predicting Students' Attention Level with Interpretable Facial and Head Dynamic Features in an Online Tutoring System
Shimeng Peng, Lujie Chen, Chufan Gao, and Richard Jiarui Tong
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20) (Student Abstract Track), pp. 13895 - 13896, April, 2020
Ranking and Rating Rankings and Ratings
Jingyan Wang and Nihar B. Shah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '20), pp. 13704 - 13707, April, 2020
Re-examining Whether, Why, and How Human-AI Interaction Is Uniquely Difficult to Design
Qian Yang, Aaron Steinfeld, Carolyn Penstein Rosé, and John Zimmerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Recog: Supporting blind people in recognizing personal objects
Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Uran Oh, Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Support Strategies for Remote Guides in Assisting People with Visual Impairments for Effective Indoor Navigation
Rie Kamikubo, Naoya Kato, Keita Higuchi, Ryo Yonetani, and Yoichi Sato
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20), April, 2020
Toward fieldable human-scale mobile manipulation using RoMan
Chad C. Kessens, Jonathan Fink, Arnon Hurwitz, Matthew Kaplan, Philip R. Osteen, Trevor Rocks, John Rogers, Ethan Stump, Long Quang, Michael DiBlasi, Mark Gonzalez, Dilip Patel, Jaymit Patel, Shiyani Patel, Matthew Weiker, Joseph Bowkett, Renaud Detry, Sisir Karumanchi, Joel Burdick, Larry Matthies, Yash Oza, Aditya Agarwal, Andrew Dornbush, Maxim Likhachev, Karl Schmeckpeper, Kostas Daniilidis, Ajinkya Kamat, Sanjiban Choudhury, Aditya Mandalika, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Multi-Domain Operations Applications II, Vol. 11413, April, 2020
Towards Learning-based Inverse Subsurface Scattering
Chengqian Che, Fujun Luan, Shuang Zhao, Kavita Bala, and Ioannis Gkioulekas
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCP) IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, April, 2020
Real-Time Soft Body 3D Proprioception via Deep Vision-Based Sensing
R. Wang, S. Wang, S. Du, E. Xiao, W. Yuan, and C. Feng
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3382 - 3389, April, 2020
Simultaneous Policy and Discrete Communication Learning for Multi-Agent Cooperation
Benjamin Freed, Guillaume Sartoretti, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2498 - 2505, April, 2020
Crossing Domains for AU Coding: Perspectives, Approaches, and Measures
Itir Onal Ertugrul, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Laszlo A. Jeni, Zheng Zhang, Lijun Yin, and Qiang Ji
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 158 - 171, April, 2020
Data Decomposition for Constrained Visual Learning
Calvin Murdock
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, CMU-ML-20-106, Machine Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2020
Evolution and Analysis of Hapkit: an Open Source Haptic Device for Educational Applications
M. Orta Martinez, C. Nunez, T. Liao, T. K. Morimoto, and A. M. Okamura
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Haptics, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 354 - 367, April, 2020
Group Split and Merge Prediction With 3D Convolutional Networks
Allan Wang and Aaron Steinfeld
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1923 - 1930, April, 2020
High Resolution Diffuse Optical Tomography using Short Range Indirect Subsurface Imaging
Chao Liu, Akash Kumar Maity, Artur W. Dubrawski, Ashutosh Sabharwal, and Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCP) IEEE International Conference on Computational Photography, April, 2020
Learning to Collaborate from Simulation for Robot-assisted Dressing
Alexander Clegg, Zackory Erickson, Patrick Grady, Greg Turk, Charles C. Kemp, and C. Karen Liu
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2746 - 2753, April, 2020
Learning to optimally segment point clouds
Peiyun Hu, David Held, and Deva Ramanan
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 875 - 882, April, 2020
Locomotion of a multi-link non-holonomic snake robot with passive joints
Tony Dear, Blake Buchanan, Rodrigo Abrajan-Guerrero, Scott David Kelly, Matthew Travers, and Howie Choset
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 39, No. 5, pp. 598 - 616, April, 2020
Model-Based Generalization Under Parameter Uncertainty Using Path Integral Control
Ian Abraham, Ankur Handa, Nathan Ratliff, Kendall Lowrey, Todd D. Murphey, and Dieter Fox
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2864 - 2871, April, 2020
Pedestrian Planar LiDAR Pose (PPLP) Network for Oriented Pedestrian Detection Based on Planar LiDAR and Monocular Images
Fan Bu, Trinh Le, Xiaoxiao Du, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1626 - 1633, April, 2020
Robust Path Planning for Slope Traversing Under Uncertainty in Slip Prediction
Hiroaki Inotsume, Takashi Kubota, and David Wettergreen
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3390 - 3397, April, 2020
Scalable Cooperative Transport of Cable-Suspended Loads with UAV's using Distributed Trajectory Optimization
Brian Jackson, Taylor Howell, Kunal Shah, Mac Schwager, and Zac Manchester
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3368 - 3374, April, 2020
Towards Efficient Human-Robot Collaboration With Robust Plan Recognition and Trajectory Prediction
Yujiao Cheng, Liting Sun, Changliu Liu, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 2602 - 2609, April, 2020
Windowed Bundle Adjustment Framework for Unsupervised Learning of Monocular Depth Estimation With U-Net Extension and Clip Loss
Lipu Zhou and Michael Kaess
Journal Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 3283 - 3290, April, 2020
Supervision by Registration and Triangulation for Landmark Detection
Xuanyi Dong, Yi Yang, Shih-En Wei, Xinshuo Weng, Yaser Sheikh, and Shoou-I Yu
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, March, 2020
Combining Multiple Heuristics: Studies on Neighborhood-based Heuristics and Sampling-based Heuristics
Chung-Yao Chuang
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-02, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2020
AlignNet: A Unifying Approach to Audio-Visual Alignment
Zhaoyuan Fang, Jianren Wang, and Hang Zhao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '20), pp. 3298 - 3306, March, 2020
Assessing, Explaining, and Conveying Robot Proficiency for Human-Robot Teaming
Aaron Steinfeld and Michael A. Goodrich
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 662, March, 2020
Death of a Robot: Social Media Reactions and Language Usage when a Robot Stops Operating
Elizabeth J. Carter, Samantha Reig, Xiang Zhi Tan, Gierad Laput,, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 589 - 597, March, 2020
Defining Transfers Between Multiple Service Robots
Xiang Zhi Tan, Michal Luria, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 465 - 467, March, 2020
Estimating 3D Camera Pose from 2D Pedestrian Trajectories
Yan Xu, Vivek Roy, and Kris Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '20), pp. 2568 - 2577, March, 2020
Eye gaze for assistive manipulation
Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 552 - 554, March, 2020
High Accuracy Face Geometry Capture using a Smartphone Video
Shubham Agrawal, Anuj Pahuja, and Simon Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '20), pp. 81 - 90, March, 2020
Improving Object Detection with Inverted Attention
Zeyi Huang, Wei Ke, and Dong Huang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '20), pp. 1294 - 1302, March, 2020
MSE-Optimal Neural Network Initialization via Layer Fusion
Ramina Ghods, Andrew S. Lan, Tom Goldstein, and Christoph Studer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 54th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS '20), March, 2020
Not Some Random Agent: Multi-person Interaction with a Personalizing Service Robot
Samantha Reig, Michal Luria, Janet Z. Wang, Danielle Oltman, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Aaron Steinfeld, Jodi Forlizzi, and John Zimmerman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 289 - 297, March, 2020
Now, Over Here: Leveraging Extended Attentional Capabilities in Human-Robot Interaction
Xiang Zhi Tan, Sean Andrist, Dan Bohus, and Eric Horvitz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the 15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '20), pp. 468 - 470, March, 2020
Virtual Navigation for Blind People: Transferring Route Knowledge to the Real-World
Joao Guerreiro, Kris Kitani, Daisuke Sato, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Chieko Asakawa, and Dragan Ahmetovic
Journal Article, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Vol. 135, March, 2020
Quadtree Generating Networks: Efficient Hierarchical Scene Parsing with Sparse Convolutions
Kashyap Chitta, Jose M. Alvarez, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '20), pp. 2009 - 2018, March, 2020
Toward automated interpretation of electromyography for intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring using machine learning
Xuefan Zha, Leila Wehbe, Robert J. Sclabassi, Zachary Mace, Ye V. Liang, Todd A. Hillman, Douglas A. Chen, Alexander Yu, Jody Leonardo, Boyle C. Cheng, and Cameron N. Riviere
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-20-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2020