News from Saxena's lab
Saxena named one of the seven Microsoft Faculty Fellows for 2012.
Yun Jiang's work on picking up and arranging objects was featured in several news articles.
Jiang/Lim's works on learning arrangement of objects in 3D scene were accepted to ICML and ISER conferences.
Yun Jiang's work in placing new objects was accepted in IJRR'12.
Jiang/Amend's work featured in Cornell Chronicle.
Dhruv Batra's work on learning Laplacian CRFs was accepted in CVPR'12.
Prof. Saxena is co-organizing
manipulation workshop at IROS 2012.
Anand/Koppula release new code and Cornell RGBD dataset for indoor scene labeling.
Daniel Ly's paper on fitting arbitrary kinematic skeletons to RGB-D data is accepted in GECCO'12.
Prof. Saxena won Google faculty research award, IARPA Finder, and others.
Prof. Saxena is named a co-chair of the IEEE Technical committee on robot learning.
Prof. Saxena is serving as Area Chair at AAAI 2012 and NIPS 2012.
Three papers (Sung/Ponce's on activity detection, Jiang/Amend's on grasping with deformable gripper, and
Jiang/Lim/Zheng's on placing objects) and Jiang/Basu's video
accepted to ICRA 2012.
Anand/Koppula and Congcong Li presented their respective papers at NIPS 2011.
Anand/Koppula's work featured in New Scientist. Jae Sung's work featured in R&D Magazine.
Li/Kowdle's paper on FeCCM was accepted in IEEE TPAMI.
Jiang/Zheng/Lim, Labutov/Yosinski, Yang/Low/Cong, Ly, and Anand/Koppula to present their respective works
at the RSS workshops in Los Angeles.
See cool Robot projects and the videos from CS4758!. Described in Cornell Chronicle article.
(See video.
see photos)
Ashutosh Saxena is a Sloan Research Fellow. (New York Times.)
Cornell's Personal Robotics group in the
Communications of the ACM and others.
Congcong Li, TP Wong and Norris Xu build a "shoe finder robot" in a day using FeCCMs,
featured in ICRA 2011 videos. (More) Also mentioned in
New Scientist.
Zhaoyin Jia's paper on robotic object detection was accepted in IJCAI 2011.
Yun Jiang and Moseson's paper on grasping, and Bills and Chen's paper on vision-based
aerial navigation were accepted in ICRA 2011.
Congcong Li and Adarsh Kowdle's paper on Holistic Scene Understanding
was published in NIPS 2010 and ECCV workshop on parts and
attributes. (More)
Nan Rong's presented her paper on MDPs with Unawareness in UAI 2010.
IYB middle school students control robots!
Make3D and Grasping featured in Nilsson's book "The Quest for Artificial Intelligence", that promises to be a definitive history of the field.
Work on robotic grasping featured in Discovery Science Channel on Jan 19, 2009 (10pm EST). And also on CBS WBNG-7 News.