Publications




Motion Compensation for Structured Light Sensors
Debjani Biswas and Christoph Mertz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Unmanned Systems Technology XVII, Vol. 9468, April, 2015
On the Power of Manifold Samples in Exploring Configuration Spaces and the Dimensionality of Narrow Passages
Oren Salzman, Michael Hemmer, and Dan Halperin
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 529 - 538, April, 2015
Real-time large scale dense RGB-D SLAM with volumetric fusion
Thomas Whelan, Michael Kaess, Hordur Johannsson, Maurice Fallon, John J. Leonard, and John McDonald
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research: Special Issue on Robot Vision, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 598 - 626, April, 2015
Temporal distribution of instability events in continuously monitored step-down unit patients: Implications for Rapid Response Systems
Marilyn Hravnak, Lujie Chen, Artur Dubrawski, Eliezer Bose, and Michael R. Pinsky
Journal Article, Resuscitation, Vol. 89, pp. 99 - 105, April, 2015
Unsupervised Object Class Discovery via Saliency-Guided Multiple Class Learning
Jun-Yan Zhu, Jiajun Wu, Yan Xu, Eric Chang, and Zhuowen Tu
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 862 - 875, April, 2015
Visual mapping for natural gas pipe inspection
Peter Hansen, Hatem Said Alismail, Peter Rander, and Brett Browning
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 532 - 558, April, 2015
Cognitive and Probabilistic Models of Group Decision Making
Yuqing Tang, Christian Lebiere, Katia Sycara, Don Morrison, and Paul Smart
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 24th Conference on Behavior Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRiMS '15), March, 2015
Convolutional Sparse Coding for Trajectory Reconstruction
Y. Zhu and S. Lucey
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 529 - 540, March, 2015
Layering laban effort features on robot task motions
Heather Knight and Reid Simmons
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15), pp. 135 - 136, March, 2015
Planning views to model planetary pits under transient illumination
Heather Jones, Wennie Tabib, and William L. Whittaker
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Aerospace Conference, March, 2015
Precedence Constraint Posting: A CSP Approach to Project Scheduling
N. Policella, A. Cesta, A. Oddi, and S. F. Smith
Book Section/Chapter, The Handbook of Project Management and Scheduling, Vol. 1, pp. 113 - 133, March, 2015
Recursive Kinematic Propagation for Wheeled Mobile Robots
A. Kelly and N. Seegmiller
Journal Article, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 288 - 313, March, 2015
Eye gaze in collaborative human-robot interaction
Henny Admoni and Brian Scassellati
Workshop Paper, HRI '15 Human Robot Teaming Workshop (HRI - HRT '15), March, 2015
An Invitation to Imitation
J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-08, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2015
Bounds of Neglect Benevolence in Input Timing for Human Interaction with Robotic Swarms
Sasanka Nagavalli, Shih-Yi Chien, Michael Lewis, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15), pp. 197 - 204, March, 2015
CHIMP, the CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform
Anthony (Tony) Stentz, Herman Herman, Alonzo Kelly, Eric Meyhofer, Galen Clark Haynes, David Stager, Brian Zajac, J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell, Jordan Brindza, Christopher Dellin, Michael George, Jose Gonzalez-Mora, Sean Hyde, Morgan Jones, Michel Laverne, Maxim Likhachev, Levi Lister, Matthew D. Powers, Oscar Ramos, Justin Ray, David P. Rice, Justin Scheifflee, Raumi Sidki, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Kyle Strabala, Jean Philippe Tardif, Jean-Sebastien Valois, J. Michael Vande Weghe, Michael D. Wagner, and Carl Wellington
Journal Article, Journal of Field Robotics: Special Issue on DARPA Robotics Challenge, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 209 - 228, March, 2015
Effects of Robot Motion on Human-Robot Collaboration
Anca Dragan, Shira Bauman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15), pp. 51 - 58, March, 2015
Efficient Model Learning from Joint-Action Demonstrations for Human-Robot Collaborative Tasks
Stefanos Nikolaidis, Ramya Ramakrishnan, Keren Gu, and Julie Shah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15), pp. 189 - 196, March, 2015
Future Directions in Indoor Navigation Technology for Blind Travelers
M. Bernardine Dias, Aaron Steinfeld, and Mary Beatrice Dias
Book Section/Chapter, Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, pp. 203 - 226, March, 2015
Gaze-driven video re-editing
Eakta Jain, Yaser Sheikh, Ariel Shamir, and Jessica Hodgins
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 34, No. 2, March, 2015
How Would You Describe Assistive Robots to People Who are Blind or Low Vision?
Byung-Cheol Min, Aaron Steinfeld, and M. Bernardine Dias
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI '15 Extended Abstracts), pp. 91 - 92, March, 2015
Improving Target Acquisition for Computer Users With Athetosis
Dan Ding, Sergio Peral Rodriguez, Rory A. Cooper, and Cameron N. Riviere
Journal Article, Assistive Technology, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 52 - 58, March, 2015
Indoor Navigation Aids for Blind and Visually Impaired People
M. Bernardine Dias and Satish Ravishankar
Book Section/Chapter, Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, pp. 165 -186, March, 2015
Indoor Navigation Challenges for Visually Impaired People
Mary Beatrice Dias, Ermine A. Teves, George J. Zimmerman, Hend K. Gedawy, Sarah M. Belousov, and M. Bernardine Dias
Book Section/Chapter, Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, pp. 141 - 164, March, 2015
Omnidirectional Visual Place Recognition using Rotation Invariant Sequence Matching
Peter Hansen and Brett Browning
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-103, CMU-CS-QTR-126, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 2015
Robot Farmers: Autonomous Orchard Vehicles Help Tree Fruit Production
Marcel Bergerman, Silvio Mano Maeta, Ji Zhang, Gustavo Medeiros Freitas, Bradley Hamner, Sanjiv Singh, and George A. Kantor
Magazine Article, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 54 - 63, March, 2015
Robots in the Home: Qualitative and Quantitative Insights into Kitchen Organization
Elizabeth Cha, Jodi Forlizzi, and Siddhartha Srinivasa
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '15), pp. 319 - 326, March, 2015
Social Group Interactions in a Role-Playing Game
Marynel Vazquez, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jo Ana Vaz, Jodi Forlizzi, Aaron Steinfeld, and Scott E. Hudson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI '15 Extended Abstracts), pp. 9 - 10, March, 2015
The NavPal Suite of Tools for Enhancing Indoor Navigation for Blind Travelers
M. Bernardine Dias
Book Section/Chapter, Indoor Wayfinding and Navigation, pp. 187 - 202, March, 2015
Semantic video segmentation using both appearance and geometric information
Jihwan Woo, Kris Kitani, Sehoon Kim, Hantak Kwak, and Woosung Shim
Journal Article, SPIE Intelligent Robots and Computer Vision XXXII: Algorithms and Techniques, Vol. 9406, February, 2015
Provably-Good Distributed Algorithm for Constrained Multi-Robot Task Assignment for Grouped Tasks
Lingzhi Luo, Nilanjan Chakraborty, and Katia Sycara
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 19 - 30, February, 2015
Synoptic Identification of Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Lac Leman (Lake Geneva)
A. Mallios, R. Camilli, O. Pizarro, Jeremy Samuel Arey, B. De Mol, N. Hurtos, M. Johnson-Roberson, D. G. Dansereau, L. Toohey, and Ulrich Lemmin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting, February, 2015
Transport-aware imaging
Kiriakos N. Kutulakos and Matthew O'Toole
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Emerging Digital Micromirror Device Based Systems and Applications VII, Vol. 9376, February, 2015
Applying artificial vision models to human scene understanding
Elpssa M. Aminoff, Mariya Toneva, Abhinav Shrivastava, Xinlei Chen, Ishan Misra, Abhinav Gupta, and Michael J. Tarr
Journal Article, Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 9, No. 8, February, 2015
A Combinatorial Benders’ decomposition for the lock scheduling problem
J. Verstichel, Joris Kinable, P. De Causmaecker, and G. Vanden Berghe
Journal Article, Computers & Operations Research, Vol. 54, pp. 117-128, February, 2015
A suboptimal and analytical solution to mobile robot trajectory generation amidst moving obstacles
Jun Peng, Wenhao Luo, Weirong Liu, Wentao Yu, and Jing Wang
Journal Article, Autonomous Robots, Vol. 39, No. 1, February, 2015
Anticipatory Action Selection for Human-Robot Table Tennis
Zhikun Wang, Abdeslam Boularias, Katharina Muelling, Scholkopf Bernhard, and Jan Peters
Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, February, 2015
Case studies of a robot-based game to shape interests and hone proportional reasoning skills
Louis Alfieri, Ross Higashi, Robin Shoop, and Christian D. Schunn
Journal Article, International Journal of STEM Education, Vol. 2, No. 1, February, 2015
Discovering Salient Regions on 3D Photo-textured Maps: Crowdsourcing Interaction Data from Multitouch Smartphones and Tablets
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Bertrand Douillard, Oscar Pizarro, and Stefan B. Williams
Journal Article, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 131, pp. 28 - 41, February, 2015
Distributed Data Fusion for Multirobot Search
Geoffrey A. Hollinger, Srinivas Yerramalli, Sanjiv Singh, Urbashi Mitra, and Gaurav S. Sukhatme
Journal Article, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, February, 2015
High-precision Autonomous Flight in Constrained Shipboard Environments
Shichao Yang, Zheng Fang, Sezal Jain, Geetesh Dubey, Silvio Mano Maeta, Stephan Roth, Sebastian Scherer, Yu Zhang, and Stephen T. Nuske
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2015
Lower and Upper Bounds for the Survival of Infinite Absorbing Markov Chains
Sanjiban Choudhury
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-04, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, February, 2015
Subdimensional Expansion for Multirobot Path Planning
Glenn Wagner and Howie Choset
Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 219, pp. 1 - 24, February, 2015
Software and method to classify point cloud data for real-time semantic labeling
Daniel Maturana and Sebastian Scherer
Miscellaneous, Invention Disclosure 2015-131, January, 2015
Pose Machines: Estimating Articulated Pose in Images and Video
Varun Ramakrishna
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-15-27, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, January, 2015
On Fast Iterative Mapping Algorithms for Stripe-based Reconfigurable Architectures
Gayatri Mehta, Krunalkumar Patel, and Nancy S. Pollard
Journal Article, International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 102, No. 1, pp. 3 - 17, January, 2015
Active learning for Informative Projection Recovery
Madalina Fiterau and Artur Dubrawski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI '15), pp. 4158 - 4159, January, 2015
Cooperation in Face and Dignity Cultures: Role of Moral Identity and Gender
Zhaleh Semnani-Azad, Katia Sycara, and Michael Lewis
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS '15), pp. 275 - 283, January, 2015
Efficient Model Evaluation with Bilinear Separation Model
Fanyi Xiao and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '16), pp. 789 - 796, January, 2015
Family member identification from photo collections
Qieyun Dai, Peter Carr, Leonid Sigal, and Derek Hoiem
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV '15), pp. 982 - 989, January, 2015