Interactive Perception: Leveraging Action in Perception and Perception in Action

no code implementations • 13 Apr 2016 • Jeannette Bohg, Karol Hausman, Bharath Sankaran, Oliver Brock, Danica Kragic, Stefan Schaal, Gaurav Sukhatme

Recent approaches in robotics follow the insight that perception is facilitated by interaction with the environment.

Robotics

Learning and Optimization with Submodular Functions

no code implementations • 7 May 2015 • Bharath Sankaran, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Xinran He, David Kale, Liron Cohen

Set functions, and specifically submodular set functions, characterize a wide variety of naturally occurring optimization problems, and the property of submodularity of set functions has deep theoretical consequences with wide ranging applications.

Nonmyopic View Planning for Active Object Detection

no code implementations • 20 Sep 2013 • Nikolay Atanasov, Bharath Sankaran, Jerome Le Ny, George J. Pappas, Kostas Daniilidis

One of the central problems in computer vision is the detection of semantically important objects and the estimation of their pose.

Active Object Detection Object +3