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The complete list from the CV, plus newer papers. Entries with a Brief → link have a short summary on the papers page.

Recent

2026
ContactGuard: Pre-Contact Execution Monitoring with Action-Conditioned Latent World Models
Gehan Zheng, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
arXiv preprint
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2026
One Scene, Two Depths: Probing Geometric Ambiguity in Monocular Foundation Models
Xiaohao Xu, Feng Xue, Xiang Li, Haowei Li, Shusheng Yang, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Xiaonan Huang
ECCV 2026
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2026
Rewind-IL: Online Failure Detection and State Respawning for Imitation Learning
Gehan Zheng, Sanjay Seenivasan, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2026
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2025
Cross-Modal Instructions for Robot Motion Generation
William Barron, Xiaoxiang Dong, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
ICRA 2026
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2025
Efficient Construction of Implicit Surface Models From a Single Image for Motion Generation
Wei-Teng Chu, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
ICRA 2026
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2025
Joint Flow Trajectory Optimization For Feasible Robot Motion Generation from Video Demonstrations
Xiaoxiang Dong, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
ICRA 2026
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2025
Unified Self-supervised Representation Learning for Multi-modal and Single-modal 3D Perception
Xiao-Hao Xu, Ye Li, Tian-Yi Zhang, Jin-Rong Yang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Xiao-Nan Huang
IEEE CASE 2025
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2025
Bi-Manual Joint Camera Calibration and Scene Representation
Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
ICRA 2026
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2025
Building 3D Representations and Generating Motions From a Single Image via Video-Generation
Wei-Ming Zhi, Ziyong Ma, Tian-Yi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson
NeurIPS 2025
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2025
GraphSeg: Segmented 3D Representations via Graph Edge Addition and Contraction
Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang, Oliver Kroemer, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
IROS 2026
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2025
Infinite Leagues Under the Sea: Photorealistic 3D Underwater Terrain Generation by Latent Fractal Diffusion Models
Tianyi Zhang, Weiming Zhi, Joshua Mangelson, Matthew Johnson-Roberson
arXiv preprint
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2025
Towards Ambiguity-Free Spatial Foundation Model: Rethinking and Decoupling Depth Ambiguity
Xiaohao Xu, Feng Xue, Xiang Li, Haowei Li, Shusheng Yang, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Xiaonan Huang
arXiv preprint
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2025
DOSE3 : Diffusion-based Out-of-distribution detection on SE(3) trajectories
Hongzhe Cheng, Tianyou Zheng, Ziyong Ma, Tianyi Zhang, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Weiming Zhi
IEEE RA-L 2025
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2025
Scalable Benchmarking and Robust Learning for Noise-Free Ego-Motion and 3D Reconstruction from Noisy Video
Xiaohao Xu, Tianyi Zhang, Shibo Zhao, Xiang Li, Sibo Wang, Yongqi Chen, Ye Li, Bhiksha Raj, Matthew Johnson-Roberson, Sebastian Scherer, Xiaonan Huang
ICLR 2025
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Journal articles

2025
RecGS: Removing water caustic with recurrent gaussian splatting
Tianyi Zhang, Weiming Zhi, Braden Meyers, Nelson Durrant, Kaining Huang, Joshua Mangelson, Corina Barbalata, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2025
Teaching Periodic Stable Robot Motion Generation Via Sketch
Weiming Zhi, Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2024
Simultaneous Geometry and Pose Estimation of Held Objects Via 3D Foundation Models
Weiming Zhi, Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2024
Unifying representation and calibration with 3d foundation models
Weiming Zhi, Haozhan Tang, Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2023
Beyond NeRF Underwater: Learning Neural Reflectance Fields for True Color Correction of Marine Imagery
Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2023
CLONeR: Camera-Lidar Fusion for Occupancy Grid-aided Neural Representations
Alexandra Carlson, Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Nathan Tseng, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan, Katherine A. Skinner
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2022
An Active Perception Framework for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Navigation Under Sensor Constraints
Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
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2022
Computer-vision object tracking for monitoring bottlenose dolphin habitat use and kinematics
Joaquin AND Zhang Gabaldon
PLOS ONE
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2022
Energy-Optimal Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Economic Model Predictive Control
Niankai Yang, Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
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2022
Hybrid Visual SLAM for Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems
Gideon Billings, Richard Camilli, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2022
Learning Cross-Scale Visual Representations for Real-Time Image Geo-Localization
Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2022
Towards Automated Sample Collection and Return in Extreme Underwater Environments
Gideon Billings, R. Camilli, Matthew R. Walter, Oscar Pizarro, M. Johnson-Roberson
Journal of Field Robotics
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2021
A Kinematic Model for Trajectory Prediction in General Highway Scenarios
Cyrus Anderson, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2021
BiTraP: Bi-directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction with Multi-modal Goal Estimation
Yu Yao, Ella Atkins, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan, Xiaoxiao Du
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2020
Automated classification of three-dimensional reconstructions of coral reefs using convolutional neural networks
Brian M. AND King Hopkinson
PLoS ONE
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2020
Bridging the Gap Between Safety and Real-Time Performance in Receding-Horizon Trajectory Design for Mobile Robots
S. Kousik, S. Vaskov, F. Bu, M. Johnson-Roberson, and R. Vasudevan
International Journal of Robotics Research
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2020
Detecting Generalized Replay Attacks via Time-Varying Dynamic Watermarking
M. Porter, P. Hespanhol, M. Johnson-Roberson, A. Aswani, R. Vasudevan
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
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2020
Low Latency Trajectory Predictions For Interaction Aware Highway Driving
Cyrus Anderson, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2020
Off The Beaten Sidewalk: Pedestrian Prediction In Shared Spaces For Autonomous Vehicles
Cyrus Anderson, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) Special Issue on Long-Term Human Motion Prediction
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2020
Point Set Voting for Partial Point Cloud Analysis
Junming Zhang, Weijia Chen, Yuping Wang, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2020
SilhoNet-Fisheye: Adaptation of A ROI-Based Object Pose Estimation Network to Monocular Fisheye Images
Gideon Billings, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
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2020
Unsupervised Pedestrian Pose Prediction – A deep predictive coding network based approach for autonomous vehicle perception
Xiaoxiao Du, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
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2019
Bio-LSTM: A Biomechanically Inspired Recurrent Neural Network for 3D Pedestrian Pose and Gait Prediction
Xiaoxiao Du, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
DispSegNet: Leveraging Semantics for End-to-End Learning of Disparity Estimation from Stereo Imagery
Junming Zhang, Katherine A Skinner, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
Integration, calibration, and experimental verification of a speed sensor for swimming animals
Joaquin Gabaldon, Ellen L. Turner, M. Johnson-Roberson, Kira Barton, Mark Johnson, Erik J. Anderson, and K. Alex Shorter
IEEE Sensors
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2019
Occlusion-Aware Risk Assessment for Autonomous Driving in Urban Environments
Ming-Yuan Yu, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
Pedestrian Planar LiDAR Pose (PPLP) Network for Oriented Pedestrian Detection Based on Planar LiDAR and Monocular Images Pedestrian Planar LiDAR Pose (PPLP) Network for Oriented Pedestrian Detection Based on Planar LiDAR and Monocular Images
Fan Bu, Trinh Le, Xiaoxiao Du, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
PedX: Benchmark Dataset for Metric 3D Pose Estimation of Pedestrians in Complex Urban Intersections
Wonhui Kim, Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Charles Barto, Ming-Yuan Yu, Karl Rosaen, Nick Goumas, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
Sensor Transfer: Learning Optimal Sensor Effect Image Augmentation for Sim-to-Real Domain Adaptation
Alexandra Carlson, Katherine A Skinner, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2019
SilhoNet: An RGB Method for 6D Object Pose Estimation
Gideon Billings, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2018
Failing to Learn: Autonomously Identifying Perception Failures for Self-driving Cars
Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Cyrus Anderson, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2018
Pose-graph SLAM using Forward-looking Sonar
Jie Li, Michael Kaess, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2017
Real-Time Certified Probabilistic Pedestrian Forecasting
Henry Jacobs, Owen Hughes, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2017
WaterGAN: Unsupervised Generative Network to Enable Real-time Color Correction of Monocular Underwater Images
Jie Li, Katherine A. Skinner, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)
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2016
High-resolution Underwater Robotic Vision-based Mapping and 3D Reconstruction for Archaeology
M. Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Ariell Friedman, Oscar Pizarro, Giancarlo Troni, Paul Ozog, Jon C. Henderson
Journal of Field Robotics
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2016
Mapping underwater ship hulls using a model-assisted bundle adjustment framework
Paul Ozog, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ryan M. Eustice
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
2015
Discovering Salient Regions on 3D Photo-textured Maps: Crowdsourcing Interaction Data from Multitouch Smartphones and Tablets
M. Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Bertrand Douillard, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B. Williams
Computer Vision and Image Understanding
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2015
True Color Correction of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Imagery
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B. Williams
Journal of Field Robotics
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2013
Frequency-based Underwater Terrain Segmentation
B. Douillard, N. Nourani-Vatani, M. Johnson-Roberson, O. Pizarro, S. Williams, C. Roman, I. Vaughn
Autonomous Robots
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2013
Kite Aerial Photography for Low-Cost, Ultra-high Spatial Resolution Multi-Spectral Mapping of Intertidal Landscapes
Bryson
PLoS ONE
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2013
Mapping Submerged Archaeological Sites using Stereo-Vision Photogrammetry
Jon Henderson, Oscar Pizarro, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ian Mahon
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
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2013
New Tools and Methods for Precision Seafloor Mapping
C. Roman, G. Inglis, J. Vaughn, C. Smart, D. Dansereau, D. Bongiorno, M. Johnson-Roberson, M. Bryson
Oceanography
2012
Monitoring of Benthic Reference Sites Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, M. V. Jakuba, C. R. Johnson, N. S. Barrett, R. C. Babcock, G. A. Kendrick, P. D. Steinberg, A. J. Heyward, P. Doherty, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson, D. Steinberg, A. Friedman
IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
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2012
Multi-scale Measures of Rugosity, Slope and Aspect from Benthic Stereo Image Reconstructions
Ariell Friedman, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Bernard Williams, M. Johnson-Roberson
PLoS ONE
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2010
AUV-assisted Surveying of Drowned Reefs on the Shelf Edge of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
Stefan B. Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Jody M. Webser, Robin J. Beaman, Ian Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson, Tom Bridge
Journal of Field Robotics
2010
Generation and Visualization of Large-scale Three-dimensional Reconstructions from Underwater Robotic Surveys
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B. Williams, Ian Mahon
Journal of Field Robotics
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2009
Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping and Dense Stereoscopic Seafloor Reconstruction Using an AUV
Stefan Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Ian Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson
Experimental Robotics
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2008
Efficient View-Based SLAM Using Visual Loop Closures
Ian Mahon, Stefan Williams, Oscar Pizarro, M. Johnson-Roberson
Robotics, IEEE Transactions on
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Conference papers

2024
DarkGS: Learning Neural Illumination and 3D Gaussians Relighting for Robotic Exploration in the Dark
Tianyi Zhang, Kaining Huang, Weiming Zhi, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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2024
Diagrammatic Instructions to Specify Spatial Objectives and Constraints with Applications to Mobile Base Placement
Qilin Sun, Weiming Zhi, Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2024
Instructing robots by sketching: Learning from demonstration via probabilistic diagrammatic teaching
Weiming Zhi, Tianyi Zhang, M. Johnson-Roberson
2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
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2024
V-PRISM: Probabilistic Mapping of Unknown Tabletop Scenes
Herbert Wright, Weiming Zhi, M. Johnson-Roberson, Tucker Hermans
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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2023
Hyperspherical Embedding for Point Cloud Completion
Junming Zhang, Haomeng Zhang, and R. Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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2022
Energy-optimal Three-dimensional Path-following Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles under Ocean Currents
Niankai Yang, Chao Shen, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
2022 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)
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2022
LiSnowNet: Real-time Snow Removal for LiDAR Point Clouds
Ming-Yuan Yu, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
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2021
Coupling Intent and Action for Pedestrian Crossing Behavior Prediction
Yu Yao, Ella Atkins, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan, Xiaoxiao Du
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
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2021
Energy-Optimal Path Planning with Active Flow Perception for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Niankai Yang, Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2020
An Active Perception Approach for Mid-Water Localization of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
American Control Conference
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2020
Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Robotics [From the Guest Editors]
F. Bonsignorio, D. Hsu, M. Johnson-Roberson, J. Kober
IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine
2020
Detecting Deception Attacks on Autonomous Vehicles via Linear Time-Varying Dynamic Watermarking
M. Porter, S. Dey, A. Joshi, P. Hespanhol, A. Aswani, M. Johnson-Roberson, R. Vasudevan
IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications
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2020
Learning Rotation-Invariant Representations of Point Clouds Using Aligned Edge Convolutional Neural Networks
Junming Zhang, Ming-Yuan Yu, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
International Conference on 3D Vision 2020 (3DV)
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2020
Leveraging the Template and Anchor Framework for Safe, Online Robotic Gait Design
Jinsun Liu, Pengcheng Zhao, Zhenyu Gan, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2020
LiStereo: Generate Dense Depth Maps from LIDAR and Stereo Imagery
Junming Zhang, Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2020
Parametric Design of Underwater Optical Systems
Gideon Billings, Eduardo Iscar, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/OES Oceans - Asia Pacific
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2020
Pixel-Wise Motion Deblurring of Thermal Videos
S. Manikandasriram, R. Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
Robotics: Science and Systems
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2020
Reachable Sets for Safe, Real-Time Manipulator Trajectory Design
P. Holmes, S. Kousik, B. Zhang, D. Raz, C. Barbalata, M. Johnson-Roberson, R. Vasudevan
Robotics: Science and Systems
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2020
Risk Assessment and Planning with Bidirectional Reachability for Autonomous Driving
Ming-Yuan Yu, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2020
Robust Energy-optimal Path Following Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Ocean Currents
Niankai Yang, Dongsik Chang, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
American Control Conference
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2020
Towards distortion based underwater domed viewport camera calibration
Eduardo Iscar, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2019
A constrained control-planning strategy for redundant manipulators
Corina Barbalata, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2019
Energy Management for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles using Economic Model Predictive Control
Niankai Yang, Dongsik Chang, Mohammad Reza Amini, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
American Control Conference
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2019
Guaranteed Safe Reachability-based Trajectory Design for a High-Fidelity, Autonomous Passenger Vehicle
Sean Vaskov, Utkarsh Sharma, Shreyas Kousik, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
American Control Conference
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2019
Not-at-Fault Driving in Traffic: A Reachability-Based Approach
Sean Vaskov, Hannah Larson, Shreyas Kousik, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ramanarayan Vasudevan
Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)
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2019
Simulation and Real-World Evaluation of Attack Detection Schemes
Matthew Porter, Arnav Joshi, Pedro Hespanhol, Anil Aswani, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
American Control Conference
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2019
Stochastic Sampling Simulation for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Stochastic Sampling Simulation for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Cyrus Anderson, Xiaoxiao Du, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2019
Tracking of Uncontrollable Underwater Agents: Particle Filter Based Fusion of On-Body IMUs and Stationary Cameras
Ding Zhang, Joaquin Gabaldon, Lisa Lauderdale, M. Johnson-Roberson, Lance Miller, Kira Barton, Alex Shorter
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2019
UWStereoNet: Unsupervised Learning for Depth Estimation and Color Correction of Underwater Stereo Imagery
Katherine A Skinner, Junming Zhang, Elizabeth Olson, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2018
Modeling Camera Effects to Improve Deep Vision for Real and Synthetic Data
Alexandra Carlson, Katherine A. Skinner, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
European Conference on Computer Vision: Workshop on Visual Learning and Embodied Agents in Simulation Environments
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2018
Real-Time Model Predictive Control for Energy Management in Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Niankai Yang, Mohammad Reza Amini, M. Johnson-Roberson, Jing Sun
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
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2018
Robust Environmental Mapping by Mobile Sensor Networks
Hyongju Park, Jinsun Liu, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2018
Synthetic Data Generation for Deep Learning of Underwater Disparity Estimation
Elizabeth Olson, Corina Barbalata, Junming Zhang, Katherine Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/MTS Oceans
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2018
Towards low cost, deep water AUV optical mapping
Eduardo Iscar, Corina Barbalata, Nicholas Goumas, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/MTS Oceans
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2017
A framework for enhanced localization of marine mammals using auto-detected video and wearable sensor data fusion
Joaquin Gabaldon, Ding Zhang, Kira Barton, M. Johnson-Roberson, Alex Shorter
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2017
A Probabilistic Framework for Intrinsic Image Decomposition from RGB-D Streams
Wonhui Kim, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2017
Automatic Color Correction for 3D Reconstruction of Underwater Scenes
Katherine A. Skinner, Eduardo Iscar Ruland, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2017
Driving in the Matrix: Can Virtual Worlds Replace Human-Generated Annotations for Real World Tasks?
M. Johnson-Roberson, Charles Barto, Rounak Mehta, Sharath Nittur Sridhar, Karl Rosaen, Ram Vasudevan
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2017
Low cost underwater acoustic localization
Eduardo Iscar Ruland, M. Johnson-Roberson
Acoustics '17 Boston
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2017
Multi-view 3D Reconstruction in Underwater Environments: Evaluation and Benchmark
Eduardo Iscar, Katherine A. Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/MTS Oceans
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2017
Safe Trajectory Synthesis for Autonomous Driving in Unforeseen Environments
Shreyas Kousik, Sean Vaskov, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference
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2017
Underwater Image Dehazing with a Light Field Camera
Katherine A. Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Workshop on Light Fields for Computer Vision
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2016
Towards Real-time Underwater 3D Reconstruction with Plenoptic Cameras
Katherine Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2016
Utilizing High-dimensional Features for Real-time Robotic Applications: Reducing the Curse of Dimensionality for Recursive Bayesian Estimation
Jie Li, Paul Ozog, Jacob Abernethy, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2015
Autonomous Surface Vehicle 3D Seafloor Reconstruction from Monocular Images and Sonar Data
Eduardo Iscar, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/MTS Oceans
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2015
Building 3D Mosaics from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and 2D Imaging Sonar
Paul Ozog, Giancarlo Troni, Michael Kaess, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2015
Crowdsourcing for Search of Disaster Victims: A Preliminary Study for Search System Design
Alex Burnap, Charlie Barto, M. Johnson-Roberson, Max Yi Ren, Richard Gonzalez, Panos Y. Papalambros
International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED)
2015
Detection and Segmentation of Underwater Archaeological Sites Surveyed with Stereo-Vision Platforms
Katherine Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
MTS/IEEE OCEANS
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2015
Financialized Methods for Market-based Multi-sensor Fusion
Jacob Abernethy, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2015
High Level Visual Features for Underwater Place Recognition
Jie Li, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2015
Underwater Robot Localization in the Presence of Dramatic Appearance Changes
Jie Li, Ryan Eustice, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE/MTS Oceans
2014
Crowdsourced Saliency for Mining Robotically Gathered 3D Maps Using Multitouch Interaction on Smartphones and Tablets
M. Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Bertrand Douillard, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B Williams
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2014
Multi-altitude Multi-sensor Fusion Framework for AUV Exploration and Survey
Jie Li, M. Johnson-Roberson
MTS/IEEE OCEANS
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2013
Automated Registration for Multi-year Robotic Surveys of Marine Benthic Habitats
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
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2013
Out-of-Core Efficient Blending for Underwater Georeferenced Textured 3D Maps
M. Johnson-Roberson, Mitch Bryson, Bertrand Douillard, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B Williams
IEEE Computing for Geospatial Research and Application (COM. Geo), 2013 Fourth International Conference on
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2013
Temporal and Regional Variation in Rap Lyrics
M. Johnson-Roberson, M. Johnson-Roberson
NIPS Workshop on Topic Models: Computation, Application and Evaluation
2012
Colour-Consistent Structure-from-Motion Models using Underwater Imagery
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
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2012
FFT-based Terrain Segmentation for Underwater Mapping
Bertrand Douillard, Navid Nourani-Vatani, M. Johnson-Roberson, Stefan Williams, Chris Roman, Oscar Pizarro, Ian Vaughn, Gabrielle Inglis
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
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2012
Low-cost, Ultra-high Spatial Resolution Mapping of Intertidal Rock Platforms
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Richard Murphy
International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing
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2012
Repeatable Robotic Surveying of Marine Benthic Habitats for Monitoring Long-term Change
Mitch Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring at Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS)
2011
Enhanced Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog
M. Johnson-Roberson, Jeannette Bohg, Gabriel Skantze, Joakim Gustafson, Rolf Carlson, Babak Rasolzadeh, Danica Kragic
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
2011
Mind the Gap - Robotic Grasping under Incomplete Observation
Jeannette Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson, Beatriz Leon, Javier Felip, Xavi Gratal Martínez, Niklas Bergström, Danica Kragic, Antonio Morales
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
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2011
Visually Mapping Pavlopetri - the World's Oldest Submerged Town
Ian Mahon, Oscar Pizarro, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ariell Friedman, Stefan Bernard Williams, Jon C. Henderson
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
2010
Active Scene Analysis
Niklas Bergström, Mårten Björkmann, Jeannette Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson, Gert Kootstra, Danica Kragic
Robotics: Science and Systems 2010 Workshop: Towards Closing the Loop: Active Learning for Robotics
2010
Advancing Autonomy for Exploration, Discovery, and Characterization of Astrobiology in Aqueous Environments
R. Camilli, D. Yoerger, M. Jakuba, O. Pizarro, S. Williams, M. Johnson-Roberson, J. Kinsey, T. Shank
AbSciCon2010 Astrobiology Science Conference
2010
Attention Based Active 3D Point Cloud Segmentation
M. Johnson-Roberson, Jeannette Bohg, Mårten Björkman, Danica Kragic
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
Brief →
2010
Enhanced Visual Scene Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog
M. Johnson-Roberson, J. Bohg, D. Kragic, G. Skantze, J. Gustafson, R. Carlson
Proceedings of AAAI 2010 Fall Symposium: Dialog with Robots
2010
Saliency Ranking for Benthic Survey using Underwater Images
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision
Brief →
2010
Strategies for Multi-Modal Scene Exploration
Jeannette Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson, Mårten Björkman, Danica Kragic
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
2009
Airborne Smoothing and Mapping using Vision and Inertial Sensors
M. Bryson, M. Johnson-Roberson, S. Sukkarieh
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Brief →
2009
Towards Large Scale Optical and Acoustic Sensor Integration for Visualization
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
IEEE/OES Oceans - Europe
Brief →
2008
AUV-assisted Surveying of Relic Reef Sites
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, J. Webster, R. Beaman, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, T. Bridge
IEEE/MTS Oceans
2008
Towards Image-based Marine Habitat Classification
O. Pizarro, J. Colquhoun, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, S.B. Williams
IEEE/MTS Oceans
2007
Towards Three-Dimensional Heterogeneous Imaging Sensor Correspondence and Registration for Visualization
M. Johnson-Roberson, O. Pizarro, S. Williams
IEEE/OES Oceans - Europe
Brief →
2006
Segmentation and Classification of Coral for Oceanographic Surveys: A Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Approach
M. Johnson-Roberson, S. Kumar, S. Williams
IEEE/OES Oceans - Asia Pacific
Brief →
2006
Stereoscopic Imaging for Coral Segmentation and Classification
M. Johnson-Roberson, S. Kumar, O. Pizarro, S. Williams
IEEE/MTS Oceans
Brief →
2006
Towards Multi-Resolution Terrain Reconstruction of Coral Reef Habitats with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Stefan B Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Ian Mahon, Paul Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson
Int'l Symp. on Experimental Robotics (ISER' 06)
2004
Low Cost Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery Implemented on an Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle
Phillip L. Koon, M. Johnson-Roberson, Chris Urmson, Jay Gowdy, Kevin Peterson
International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering
2003
Toward the Automatic Assessment of Behavioral Disturbances of Dementia
S. J. Allin, A. Bharucha, J. Zimmerman, D. Wilson, M. Johnson-Roberson, H. Wactlar, C. G. Atkeson
UbiHealth 2003: The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing

Technical reports

2004
High Speed Navigation of Unrehearsed Terrain: Red Team Technology for Grand Challenge 2004
Christopher Urmson, Joshua Anhalt, Michael Clark, Tugrul Galatali, Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Jay Gowdy, Alexander Gutierrez, Sam Harbaugh, M. Johnson-Roberson, Hiroki Kato, Phillip L. Koon, Kevin Peterson, Bryon K. Smith, Spencer Spiker, Erick Tryzelaar, William Red L. Whittaker
Robotics Institute

Presentations & abstracts

2021
Angle-Regulated Transformer Network for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction
Xiaoxiao Du, Neha Pusalkar, Ram Vasudevan, M. Johnson-Roberson
IJCAI 2021 Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving Workshop
2019
Advancing autonomy in underwater manipulation with a deep learning visual dataset collected in cold seep environments of the Costa Rica Active Margin
Gideon Billings, M. Johnson-Roberson, R. Camilli
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
2018
Computer Vision to Improve Navigation with Retinal Implants
James Weiland, Aminat adebiyi, Nii Tete Mante, Hojun Hojun Son, Kai Ho Edgar Cheung, M. Johnson-Roberson
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2018
Crosswalk Guidance System for the Blind
Hojun Hojun Son, Kai Ho Edgar Cheung, Yooree Chung, Harleen Shergill, M. Johnson-Roberson, James Weiland
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2017
Deep Learning Methods for Quantifying Invasive Benthic Species in the Great Lakes
Gideon Billings, K Skinner, M. Johnson-Roberson
AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
2017
Robust Dynamic Vehicle Routing for On-Demand Systems under Light Load
Hyongju Park, M. Johnson-Roberson, Ram Vasudevan
European Nonlinear Dynamics Conference
2016
3D Photogrammetry for Measuring Reef Productivity: Advances in Light Propagation and Self-Occlusion
M. Johnson-Roberson, W. K. Fitt, B.M. Hopkinson, M. H. Long, Eduardo Iscar Ruland, Katherine A. Skinner
International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS)
2016
Automated Detection of the Optic Disc in Fundus Autofluorescence Images of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Daniel Albertus, Thiran Jayasundera, Christopher Ranella, M. Johnson-Roberson
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - (ARVO) Annual Meeting
2016
Large Scale Deep Learning for Robotically Gathered Imagery for Science
Katherine Skinner, Jie Li, M. Johnson-Roberson
American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
2015
Synoptic Identification of Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks in Lake Léman
A. Mallios, O. Pizarro, J. S. Arey, S. Samanipour, B. De Mol, N. Hurtós, M. Johnson-Roberson, D. G. Dansereau, L. Toohey, U. Lemmin, R. Camilli
ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting
2014
Automated Detection of Fluorescein Leakage in Diabetic Macular Edema
Amani Al-Tarouti, Grant M. Comer, Pavan S. Angadi, Christopher Ranella, Nathan Patel, Daniel Albertus, Maxwell Stem, M. Johnson-Roberson, Thiran Jayasundera
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology - (ARVO) Annual Meeting
2014
New Techniques for Fine-scale Mapping of Intertidal Environments using Kite Aerial Photography
M. Bryson, R. Murphy, M. Johnson-Roberson
GeoHab: (Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping)
2014
Reef Mapping and Monitoring Assisted by Machines
O. Pizarro, S. B. Williams, M. Johnson-Roberson, D. Steinberg, M. Bryson
Ocean Sciences 2014 Meeting
2013
Benthic Monitoring with Robotic Platforms - the Experience of Australia
O. Pizarro, S. B. Williams, M. V. Jakuba, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, M. Bryson, D. Steinberg, A. Friedman, D.Dansereau, N. Nourani-Vatani, D. Bongiorno, M. Bewley, A. Bender, N. Ahsan, B. Douillard
International Symposium on Underwater Technology (UT13)
2012
AUV-assisted Characterization of Beachrock Formations in Vatika Bay, Laconia, Greece and their Relevance to Local Sea Level Changes and Bronze Age Settlements
O. Pizarro, M. Jakuba, N. Flemming, D. Sakellariou, J. Henderson, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, L. Toohey, D. Dansereau, C. Lees
Ocean Sciences 2012 Meeting
2010
Acting and Interacting in Natural Environments
Danica Kragic, Jeannette Bohg, M. Johnson-Roberson
IROS 2010 Workshop on Semantic Mapping and Autonomous Knowledge Acquisition
2010
High-resolution optical and acoustic 3D seafloor reconstructions from robot and diver-based surveys
O. Pizarro, A. Friedman, M. Johnson-Roberson, S. Williams, I. Mahon, R. Camilli, L. Camilli, A. Mallios
Proceedings XIX Congress of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association
2009
Australia's Integrated Marine Observing System Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Facility
Stefan Williams, Oscar Pizarro, Michael Jakuba, Ian Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson
OceanObs'09
2009
Autonomous Marine Systems for Navigation, Mapping and Data Interpretation
S. Williams, O. Pizarro, M. Jakuba, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson, P. Rigby, S. Barkby
Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping (GeoHab) Video Workshop
2009
Co-registered Multibeam Acoustic and Photographic Mapping of Benthic Environments with an AUV
Michael Jakuba, Stefan Williams, M. Johnson-Roberson, Stephen Barkby, Oscar Pizarro, Vanessa Lucieer, Ian Mahon, Neville Barrett
Proceedings of the meeting of the Australian Marine Sciences Association
2009
Large Scale 3D Reconstruction and Visualization of Stereo Surveys
M. Johnson-Roberson, O. Pizarro, S. Williams, I. Mahon
Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping (GeoHab) Video Workshop
2009
Towards Large Scale, Integrated Optical and Acoustic AUV Survey
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan B. Williams
Underwater Acoustic Measurements
2008
Active Learning for Computer Assisted Classification of Benthic Species from Underwater Imagery
M. Johnson-Roberson, O. Pizarro, Stefan Williams, P. Rigby
Ocean Sciences 2008 Meeting
2008
Advances in Autonomous Benthic Surveying and Characterization of Benthic Habitats
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson, P. Rigby, S. Barkby
Ocean Sciences 2008 Meeting
2008
Habitat Mapping using AUVs
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson
Second Australia-Japan Marine Science Forum, AIMS/Japan workshop, Townsville, Qld
2008
High Resolution Optical Surveying using an AUV
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson
AUVs: Future Technologies & Emerging Markets, Perth, WA
2008
IMOS AUV Facility
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, M. Johnson-Roberson
Australian Marine Science Association Conference
2007
Generating Visually Consistent Benthic Surface Meshes Using Visual Features
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams
MTS/IEEE OCEANS
2007
Identifying Novel Benthic Habitats in High Resolution AUV Imagery
M. Johnson-Roberson, Oscar Pizarro, Stefan Williams, Max Rees
Proceedings of the meeting of the Australian Marine Sciences Association
2007
IMOS AUV Facility
O. Pizarro, S.B. Williams, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, S. Barkby
ArcheoMed 2007 Meeting (invited talk)
2007
IMOS—Integrated Marine Observing System: Integrating IMOS with Underwater Cultural Heritage Research
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, M. Johnson-Roberson, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, S. Barkby
New Ground Archaeology Conference
2006
Advances in Underwater Surveying and Modeling from Robotic Vehicles on the Great Barrier Reef
O. Pizarro, S. Williams, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, C. Roux
EOS Transactions American Geophysics Union Ocean Sciences Meeting
2006
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Surveying on the North West Continental Shelf of Australia
S.B. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson, M. Rees
Australian Marine Science Association Conference
2006
Marine Robotic Systems at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems
S. Williams, O. Pizarro, I. Mahon, P. Rigby, M. Johnson-Roberson
PACIFIC 2006 International Maritime Conference