Publications




Model-free Sensorless Manipulation
Pragna Mannam
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Topological Path Planning For Crowd Navigation
Chao Cao
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-18, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Visual Imitation Learning for Robot Manipulation
Maximilian Sieb
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-07, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
3D Object Detection from CT Scans using a Slice-and-fuse Approach
Anqi Yang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-23, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
3D Shape Completion and Canonical Pose Estimation with Structured Neural Networks
Wentao Yuan
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-22, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
A Multi-Domain Feature Learning Method for Visual Place Recognition
Peng Yin, Lingyun Xu, Xueqian Li, Yin Chen, Yingli Li, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Lu Li, Jiamin Ji, and Yuqin He
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 319 - 324, May, 2019
Adaptive Variance for Changing Sparse-Reward Environments
Xingyu Lin, Pengsheng Guo, Carlos Florensa, and David Held
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3210 - 3216, May, 2019
An Optimization Approach for Structured Agent-Based Provider/Receiver Tasks
Kim Baraka, Marta Couto, Francisco S. Melo, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 95 - 103, May, 2019
MRS-VPR: a multi-resolution sampling based global visual place recognition method
Peng Yin, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Yin Chen, Xueqian Li, Hongda Zhang, Lingyun Xu, Lu Li, Zenzhong Jia, Jiamin Ji, and Yuqin He
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 7137 - 7142, May, 2019
Trust-Aware Behavior Reflection for Robot Swarm Self-Healing
Rui Liu, Fan Jia, Wenhao Luo, Meghan Chandarana, Changjoo Nam, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 122 - 130, May, 2019
OpenPose: Whole-Body Pose Estimation
Gines Hidalgo Martinez
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-015, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
A Computational Framework for Norm-Aware Reasoning in Autonomous Systems
Vigneshram Krishnamoorthy
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Community Regularization of Visually Grounded Dialog
Akshat Agarwal, Swaminathan Gurumurthy, Vasu Sharma, Mike Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 1042 - 1050, May, 2019
Generating 3D Human Animations from Single Monocular Images
Tanya Marwah
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Interpretable Intuitive Physics Model
Tian Ye
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-16, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Learning Transferable Cooperative Behavior in Multi-Agent Teams
Akshat Agarwal
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Planning under Uncertainty with Multiple Heuristics
Sung Kyun Kim
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-26, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Design and Evaluation of Robust Control Methods for Robotic Transfemoral Prostheses
Nitish Thatte
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-20, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
AFAR: A Deep Learning Based Tool for Automated Facial Affect Recognition
Itir Onal Ertugrul, Laszlo A. Jeni, Wanqiao Ding, and Jeffrey F. Cohn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG '19), May, 2019
Cross-domain AU Detection: Domains, Learning Approaches, and Measures
Itir Onal Ertugrul, Jeffrey F. Cohn, Laszlo A. Jeni, Zheng Zhang, Lijun Yin, and Qiang Ji
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG '19), May, 2019
Monocular Total Capture: Posing Face, Body, and Hands in the Wild
Donglai Xiang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-19, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019
Multimodal Trajectory Predictions for Autonomous Driving using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
H. Cui, V. Radosavljevic, F. C. Chou, T. H. Lin, T. K. Huang, J. Schneider, and N. Djuric
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2090 - 2096, May, 2019
Active Learning with Gaussian Processes for High Throughput Phenotyping
Sumit Kumar, Wenhao Luo, George Kantor, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 2078 - 2080, May, 2019
Distributed Environmental Modeling and Adaptive Sampling for Multi-Robot Sensor Coverage
Wenhao Luo, Changjoo Nam, George Kantor, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 1488 - 1496, May, 2019
Directed-Info GAIL: Learning Hierarchical Policies from Unsegmented Demonstrations using Directed Information
Mohit Sharma, Arjun Sharma, Nicholas Rhinehart, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, May, 2019
Learnable Embedding Space for Efficient Neural Architecture Compression
Shengcao Cao, Xiaofang Wang, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, May, 2019
Learning Robust Manipulation Strategies with Multimodal State Transition Models and Recovery Heuristics
Austin S. Wang and Oliver Kroemer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1309 - 1315, May, 2019
“It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it”: How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twiter Accessible
Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham
Conference Paper, Proceedings of World Wide Web Conference (WWW '19), pp. 549 - 559, May, 2019
A constrained control-planning strategy for redundant manipulators
Corina Barbalata, Ram Vasudevan, and M. Johnson-Roberson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 3073 - 3079, May, 2019
A New Constraint Satisfaction Perspective on Multi-Agent Path Finding
Jiangxing Wang, Jiaoyang Li, Hang Ma, Sven Koenig, and T. K. Satish Kumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS '19), pp. 2253 - 2255, May, 2019
Active Learning with Partial Feedback
P. Hu, Z. Lipton, A. Anandkumar, and D. Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, May, 2019
Airport Accessibility and Navigation Assistance for People with Visual Impairments
João Guerreiro, Dragan Ahmetovic, Daisuke Sato, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
Algorithmic Quilting Pattern Generation for Pieced Quilts
Yifei Li, David E. Breen, James McCann, and Jessica Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 45th Graphics Interface Conference (GI '19), May, 2019
An independent and interactive museum experience for blind people
Saki Asakawa, João Guerreiro, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Dragan Ahmetovic, Desi Gonzalez, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th Web For All Personalization - Personalizing the Web (W4A '19), May, 2019
Automatic Real-time Anomaly Detection for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
Azarakhsh Keipour, Mohammadreza Mousaei, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5679 - 5685, May, 2019
BBeep: A Sonic Collision Avoidance System for Blind Travellers and Nearby Pedestrians
Seita Kayukawa, Keita Higuchi, João Guerreiro, Kris Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
Direct Fitting of Gaussian Mixture Models
Leonid Keselman and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV '19), pp. 25 - 32, May, 2019
Dynamic Channel: A Planning Framework for Crowd Navigation
Chao Cao, Peter Trautman, and Soshi Iba
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 5551 - 5557, May, 2019
ElectroDermis: Fully Untethered, Stretchable, and Highly-Customizable Electronic Bandages
Eric Markvicka, Guanyun Wang, Yi-Chin Lee, Gierad Laput, Carmel Majidi, and Lining Yao
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
FiberWire: Embedding Electronic Function into 3D Printed Mechanically Strong, Lightweight Carbon Fiber Composite Objects
Saiganesh Swaminathan, Kadri Bugra Ozutemiz, Carmel Majidi, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '19), May, 2019
GAN Dissection: Visualizing and Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks
David Bau, Jun-Yan Zhu, Hendrik Strobelt, Bolei Zhou, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, William T. Freeman, and Antonio Torralba
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, May, 2019
GPS-Denied UAV Localization using Pre-existing Satellite Imagery
H. Goforth and S. Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 2974 - 2980, May, 2019
Impact of Expertise on Interaction Preferences for Navigation Assistance of Visually Impaired Individuals
Dragan Ahmetovic, João Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th Web For All Personalization - Personalizing the Web (W4A '19), May, 2019
IoT-based Architectures for Sensing and Local Data Processing in Ambient Intelligence: Research and Industrial Trends
Yang Cai, Angelo Genovese, Vincenzo Piuri, Fabio Scotti, and Mel Siegel
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC '19), May, 2019
Learning from Extrapolated Corrections
Jason Y. Zhang and Anca D. Dragan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 7034 - 7040, May, 2019
Learning Primitive Skills for Mobile Robots
Yifeng Zhu, Devin Schwab, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 7597 - 7603, May, 2019
Localization and Tracking of Uncontrollable Underwater Agents: Particle Filter Based Fusion of On-Body IMUs and Stationary Cameras
Ding Zhang, Joaquin Gabaldon, Lisa Lauderdale, M. Johnson-Roberson, Lance Miller, Kira Barton, and Alex Shorter
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 6575 - 6581, May, 2019
Propagation Networks for Model-Based Control Under Partial Observation
Yunzhu Li, Jiajun Wu, Jun-Yan Zhu, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Antonio Torralba, and Russ Tedrake
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 1205 - 1211, May, 2019
Robot Object Referencing through Legible Situated Projections
Thomas Weng, Leah Perlmutter, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Maya Cakmak
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICRA) International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pp. 8004 - 8010, May, 2019
Safe Intersection Crossing through Pedestrian-to-Infrastructure Communication
S. F. Smith, Z. B. Rubinstein, S. Braham, M. B. Dias, and J. Marousek
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-19-83, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2019