Citation Abstract We demonstrate the automatic transfer of an assembly task from human to robot. This work extends efforts showing the utility of linguistic models in verifiable robot control policies by now performing real visual analysis of human demonstrations to automatically extract a policy for the task. This method tokenizes each human demonstration into a […]
EAGER: Linguistic Task Transfer for Humans and Cyber Systems (Mike Stillman, Irfan Essa) NSF/RI This project, investigating formal languages as a general methodology for task transfer between distinct cyber-physical systems such as humans and robots, aims to expand the science of cyber physical systems by developing Motion Grammars that will enable task transfer between distinct […]
II-New: Motion Grammar Laboratory (Stillman, Essa, Egerstadt, Christensen, Ueda) Division of Computer and Network Systems Instrumentation Grant. An anthropomorphic robot arm and a human capture system enable the autonomous performance of assembly tasks with significant uncertainty in problem specifications and environments. This line of work is investigated through sequences of manipulation actions where the guarantee of the completion […]
Citation [bibtex key= 2009-Yin-LBUASLUDSFS] Abstract The natural language for most deaf signers in the United States is American Sign Language (ASL). ASL has internal structure like spoken languages, and ASL linguists have introduced several phonemic models. The study of ASL phonemes is not only interesting to linguists, but also useful for scalability in recognition by […]
Award#0834545 – CSR-DMSS, SM: Web on Demand – Bridging the Gap Between Social Networks and Ad Hoc Networking Investigator(s): Umakishore Ramachandran, (Principal Investigator), Irfan Essa (Co-Principal Investigator) Dates: September 1, 2008 – August 31, 2009 (Estimated) Abstract From the western world to the third world, the use of handheld devices (cellphones, PDAs) has proliferated. The […]
Award#0813831 – Symposium on Computation and Journalism ABSTRACT Fundamentally, journalism is aimed at collecting news information and disseminating that information with a layer of contextualization and understanding provided by journalists. Recent advances in computational technology are rapidly affecting how news information is gathered, reported and distributed. Furthermore, new avenues for aggregating, visualizing, summarizing, consuming, and […]
Mitch Parry (2007), Separation and Analysis of Multichannel Signals PhD Thesis [PDF], Georgia Institute of Techniology, College of Computing, Atlanta, GA. (Advisor: Irfan Essa) Abstract This thesis examines a large and growing class of digital signals that capture the combined effect of multiple underlying factors. In order to better understand these signals, we would like […]
Award#0749181 – SGER Collaborative Research: Persistent, Adaptive, Collaborative Synthespians ABSTRACT This project explores the development of methodologies for populating worlds with persistent, adaptive, collaborative, believable synthetic actors, referred to as Synthespians. These methods are extensions of adaptive models of learning and planning to accommodate the complex, dynamic environments in massive multi-player online games. The intellectual […]
Yin, Pei Criminisi, Antonio Winn, John Essa, Irfan (2007), Tree-based Classifiers for Bilayer Video Segmentation In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2007. CVPR ’07, 17-22 June 2007, page(s): 1 – 8, Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA, ISBN: 1-4244-1180-7, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/CVPR.2007.383008 Abstract This paper presents an algorithm for the automatic segmentation of monocular videos […]
Parry, R.M. Essa, I. (2007) “Incorporating Phase Information for Source Separation via Spectrogram Factorization.” In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2007. ICASSP 2007. 15-20 April 2007, Volume: 2, page(s): II-661 – II-66, Honolulu, HI, ISSN: 1520-6149, ISBN: 1-4244-0728-1, INSPEC Accession Number:9497202, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366322 Abstract Spectrogram factorization methods have been proposed for single channel source separation and audio […]