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2D->3D Face Model Construction - We develop a linear algorithm that uniquely recovers the 3D non-rigid shapes and poses of a human face from a 2D monocular video.	3D Belly - View Synthesis from multiple micro-CCD cameras placed on the belly.
3D Grid Maps for Mobile Robot Perception - We are developing a 3D grid approach to robot mapping that loves clutter.	Activelets: Web-Based Planning and Scheduling Services - We are developing planning, scheduling and user interface components that enable real-time collaborative planning and scheduling by mobile decision agents.
As-Built Survey Project - We are investigating the real-time monitoring of construction sites.	Automatic Construction of Active Appearance Models - An algorithm for the automatic (unsupervised) construction of an Active Appearance Model.
Big Signal - We are developing multidisciplinary projects that allow the public to remotely experience places they could not otherwise visit.	Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer - We are developing the Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer (CAMEO) - a sensory system designed to provide an electronic agent with physical awareness of the real world.
Car Tracking - Algorithms for tracking cars and generating "bird's eye views" of the surrounding road scene.	Carnegie Mellon CD Press - A low volume CD duplicating service being offered to the campus community by the Internet Systems Lab within the Robotics Institute.
Carnegie Mellon Digital Press - A full service document scanning and Web publishing in one easy step.	Controlled Coverage for Auto-Body Painting - Speeding up of the paint spray-gun path programming by automation, achieving uniform coverage.
Coverage Path Planning in the Plane: Exact Cellular Decompositions - Incremental construction of exact cellular decompositions that are formulated in terms of critical points of Morse functions.	Daedalus - We deveopled Daedalus, a six-legged frame-walker with efficient redundant drive systems, for extreme terrain missions as part of the Lunar Rover Initiative.
Daml-S - We are developing DAML as part of the Semantic Web initiative.	Distributed Coordination of Resources - This project is investigating the issues associated with multi-agent resource coordination.
Ecommerce Institute - The function of the Institute is to serve as a focal point for Electronic Commerce activities at Carnegie Mellon, to offer degree programs and executive education and to conduct research.	Exploitation of 3-D Data - The E3D project will develop technology to detect, characterize and recognize vehicular targets in 3-D data.
Face and Facial Feature Tracking - Rigid Tracking of Faces and Non-Rigid Tracking of Facial Features	Face Model Building and Fitting - Techniques for building and fitting 2D and 3D models of human faces and heads.
Federation of Intelligent Robotic Explorers Project - We are investigating and understanding fundamental issues in heterogeneous multi-robot coordination.	Feedback Distortion for Rehabilitation - We are developing a virtual environment with a robotic device to extend the strength and mobility of people recovering from strokes.
Free and Fee	Gaze Estimation - Algorithms for estimating where someone is looking
Generating Explanatory Captions for Information Graphics	Hallucinating Faces - A super-resolution algorithm with a strong face-specifc prior.
Inflatable Rover Technologies - We are developing inflatable rovers for exploration of extreme terrains.	Interactive Robot Programming - We are developing human-machine interfaces to allow non-experts to interact in a human manner with robots.
Interoperability of Future Information Systems - We are developing techniques to help users diagnose and remedy network interoperability problems.	Light-fields - A variety of uses of light-fields in computer vision.
Lucas-Kanade 20 Years On - A Unifying Framework for Image Alginment	Mobile Robot Platform Design - Mechanical design of a differential drive mechanism for outdoor coverage.
Non-Invasive Optical Imaging in vivo for Early Detection and Advanced Diagnosis of Cancer	Prediction & Planning - This project analyses the safety and interaction of moving objects in complex road scenes.
Privacy Server Protocol Project - We are providing research into large-scale distributed and automated negotiations for privacy and the complementary negotiations for digital rights management.	Probabilistic Coverage - Recognition of mine patterns using statistical methods.
RETSINA Configuration Manager - We present the RETSINA Configuration Manager, RECoMa, which uses agent infrastructure to assist the multi-agent system administrator in allocating, launching, and monitoring a heterogeneous distributed agent system.	Robust Navigation by Probabilistic Volumetric Sensing - We are developing sensor-based software for utility mobile robots used in industrial transport, floor maintenance, security, etc.
Scanserver - We are developing Scanserver to provide classroom material on the web.	Sensor Based Coverage of Unknown Planar Environments - Sensor based coverage of unknown environments using exact cellular decompositions.
Setting Low-Level Vision Parameters - Techniques for feeding back information from high-level vision modules to low-level modules to improve the performance of the overall system.	Silicon/Neuron Interface - We are developing a robust, low-power microengineered interface between living neurons and silicon circuitry.
Single Leg Testbed - We developed the Single Leg Testbed as a full-scale working prototype for the Ambler.	Spatio-Temporal View Interpolation - An image-based rendering algorithm for view interpolation across both space and time.
Sun Synchronous Navigation - We are developing the algorithms, technologies, and experiments that will fulfill the vision of sun-synchronous circumnavigation.	Super-Resolution Optical Flow - A super-resolution algorithm for complex non-rigid scenes.
Tactile Displays Using MEMS Actuator Arrays - We are developing tactile dusplays using MEMS actuator arrays	Template Update - We are developing an algorithm to update template tracking that avoids the "drifting" problem of the naive update algorithm.
Textureless Layers - Techniques for the 3D reconstruction of scenes consisting of constant intensity piecewise planar regions (layers).	The Arc Transversal Median - Improving the azimuth resolution of conventional Polaroid ultrasonic sensors by using intersection arcs, filtering the intersections, and then taking the median results in a 10-fold improvement in azimuth resolution.
The Historical New York Times Project - We are providing people with a glimpse into actual historical events as they were seen by the people of the day.	Video Verification of Identity - We address the problem of tracking object in video sequences and of recognizing the tracked objects in subsequent sequences.
Vikia - We are developing a robot who has personality and with whom it is easy to communicate.	Visual Localization - The visual localization system is being developed to give a mobile robot the ability to locate its own position. The system exploits a CCD camera with colored landmarks and yields a robust and accurate localization performance.