2025
FoundationStereo: Zero-Shot Stereo Matching
B. Wen, M. Trepte, J. Aribido, J. Kautz, O. Gallo, S. Birchfield
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
RoboSpatial: Teaching Spatial Understanding to 2D and 3D Vision-Language Models for Robotics
C. H. Song, V. Blukis, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, Y. Su, S. Birchfield
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
Also in CVPR Workshop on Emergent Visual Abilities and Limits of Foundation Models (EVAL-FoMo-2), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
Also in CVPR Workshop on 3D-LLM/VLA, Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
Also in ICLR Workshop on Robot Learning: Towards Robots with Human-Level Abilities, Singapore, April 2025
SPOT: SE(3) Pose Trajectory Diffusion for Object-Centric Manipulation
C.-C. Hsu, B. Wen, J. Xu, Y. Narang, X. Wang, Y. Zhu, J. Biswas, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Atlanta, May 2025
Audio-Visual Segmentation with Semantics
J. Zhou, X. Shen, J. Wang, J. Zhang, W. Sun, J. Zhang, S. Birchfield, D. Guo, L. Kong, M. Wang, Y. Zhong
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 133(4):1644-1664, April 2025
3D-Generalist: Self-Improving Vision-Language-Action Models for Crafting 3D Worlds
F.-Y. Sun, S. Wu, C. Jacobsen, T. Yim, H. Zou, A. Zook, S. Li, Y.-H. Chou, E. Can, X. Wu, C. Eppner, V. Blukis, J. Tremblay, J. Wu, S. Birchfield, N. Haber
arXiv:2507.06484, July 2025
GraspGen: A Diffusion-based Framework for 6-DOF Grasping with On-Generator Training
A. Murali, B. Sundaralingam, Y.-W. Chao, W. Yuan, J. Yamada, M. Carlson, F. Ramos, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, C. Eppner
arXiv:2507.13097, July 2025
RaySt3R: Predicting Novel Depth Maps for Zero-Shot Object Completion
B. P. Duisterhof, J. Oberst, B. Wen, S. Birchfield, D. Ramanan, J. Ichnowski
arXiv:2506.05285, June 2025
BOP Challenge 2024 on Model-Based and Model-Free 6D Object Pose Estimation
V. N. Nguyen, S. Tyree, A. Guo, M. Fourmy, A. Gouda, T. Lee, S. Moon, H. Son, L. Ranftl, J. Tremblay, E. Brachmann, B. Drost, V. Lepetit, C. Rother, S. Birchfield, J. Matas, Y. Labbe, M. Sundermeyer, T. Hodan
CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Mixed Reality (CV4MR), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
Award: CV4MR Workshop Best Paper Award
OG-VLA: 3D-Aware Vision Language Action Model via Orthographic Image Generation
I. Singh, A. Goyal, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, A. Garg, V. Blukis
arXiv:2506.01196, June 2025
Mitigating Covariate Shift in Imitation Learning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Latent Space Generative World Models
A. Popov, A. Degirmenci, D. Wehr, S. Hegde, R. Oldja, A. Kamenev, B. Douillard, D. Nistér, U. Muller, R. Bhargava, S. Birchfield, N. Smolyanskiy
ICRA Workshop on Robots in the Wild, Atlanta, May 2025
Towards a VLM Benchmark for Simulated Robotics
X. Yang, C. Eppner, V. Blukis, P. Belcak, S. Tyree, D. Fox, S. Birchfield, F. Ramos, J. Tremblay
RSS Workshop on Large Foundation Model for Interactive Robot Learning (LFM), Los Angeles, June 2025
GRS: Generating Robotic Simulation Tasks from Real-World Images
A. Zook, F.-Y. Sun, J. Spjut, V. Blukis, S. Birchfield, J. Tremblay
CVPR Workshop on Computer Vision for Video Games (CV2), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2025
2024
FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
B. Wen, W. Yang, J. Kautz, S. Birchfield
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024
Neural Implicit Representation for Building Digital Twins of Unknown Articulated Objects
Y. Weng, B. Wen, J. Tremblay, V. Blukis, D. Fox, L. Guibas, S. Birchfield
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024
NeRFDeformer: NeRF Transformation from a Single View via 3D Scene Flows
Z. Tang, Z. Ren, X. Zhao, B. Wen, J. Tremblay, S. Birchfield, A. Schwing
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Seattle, June 2024
DeformGS: Scene Flow in Highly Deformable Scenes for Deformable Object Manipulation
B. P. Duisterhof, M. Zhao, Y. Yao, J.-W. Liu, J. Seidenschwarz, M. Z. Shou, D. Ramanan, S. Song, S. Birchfield, B. Wen, J. Ichnowski
Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Chicago, October 2024
Partial-View Object View Synthesis via Filtered Inversion
F.-Y. Sun, J. Tremblay, V. Blukis, K. Lin, D. Xu, B. Ivanovic, P. Karkus, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, R. Zhang, Y. Li, J. Wu, M. Pavone, N. Haber
3DV, Davos, Switzerland, March 2024
Also in CVPR Workshop on Advances in NeRF for the Metaverse (XRNeRF), Vancouver, June 2023
Unlocking the Secrets of Linear Complexity Sequence Model from A Unified Perspective
Z. Qin, X. Shen, W. Sun, D. Li, S. Birchfield, R. Hartley, Y. Zhong
ICML Workshop on Next Generation of Sequence Modeling Architectures, Vienna, Austria, July 2024
2023
HANDAL: A Dataset of Real-World Manipulable Object Categories with Pose Annotations, Affordances, and Reconstructions
A. Guo, B. Wen, J. Yuan, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, J. Smith, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, Michigan, October 2023
BundleSDF: Neural 6-DoF Tracking and 3D Reconstruction of Unknown Objects
B. Wen, J. Tremblay, V. Blukis, S. Tyree, T. Müller, A. Evans, D. Fox, J. Kautz, S. Birchfield
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, June 2023
TTA-COPE: Test-Time Adaptation for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation
T. Lee, J. Tremblay, V. Blukis, B. Wen, B.-U. Lee, I. Shin, S. Birchfield, I. S. Kweon, K.-J. Yoon
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, June 2023
Affordance Diffusion: Synthesizing Hand-Object Interactions
Y. Ye, X. Li, A. Gupta, S. De Mello, S. Birchfield, J. Song, S. Tulsiani, S. Liu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Vancouver, June 2023
Parallel Inversion of Neural Radiance Fields for Robust Pose Estimation
Y. Lin, T. Müller, J. Tremblay, B. Wen, S. Tyree, A. Evans, P. A. Vela, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, May 2023
RGB-Only Reconstruction of Tabletop Scenes for Collision-Free Manipulator Control
Z. Tang, B. Sundaralingam, J. Tremblay, B. Wen, Y. Yuan, S. Tyree, C. Loop, A. Schwing, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, May 2023
One-Shot Neural Fields for 3D Object Understanding
V. Blukis, T. Lee, J. Tremblay, B. Wen, I. S. Kweon, K.-J. Yoon, D. Fox, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Advances in NeRF for the Metaverse (XRNeRF), Vancouver, June 2023
Vicinity Vision Transformer
W. Sun, Z. Qin, H. Deng, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, K. Zhang, N. Barnes, S. Birchfield, L. Kong, Y. Zhong
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 45(10):12635-12649, October 2023
Diff-DOPE: Differentiable Deep Object Pose Estimation
J. Tremblay, B. Wen, V. Blukis, B. Sundaralingam, S. Tyree, S. Birchfield
arXiv:2310.00463, October 2023
2022
MegaPose: 6D Pose Estimation of Novel Objects via Render & Compare
Y. Labbé, L. Manuelli, A. Mousavian, S. Tyree, S. Birchfield, J. Tremblay, J. Carpentier, M. Aubry, D. Fox, J. Sivic
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2022
6-DoF Pose Estimation of Household Objects for Robotic Manipulation: An Accessible Dataset and Benchmark
S. Tyree, J. Tremblay, T. To, J. Cheng, T. Mosier, J. Smith, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, October 2022
Audio-Visual Segmentation
J. Zhou, J. Wang, J. Zhang, W. Sun, J. Zhang, S. Birchfield, D. Guo, L. Kong, M. Wang, Y. Zhong
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2022
PredictionNet: Real-Time Joint Probabilistic Traffic Prediction for Planning, Control, and Simulation
A. Kamenev, L. Wang, O. B. Bohan, I. Kulkarni, B. Kartal, A. Molchanov, S. Birchfield, D. Nistér, N. Smolyanskiy
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2022
Single-Stage Keypoint-Based Category-Level Object Pose Estimation from an RGB Image
Y. Lin, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, P. A. Vela, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2022
Keypoint-Based Category-Level Object Pose Tracking from an RGB Sequence with Uncertainty Estimation
Y. Lin, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, P. A. Vela, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2022
Displacement-Invariant Cost Computation for Stereo Matching
Y. Zhong, C. Loop, W. Byeon, S. Birchfield, Y. Dai, K. Zhang, A. Kamenev, T. Breuel, H. Li, J. Kautz
International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), 130(5):1196-1209, May 2022
RTMV: A Ray-Traced Multi-View Synthetic Dataset for Novel View Synthesis
J. Tremblay*, M. Meshry*, A. Evans, J. Kautz, A. Keller, S. Khamis, C. Loop, N. Morrical, T. Müller, K. Nagano, T. Takikawa, S. Birchfield
ECCV Workshop on Learning to Generate 3D Shapes and Scenes, Tel-Aviv, Israel, October 2022
2021
Self-Supervised Real-to-Sim Scene Generation
A. Prakash, S. Debnath, J.-F. Lafleche, S. Birchfield, E. Cameracci, G. State, M. T. Law
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Montreal, Canada, October 2021 (virtual)
Joint Space Control via Deep Reinforcement Learning
V. Kumar, D. Hoeller, B. Sundaralingam, J. Tremblay, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (virtual)
Multi-View Fusion for Multi-Level Robotic Scene Understanding
Y. Lin, J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, P. A. Vela, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, September 2021 (virtual)
Deep Two-View Structure-from-Motion Revisited
Y. Zhong, J. Wang, Y. Dai, S. Birchfield, K. Zhang, N. Smolyanskiy, H. Li
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2021 (virtual)
DexYCB: A Benchmark for Capturing Hand Grasping of Objects
Y.-W. Chao, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, A. Handa, U. Iqbal, J. Kautz, P. Molchanov, J. Tremblay, Y. Xiang, W. Yang, Y. Narang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville, Tennessee, June 2021 (virtual)
Hierarchical Planning for Long-Horizon Manipulation with Geometric and Symbolic Scene Graphs
Y. Zhu, J. Tremblay, S. Birchfield, Y. Zhu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, May 2021 (virtual)
Fast Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Object Pose Estimation
G. Shi, Y. Zhu, J. Tremblay, S. Birchfield, F. Ramos, A. Anandkumar, Y. Zhu
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Xi'an, China, May 2021 (virtual)
NViSII: A Scriptable Tool for Photorealistic Image Generation
N. Morrical, J. Tremblay, Y. Lin, S. Tyree, S. Birchfield, V. Pascucci, I. Wald
ICLR Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation, Vienna, Austria, May 2021 (virtual)
RMPflow: A Geometric Framework for Generation of Multi-Task Motion Policies
C.-A. Cheng, M. Mukadam, J. Issac, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, B. Boots, N. Ratliff
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), 18(3):968-987, July 2021
2020
Contextual Reinforcement Learning of Visuo-tactile Multi-fingered Grasping Policies
V. Kumar, T. Hermans, D. Fox, S. Birchfield, J. Tremblay
NeurIPS Workshop on Robot Learning, December 2020 (virtual)
Indirect Object-to-Robot Pose Estimation from an External Monocular RGB Camera
J. Tremblay, S. Tyree, T. Mosier, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2020 (virtual)
MVLidarNet: Real-Time Multi-Class Scene Understanding for Autonomous Driving Using Multiple Views
K. Chen, R. Oldja, N. Smolyanskiy, S. Birchfield, A. Popov, D. Wehr, I. Eden, J. Pehserl
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2020 (virtual)
Camera-to-Robot Pose Estimation from a Single Image
T. E. Lee, J. Tremblay, T. To, J. Cheng, T. Mosier, O. Kroemer, D. Fox, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 2020 (virtual)
Toward Sim-to-Real Directional Semantic Grasping
S. Iqbal, J. Tremblay, T. To, J. Cheng, E. Leitch, A. Campbell, K. Leung, D. McKay, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 2020 (virtual)
DexPilot: Vision Based Teleoperation of Dexterous Robotic Hand-Arm System
A. Handa, K. Van Wyk, W. Yang, J. Liang, Y.-W. Chao, Q. Wan, S. Birchfield, N. Ratliff, D. Fox
International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Paris, France, May 2020 (virtual)
Improving Deep Stereo Network Generalization with Geometric Priors
J. Wang, V. Jampani, D. Sun, C. Loop, S. Birchfield, J. Kautz
arXiv:2008.11098, August 2020
2019
PAMTRI: Pose-Aware Multi-Task Learning for Vehicle Re-Identification Using Highly Randomized Synthetic Data
Z. Tang, M. Naphade, S. Birchfield, J. Tremblay, W. Hodge, R. Kumar, S. Wang, X. Yang
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Seoul, South Korea, October 2019
Few-Shot Viewpoint Estimation
H.-Y. Tseng, S. De Mello, J. Tremblay, S. Liu, S. Birchfield, M.-H. Yang, J. Kautz
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Cardiff, UK, September 2019
CityFlow: A City-Scale Benchmark for Multi-Target Multi-Camera Vehicle Tracking and Re-Identification
Z. Tang, M. Naphade, M.-Y. Liu, X. Yang, S. Birchfield, S. Wang, R. Kumar, D. Anastasiu, J.-N. Hwang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, California, June 2019
Robust Learning of Tactile Force Estimation through Robot Interaction
B. Sundaralingam, A. Lambert, A. Handa, B. Boots, T. Hermans, S. Birchfield, N. Ratliff, D. Fox
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 2019
Award: Best Robot Manipulation Paper Finalist
Structured Domain Randomization: Bridging the Reality Gap by Context-Aware Synthetic Data
A. Prakash, S. Boochoon, M. Brophy, D. Acuna, E. Cameracci, G. State, O. Shapira, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Montreal, Canada, May 2019
Multiple Hypothesis Tracking with Kinematics and Appearance Models on Traffic Flow for Wide Area Traffic Surveillance
X. Zhao, D. Dawson, W. A. Sarasua, S. Birchfield
ASCE Journal of Civil Engineering, 33(3), May 2019
2018
RMPflow: A Computational Graph for Automatic Motion Policy Generation
C.-A. Cheng, M. Mukadam, J. Issac, S. Birchfield, D. Fox, B. Boots, N. Ratliff
International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), Mérida, México, December 2018
Deep Object Pose Estimation for Semantic Robotic Grasping of Household Objects
J. Tremblay, T. To, B. Sundaralingam, Y. Xiang, D. Fox, S. Birchfield
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), Zürich, Switzerland, October 2018
Falling Things: A Synthetic Dataset for 3D Object Detection and Pose Estimation
J. Tremblay, T. To, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Real World Challenges and New Benchmarks for Deep Learning in Robotic Vision, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018
On the Importance of Stereo for Accurate Depth Estimation: An Efficient Semi-Supervised Deep Neural Network Approach
N. Smolyanskiy, A. Kamenev, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018
Training Deep Networks with Synthetic Data: Bridging the Reality Gap by Domain Randomization
J. Tremblay, A. Prakash, D. Acuna, M. Brophy, V. Jampani, C. Anil, T. To, E. Cameracci, S. Boochoon, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Autonomous Driving (WAD), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2018
Synthetically Trained Neural Networks for Learning Human-Readable Plans from Real-World Demonstrations
J. Tremblay, T. To, A. Molchanov, S. Tyree, J. Kautz, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Brisbane, Australia, May 2018
Region Growing Curriculum Generation for Reinforcement Learning
A. Molchanov, K. Hausman, S. Birchfield, G. Sukhatme
arXiv:1807.01425, July 2018
Riemannian Motion Policies
N. D. Ratliff, J. Issac, D. Kappler, S. Birchfield, D. Fox
arXiv:1801.02854, January 2018
2014
Program Synthesis by Examples for Object Repositioning Tasks
A. Feniello, H. Dang, S. Birchfield
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Chicago, Illinois, September 2014
Occlusion-Aware Multi-View Reconstruction of Articulated Objects for Manipulation
X. Huang, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 62(4):497-505, April 2014
Efficient Hierarchical Graph-Based Segmentation of RGBD Videos
S. Hickson, S. Birchfield, I. Essa, H. Christensen
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Columbus, Ohio, June 2014
Fast and Accurate PoseSLAM by Combining Relative and Global State Spaces
B. Peasley, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, May 2014
An Inexpensive Method for Evaluating the Localization Performance of a Mobile Robot Navigation System
H. Kikkeri, G. Parent, M. Jalobeanu, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Hong Kong, China, May 2014
2013
An Energy Minimization Approach to Automatic Traffic Camera Calibration Using MCMC
D. N. Dawson, S. Birchfield
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 14(3):1095-1108, September 2013
Classification of Clothing Using Mid-Level Layers
B. Willimon, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
ISRN Robotics, vol. 2013, January 2013
A Person Follower Mobile Robot System for Indoor Environments
N. Pradhan, S. Birchfield, T. Burg
IROS Workshop on Assistance and Service Robotics in a Human Environment, Tokyo, Japan, November 2013
Indoor Navigation for Mobile Robots using Predictive Fields
N. Pradhan, T. Burg, S. Birchfield, U. Hasirci
American Control Conference (ACC), Washington, DC, June 2013
Replacing Projective Data Association with Lucas-Kanade for KinectFusion
B. Peasley, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
A New Approach to Clothing Classification using Mid-Level Layers
B. Willimon, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
3D Non-Rigid Deformable Surface Estimation Without Feature Correspondence
B. Willimon, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 2013
Real-Time Obstacle Detection and Avoidance in the Presence of Specular Surfaces Using an Active 3D Sensor
B. Peasley, S. Birchfield
IEEE Workshop on Robot Vision (WoRV), Clearwater, Florida, January 2013
2012
Interactive Perception of Rigid and Non-Rigid Objects
B. Willimon, S. Birchfield, I. Walker
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, vol. 9, September 2012
Autonomous Exploration Using Rapid Perception of Low-Resolution Image Information
V. N. Murali, S. Birchfield
Autonomous Robots, 32(2):115-128, February 2012
An Energy Minimization Approach to 3D Non-Rigid Deformable Surface Estimation Using RGBD Data
B. Willimon, S. Hickson, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012
Accurate On-Line 3D Occupancy Grids Using Manhattan World Constraints
B. Peasley, S. Birchfield, A. Cunningham, F. Dellaert
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vilamoura, Portugal, October 2012
Extracting Minimalistic Corridor Geometry from Low-Resolution Images
Y. Li, V. Murali, S. Birchfield
International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 2012
Occlusion-Aware Reconstruction and Manipulation of 3D Articulated Objects
X. Huang, I. Walker, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), St. Paul, Minnesota, May 2012
2011
Development of an Automated Algorithm for Tracking and Quantifying Barnacle Cyprid Settlement Behavior
N. N. Pradhan, N. V. Gohad, B. Orihuela, T. C. Burg, S. Birchfield, D. Rittschof, A. S. Mount
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, volume 410, pages 21-28, December 2011
Visual Detection of Lintel-Occluded Doors by Integrating Multiple Cues Using a Data-Driven Markov Chain Monte Carlo Process
Z. Chen, Y. Li, S. Birchfield
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), 59(11):966-976, November 2011
Model for Unfolding Laundry using Interactive Perception
B. Willimon, S. Birchfield, I. Walker
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, California, September 2011
Robot Crowd Navigation using Predictive Position Fields in the Potential Function Framework
N. Pradhan, T. C. Burg, S. Birchfield
American Control Conference (ACC), San Francisco, California, July 2011
Classification of Clothing using Interactive Perception
B. Willimon, S. Birchfield, I. Walker
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Shanghai, China, May 2011
Evaluation of a Computer-Vision Tracking System for Collecting Traffic Data
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield, W. A. Sarasua, S. Khoeini
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2011
Fast image mosaicking using optical flow
K. Sapra, S. Birchfield
Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon Conference, March 2011
2010
A Taxonomy and Analysis of Camera Calibration Methods for Traffic Monitoring Applications
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 11(2):441-452, June 2010
Iris Segmentation in Non-Ideal Images Using Graph Cuts
S. Pundlik, S. Birchfield, D. Woodard
Image and Vision Computing, 28(12):1671-1681, December 2010
Traffic Monitoring of Motorcycles During Special Events Using Video Detection
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield, W. A. Sarasua, S. Khoeini
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2160, pp. 69-76, 2010
(presented at TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2010)
Rapid Automated Detection of Roots in Minirhizotron Images
G. Zeng, S. Birchfield, C. E. Wells
Machine Vision and Applications, 21(3):309-317, April 2010
Vision-Based Path Following Without Calibration
Z. Chen, S. Birchfield
In Mobile Robots Navigation, ed. Alejandra Barrera, InTech, pages 427-446, March 2010 (ISBN 978-953-307-076-6)
Algorithm for Discriminating Aggregate Gaze Points: Comparison with Salient Regions-Of-Interest
T. J. Grindinger, V. N. Murali, S. Tetreault, A. T. Duchowski, S. Birchfield, P. Orero
International Workshop on Gaze Sensing and Interactions (IWGSI), Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010
Image-Based Segmentation of Indoor Corridor Floors for a Mobile Robot
Y. Li, S. Birchfield
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010
Rigid and Non-Rigid Classification Using Interactive Perception
B. Willimon, S. Birchfield, I. Walker
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Taipei, Taiwan, October 2010
2008
Real-Time Motion Segmentation of Sparse Feature Points at Any Speed
S. J. Pundlik, S. Birchfield
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics, 38(3):731-742, June 2008
Real-Time Incremental Segmentation and Tracking of Vehicles at Low Camera Angles Using Stable Features
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 9(1):148-160, March 2008
Automatic Discrimination of Fine Roots in Minirhizotron Images
G. Zeng, S. Birchfield, C. E. Wells
New Phytologist, 177(2):549-557, January 2008
Automatic Camera Calibration Using Pattern Detection for Vision-Based Speed Sensing
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield, W. A. Sarasua
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2086, pp. 30-39, 2008
(presented at TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2008)
Adapting Starburst for Elliptical Iris Segmentation
W. J. Ryan, D. L. Woodard, A. T. Duchowski, S. Birchfield
IEEE Second International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), Washington, D.C., September 2008
Joint Tracking of Features and Edges
S. Birchfield, S. J. Pundlik
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
Visual Detection of Lintel-Occluded Doors from a Single Image
Z. Chen, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
Autonomous Navigation and Mapping Using Monocular Low-Resolution Grayscale Vision
V. N. Murali, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
Non-Ideal Iris Segmentation Using Graph Cuts
S. J. Pundlik, D. L. Woodard, S. Birchfield
CVPR Workshop on Biometrics, Anchorage, Alaska, June 2008
Limbus/Pupil Switching for Wearable Eye Tracking Under Variable Lighting Conditions
W. J. Ryan, A. T. Duchowski, S. Birchfield
Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA), Savannah, Georgia, pages 61-64, March 2008
2007
Spatial Histograms for Region-Based Tracking
S. Birchfield, S. Rangarajan
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Journal, 29(5):697-699, October 2007
Correspondence as Energy-Based Segmentation
S. Birchfield, B. Natarajan, C. Tomasi
Image and Vision Computing, 25(8):1329-1340, August 2007
Person Following with a Mobile Robot Using Binocular Feature-Based Tracking
Z. Chen, S. Birchfield
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Diego, California, pages 815-820, October 2007
Isomap Tracking with Particle Filtering
N. Rane, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas, vol. 2, pages 513-516, September 2007
Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Vehicle Base Fronts for Measuring Traffic Counts and Speeds on Highways
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield, W. A. Sarasua, T. C. Whitney
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1993, pp. 155-164, 2007
(presented at TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2007)
2006
Detecting and Measuring Fine Roots in Minirhizotron Images Using Matched Filtering and Local Entropy Thresholding
G. Zeng, S. Birchfield, C. E. Wells
Machine Vision and Applications, 17(4):265-278, 2006
Motion Segmentation at Any Speed
S. J. Pundlik, S. Birchfield
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Edinburgh, Scotland, pages 427-436, September 2006
Qualitative Vision-Based Mobile Robot Navigation
Z. Chen, S. Birchfield
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida, pages 2686-2692, May 2006
Vehicle Segmentation and Tracking in the Presence of Occlusions
N. K. Kanhere, S. Birchfield, W. A. Sarasua
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 1944, pp. 89-97, 2006
(presented at TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., January 2006)
Automated Patient Facial Image Capture to Reduce Medical Error
C. Feied, M. Gillam, J. Handler, S. Birchfield
American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, Washington DC, November 2006
Automatic Detection of Fine Roots in Minirhizotron Images
G. Zeng, S. Birchfield, C. Wells, D. Layne
American Society for Horticultural Science (ASHS) Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2006
GIS-Based Roadway Video-logging using a Firewire Camera Combined with Satellite Differentially Corrected GPS
W. Sarasua, N. Kanhere, S. Birchfield
19th Geospatial Information Systems for Transportation Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, March 2006
2005
Microphone Array Position Calibration by Basis-Point Classical Multidimensional Scaling
S. Birchfield, A. Subramanya
IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 13(5):1025-1034, September 2005
Spatiograms Versus Histograms for Region-Based Tracking
S. Birchfield, S. Rangarajan
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, California, volume 2, pages 1158-1163, June 2005
Vehicle Segmentation and Tracking from a Low-Angle Off-Axis Camera
N. K. Kanhere, S. J. Pundlik, S. Birchfield
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, California, volume 2, pages 1152-1157, June 2005
Analysis of Neurite Outgrowth for a Laser Patterned Neuronal Culture
S. K. Guduru, S. V. Narasimhan, S. Birchfield, B. Z. Gao
2nd International IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, Virginia, March 2005
Acoustic Localization by Interaural Level Difference
S. Birchfield, R. Ganghishetty
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, vol. 4, pages 1109-1112, March 2005
