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
Leveraging Human Attention in Novel Object Captioning [conference paper]
Posted August 19, 2021
Xianyu Chen (Ph.D. student), Ming Jiang (postdoctoral associate), Qi Zhao (associate professor)
30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Semantically-Aware Strategies for Stereo-Visual Robotic Obstacle Avoidance [preprint]
Posted July 13, 2021
Jungseok Hong (Ph.D. student), Karin de Langis (Ph.D. student), Cole Wyeth (undergraduate research assistant), Christopher Walaszek (undergraduate research assistant), Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)
Learning High Fidelity Depths of Dressed Humans by Watching Social Media Dance Videos [conference paper]
Posted June 24, 2021
Yasamin Jafarian (Ph.D. student), Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) - Best Paper Honorable Mention
Inverse Simulation: Reconstructing Dynamic Geometry of Clothed Humans via Optimal Control [conference paper]
Posted June 24, 2021
Jingfan Guo (Ph.D. student), Jie Li (Ph.D. student), Rahul Narain (adjunct assistant professor), Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Pose-Guided Human Animation from a Single Image in the Wild [conference paper]
Posted June 24, 2021
Jae Shin Yoon (Ph.D. student), Lingjie Liu, Vladislav Golyanik, Kripasindhu Sarkar, Hyun Soo Park (assistant professor), Christian Theobalt
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Predicting Human Scanpaths in Visual Question Answering [conference paper]
Posted June 23, 2021
Xianyu Chen (Ph.D. student), Ming Jiang (postdoctoral associate), Qi Zhao (assistant professor)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Explicit Knowledge Incorporation for Visual Reasoning [conference paper]
Posted June 21, 2021
Yifeng Zhang (Ph.D. student), Ming Jiang (postdoctoral associate), Qi Zhao (assistant professor)
Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Robot-to-Robot Relative Pose Estimation using Humans as Markers [journal]
Posted June 16, 2021
Md Jahidul Islam (Ph.D. student), Jiawei Mo (Ph.D. student), and Junaed Sattar (assistant professor)
Autonomous Robots
Establishing Fault-Tolerant Connectivity of Mobile Robot Networks [journal]
Posted June 14, 2021
Kazim Selim Engin (Ph.D. student), Volkan Isler (professor)
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Rethink Transfer Learning in Medical Image Classification [preprint]
Posted June 9, 2021
Le Peng (Ph.D. student), Hengyue Liang, Taihui Li (Ph.D. student), Ju Sun (assistant professor)