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Thomas Stepleton
PhD Student

Email address: thomas.stepleton@cs.cmu.edu

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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I'm interested in applying cognitive science research to robotics research and vice versa. At the moment I'm working on developing rudimentary vision-based localization and mapping systems for Sony's Aibo dog robot, and once that's taken care of I'll be exploring how to best allocate the Aibo's single snout camera to fulfill the demands of all the diverse processes that need it. With luck, both tasks will be done with attention given to biological plausibility, not to mention the unique and limited resources and constraints of the Aibo platform.

This section last updated - January 1999.

artificial intelligence, legged locomotion, machine learning, mobile robots, and statistics

I'm interested in:

• Unix system administration
• Computer history
• Digital multimedia and design

• TechBridgeWorld - TechBridgeWorld innovates and implements technology solutions to meet sustainable development needs around the world.

• Skinnerbots - Trainable robots using operant conditioning.

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

• Towards Unsupervised Whole-Object Segmentation: Combining Automated Matting with Boundary Detection
  A. Stein, T. Stepleton, and M. Hebert
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [2537 KB] copyrighted

• Iterative Design of A Braille Writing Tutor to Combat Illiteracy
  N. Kalra, T. Lauwers, D. Dewey, T. Stepleton, and M.B. Dias
  Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, December, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1875 KB] copyrighted

• Predicting and Evaluating the Power of Shared Features
  T. Stepleton
  2005 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Vol. 3, June, 2005, pp. 39 - 45. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [517 KB] copyrighted