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Kiran Bhat
PhD Student

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My research interests are in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision and robotics. I am currently working on estimating the parameters of passive simulations (eg, rigid-body motions, cloth, etc) from video. These parameters can then be used to create physically realistic animations of passive systems. Prior to this, my research focus was on projective geometry aspects related to multi-view camera systems. Some of my prior work include camera and object modelmatch for F/X, creating 3D mosaics from video, and fast motion detection from pan-tilt cameras using image mosaics. My interests in robotics span from hardware design of robots, vision systems for navigation and control algorithms.

animation, computer graphics, computer vision, and mobile robots

• Advanced Mechatronics Lab - Research on distributed robotics, distributed informations systems, sensor based robotics, and reconfigurable systems.
• Computer Graphics Lab - Modeling, animation, and rendering of 3-D scenes

• CyberATV - We have developed two Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) (by retrofitting two Polaris all-terrain vehicles (ATVs)
• Distributed Robotics Systems - CyberScout - Tactical surveillance collaborative robotics.
• Distributed Surveillance & Sensing - Hierarchical, distributed, and active perception system

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Creating Realistic Animations Using Video
  K. Bhat
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-54, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [60227 KB] copyrighted

• Flow-based Video Synthesis and Editing
  K. Bhat, S. Seitz, J.K. Hodgins, and P. Khosla
  ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH 2004), Vol. 23, No. 3, August, 2004. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2691 KB] copyrighted

• Estimating Cloth Simulation Parameters from Video
  K. Bhat, C.D. Twigg, J.K. Hodgins, P. Khosla, Z. Popovic, and S. Seitz
  In Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, July, 2003, pp. 37 - 51. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [7472 KB] copyrighted

• Distributed Surveillance and Reconnaissance Using Multiple Autonomous ATVs: CyberScout
  M. Saptharishi, C.S. Oliver, C.P. Diehl, K. Bhat, J. Dolan, A. Trebi-Ollennu, and P. Khosla
  IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation: Special Issue on Multi-Robot Systems, Vol. 18, No. 5, October, 2002, pp. 826 - 836. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [351 KB] copyrighted

• Computing the Physical Parameters of Rigid-Body Motion from Video
  K. Bhat, S. Seitz, J. Popovic, and P. Khosla
  Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV '02), May, 2002, pp. 551 - 565. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [795 KB] copyrighted

• CyberScout: Distributed Agents for Autonomous Reconnaissance and Surveillance
  M. Saptharishi, C. Diehl, K. Bhat, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla
  Mechatronics and Machine Vision 2000, September, 2000, pp. 93-100. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1444 KB] copyrighted

• Motion Detection and Segmentation Using Image Mosaics
  K. Bhat, M. Saptharishi, and P. Khosla
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Vol. 3, July, 2000, pp. 1577-1580. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [220 KB] copyrighted

• Recent Advances in Distributed Tactical Surveillance
  M. Saptharishi, K. Bhat, C. Diehl, S. Oliver, M. Savvides, A. Soto, J. Dolan, and P. Khosla
  SPIE Proceedings on Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications (AeroSense 2000), Vol. 4040, April, 2000, pp. 199-208.
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