Publications




A Dirac Operator for Extrinsic Shape Analysis
Hsueh-Ti Derek Liu, Alec Jacobson, and Keenan Crane
Journal Article, Computer Graphics Forum, Vol. 36, No. 5, pp. 139 - 149, August, 2017
An intelligent design interface for dancers to teach robots
Heather Knight and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '17), pp. 1344 - 1350, August, 2017
Augmented reality dialog interface for multimodal teleoperation
André Pereira, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite, John Mars, and Jill Fain Lehman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '17), pp. 764 - 771, August, 2017
Beat-to-beat ECG features for time resolution improvements in stress detection
Dustin Axman, Joana S. Paiva, Fernando De la Torre, and Joao P. S. Cunha
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO '17), pp. 1290 - 1294, August, 2017
Equivariance Through Parameter-Sharing
S. Ravanbaksh, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 2892 - 2901, August, 2017
Keep on dancing: Effects of expressive motion mimicry
Reid Simmons and Heather Knight
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '17), pp. 720 - 727, August, 2017
Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent
James Kennedy, Iolanda Leite, André Pereira, Ming Sun, Boyang Li, Rishub Jain, Ricson Cheng, Eli Pincus, Elizabeth J. Carter, and Jill Fain Lehman
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 17th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA '17), pp. 192 - 204, August, 2017
Planning for electric taxi charging system from the perspective of transport energy supply chain: A data-driven approach in Beijing
Yinghao Jia, Huimiao Chen, Jiaoyang Li, Fang He\, Meng Li, Zechun Hu, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference and Expo, Asia-Pacific (ITEC Asia-Pacific), August, 2017
Predicting Trust in Human Control of Swarms via Inverse Reinforcement Learning
Changjoo Nam, Phillip Walker, Michael Lewis, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN '17), pp. 528 - 533, August, 2017
Scaling active search using linear similarity functions
Sibi Venkatesan, James K. Miller, Jeff Schneider, and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '17), pp. 2878 - 2884, August, 2017
Self-paced Mixture of Regressions
Longfei Han, Dingwen Zhang, Dong Huang, Xiaojun Chang, Jun Ren, Senlin Luo, and Junwei Han
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '17), pp. 1816 - 1822, August, 2017
The Binomial Block Bootstrap Estimator for Evaluating Loss on Dependent Clusters
Matt Barnes and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 33rd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI '17), August, 2017
Slant Perception under Stereo Microscopy
S. Horvath, K. McDonald, J. Galeotti, and R. Klatzky
Journal Article, Human Factors, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 1128 - 1138, August, 2017
Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimisation with Continuous Approximations
K. Kandasamy, G. Dasarathy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, Vol. 70, pp. 1799 - 1808, August, 2017
The Statistical Recurrent Unit
J. Oliva, B. Poczos, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 2671 - 2680, August, 2017
A Control System for Bionic Shoes
Xunjie Zhang
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-39, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
A Multi-Heuristic framework for Humanoid Planning
Karthik Vijayakumar
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-57, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Adaptive Spectroscopic Exploration Driven by Science Hypotheses for Geologic Mapping
Alberto Candela Garza
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-62, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
An Ego-vision System for Hand Grasp Analysis
Minjie Cai, Kris M. Kitani, and Yoichi Sato
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 524 - 535, August, 2017
An Evaluation of Wheel-Track Systems
Hannah Lyness
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-33, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Applications of Experience Graphs in Humanoid Motion Planning
Sameer Bardapurkar
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-59, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Autonomy Infused Teleoperation with Application to BCI Manipulation
Katharina Muelling, Arun Venkatraman, Jean-Sebastien Valois, John Downey, Jeffrey M. Weiss, Shervin Javdani, Martial Hebert, Andrew B. Schwartz, Jennifer L. Collinger, and J. Andrew Bagnell
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 1401 - 1422, August, 2017
Deep Structures of Collaboration
Prerna Chikersal
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-36, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Deliberative Perception
Venkatraman Narayanan
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-67, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Detecting and Grasping Sorghum Stalks in Outdoor Occluded Environments
Merritt Jenkins
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-61, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Development of a Ground-Based Robot for High-Throughput Plant Phenotyping
Timothy Mueller-Sim
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-46, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Discovering and Leveraging Visual Structure for Large-scale Recognition
Abhinav Shrivastava
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-63, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
DROAN: Disparity space Representation for Obstacle AvoidaNce
Geetesh Dubey
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-42, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Efficient, Multi-Fidelity Perceptual Representations via Hierarchical Gaussian Mixture Models
Shobhit Srivastava
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-44, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Exploiting Robotic Swarm Characteristics for Adversarial Subversion in Coverage Tasks
Navyata Sanghvi
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-60, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Go, Look, and Tell: Natural Language Communication with a Ballbot
M. Wilson, J. Oh, and R. Hollis
Miscellaneous, CMU RISS Poster Session, August, 2017
Improving Stochastic Policy Gradients in Continuous Control with Deep Reinforcement Learning using the Beta Distribution
Po-Wei Chou, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 834 - 843, August, 2017
Large-scale, real-time 3D scene reconstruction on a mobile device
Ivan Dryanovski, Matthew Klingensmith, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, and Jizhong Xiao
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots: Special Issue on RSS '15, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 1423 - 1445, August, 2017
On Time-Optimal Behavior Scheduling of Robotic Swarms for Achieving Multiple Goals
Sasanka Nagavalli, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE '17), pp. 1546 - 1553, August, 2017
Paratransit Scheduling and Routing
Z. B. Rubinstein and S. F. Smith
Book Section/Chapter, Accessible Public Transportation: Designing Service for Riders with Disabilities, August, 2017
Real-time Dense Mapping without Pose Graph using Deformation and Orientation
Puneet Puri
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-35, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Reasoning About Spatial Patterns of Human Behavior During Group Conversations with Robots
Marynel Vazquez
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Reliable Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles in Connected Vehicle Environments by using Multi-agent Sensor Fusion
Suryansh Saxena
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-45, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Robust Adversarial Reinforcement Learning
Lerrel Pinto, James Davidson, Rahul Sukthankar, and Abhinav Gupta
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICML) International Conference on Machine Learning, pp. 2817 - 2826, August, 2017
Safe and Efficient Navigation in Dynamic Environments
Anirudh Vemula
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-40, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Shape Prior Meets Geometry in Single and Multi-view Shape Reconstruction
Rui Zhu
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Situational Awareness and Mixed Initiative Markup for Human-Robot Team Plans
Nathan Brooks
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-64, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
State Estimation and Localization for ROV-Based Reactor Pressure Vessel Inspection Using a Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera
Timothy E. Lee
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-48, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
State Estimation and Vision-based Occupancy Mapping for Off-Road Driving
Wei-Hsin Chou
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-58, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Supervised Learning of Corrective Maneuvers for Vision-Based Autonomous Flight
Dhruv Mauria Saxena
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-55, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Verbalization of Service Robot Experience as Explanations in Language Including Vision-Based Learned Elements
Sai Prabhakar Pandi Selvaraj
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-53, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
What Is the Robot Thinking? Embedded Feedback in the Intelligent Workcell Manufacturing Environment
Harrison Billmers
Master's Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-49, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2017
Brief Announcement: Stateless Computation
D. Dolev, Michael Erdmann, N. Lutz, M. Schapira, and A. Zair
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, pp. 419 - 421, July, 2017
From Red Wine to Red Tomato: Composition with Context
Ishan Misra, Abhinav Gupta, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (CVPR) Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 1160 - 1169, July, 2017
Robust anytime tracking combining 3D shape, color, and motion with annealed dynamic histograms
David Held, Jesse Levinson, Sebastian Thrun, and Silvio Savarese
Miscellaneous, U.S. Patent 9,710,925 issued July 18, 2017, July, 2017