Preprint: Stacked Hierarchical Labeling

by dmunoz on July 5, 2010

Stacked Hierarchical Labeling
Daniel Munoz, J. Andrew Bagnell, Martial Hebert
To appear: ECCV 2010.
Preprint (pdf)
In this work we propose a hierarchical approach for labeling semantic objects and regions in scenes. Our approach is reminiscent of early vision literature in that we use a decomposition of the image in order to encode relational and [...]

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Modeling Interaction via the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy
ICML runner up for best student paper by Brian Ziebart, J. Andrew Bagnell, and Anind Dey.
@inproceedings{bziebart-maxcausalent,
author = {Brian D. Ziebart and J. Andrew Bagnell
and Anind K. Dey},
title = [...]

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Preprint: Reinforcement Planning: RL for Optimal Planners

April 20, 2010

Reinforcement Planning: RL for Optimal Planners
Matt Zucker and J. Andrew Bagnell
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Search based planners such as A* and Dijkstra’s algorithm are proven methods for guiding today’s robotic systems. Although such planners are typically based upon a coarse approximation of reality, they are nonetheless valuable due to their ability to reason about the future, and [...]

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Preprint: Modeling Interaction via the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy

April 19, 2010

Modeling Interaction via the Principle of Maximum Causal Entropy
Brian D. Ziebart, J. Andrew Bagnell, Anind K. Dey
To appear: ICML 2010.
Preprint (pdf)
The principle of maximum entropy provides a powerful framework for statistical models of joint, conditional, and marginal distributions. However, there are many important distributions with elements of interaction and feedback where its applicability has [...]

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Brian Ziebart Receives Richard King Mellon Foundation Fellowship

March 31, 2010

From CMU’s Website:

Richard King Mellon Foundation
Life Sciences
What factors influence how well a teenager with Type 1 diabetes sticks to a medical regimen? Dianne Palladino, a first-year Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s Social and Health Psychology program, is working to find the answer.
“I hope that my research eventually will be used to design interventions to assist [...]

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Preprint: An Optimization Approach to Rough Terrain Locomotion

March 31, 2010

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We present a novel approach to legged locomotion over rough terrain that is thoroughly rooted in optimization. This approach relies on a hierarchy of fast, anytime algorithms
to plan a set of footholds, along with the dynamic body motions required to execute them. Components within the planning framework coordinate to exchange plans, cost-to-go [...]

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Machine Learning for Automated Strawberry Sorting

December 30, 2009

PITTSBURGH—Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants and then mechanically sort them by quality – tasks that until now could only be done manually.
In a successful field test this fall, the machine classified [...]

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Neato Robotics

December 21, 2009

Tony Stentz points out:

The company “Neato” just went public with a product that competes with iRobot’s Roomba. Unlike the Roomba, which vacuums a room by driving mostly random patterns, the Neato robot uses a laser rangefinder to build a map of the floor layout, plan efficient coverage routes, and localize through registration. The [...]

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Optimization and Learning for Rough-Terrain Legged Locomotion

December 12, 2009

Optimization and Learning for Rough-Terrain Legged Locomotion, Matt Zucker, Nathan Ratliff, Martin Stolle, Joel Chestnutt, J. Andrew Bagnell , Christopher G. Atkeson, James Kuffner.
We present a novel approach to legged locomotion over rough terrain that is thoroughly rooted in optimization. This approach relies on a hierarchy of fast, anytime algorithms to plan a [...]

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Learning Rough Terrain Outdoor Navigation

December 12, 2009

Learning Rough-Terrain Autonomous Navigation, by J. A. Bagnell, D. M. Bradley, D. Silver, B. Sofman, A. Stentz. Currently under review for Robotics and Automation Magazine.
Autonomous navigation by a mobile robot through natural, unstructured terrain is one of the premier challenges in field robotics. The DARPA UPI program was tasked with [...]

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