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Publications (16)

cs.CV2023

Propagating Semantic Labels in Video Data

David Balaban, Justin Medich, Pranay Gosar +1

Semantic Segmentation combines two sub-tasks: the identification of pixel-level image masks and the application of semantic labels to those masks. Recently, so-called Foundation Mo…

cs.CV2023

Ethosight: A Reasoning-Guided Iterative Learning System for Nuanced Perception based on Joint-Embedding & Contextual Label Affinity

Hugo Latapie, Shan Yu, Patrick Hammer +14

Traditional computer vision models often necessitate extensive data acquisition, annotation, and validation. These models frequently struggle in real-world applications, resulting…

cs.RO2021

AI-HRI 2021 Proceedings

Reuth Mirsky, Megan Zimmerman, Muneed Ahmad +10

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Symposium has been a successful venue of discussion and collaboration since 2014. During that time, these symposi…

cs.RO2022

Automatic Sign Reading and Localization for Semantic Mapping with an Office Robot

David Balaban, Justin Hart

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorit…

cs.RO2021

Efficient Placard Discovery for Semantic Mapping During Frontier Exploration

David Balaban, Harshavardhan Jagannathan, Henry Liu +1

Semantic mapping is the task of providing a robot with a map of its environment beyond the open, navigable space of traditional Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) algorit…

cs.CL2019

Improving Grounded Natural Language Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog

Jesse Thomason, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Jivko Sinapov +6

Natural language understanding for robotics can require substantial domain- and platform-specific engineering. For example, for mobile robots to pick-and-place objects in an enviro…