Upcoming and recent discussion groups:

This Thurs: NIPS roundup

• Rob: the robotics and attention papers (I'll discuss each of these very briefly)
  • Grand Challenge Vision (Thrun, et al)
  • Bayesian Surprise Attracts Human Attention (Itti & Baldi)
  • Saliency Based on Information Maximization (Bruce & Tsotsos)
  • Radial Basis Function Networks for Multi-task Learning (Liao & Carin)
  • Off-Road Obstacle Avoidance Through End-to-End Learning (LeCun, Muller et al)
  • Hierarchical Linear/Constant Time SLAM Using Particle Filters for Dense Maps (Parr & Eliazar)

Paper suggestions:

• Polygonal Random Fields work by Mark Paskin @ Stanford.
• Andrew Ng's NIPS paper on learning helicopter control.
• Some good papers on AUV's (autonomous underwater vehicles)
• HRI papers specifically surveying safety issues.
• Ian Mitchell to present his recent work.
• A broader discussion of the open problems in robotics.
• Probabilistic Roadmaps, Kavraki et al.
• Subjective localization with action respecting embedding, Michael Bowling, Dana Wilkinson, Ali Ghodsi, and Adam Milstein. In Proceedings of the International Symposium of Robotics Research , 2005. pdf abstract
• C.-C. Wang, C. Thorpe and S. Thrun. Online Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Detection and Tracking of Moving Objects: Theory and Results from a Ground Vehicle in Crowded Urban Areas. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'03), May, 2003. Finalist for the Best Student Paper Award & for the Wegbreit Best Vision Paper Award, pdf
• Bayesian Video Matting Using Learnt Image Priors, N.E. Apostoloff and A.W. Fitzgibbon, CVPR 2004 pdf abstract
• Searching in the plane, R.A. Baeza-Yates, J. Culberson, G.J.E. Rawlins. Information and Computation 106(2), 234-252 (1993). A classic paper on optimal search algorithms in 2-space. pdf
• Fast Learning of Sprites using Invariant Fetaures, Moray Allan, Michalis K. Titsias, Christopher K. I. Williams. In Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 2005 (BMVC 2005). pdf

Previous papers: * Sept 2005: An MCMC-based Particle Filter for Tracking Multiple Interacting Targets, Zia Khan, Tucker Balch, Frank Dellaert. pdf abstract

* Jan 10, 2004: We'll meet in room 202. Paper: Spacetime Faces: High-Resolution Capture for Modeling and Animation Li Zhang, Noah Snavely, Brian Curless, and Steven M. Seitz URL: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/stfaces/

* Dec 10, 2004: ** Paper: Gap Navigation Trees: Minimal Representation for Visibility-based Tasks URL: http://btovar.net/research/research.html , Steven M. LaValle. ** Robot name proposals: Nelson, Cartman, Brutus, Eve, Donbot, Manos, Cleo, Clamps

* Dec 3, 2004: Cancelled.

* Nov 26, 2004: We'll demo the new robot.

* Nov 19, 2004: Belief Propagation for Early Vision, Pedro Felzenszwalb & Daniel P. Huttenlocher

-- Main.simra - 22 Sep 2005