navigation, shape, mobile robotics, computer vision, vision, visualization, recognition.

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I have some information on visiting us (CIM/McGill/Montreal).

Links

• A new book on robot teams.
• Personal comments re. my short Discovery.ca TV interview Nov 8th, 2001. In November there was also filming in the lab for a short segment on the French science show La revanche des nerdZ (Revenge of the Nerds) for the Canal-Z TV network.
• Robot and science wear; cool in that they feature our robotics book cover.
• Techie paraphenalia.
• International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Washington, 2002.
• Robotics in the New York Times. (Requires free registration. Self-promotion warning.)
• Vision Interface 2002 submission deadline Dec. 1, 2001.
• Reading this New York Times article requires a (free) registration. (Knight Ridder Syndicated, April 1999.) Less hassle, is a nice quote here , or the San Jose Mercury News has an solid article (that also happens to quote me) (or see this older piece ).
• The McGill "Martian Explorer": our winning entry in the 1997 & 1998 AAAI Mobile Robotics Competition.
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) digital video analysis group.
• Map viewer
• A great citation search engine, exemplified using a search for citations to my publications citations to some of my publications.

Selected Publications

A small sample of recent publications is provided here (about 14% of my publication list). Please go to the mobile robotics lab and follow the link to "projects" for a selection of recent activities. A more complete plaintext list of my publications can be found here.

• With Yiannis Rekleitis and Evangelos Milios, we have been looking at using multiple robots to reduce errors during mapping (this link is for a gzipped postscript document).
• A presentation on object recognition and place recognition using interest operators, based on one of our papers from Robotics and Automation 2000. You can also have postscript.
• An ICCV 1999 paper on learning landmarks for pose estimation (gzipped postscript).
• A Taxonomy for Multi-Agent Robotics. Combines a taxonomy, some new results, and a survey of existing work. A preprint of this article can be found as a PDF file
• Global localization: Localizing a Robot with Minimum Travel, with Kathleen Romanik and Sue Whitesides, SIAM J. Comput, 27, 2, April 1998, pp. 583-604. (300 KB).
• Localization from sonar models, with Paul MacKenzie, compressed postscript.
• Just-in-time sensing from sonar and laser data, ICRA 1996. with Rekleitis and Freedman.
• Work on the classification and use of sonar landmarks, with Simon Lacroix who did a postdoc at McGill, IROS 1997 (postscript).
• ` Automated creation of virtual reality, with Eric Bourque and Phil Ciaravola (this is a first publication of work has been further developed in subsequent publications eg. IEEE ICRA 1998).
• Computing ``shape texture'' for recognition (compressed postscript).
• 2-D shape-from-darkness and how hidden surfaces can be recovered. Langer, Dudek, Zucker, IROS 1995 (postcript).
• Multi-robot exploration, with Rekleitis and Milios, ICRA 1996 (compressed postscript).
• 3-D shape-from-darkness using iterative ``carving'' and arbitrary light source directions. Daum and Dudek, CVPR 1998.

Teaching

308-557A Fundamentals of Computer Graphics

308-765A Mobile Robotics and Spatial Representation
Representing, exploring, and mapping space using mobile robots.

308-206B

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