Publications




The Conditionalizing Identity Management Bayesian Filter (CIMBal)
Qirong Ho and Christopher M. Geyer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, October, 2008
The design and evaluation of user interfaces for the RADAR learning personal assistant
Andrew Faulring, Ken Mohnkern, Aaron Steinfeld, and Brad A. Myers
Journal Article, AI Magazine, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 74 - 84, October, 2008
Unsupervised Modeling and Recognition of Object Categories with Combination of Visual Contents and Geometric Similarity Links
Gunhee Kim, Christos Faloutsos, and Martial Hebert
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR '08), pp. 419 - 426, October, 2008
Modeling and Recognizing Human Activities from Video
Kris M. Kitani
Miscellaneous, PhD Thesis, University of Tokyo, September, 2008
In-Situ Visualization of Medical Images Using Holographic Optics
J. Galeotti, M. Siegel, and G. Stetten
Workshop Paper, MICCAI '08 4th Workshop on Augmented Environments for Medical Imaging including Augmented Reality in Computer-Aided Surgery (AMI ARCS '08), pp. 95 - 103, September, 2008
Anytime Search in Dynamic Graphs
Maxim Likhachev, Dave Ferguson, Geoff Gordon, Anthony Stentz, and Sebastian Thrun
Journal Article, Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 172, No. 14, pp. 1613 - 1643, September, 2008
3D Mapping and Characterization of Sistema Zacatón from DEPTHX (DEep Phreatic THermal eXplorer)
Marcus Gary, Nathaniel Fairfield, William C. Stone, David Wettergreen, George A. Kantor, and John M. Sharp, Jr.
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ASCE 11th Sinkhole Conference (KARST '08), September, 2008
Active Localization on the Ocean Floor With Multibeam Sonar
Nathaniel Fairfield and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conference and Exhibition (OCEANS '08), September, 2008
AUV-assisted Surveying of Relic Reef Sites
S. B. Williams, O. Pizarro, J. Webster, R. Beaman, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, and T. Bridge
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Quebec (OCEANS '08), September, 2008
Design of the First Optical System for Real-Time Tomographic Holography (RTTH)
J. Galeotti, M. Siegel, R. Rallison, and G. Stetten
Conference Paper, Proceedings of SPIE Novel Optical Systems Design and Optimization XI, Vol. 7061, September, 2008
Linear-Relaxation Techniques for Task Management in Uncertain Settings
P. Varakantham and S. F. Smith
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '08), pp. 363 - 371, September, 2008
Manifold learning with local geometry preserving and global affine transformation
Dong Huang and Xiaorong Pu
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS '08), pp. 1187 - 1192, September, 2008
Navigate Like a Cabbie: Probabilistic Reasoning from Observed Context-Aware Behavior
Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas, Anind Dey, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computation (UbiComp '08), pp. 322 - 331, September, 2008
Reasoning about Executional Uncertainty to Strengthen Schedules
L. M. Hiatt, T. L. Zimmerman, S. F. Smith, and R. Simmons
Workshop Paper, ICAPS '08 WS5: Workshop on A Reality Check for Planning and Scheduling Under Uncertainty, September, 2008
Scaling effects in multi-robot control
Prasanna Velagapudi, Paul Scerri, Katia Sycara, Wang-Hsuan Lee, and J. Wang
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2121 - 2126, September, 2008
Spontaneous Pain Expression Recognition in Video Sequences
Z. Hammal, M. Kunz, M. Arguin, and F. Gosselin
Conference Paper, Proceedings of International Conference on Visions of Computer Science: BCS International Academic Conference (VoCS '08), pp. 191 - 210, September, 2008
Towards Image-based Marine Habitat Classification
O. Pizarro, J. Colquhoun, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, and S. B. Williams
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE/MTS Oceans: Quebec (OCEANS '08), September, 2008
On preparatory object rotation to adjust handle orientation for grasping
Lillian Y. Chang and Nancy S. Pollard
Workshop Paper, IROS '08 Workshop on Grasp and Task Learning by Imitation, September, 2008
A Framework for Culturally-Sensitive Policy Management
C. Brodie, C. M. Karat, J. Karat, T. J. Norman, Morten Rasmussen, W. Sieck, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '08), September, 2008
A Multisensor Multiobject Tracking System for an Autonomous Vehicle Driving in an Urban Environment
Michael Darms, Paul Rybski, and Christopher Urmson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Advanced Vehicle Control (AVEC '08), September, 2008
A perception mechanism for supporting autonomous intersection handling in urban driving
Young-Woo Seo and Christopher Urmson
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1830 - 1835, September, 2008
Agent Support for Mission Planning Under Policy Constraints
Christopher Burnett, Daniele Masato, Mairi McCallum, Timothy J. Norman, Joseph Andrew Giampapa, Martin Kollingbaum, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 2nd Annual Conference of the International Technology Alliance (ACITA '08), September, 2008
Aligned Cluster Analysis for Temporal Segmentation of Human Motion
Feng Zhou, Fernando De la Torre Frade, and Jessica K. Hodgins
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gestures Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Blended local planning for generating safe and feasible paths
Ling Xu and Anthony (Tony) Stentz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 709 - 716, September, 2008
Control Strategies for a Multi-Legged Hopping Robot
Rolf Allan Luders, Dimitrios (Dimi) Apostolopoulos, and David Wettergreen
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1519 - 1524, September, 2008
Differentially Constrained Motion Replanning Using State Lattices with Graduated Fidelity
Mikhail Pivtoraiko and Alonzo Kelly
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2611 - 2616, September, 2008
Discriminative Sparse Image Models for Class-Specific Edge Detection and Image Interpretation
Julien Mairal, Marius Leordeanu, Francis Bach, Martial Hebert, and Jean Ponce
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ECCV) European Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 43 - 56, September, 2008
Facial Feature Detection with Optimal Pixel Reduction SVMs
Minh Hoai Nguyen, Joan Perez, and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Fast Feature Detection and Stochastic Parameter Estimation of Road Shape using Multiple LIDAR
Kevin Peterson, Jason Ziglar, and Paul Rybski
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 612 - 619, September, 2008
Fast Motion Consistency Through Matrix Quantization
Pyry K. Matikainen, Martial Hebert, Rahul Sukthankar, and Yan Ke
Conference Paper, Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '08), pp. 1055 - 1064, September, 2008
Fast Planning for Dynamic Preferences
Brian D. Ziebart, Anind Dey, and J. Andrew (Drew) Bagnell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS '08), pp. 412 - 419, September, 2008
Field Testing of Utility Robots for Lunar Surface Operations
Terrence W. Fong, Maria Bualat, Matthew Deans, Mark Allan, Xavier Bouyssounouse, Michael Broxton, Laurence Edwards, Rick Elphic, Lorenzo Fluckiger, Jeremy Frank, Leslie Keely, Linda Kobayashi, Pascal Lee, Susan Y. Lee, David Lees, Estrellina Pacis, Eric Park, Liam Pedersen, Debra Schreckenghost, Trey Smith, Vinh To, and Hans Utz
Conference Paper, Proceedings of AIAA Space '08, No. 2008, September, 2008
Generalizing metamodules to simplify planning in modular robotic systems
D. J. Dewey, M. P. Ashley-Rollman, M. De Rosa, S. C. Goldstein, T. C. Mowry, Siddhartha Srinivasa, P. Pillai, and Jason Campbell
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1338 - 1345, September, 2008
Laziness is a virtue: Motion stitching using effort minimization
James McCann, Christos Faloutsos, Nancy Pollard, and Lei Li
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Eurographics '08 (Short Papers), pp. 87 - 90, September, 2008
Learning Image Alignment without Local Minima for Face Detection and Tracking
Minh Hoai Nguyen and Fernando De la Torre Frade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Learning Robot Motion Control with Demonstration and Advice-Operators
Brenna Argall, Brett Browning, and Manuela Veloso
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 399 - 404, September, 2008
Minimally invasive epicardial injections using a novel semiautonomous robotic device
Takeyoshi Ota, Nicholas Patronik, David Schwartzman, Cameron Riviere, and Marco A. Zenati
Journal Article, Circulation, Vol. 118, No. 1, pp. S115 - S120, September, 2008
Modeling and Discovery of Data Providing Services
Roman Vaculin, H. Chen, R. Neruda, and Katia Sycara
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS '08), pp. 54 - 61, September, 2008
Motion Planning in Urban Environments: Part I
David Ferguson, Thomas Howard, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1063 - 1069, September, 2008
Motion Planning in Urban Environments: Part II
David Ferguson, Thomas Howard, and Maxim Likhachev
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1070 - 1076, September, 2008
Multi-Criteria Optimization for Regional Timetable Synchronization in Public Transport
Ingmar Schule, Anca Dragan, Alexander Radev, Michael Schroder, and Karl-Heinz Kufer
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Operations Research '08, September, 2008
On the Sustained Tracking of Human Motion
Yaser Ajmal Sheikh, Ankur Datta, and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
Overcoming Sensor Noise for Low-Tolerance Autonomous Assembly
Brennan Peter Sellner, Frederik Heger, Laura Hiatt, Nicholas Melchior, Stephen Roderick, David Akin, Reid Simmons, and Sanjiv Singh
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 4017 - 4023, September, 2008
Process Mediation, Execution Monitoring and Recovery for Semantic Web Services
Katia Sycara and Roman Vaculin
Journal Article, IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin: Special Issue on Semantic Web Services: Composition and Analysis, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 13 - 18, September, 2008
Real-Time Gradient-Domain Painting
James McCann and Nancy Pollard
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Vol. 27, No. 3, September, 2008
Robust 3D Head Tracking by Online Feature Registration
Jun-Su Jang and Takeo Kanade
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '08), September, 2008
The effects of highlighting and pop-up interruptions on task performance
Pablo-Alejandro Quinones, Jigar Vora, Aaron Steinfeld, Asim Smailagic, Jeffery Hansen, Daniel Siewiorek, Pete Phadhana-Anake, and Abhishek Shah
Conference Paper, Proceedings of Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 52nd Annual Meeting (HFES '08), pp. 177 - 181, September, 2008
Traffic Interaction in the Urban Challenge: Putting Boss on its Best Behavior
Christopher R. Baker and John M. Dolan
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 1752 - 1758, September, 2008
Robot-Proxy Grounding
Kristen Stubbs
PhD Thesis, Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-08-37, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2008
Recalling the Single-FFT Direct Poisson Solve
James McCann
Conference Paper, Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '08 (Poster), August, 2008