Publications

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2015

Gaining Insight Into Films via Topic Modeling & Visualization
Misha Rabinovich, Yogesh Girdhar
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, vol 7, issue 1.
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2014

Unsupervised Semantic Perception, Summarization, and Autonomous Explorationfor Robots in Unstructured Environments
Yogesh Girdhar
PhD Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
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Exploring Underwater Environments with Curiosity
Yogesh Girdhar, and Gregory Dudek
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2014).
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Curiosity Based Exploration for Learning Terrain Models
Yogesh Girdhar, David Whitney, and Gregory Dudek
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014).
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2013

Autonomous Adaptive Exploration using Realtime Online Spatiotemporal Topic Modeling
Yogesh Girdhar, Philippe Giguere, and Gregory Dudek
International Journal of Robotics Research, 2013
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Wide-Speed Autopilot System for a Swimming Hexapod Robot
Philippe Giguere, Yogesh Girdhar, and Gregory Dudek
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2013)
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Unsupervised Environment Recognition and Modeling using Sound Sensing
Arnold Kalmbach, Yogesh Girdhar, and Gregory Dudek
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), Karlsruhe, Germany.

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2012

[poster] Realtime Online Spatiotemporal Topics for Navigation Summaries
Yogesh Girdhar, Raheem Adam, Gregory Dudek
7th Anual Machine Learning Symposium, The New York Academy of Sciences, NY, USA.
[Google Spotlight Presentation 3rd Prize]
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Multi-Domain Monitoring of Marine Environments using a Heterogeneous Robot Team
Florian Shkurti, Anqi Xu, Malika Meghjani, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera, Yogesh Girdhar, Philippe Giguere, Bir Bikram Dey, Jimmy Li, Arnold Kalmbach, Chris Prahacs, Katrine Turgeon, Ioannis Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012)
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Monitoring Marine Environments using a Team of Heterogeneous Robots
Yogesh Girdhar, Anqi Xu, Florian Shkurti, Juan Camilo Gamboa Higuera, Malika Meghjani, Philippe Giguere, Ioannis Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek
RSS 2012 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring (WREM 2012), Sydney, Australia.
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Autonomous Adaptive Underwater Exploration using Online Topic Modelling
Yogesh Girdhar, Philippe Giguere, and Gregory Dudek
13th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER 2012), Quebec City, Canada.
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Efficient on-line data summarization using extremum summaries
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), St. Paul, USA.
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2011

A surprising problem in navigation
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
Vision in 3D Environments, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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MARE: Marine Autonomous Robotic Explorer
Yogesh Girdhar, Anqi Xu, Bir Bikram Dey, Malika Meghjani, Florian Shkurti, Ioannis Rekleitis, and Gregory Dudek
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011)
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Online Visual Vocabularies
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2011)
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Offline Navigation Summaries
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011)
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2010

OnlineNavigation Summaries
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010)
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ONSUM: A System for Generating Online Navigation Summaries
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2010)
[Best Application Paper Award Finalist]
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2009

Optimal Online Data Sampling or How to Hire the Best Secretaries
Yogesh Girdhar and Gregory Dudek
Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2009)
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2008

Enabling Autonomous Capabilities in Underwater Robotics
Junaed Sattar, Gregory Dudek, Olivia Chiu, Ioannis Rekleitis, Philippe Giguere, Alec Mills, Nicolas Plamondon, Chris Prahacs, Yogesh Girdhar, Meyer Nahon, and John-Paul Lobos
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008)
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Vision Based Mobile Robot Pose Estimation and Mapping
Yogesh Girdhar
Technical Report, 2008
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2005

Efficient Sampling of Protein Folding Funnels using HMMSTR, and Pathway Generation using Probabilistic Roadmaps
Yogesh Girdhar
Master's Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2005.
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Efficient sampling of protein folding pathways using HMMSTR and probabilistic roadmaps
Yogesh Girdhar, Christopher Bystroff, and Srinivas Akella
IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2005. Workshops and Poster Abstracts.
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