Ashutosh Saxena Assistant Professor Cornell University Department of Computer Science Education: PhD, Stanford University. 4159 Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: (607)255-7017, Fax: (607)255-4428 asaxena at cs.cornell.edu Research interests Artificial Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, Computer Vision. Web Data, Social Networks, Energy. Teaching Spr 2010: CS4758/6758 Robot Learning Fall 2009: CS6780 Advanced Machine Learning Fall 2009: CS7790 Artificial Intelligence Seminar Advisor: CU Air team Other links: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics.

Announcements Soundararaj and Sujeeth's paper on autonomous indoor helicopter flights was accepted in IROS 2009. Srivastava's paper on i23 interactive 3D reconstruction was accepted in VMV 2009.

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Make3D: Single Image Depth Perception

Learning algorithms to predict depth and infer 3-d models, given just a single still image. Applications included creating immersive 3-d experience from users' photos, improving performance of stereovision, creating large-scale models from a few images, robot navigation, etc. Tens of thousands of users have converted their single photographs into 3D models.

Learning Mobile Robot Manipulation

Learning algorithms to predict robotic grasps, even for objects of types never seen before by the robot. Applied to tasks such as unloading items from a dishwasher, clearing up a cluttered table, opening new doors, etc.

Visual Navigation: High speed obstacle avoidance

Use monocular depth perception and reinforcement learning techniques to drive a small rc-car at high speeds in unstructured environments. Also fly a indoor helicopter autonomously using a single onboard camera.

Other projects

See projects page for more. E.g., 6-D wireless sourceless mouse, Bio-sensitive watch to prevent electric Shock, Noise tolerant Locally Linear Isomaps, Data driven robotics, etc.