Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks Group (RVSN) - Publications

Advanced Undergraduate Projects (AUP or UAP)

• Peter Iannucci, Visual Assistive Device Design and Prototyping in Preparation for User Studies, May 20, 2011
• Yafim Landa, Videation Assistant for Blind and Cognitively-Impaired Users, May 20, 2011
• Maria Frendberg, Determining Transportation Mode through Cellphone Sensor Fusion, May 20, 2011
• Michael Craig, MIT Campus Walkthrough, August 24 2005
• Alex Vandiver, Scalable Agenda Services, May 20 2005
• Grayson Giovine, Location-Aware Asset Tagging Using Crickets, May 16 2005
• Tina Hsieh, Location Aware Asset Tagging, May 16 2005
• Michael Matczynski, A Scalable Framework for Location Services, May 13 2005
• Peter Luka, Generalized Conservative Visibility Algorithms (PDF | PS, Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2003.
• Eric Cohen, "Argus Visualization System.", Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 2002.
• Paul Croston, "Ultimate Frisbee Coaching Simulator.", Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2002.
• Todd Drury, "Generating a Three-Dimensional Campus Model." PS (compressed) | PDF, Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2001.
• Bhuvana Kulkarni, "Educational Fusion: Tools for Teachers in the eduFuse System." PS (compressed) | PDF, Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2000.
• Daniel W. Rodriguez, "Project Time-Lapse.", Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 2000.
• Kevin P. Kennedy, "Implementing a Production Quality User Interface With JFC." PS (compressed) | PDF, Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1999.
• Adam Kropp, "Visualization of a Large Set of High-Resolution Geo-referenced Images." PS (compressed) | PDF, Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1999.
• Qixiang Sun, "Parallelization of the Spherical Mosaic." PS (compressed) | PDF, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Report, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1999.
• Michael Bosse, "Plane Clustering from Spherical Image Sequences." PS (compressed) | PDF, 6.893 Final Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, December 1998.
• Darrin B. Jewell, "The SimDisc Ultimate Frisbee Simulation.", Advanced Undergraduate Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1998.

BSc, MEng, MArch, and PhD Theses

• Sudeep Pillai, Learning Articulated Motions From Visual Demonstration, Thesis: Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2014.
• David S. Hayden, Wearable-Assisted Social Interaction as Assistive Technology for the Blind, Thesis: Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2014.
• Jonathan David Brookshire, Articulated Pose Estimation via Over-parametrization and Noise Projection, Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), August 2013.
• Yafim Landa, Prioritized Text Spotting using SLAM, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, August 2013.
• Brian Xuiken Wu, A Controllable Laser Projector for Diverting Traffic, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2013.
• James Karraker, Detecting, Tracking, and Warning of Threats to Police Stopped Along the Roadside, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2013.
• Pallavi Powale, Design and Testing of a Roadside Traffic Threat Alerting Mechanism, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2013.
• Michael Fleder, Affordance-based Control of a Variable-Autonomy Telerobot, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, September 2012.
• William Li, Understanding User State and Preferences for Robust Spoken Dialog Systems and Location-Aware Assistive Technology, Thesis: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2012.
• Kenneth Donahue, Passive Object Recognition using Intrinsic Shape Signatures, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 2011.
• Olivier Koch, Body-relative Navigation Guidance using Uncalibrated Cameras, Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), June 2010.
• Sachithra Madhawa Hemachandra, Narrated Guided Tour Following and Interpretation by an Autonomous Wheelchair, Thesis: Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2010.
• Albert S. Huang, Lane Estimation for Autonomous Vehicles using Vision and LIDAR, Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), February 2010.
• Benjamin W. Charrow, Organic Indoor Location: Infrastructure and Applications, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2010.
• Jonathan Battat, A Fine-grained Geospatial Representation and Framework for Large-Scale Indoor Environments, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, February 2010.
• Jun-geun Park, Moving-Baseline Localization for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, Thesis: Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2009.
• David M Lambeth, Design Considerations for an Indoor Location Service Using 802.11 Wireless Signal Strength, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Aeronautics and Astronautics, February 2009.
• Ed Olson, Robust and Efficient Robotic Mapping, Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2008.
• Matthew R. Walter, Sparse Bayesian Information Filters for Localization and Mapping, Thesis: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical Engineering, MIT/WHOI Joint Program, February 2008.
• Emily Whiting, Geometric, Topological & Semantic Analysis of Multi-Building Floor Plan Data, Thesis: Master of Science in Architectural Studies, June 2006.
• Grayson Giovine, Federating Data Sets for Use In a Map Context, Thesis: Master of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering, June 2006.
• Sand, Peter, "Long-Range Video Motion Estimation using Point Trajectories.", Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006.
• Eustice, Ryan, "Large-Area Visually Augmented Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles.", Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2005.
• Moore, David Christopher, "Robust Distributed Sensor Network Localization with Noisy Range Measurements.", Master of Science Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005.
• Baliga, Roshan Bantwal, "Rapid Coordinate System Creation and Mapping Using Crickets.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
  (Video of Cricket Demonstration, encoded with Divx 5)
• Bosse, Michael Carsten , "ATLAS: A Framework for Large Scale Automated Mapping and Localization.", (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Jethwa, Manish, "Efficient Volumetric Reconstruction from Multiple Calibrated Cameras.", Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Kulikov, Vitaliy Y., "Building Model Generation Project: Generating a Model of the MIT Campus Terrain.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Nichols, Patrick James II, "Location-Aware Active Signage.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Wang, Kevin John, "An Ultrasonic Compass for Context-Aware Mobile Applications.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
• Wolfe, Jonathan Eric, "EClerk Office Assistant.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004.
  (Also available is a demo movie (MPG format) of EClerk in action.)
• Bell, Jason Murray, "An API for Location Aware Computing.", Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003.
• Bodnar, Zachary Modest, "A Visualization Toolkit for Large Geospatial Image Datasets." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002.
• Antone, Matthew E., "Robust Camera Pose Recovery Using Stochastic Geometry.", George M. Sprowls Award Winner!!! (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
• Chao, Wesley S., "Integrated Test Cases in Educational Fusion." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001.
• Chou, George T., "Large-Scale 3D Reconstruction: A Triangulation-Based Approach." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
• Glazer, Joshua, "Improved Algorithm Visualization and Witness Detection in Educational Fusion." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
• Kjølaas, Kari Anne Høier, "Automatic Furniture Population of Large Architectural Models." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000.
• Taillandier, Franck, "Texture and Relief Estimation from Multiple Georeferenced Images." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Science Thesis, DEA Algorithmique, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris 6&7, ENS-Cachan, and ENS-Ulm, 2000.
• Bala, Kavita, "Radiance Interpolants for Interactive Scene Editing and Ray Tracing." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Boyd, Aaron T., "Educational Fusion: A Distributed Visual Environment for Teaching Algorithms." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Cutler, Barbara M., "Aggregating Building Fragments Generated from Geo-Referenced Imagery into Urban Models." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Glazer, Brendon C., "Interactive Ray Tracing of VRML Scenes in Java." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Lebovitz, Marc A., "A Prediction Model for Ray Tracing." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Mellor, John P., "Automatically Recovering Geometry and Texture from Large Sets of Calibrated Images." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
  User's Guide (This thesis is also available (in uncompressed PostScript) for download via ftp as Technical Report 1674, published by the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, October 1999.)
• Stanley, Laughton M., "Parallelization of the Mosaic Image Alignment Algorithm." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999.
• Amram, Eric Raphael. , "A Variational Technique for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Local Structure." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Science Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• Coorg, Satyan. , "Pose Imagery and Automated Three-Dimensional Modeling of Urban Environments." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• De Couto, Douglas S. J. , "Instrumentation for Rapidly Acquiring Pose-Imagery." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• Porter, Brandon W. , "Educational Fusion: An Instructional, Web-based, Software Development Platform." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• Schenkel, Tara B. , "A Visualization of the MIT City Scanning Project." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• Tornow, Nicholas J. , "A Distributed Environment for Developing, Teaching, and Learning Algorithmic Concepts." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998.
• Boyd, Nathan D. T. , "A Platform for Instructional Algorithm Development." (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Master of Engineering Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.

External Publications

• Adam Smith, Tracking Moving Devices with the Cricket Location System, ACM MobiSYS'04, June 6-9, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• Sand, P. and S. Teller, Video Matching, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 23(3), August 2004, pp. 592-599.
• Bosse, M., P. Newman, J. Leonard, M. Soika, W. Feiten, and S. Teller, An Atlas Framework for Scalable Mapping (Extended abstract), Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003.
• Teller, S., M. Antone, Z. Bodnar, M. Bosse, S. Coorg, M. Jethwa, and N. Master, Calibrated, Registered Images of an Extended Urban Area, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 53(1), June 2003, pp. 93-107.
• Teller, S., J. Chen, H. Balakrishnan , Pervasive Pose-Aware Applications and Infrastructure , In IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications Vol. 23, No. 4, Jul/Aug 2003, pp. 14-18.
• Antone, M. and S. Teller, Scalable Extrinsic Calibration of Omni-Directional Image Networks, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 49(2/3), March 2002, pp. 143-174.
• Bosse, M., R. Rikoski, J. Leonard, and S. Teller, Vanishing Points and 3D Lines from Omnidirectional Video, Proceedings of ICIP 2002, Rochester, NY, September 2002, pp. 513-516.
• Teller, S., X. Wang, S. Totaro, F. Taillandier, and A. Hanson, Recovering Facade Texture and Microstructure from Real-World Images, Proceedings of ISPRS Commission III Symposium on Photogrammetric Computer Vision, Graz, Austria, September 2002, pp. A381-386.
• Shlyakhter, I., M. Rozenoer, J. Dorsey, and S. Teller, Reconstructing 3D Tree Models from Instrumented Photographs, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 21(3):53-61, May/June 2001.
• Antone, M. and S. Teller, Automatic Recovery of Relative Camera Rotations for Urban Scenes (PDF | Postscript (compressed)), Proceedings of CVPR, 2000, Volume II, June 2000, pp. 282-289.
• Bosse, M., D. De Couto, and S. Teller, Eyes of Argus: Georeferenced Imagery in Urban Environments (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), GPS World, April 2000, pp. 20-30.
• Coorg, S. and S. Teller, Spherical Mosaics with Quaternions and Dense Correlation, International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 37(3), June 2000, pp. 259-273.
• Bala, K., J. Dorsey, and S. Teller, Interactive Ray-Traced Scene Editing Using Ray Segment Trees, Proceedings of Tenth Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Granada, Spain, June 1999, pp. 31-44.
• Bala, K., J. Dorsey, and S. Teller, Radiance Interpolants for Accelerated Bounded-Error Ray Tracing (PDF | PostScript (compressed)) Color Plate 1, Color Plate 2, Color Plate 3, Color Plate 4, ACM Transactions on Graphics, 18(3), July 1999, pp. 213-256.
• Coorg, S. and S. Teller, Extracting Textured Vertical Facades from Controlled Close-Range Imagery (PDF | PostScript (compressed)), Proceedings of CVPR, 1999, pp. 625-632.
• Chou, G. T. and S. Teller, Multi-Level 3D Reconstruction with Visibility Constraints, Proceedings of Image Understanding Workshop, 1998.
• Teichmann, M. and S. Teller, Assisted Articulation of Closed Polygonal Models., Proceedings of Ninth Eurographics Workshop on Animation and Simulation, August 1998.
• Teller, S.; N. Boyd; B. Porter and N. Tornow., Distributed Development and Teaching of Algorithmic Concepts (also as PDF), Proceedings of ACM SIGGRAPH '98. Educational Track, July 1998.
• Teller, S., S. Coorg, and N. Master, Acquisition of a Large Pose-Mosaic Dataset, Proceedings of CVPR 1998, pp. 872--878 (an early TR is here).
• Capps, M. and S. Teller, Communications Visibility in Shared Virtual Worlds (PDF | PostScript), Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, Cambridge, MA, June 18-20, 1997.
• Coorg, S. and S. Teller, Real-Time Occlusion Culling for Models with Large Occluders (267k), Proceedings of the 1997 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics , Providence, Rhode Island, April 27-30, 1997. ( Also available uncompressed postscript (1620k) and color plate (3885k).)
• Coorg, S. and S. Teller, Temporally Coherent Conservative Visibility, Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, Philadelphia, PA. May 24-26, 1996.
• Teller, S., K. Bala, and J. Dorsey, Conservative Radiance Interpolants for Ray Tracing (Color Plate), Seventh Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Porto, Portugal, pp. 257-268, June 1996.

Technical Reports & other Manuscripts

• John Alex and Seth Teller, Immediate-Mode Ray-Casting, Technical Report 784, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, June 1999.
• Satyan Coorg and Seth Teller, Automatic Extraction of Textured Vertical Facades from Pose Imagery, Technical Report 729, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1998.
Tara Schenkel and Seth Teller, The MIT City Scanning Project (expository video), September 1998.
• Seth Teller, A Conservative O(mnd)-Time Infeasibility Test for Linear Programs Posed Within a Convex Region, Manuscript, 1998.
• Seth Teller and John Alex, Frustrum Casting for Progressive, Interactive Rendering., Technical Report 740, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 1998.
• Seth Teller, Eric Amram and Michael Werman, Dense Matching by Conservative Search of Transformation Space, Manuscript, 1999.
• Marek Teichmann and Seth Teller, Polygonal Approximation of Voronoi Diagrams of a Set of Triangles in Three Dimensions, Technical Report 766, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 1997.
• Satyan Coorg and Seth Teller, A Spatially and Temporally Coherent Object Space Visibility Algorithm, Technical Report 546, Laboratory for Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1996.
• J.P. Mellor, Seth Teller and Tomás Lozano-Pérez, Dense Depth Maps from Epipolar Images, Technical Memo 1593, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 1996.

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