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Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation

Normalized Cuts and Image Segmentation by Jianbo Shi and Jitendra Malik, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence(PAMI) 2000

Seminal paper on normalized graph cuts. It was awarded the Longuet-Higgings Prize for the most influential paper published at CVPR 1997.

This Tutorial can be useful as well.

Added by: Volkan Isler

-- VolkanIsler - 05 Dec 2007

Grasping Background

JCT: I could present any chapters of the Craig Robotics text and my grasping chapter from the Robotics Handbook. I can make hard copies available, but copyright issues will prevent me from posting them on line. Here is the topic order:

Forward Kinematics

Inverse Kinematics

Jacobians and Singularities

Static Grasping

This paper is on grasp synthesis using only visual input rather than an exact geometric description of the surface of the object http://www-symbiotic.cs.ou.edu/papers/2004/morales_grasp_synthesis_ver_1.pdf

Here's a special issue on learning by demonstration Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B, IEEE Transactions on Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2007 Page(s):254 - 255 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.886946 Summary:This special issue contains selected extended contributions from both the Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems symposium held in Hertforshire in 2006 and the wider academic community following a public call for papers in 2006. The papers presented serve as a good illustration of the challenges faced by robotics researchers today in the field of programming by observation, demonstration, and imitation.

-- trink@LAB/CS/RPI.EDU - 23 Jan 2008

POMDP

I can take a shot at presenting some "uncertainty" related material but toward the end of the semester..

Volkan

Statistical modeling in point registration

Using covariances to model uncertainty of point locations, transformation estimates, and correspondences. This could include discussion of structure from motion, object tracking, image and range data registration, and other areas. However, for clarity and compactness, it might be best to keep the focus on the point registration with pointers to some robotics applications (e.g. SLAM).

Michal Sofka

A Tutorial on Visual Servo Control

S. A. Hutchinson, G. D. Hager, and P. I. Corke. A tutorial on visual servo control. IEEE Trans. Robot. Automat., 12(5):651--670, Oct. 1996

This paper is a bit old but may serve the purpose of providing an overview of visual servoing. " Visual servoing is to control a robot to manipulate its environment using vision as opposed to just observing the environment".

Nilanjan