Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
'Smart hug' tech aims to improve health and well-being
Prototype system uses voice-based conversation and physiological data to monitor the stress level of a user, and if needed, offers a calming hug.
Researchers use 3D motion capture to study Minnesota Zoo monkeys
The study, on which CS&E assistant professor Hyun Soo Park is a collaborator, holds new insights for neuroscience and behavioral science.
CS&E wins best paper honorable mention at CVPR 2021
The work by Ph.D. student Yasamin Jafarian and assistant professor Hyun Soo Park used TikTok dance videos to learn high fidelity depths of dressed humans.
UMN robotics research showcased at ICRA 2021
Four papers from C&SE faculty and students will be shared during the 2021 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
COVID-19 can't stop the Cowbot autonomous mower!
The project is a collaboration between the West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC), The Toro Company, and CS&E's Robotic Sensor Networks Lab.
Professor Isler featured in UMN Plant Breeding Seminar series
In the talk, he discusses how plant breeding and agriculture is an interesting research domain for robotics, and shares examples of relevant work from his lab.
Building a brighter future with robotics
From exploring shipwrecks to air-dropping supplies in a pandemic, CS&E faculty and students are designing robots for the 21st century.
AI helps scientists understand brain activity behind thoughts
CS&E associate professor Paul Schrater is part of the team who, for the first time, developed a method to measure thoughts.
CSE team receives $1.2 million NSF grant to develop smart e-scooters
CS&E assistant professor Ju Sun is part of the team aiming to add tracking systems on electric scooters to improve safety of riders on the road.
Researchers develop AI algorithm to analyze chest X-rays for COVID-19
Ju Sun is on a team that developed and validated an artificial intelligence algorithm that can evaluate chest X-rays to diagnose possible cases of COVID-19.
New discovery allows 3D printing of sensors directly on expanding organs
A team, including CS&E's Hyun Soo Park, is developing technology that could help diagnose and monitor COVID-19 patients.
Tinkering in different buoyancies
Minnebot, the amphibious robot that ultimately could help improve our knowledge of water quality in the state—and beyond.
Faculty
Latest research projects, publications, and talks
IMU-Assisted Learning of Single-View Rolling Shutter Correction [conference paper]
Posted November 8, 2021
Jaiwei Mo (Ph.D. student), Md Jahidul Islam (Ph.D. 2021), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)
Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video [preprint]
Posted October 13, 2021
Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Eugene Byrne, Zachary Chavis (Ph.D. student), Antonino Furnari, Rohit Girdhar, Jackson Hamburger, Hao Jiang, Miao Liu, Xingyu Liu, Miguel Martin, Tushar Nagarajan, Ilija Radosavovic, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Fiona Ryan, Jayant Sharma (Ph.D. student), Michael Wray, Mengmeng Xu, Eric Zhongcong Xu, Chen Zhao, Siddhant Bansal, Dhruv Batra, Vincent Cartillier, Sean Crane, Tien Do (Ph.D. student), Morrie Doulaty, Akshay Erapalli, Christoph Feichtenhofer, Adriano Fragomeni, Qichen Fu, Christian Fuegen, Abrham Gebreselasie, Cristina Gonzalez, James Hillis, Xuhua Huang, Yifei Huang, Wenqi Jia, Weslie Khoo, Jachym Kolar, Satwik Kottur, Anurag Kumar, Federico Landini, Chao Li, Yanghao Li, Zhenqiang Li, Karttikeya Mangalam, Raghava Modhugu, Jonathan Munro, Tullie Murrell, Takumi Nishiyasu, Will Price, Paola Ruiz Puentes, Merey Ramazanova, Leda Sari, Kiran Somasundaram, Audrey Southerland, Yusuke Sugano, Ruijie Tao, Minh Vo, Yuchen Wang, Xindi Wu, Takuma Yagi, Yunyi Zhu, Pablo Arbelaez, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Bernard Ghanem, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, C. V. Jawahar, Hanbyul Joo, Kris Kitani, Haizhou Li, Richard Newcombe, Aude Oliva, Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor), James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Antonio Torralba, Lorenzo Torresani, Mingfei Yan, Jitendra Malik
Zero-shot Natural Language Video Localization [conference paper]
Posted October 12, 2021
Jinwoo Nam, Daechul Ahn, Dongyeop Kang (assistant professor), Seong Jong Ha, Jonghyun Choi
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
Knowledge Sheaves: A Sheaf-Theoretic Framework for Knowledge Graph Embedding [preprint]
Posted October 7, 2021
Thomas Gebhart (Ph.D. student), Jakob Hansen, Paul Schrater (professor)
Self-supervised Secondary Landmark Detection via 3D Representation Learning [preprint]
Posted October 1, 2021
Praneet C. Bala (Ph.D. student), Jan Zimmermann, Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor), Benjamin Y. Hayden
Learning to Predict Trustworthiness with Steep Slope Loss [preprint]
Posted September 30, 2021
Yan Luo (Ph.D. student), Yongkang Wong, Mohan S Kankanhalli, Qi Zhao (associate professor)
HUMBI: A Large Multiview Dataset of Human Body Expressions and Benchmark Challenge [preprint]
Posted September 30, 2021
Jae Shin Yoon (Ph.D. student), Zhixuan Yu (Ph.D. student), Jaesik Park, Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor)
Attention in Reasoning: Dataset, Analysis, and Modeling [journal]
Posted September 22, 2021
Shi Chen (Ph.D. student), Ming Jiang (post-doctoral researcher), Jinhui Yang (Ph.D. student), Qi Zhao (associate professor)
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Semi-supervised Dense Keypoints using Unlabeled Multiview Images [preprint]
Posted September 20, 2021
Zhixuan Yu (Ph.D. student), Haozheng Yu (M.S. 2021), Long Sha, Sujoy Ganguly, Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor)
Continuous-Time Spline Visual-Inertial Odometry [preprint]
Posted September 19, 2021
Jiawei Mo (Ph.D. student), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)