Robotics Reading Group

reading - at - robotics.caltech.edu



Summer 2004

This weeks paper:

Structural Saliency: The Detection of Globally Salient Structures Using a Locally Connected Network
S. Ullman and A. Sha'ashua
File Format: pdf, 1.1Mb

Previous papers:
Saliency, Scale, and Image Description
T. Kadir and M. Brady
File Format: pdf, 2.3Mb

Object Detection Using the Statistics of Parts
H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade
File Format: pdf, 751Kb


Spring 2004 Term - Session 1 (April 8, 15, 22, May 13, 27)
Topic: Distributed Algorithms and Optimization

DATE PRESENTER TOPIC READINGS
08 Apr 2004 Timothy Chung Introduction to Parallel Algorithms Notes (pdf,115KB)
15 Apr 2004 Timothy Chung Distributed Algorithms: A Case Study Notes (pdf,145KB)
"Trends" (pdf, 2.33MB)
22 Apr 2004 Timothy Chung Distributed Optimization: Theory and Applications -
13 May 2004 Vijay Gupta Decentralized Optimization "Decentralized Optimization"
(Claire Tomlin's group)
(pdf, 389KB)
27 May 2004 Vijay Gupta Decentralized Optimization "Decentralized Optimization"
(Claire Tomlin's group)
(pdf, 1.72MB)


Winter 2004 Term - Topic: Stochastic Optimization and Control

DATE PRESENTER TOPIC READINGS
08 Jan 2004 All Organizational Meeting -
15 Jan 2004 Hao Overview of Stochastic Processes -
22 Jan 2004 Kristo Deterministic Systems and the Shortest Path Problem Bertsekas, Ch. 2
(outside Joel's office)
29 Jan 2004 Kristo/Tim The Shortest Path Problem, cont. Bertsekas, Ch. 2
(outside Joel's office)
12 Feb 2004 Tim Review of Stochastic Dynamic Programming Bertsekas, Ch. 1&2
(outside Joel's office)
26 Feb 2004 Tim Stochastic DP Applications Motion Planning with Uncertainty


Possible Future Papers / Other Useful Reading :

Adaptive-Scale Filtering and Feature Detection Using Range Data
C. Olson
File Format : pdf

Detecting Salient Blob-Like Image Structures and Their Scales with a Scale-Space Primal Sketch: A Method for Focus-of-Attention
T. Lindeberg
File Format : pdf

Local Grayvalue Invariants for Image Retrieval
C. Schmid, R. Mohr
File Format : pdf

A Robust Technique for Matching Two Uncalibrated Images Through the Recovery of the Unknown Epipolar Geometry (Page 2 may be broken but the main text should be readable)
Z. Zhang, R. Deriche, O. Faugeras, Q. T. Luong
File Format : pdf

A Representation for Shape Based on Peaks and Ridges in the Difference of Low-Pass Transform
J. Crowley, A. Parker
File Format : pdf

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Some Useful Results for Closed-Form Propagation of Error in Vehicle Odometry
A. Kelly
File Format : pdf

The Multiple View Matrix: Theory
R. Vidal
File Format : pdf

Reference Scan Matching for Global Self-Localization
J. Weber, L. Franken, K Jorg, E. von Puttkamer
File Format : pdf

APR - Global Scan Matching Using Anchor Point Relationships
J. Weber, K. Jorg, E. von Puttkamer
File Format : pdf

An Integrative Framework for Global Self-Localization
J. Weber, L. Franken, K. Jorg, K. Schmitt, E. von Puttkamer
File Format : pdf

Efficient Computation of Dynamic Probabilistic Maps
J. Hespanha, H. Kizilocak
File Format : pdf

Kalman Filter: A Tutorial
Stergios Roumeliotis
File Format : ps

Representation of Local Geometry in the Visual System
J. Koenderink, A. van Doorn
File Format : pdf

A bunch of papers from ICRA 02 we may want to look at.

Previous Papers :

Motion Planning with Uncertainty: The Information Space Approach
J. Barraquand and P. Ferbach
File Format: pdf

Expected Shortest Paths for Landmark-Based Robot Navigation
A. Briggs, C. Detweiler, D. Scharstein, A. Vandenberg-Rodes
File Format: pdf

An Information-Theoretic Approach to Decentralized Control of Multiple Autonomous Flight Vehicles (local copy)
Ben Grocholsky, Hugh Durrant-Whyte and Peter Gibbens
File Format : pdf

An Information Theoretic Approach to Observer Path Design for Bearings-Only Tracking
A. Logothetis, A. Isaksson, R. Evans
File Format : pdf
Reading group notes from: 30 Oct 2003 Meeting (T.C.)

A Mathematical Theory of Communication
C. E. Shannon
File Format : pdf
Reading group notes from: 17 Oct 2003 Meeting (T.C./Z.J.) and 23 Oct 2003 Meeting (L.S.)

An Information-theoretic localization criterion for robot map building
N. Vlassis, Y. Motomura, B. Krose
File Format: pdf

A probabilistic model for appearance-based robot localization
B.J.A. Krose, N. Vlassis, R. Bunschoten, Y. Motomura
File Format: gzipped ps

Rao-Blackwellised Particle Filtering for Dynamic Bayesian Networks
A. Doucet, N. de Freitas, K. Murphy, S. Russel
File Format: pdf

Condensation - Conditional Density Propagation for Visual Tracking.
M. Isard, A. Blake
File Format: pdf

Particle Filters in Robotics
S. Thrun
File Format: pdf

Graph Rigidity and Distributed Formation Stabilization of Multi-Vehicle Systems
R. Olfati-Saber, R. Murray
File Format: pdf

Simultaneous Mapping and Localization with Sparce Extended Information Filters: Theory and Initial Results
S. Thrun, D. Koller, Z. Ghahramani, H. Durrant-Whyte, A.Y. Ng
File Format: pdf

Stochastic Multisensory Data Fusion for Mobile Robot Localization and Environment Modelling
P. Moutarlier, R. Chatila
No soft copy, get copies outside Joel's office

Distributed Multi-Robot Localization
S. Roumeliotis, G. Bekey
File Format : pdf

Collaborative Robot Exploration and Rendezvous: Algorithms, Performance Bounds and Observations
N. Roy, G. Dudek
File Format : pdf

Estimating Uncertain Spatial Relationships in Robotics
R. Smith, M. Self, P. Cheeseman
No electronic copy. Get them outside Thomas 308

The Structure of Images
J. Koenderink
File Format : pdf

Bundle Adjustment - A Modern Synthesis     Local Copy
B. Triggs, P. McLauchlan, R. Hartley, A. Fitzgibbon
File Format : pdf

Good Features to Track
J. Shi, C. Tomasi
File Format : pdf

Real-Time 2-D Feature Detection on a Reconfigurable Computer
A. Benedetti, P. Perona
File Format : pdf

Object Recognition from Local Scale-Invariant Features
David G. Lowe
File Format : pdf

Indexing based on scale invariant interest points
K. Mikolajczyk, C. Schmid
File Format : pdf

Local Feature View Clustering for 3D Object Recognition
D. Lowe
File Format : pdf

Scale-space theory: A basic tool for analysing structures at different scales
T. Lindeberg
File Format : pdf

Natural Landmark-based Autonomous Navigation using Curvature Scale Space
R. Madhavan, H. Durrant-Whyte, G. Dissanayake
File Format : pdf

The Variable State Dimension Filter applied to Surface-Based Structure from Motion       Local Copy
P. McLauchlan
File Format: gzipped ps

Maximally Informative Statistics for Localization and Mapping
M. Deans
File Format: pdf

Motion and Structure Causally Integrated Over Time
A. Chiuso, P. Favaro, H. Jin and S. Soatto
File Format: pdf

Precise Image-Based Motion Estimation for Autonomous Small Body Exploration
A. Johnson, L. Matthies
File Format: pdf

Path-Planning Strategies for a Point Mobile Automaton Moving Amidst Unknown Obstacles of Arbitrary Shape
V.J. Lumelsky, A.A. Stepanov
No electronic copy.

TangentBug: A Range-Sensor-Based Navigation Algorithm
I. Kamon, E. Rimon, E. Rivlin
No electronic copy.

A Bayesian Approach to Binocular Stereopsis
 P. Belhumeur
File Format : ps

A Maximum Likelihood Approach to Data Association
 D. Avitzour
File Format : pdf

Weighted Range Sensor Matching Algorithms for Mobile Robot Displacement Estimation
 S. Pfister, K. Kriechbaum, S. Roumeliotis, J. Burdick
File Format : ps

Structure from Motion without Correspondence
  F. Dellaert, S. Seitz, D. Thorpe, S. Thrun
File Format : pdf

Stochastic Cloning: A generalized framework for processing relative state measurements
S. Roumeliotis, J. Burdick
File Format : pdf

Mobile Robot Navigation using the Range-Weighted Hough Transform
 J. Forsberg, U. Larsson, A. Wernersson
File Format : pdf

Blanche - An Experiment in Guidance and Navigation of an Autonomous Robot Vehicle
 I. Cox
File Format : pdf

AMOS: Comparison of Scan Matching Approaches for Self-Localization in Indoor Environments
 A. Scott, L. Parker, C. Touzet
File Format : pdf

Quantitative and qualitative comparison of three laser-range mapping algorithms using two types of laser scanner data
 J. Gutmann, C. Schlegel
File Format : ps

Fusing Range and Intensity Images for Mobile Robot Localization
 J. Neira, J. Tardos, J. Horn, G. Schmidt
File Format : pdf

Mobile Robot Localization Using Landmarks
 M. Betke, L. Gurvits
File Format : pdf

Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots
 S. Thrun, W. Burghard, D. Fox
File Format : Postscript

A Probabilistic Approach to Concurrent Mapping and Localization of Mobile Robots
 S. Thrun, W. Burghard, D. Fox
File Format : Postscript

Globally Consistent Range Scan Alignment for Environment Mapping
 F. Lu, E. Milios
File Format : pdf

Incremental Mapping of Large Cyclic Environments
 J. Gutmann, K. Konolige
File Format : pdf

Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments
 D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. Thrun
File Format : Postscript

Robot Pose Estimation in Unknown Environments by Matching 2D Range Scans
 F. Lu, E. Milios
File Format : pdf


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