Publications




Towards Robot Autonomy in Group Conversations: Understanding the Effects of Body Orientation and Gaze
Marynel Vazquez, Elizabeth J. Carter, Braden McDorman, Jodi Forlizzi, Aaron Steinfeld, and Scott Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '17), pp. 42 - 52, March, 2017
Video segmentation and stabilization for BallCam
Ryohei Funakoshi, Vishnu Naresh Boddeti, Kris M. Kitani, and Hideki Koike
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '17), March, 2017
The theory, implementation, and evaluation of spring mass running on ATRIAS, a bipedal robot
Albert Wu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2017
High frequency ultrasound in-plane registration of deformable finger vessels
C. Che, J. Wang, V. Gorantla, and J. Galeotti
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Medical Imaging, Image Processing, February, 2017
Query Efficient Posterior Estimation in Scientific Experiments via Bayesian Active Learning
K. Kandasamy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence Journal, Vol. 243, pp. 45 - 56, February, 2017
Techniques for Avoidance of Coronary Vasculature during Epicardial Needle Insertions with a Miniature Robotic Walker
Dwight A. Meglan, Bryan P. Bergeron, Ryan S. Bardsley, John M. Galeotti, and Cameron N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE '17), pp. 1 - 5, February, 2017
Ultrasound Registration:  A Review
C. Che, T. Mathai, and J. Galeotti
Journal Article, Methods: Special Issue on Image Processing in Biology, Vol. 115, pp. 128 - 143, February, 2017
Toward Improved Electromagnetic Tracking for Handheld Robotics
Robert A. MacLachlan, Ralph L. Hollis, Joseph N. Martel, Louis A. Lobes Jr.,, and Cameron N. Riviere
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering (ICMRE '17), pp. 75 - 80, February, 2017
Active Search for Sparse Signals with Region Sensing
Y. Ma, R. Garnett, and J. Schneider
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '17), pp. 2315 - 2321, February, 2017
Low-drift and Real-time Lidar Odometry and Mapping
Ji Zhang and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 401 - 416, February, 2017
Planetary Pits and Caves: Targets for Science Exploration
W. L. Whittaker, P. J. Boston, G. Cushing, T. N. Titus, R. V. Wagner, A. Colaprete, J. Haruyama, H. L. Jones, J. G. Blank, R. P. Mueller, J. D. Stopar, W. Tabib, and U. Wong
Workshop Paper, Planetary Science Vision (PSV) 2050 Workshop, February, 2017
Vision-Language Fusion for Object Recognition
Sz-Rung Shiang, Stephanie Rosenthal, Anatole Gershman, Jaime Carbonell, and Jean Hyaejin Oh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '17), pp. 4603 - 4610, February, 2017
Automatic Analysis of Facial Actions: Learning from Transductive, Supervised and Unsupervised Frameworks
Wen-Sheng Chu
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-01, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2017
Class specific centralized dictionary learning for face recognition
Bao-Di Liu, Liangke Gui, Yuting Wang, Yuxiong Wang, Bin Shen, Xue Li, and Yan-Jiang Wang
Journal Article, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 4159 - 4177, February, 2017
Dense 3D Face Alignment from 2D Video for Real-Time Use
Laszlo A. Jeni, Jeffrey F. Cohn, and Takeo Kanade
Journal Article, Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 58, pp. 13 - 24, February, 2017
Enabling Dark Energy Science with Deep Generative Models of Galaxy Images
S. Ravanbakhsh, F. Lanusse, R. Mandelbaum, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '17), pp. 1488 - 1494, February, 2017
Intelligent RF-based gesture input devices implemented using e-textiles
Dana Hughes, Halley Profita, Sarah Radzihovsky, and Nikolaus Correll
Journal Article, Sensors, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 219 - 237, February, 2017
Measuring Human Motion in Social Interactions
Tomas Simon
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-17-03, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2017
Methods for Studying Group Interactions in HRI
Marynel Vazquez, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson, and Aaron Steinfeld
Workshop Paper, CSCW '17 Workshop on Robots in Groups and Teams, February, 2017
Subspace Procrustes Analysis
Xavier Perez-Sala, Fernando De la Torre, Laura Igual, Sergio Escalera, and Cecilio Angulo
Journal Article, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 121, No. 3, pp. 327 - 343, February, 2017
A Guaranteed Safe Method for Obstacle Avoidance based on Disparity and Depth Images
Sankalp Arora, Geetesh Dubey, and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-024 (Provisional Patent Filed), January, 2017
A method for creating semantic maps from monocular camera imagery
Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-140, January, 2017
A Multi-Sensor Fusion System for State Estimation from Visual, IMU, GPS, and Barometric Sensors
Stephen Nuske, Sebastian Scherer, and Yu Song
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-009 (Provisional Patent Filed and converted to patent application), January, 2017
A system to create semantic maps using aerial imagery
Sankalp Arora, Geetesh Dubey, Daniel Maturana, and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-141, January, 2017
Car Detection using Monocular Images for Aerial Applications
Daniel Maturana and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-069, January, 2017
Contingency Landing Site Map
Sebastian Scherer and Kyle Strabala
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-116 (Provisional Patent Filed), January, 2017
Contingency Planning Algorithms for Unmanned Aircraft
Mohak Bhardwaj and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-101 (Provisional Patent Filed), January, 2017
High-Performance Dynamically Feasible Motion Planning via Adaptive Ensembles of Algorithms
Sanjiban Choudhury and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-227, January, 2017
Reliable Localization and Localizability Prediction in Indoor Environments using a Rotating Lidar Scanner
Sebastian Scherer, Sam Zeng, and Weikun Zhen
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-026 (Provisional Patent Filed), January, 2017
Robust Autonomous Flight in Constrained and Visually Degraded Shipboard Environments
Zheng Fang, Shichao Yang, Sezal Jain, Geetesh Dubey, Stephan Roth, Silvio Mano Maeta, Stephen T. Nuske, Yuzhang Wu, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 25 - 52, January, 2017
Semantic Monocular Plane SLAM for Low-Texture Structured Environments
Michael Kaess, Daniel Maturana, Sebastian Scherer, and Shichao Yang
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2017-065, January, 2017
A Variable Forward-Sweep Wing Design for Enhanced Perching in Micro Aerial Vehicles
Zac Manchester, Jeffery Lipton, Robert Wood, and Scott Kuindersma
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA SciTech Forum, January, 2017
Designing Extensible, Domain-Specific Languages for Mathematical Diagrams
Katherine Ye, Keenan Crane, Jonathan Aldrich, and Joshua Sunshine
Workshop Paper, POPL '17 Off the Beaten Track Workshop, January, 2017
Recursive Inertia Estimation With Semidefinite Programming
Zac Manchester and Mason Peck
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference (GNC '17), January, 2017
Scalable Approaches to Home Health Care Scheduling Problems Uncertainty
C. Chen, Z. B. Rubinstein, S. F. Smith, and H. C. Lau
Workshop Paper, AAAI '17 Workshop on AI and OR for Social Good, January, 2017
Generating an image that affords slant perception from stereo, without pictorial cues
J. Galeotti, K. Macdonald, J. Wang, S. Horvath, A. Zhang, and R. Klatzky
Journal Article, Displays, Vol. 46, pp. 16 - 24, January, 2017
A Multi-Sensor Fusion MAV State Estimation from Long-Range Stereo, IMU, GPS and Barometric Sensors
Yu Song, Stephen T. Nuske, and Sebastian Scherer
Journal Article, Sensors: Special Issue: Vision-Based Sensors in Field Robotics, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 11 - 36, 2017
A Real-time Method for Depth Enhanced Monocular Odometry
Ji Zhang, Michael Kaess, and Sanjiv Singh
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 31 - 43, 2017
Analysis of Trends in Bus Dwell Time Data for Real-Time Predictive Modeling
Isaac Isukapati, Hana Rudova, Gregory Barlow, and Stephen Smith
Journal Article, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Vol. 2619, No. 1, pp. 64 - 74, 2017
Demonstrated benefits of using sensor networks for automated irrigation control in nursery and greenhouse production systems
J. D. Lea-Cox, B. E. Belayneh, J. Majsztrik, A. G. Ristvey, E. Lichtenberg, M. W. van Iersel, M. Chappell, W. L. Bauerle, G. Kantor, D. Kohanbash, T. Martin, and L. Crawford
Journal Article, ISHS Acta Horticulturae: Special Issue: 8th International Symposium on Irrigation of Horticultural Crops, 2017
Episodic non-Markov localization
Joydeep Biswas and Manuela M. Veloso
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 87, pp. 162 - 176, 2017
Learning Temporal Rules to Forecast Instability in Continuously Monitored Patients
Mathieu Guillame-Bert, Artur Dubrawski, Donghan Wang, Marilyn Hravnak, Gilles Clermont, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 47 - 53, 2017
Mapping underwater ship hulls using a model-assisted bundle adjustment framework
Paul Ozog, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, and Ryan M. Eustice
Journal Article, Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Special Issue on Localization and Mapping in Challenging Environments, Vol. 87, pp. 329 - 347, 2017
Robust Rearrangement Planning Using Nonprehensile Interaction
Jennifer E. King
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-16-65, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2016
Dynamical mass measurements of contaminated galaxy clusters using machine learning
M. Ntampaka, H. Trac, D. J. Sutherland, S. Fromenteau, B. Poczos, and J. Schneider
Journal Article, Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 831, No. 2, pp. 135, December, 2016
Gaussian Process Bandit Optimisation with Multi-fidelity Evaluations
K. Kandasamy, G. Dasarathy, J. Oliva, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1000 - 1008, December, 2016
The Multi-fidelity Multi-armed Bandit
K. Kandasamy, G. Dasarathy, J. Schneider, and B. Poczos
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (NeurIPS) Neural Information Processing Systems, pp. 1785 - 1793, December, 2016
A 2-DOF manipulator for micro-assembly in a minifactory
Jun Zhang and Ralph Hollis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO '16), pp. 1582 - 1587, December, 2016
A Linear-Time Variational Integrator for Multibody Systems
Jeongseok Lee, C. Karen Liu, Frank C. Park, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Workshop Paper, 12th Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR '16), pp. 352 - 367, December, 2016
Automated help system for novice older users from touchscreen gestures
Daisuke Sato, Tetsuro Morimura, Takayuki Katsuki, Yosuke Toyota, Tsuneo Kato, and Hironobu Takagi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR '16), pp. 3073 - 3078, December, 2016