3 papers
cs.RO2019
Selfie Drone Stick: A Natural Interface for Quadcopter Photography
Saif Alabachi, Gita Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar
A physical selfie stick extends the user's reach, enabling the acquisition of personal photos that include more of the background scene. Similarly, a quadcopter can capture photos…
cs.RO2019
Customizing Object Detectors for Indoor Robots
Saif Alabachi, Gita Sukthankar, Rahul Sukthankar
Object detection models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) demonstrate impressive performance when trained on large-scale labeled datasets. While a generic object detect…
cs.HC2018
Intelligently Assisting Human-Guided Quadcopter Photography
Saif Alabachi, Gita Sukthankar
Drones are a versatile platform for both amateur and professional photographers, enabling them to capture photos that are impossible to shoot with ground-based cameras. However, wh…