Publications




Truncated Horizon Policy Search: Combining Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning
Wen Sun, J. Andrew Bagnell, and Byron Boots
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, April, 2018
The principles of cascading power limits in small, fast biological and engineered systems
Mark Ilton, M. Saad Bhamla, Xiaotian Ma, Suzanne M. Cox, L. L. Fitchett, Yongjin Kim, Je-sung Koh, D Krishnamurthy, Chi-Yun Kuo, Fatma Zeynep Temel, Alfred J. Crosby, Manu Prakash, Gregory P. Sutton, Robert J. Wood, Emanuel Azizi, Sarah Bergbreiter, and S. N. Patek
Journal Article, Science, Vol. 360, No. 6387, April, 2018
Using Multiple Fidelity Models in Motion Planning
Breelyn Melissa Kane Styler
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-15, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2018
Adapting to Context in Robot State Estimation
Humphrey Hu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-14, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2018
How Context and User Behavior Affect Indoor Navigation Assistance for Blind People
Joao Guerreiro, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Dragan Ahmetovic, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 15th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility, April, 2018
Data-Driven Visual Forecasting
Jacob Walker
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2018
Components & Experiments Toward a Pollen Neutralization System
Ziqi Guo and Mel Siegel
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-10, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2018
Environmental Factors in Indoor Navigation Based on Real-World Trajectories of Blind Users
Hernisa Kacorri, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18), April, 2018
Sketching for Kronecker Product Regression and P-splines
Huaian Diao, Zhao Song, Wen Sun, and David P. Woodruff
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '18), April, 2018
An Efficient Mobile-Based Middleware Architecture for Building Robust, High-Performance Apps
Oscar J. Romero and Sushma A. Akoju
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture Companion (ICSA-C '18), pp. 97 - 100, April, 2018
Analytical enhancements and practical insights for mpcp with self-suspensions
Pratyush Patel, Iljoo Baek, Hyoseung Kim, and Ragunathan Rajkumar
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS '18), pp. 177 - 189, April, 2018
N2N learning: Network to Network Compression via Policy Gradient Reinforcement Learning
Anubhav Ashok, Nicholas Rhinehart, Fares Beainy, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, April, 2018
PixelNN: Example-based Image Synthesis
A. Bansal, Y. Sheikh, and D. Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, April, 2018
Real-time, short-wave, infrared hyperspectral conforming imaging sensor for the detection of threat materials
Matthew P. Nelson, Shawna K. Tazik, Patrick J. Treado, Tiancheng Zhi, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Bernardo Pires, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Next-Generation Spectroscopic Technologies XI, Vol. 10657, April, 2018
Spatially Transformed Adversarial Examples
Chaowei Xiao, Jun-Yan Zhu, Bo Li, Warren He, Mingyan Liu, and Dawn Song
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICLR) International Conference on Learning Representations, April, 2018
Speak Up: A multi-year deployment of games to motivate speech therapy in India
Amal Nanavati, M. Bernardine Dias, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18), April, 2018
Visualizing the Palisades of Vogt: Limbal Registration by Surface Segmentation
Tejas Sudharshan Mathai, John Galeotti, and Kira Lathrop
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI '18), pp. 1327 - 1331, April, 2018
Dual Policy Iteration
Wen Sun, Geoff Gordon, Byron Boots, and Drew Bagnell
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2018
Asynchronous Parallel Bayesian Optimisation via Thompson Sampling
K. Kandasamy, A. Krishnamurthy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS '18), Vol. 84, pp. 133 - 142, April, 2018
Hindsight is Only 50/50: Unsuitability of MDP based Approximate POMDP Solvers for Multi-resolution Information Gathering
Arora S, Choudhury S, and Scherer S
Journal Article, arXiv preprint arXiv:1804. 02573, April, 2018
Attending to structural programming features predicts differences in learning and motivation
Eben B. Witherspoon, Christian D. Schunn, Ross M. Higashi, and Robin Shoop
Journal Article, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 115 - 128, April, 2018
Design of a lightweight soft robotic arm using pneumatic artificial muscles and inflatable sleeves
Preston Ohta, Luis Valle, Jonathan King, Kevin Low, Jaehyun Yi, Christopher G. Atkeson, and Yong-Lae Park
Journal Article, Soft Robotics, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 204 - 215, April, 2018
Gamma-ray source detection with small sensors
Kyle Miller and Artur W. Dubrawski
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 1047 - 1058, April, 2018
Predictive neuromechanical simulations indicate why walking performance declines with aging
S. Song and H. Geyer
Journal Article, The Journal of Physiology, Vol. 596, No. 7, pp. 1199 - 1210, April, 2018
Quantifying the Relationship between Large Public Events and Escort Advertising Behavior
Benedikt Boecking, Kyle Miller, Emily Kennedy, and Artur Dubrawski
Journal Article, Journal of Human Trafficking, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 220 - 237, April, 2018
Distributed conflict resolution for connected autonomous vehicles
Changliu Liu, Chung-Wei Lin, Shinichi Shiraishi,, and Masayoshi Tomizuka
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 18 - 29, March, 2018
Results and Perspectives from Testing at Portsmouth: Robotic Measurement of U235 in Pipe Holdup Deposits
Heather Jones, William Whittaker, and Taylor Wilson
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-18-52, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2018
Robotic Measurement of Holdup Deposit Volume in Gaseous Diffusion Piping to Quantify U-235 Content
Lawrence Papincak, Heather Jones, Matthew Hanczor, Warren Whittaker, James Teza, David Kohanbash, Siri Maley, Daniel Arnett, Andrew Tallaksen, Alexander Duncan, Ignacio Cordova Lanta Hanczdilla, Ryan O'Keefe, Jordan Ford, and William Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Conference (WM '18), March, 2018
Robotic NDA of Holdup Deposits in Gaseous Diffusion Piping by Gamma Assay of Uranium-235
Heather Jones, William Whittaker, Oleg Sapunkov, Taylor Wilson, David Kohanbash, Siri Maley, James Teza, Eugene Fang, Max McHugh, Ian Holst, Christopher Ng, and Russell Riddle
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Conference (WM '18), March, 2018
Deep Radio-Visual Localization
Tatsuya Ishihara, Kris M. Kitani, Chieko Asakawa, and Michitaka Hirose
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 596 - 605, March, 2018
Recognizing Visual Signatures of Spontaneous Head Gestures
Mohit Sharma, Dragan Ahmetovic, Laszlo A. Jeni, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 400 - 408, March, 2018
Rotational Rectification Network: Enabling Pedestrian Detection for Mobile Vision
Xinshuo Weng, Shangxuan Wu, Fares Beainy, and Kris M. Kitani
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 1084 - 1092, March, 2018
Low-Cost Wearable Human-Computer Interface with Conductive Fabric for STEAM Education
Eric J Markvicka, Steven Rich, Jiahe Liao, Hesham Zaini, and Carmel Majidi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC '18), pp. 161 - 166, March, 2018
Localized imaging and mapping for underwater fuel storage basins
J. Hsiung, Andrew Tallaksen, L. Papincak, Sudharshan Suresh, Heather Jones, Warren Whittaker, and M. Kaess
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Conference (WM '18), March, 2018
Smartphone-based Indoor Localization for Blind Navigation across Building Complexes
Masayuki M. Murata, Daisuke Sato, Dragan Ahmetovic, Hironobu Takagi, Kris M. Kitani, and Chieko Asakawa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom '18), March, 2018
Ensemble Knowledge Transfer for Semantic Segmentation
I. Nigam, C. Huang, and D. Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 1499 - 1508, March, 2018
Factorized convolutional networks: unsupervised fine-tuning for image clustering
Liang-Yan Gui, Liangke Gui, Yuxiong Wang, Louis-Philippe Morency, and Jose M. F. Moura
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 1205 - 1214, March, 2018
Object-Centric Photometric Bundle Adjustment with Deep Shape Prior
R. Zhu, C. Wang, C. Lin, Z. Wang, and S. Lucey
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 894 - 902, March, 2018
Revealing Actionable Simplicity in Data
Nick Gisolfi and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AAAI '18 Spring Symposium on Design of User Experience for Artificial Intelligence, pp. 382 - 385, March, 2018
Robust Localization of an Arbitrary Distribution of Radioactive Sources for Aerial Inspection
Dhruv Shah and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Waste Management Conference (WM '18), March, 2018
Slippage and Immobilization Detection for Planetary Exploration Rovers via Machine Learning and Proprioceptive Sensing
R. Gonzalez, D. Apostolopoulos, and K. Iagnemma
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 231 - 247, March, 2018
The more you look, the more you see: towards general object understanding through recursive refinement
J. Wang, O. Russakovsky, and D. Ramanan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '18), pp. 1794 - 1803, March, 2018
A Kernel-based Approach to Learning Contact Distributions for Robot Manipulation Tasks
Oliver Kroemer, Simon Leischnig, Stefan Luettgen, and Jan Peters
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 581 - 600, March, 2018
A surgical system for automatic registration, stiffness mapping and dynamic image overlay
Nicolas Zevallos, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad, Hadi Salman, Lu Li, Jianing Qian, Saumya Saxena, Mengyun Xu, Kartik Patath, and Howie Choset
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR '18), March, 2018
An efficient global energy optimization approach for robust 3D plane segmentation of point clouds
Zhen Dong, Bisheng Yanga, Pingbo Hua, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Vol. 137, pp. 112 - 133, March, 2018
Confocal Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging Based on the Light Cone Transform
Matthew O'Toole, David B. Lindell, and Gordon Wetzstein
Journal Article, Nature, Vol. 555, pp. 338 - 341, March, 2018
Coupled indoor navigation for people who are blind
Amal Nanavati, Xiang Zhi Tan, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Companion of the 13th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '18), pp. 201 - 202, March, 2018
Crowdsourcing the Installation and Maintenance of Indoor Localization Infrastructure to Support Blind Navigation
Cole Gleason, Dragan Ahmetovic, Saiph Savage, Carlos Toxtli, Carl Posthuma, Chieko Asakawa, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffery P. Bigham
Journal Article, ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Vol. 2, No. 1, March, 2018
Dynamic Multimodal Measurement of Depression Severity Using Deep Autoencoding
H. Dibeklioğlu, Z. Hammal, and J. F. Cohn
Journal Article, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 525 - 536, March, 2018
Embedded Control System for Stimulation-Driven Exoskeleton
Lu Li, John R. Schnellenberger, Mark J. Nandor, Sarah R. Chang, Kevin M. Foglyano, Ryan-David Reyes, Rudi Kobetic, Musa Audu, Ronald J. Triolo,, and Roger D. Quinn
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR '18), March, 2018