MRL Publications

Luz A. Torres-Méndez and Gregory Dudek
In 2002 Short Presentations of Eurographics (CD-ROM), Saarbrücken, Germany.

On the Positional Uncertainty of Multi-Robot Cooperative Localization

Ioannis M. Rekleitis, Gregory Dudek, and Evangelos E. Milios
In 2002 Multi-Robot Systems Workshop, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA

Automated Parameter Estimation for Procedural Texturing

Bourque, Eric, Gregory Dudek,
Proc. 13th Eurographics Workshop on Rendering, Pisa, Italy, 2002.

Viewpoint Selection - An Autonomous Robotic System for Virtual Environment Creation

E. Bourque and G. Dudek
IROS 1998

Topological exploration of unknown environments with multiple robots

G. Dudek, M. Jenkin, and E. Milios
ISORA 1998

Localizing a Robot with Minimum Travel

SIAM Journal on Computing Volume 27, Number 2, pp. 583-604, 1998.

On The Automated Selection of Viewpoints for Image Based Maps

E. Bourque, Master's Thesis - McGill University 1998

Automated Image-Based Mapping

E. Bourque and G. Dudek
CVPR Workshop on Perception of Mobile Agents 1998

Robotic Sightseeing - A Method for Automatically Creating Virtual Environments

E. Bourque, G. Dudek and P. Ciaravola, ICRA 1998

Semi-Planar Performance Analysis and Kissing Circle Sensitivity

S. Burlington
Submitted, Centre for Intelligent Machines, 1998

On 3-D Surface Reconstruction Using Shape from Shadows

M. Daum and G. Dudek
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 1998

Out of the Dark: Using Shadows to Reconstruct 3D Surfaces

M. Daum and G. Dudek
Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) 1998

Upper bound conditioning as a performance index for manipulator motion planning

Rene V. Mayorga and Luz Abril Torres
IROS 1998

On Multiagent Exploration

I. Rekleitis, G. Dudek and E. Milios
VI 1998

Shock Graphs and Shape Matching

K. Siddiqi, Y. Berube, A. Tannenbaum, & S. W. Zucker
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 1998

On the Psychophysics of the Shape Triangle.

K. Siddiqi, B. B. Kimia, A. R. Tannenbaum & S. W. Zucker.
Submitted, 1998

Shock Graphs and Shape Matching

K. Siddiqi, A. Shokoufandeh, S. J. Dickinson and S. W. Zucker
International Journal of Computer Vision (To Appear), 1998

Mobile Robot localization using learned landmarks

R. Sim
Master's Thesis - McGill University 1998

Mobile robot localization from learned landmarks

R. Sim and G. Dudek
IROS 1998

A Global Topological Map formed by Local Metric Maps

S. Simhon and G. Dudek
IROS 1998

Localizing a Robot with Minimum Travel

G. Dudek, K. Romanik and S. Whitesides
SIAM J. Comput. 27(2): 583-604 (1998)

Islands of Reliability for Dual Topological-Metric Mapping

S. Simhon
Master's Thesis - McGill University 1998

Selecting Targets for Local Reference Frames

S. Simhon and G. Dudek
ICRA 1998

Profile of a Winner: McGill University

Dudek, G.,
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Magazine, Summer, 1998.

On 3D Surface Reconstruction Using Shape from Shadows

M. Daum and G. Dudek,
Proc. IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Los Angeles, CA, June 1998. (pp. 461-468)

Mobile Robot Localization from Learned Landmarks

Simhon, Saul, Gregory Dudek,
Proceedings IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Victoria, BC, October 1998. (pp. 1708-1714)

Image Registration Using Zernike Moments

Badra, Fady, Ala Qumsieh, Gregory Dudek,
Proc. Vision Interface, Vancouver, BC, June 1998. (pp. 149-156)

A semantic proximity effect on object recognition in visual agnosia forbiological kinds

Lecours, S, M. Arguin, D. Bub, G. Dudek, S. Caille, S. Fontaine,
Brain and Cognition (Volume 37 Number 1), June 1998. (pp. 138-141)

Autonomous exploration: An integrated systems approach

M. Bolduc, E. Bourque, G. Dudek, N. Roy, and R. Sim, AAAI

Automated Creation of Image-Based Virtual Reality

E. Bourque and G. Dudek
SPIE Conference on Intelligent Systems and Manufacturing 1997

On the Identification of Sonar Features

S. Lacroix and G. Dudek
IROS 1997

Constraints and Their Satisfaction in the Recovery of Local Surface Structure

Jean W. Lagarde
McGill University Masters Thesis, 1997.

Multi-Robot Exploration of an Unknown Environment, Efficiently Reducing the Odometry Error

I. Rekleitis, G. Dudek and E. Milios
International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence, 1997

Reducing odometry error through cooperating robots during the exploration of an unknown world

I. Rekleitis, G. Dudek and E. Milios
Fifth IASTED International Conference ROBOTICS AND MANUFACTURING, 1997

Learning to rendezvous during multi-agent exploration

N. Roy and G. Dudek
European Workshop on Learning Robots, 1997

Shape Representation and Recognition from Curvature

Dudek, Gregory, John K. Tsotsos,
Computer Vision Graphics and Image Processing: Image Understanding (Volume 68 Number 2), 1997. (pp. 170-189)

On-line rendezvous selection for robot exploration

Dudek and Roy,
Proc. American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Workshop on On-Line Search, Providence, RI, July 1997. (pp. 22-29)

On building and navigating with a globally topological but locally metric map

Dudek, G., M. Jenkin, E. Milios, and D. Wilkes,
Proc. 3rd ECPD Int. Conf. on Advanced Robotics, Intelligent Automation and Active Systems, Bremen, Germany, 1997. (pp. 132-144)

Map Validation and Robot Self-Location in a Graph-Like World

Dudek, G., M. Jenkin, E. Milios, D. Wilkes, D.,
Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Volume 22 Number 2), November 1997. (pp. 159-178)

Coding Simple Shapes for Recognition and the Human Integration of Shape Primitives

Gregory Dudek, Martin Arguin, Michael Dixon, Daniel Bub,
Computational and Psychophysical Mechanisms of Visual Coding (Cambridge University Press), 1997.

A mobile robot that learns its place

Oore, S., G. E. Hinton, G. Dudek,
Neural Computation (Volume 3 Number 9), April 1997. (pp. 683-699)

MONOCULAR OPTICAL FLOW FOR REAL-TIME VISION SYSTEMS

Stephen M. Benoit and Frank P. Ferrie
McGill University TR-CIM-96-09, 1996.

Environment Exploration Using "Just-in-Time" Sensor Fusion

G. Dudek, P. Freedman and I. Rekleitis, VI 1996

Just-in-time sensing: efficiently combining sonar and laser range data for exploring unknown worlds

G. Dudek, P. Freedman and I. Rekleitis, VI 1996

Optical Flow Recognition from the Power Spectrum of a Single Blurred Image

I. Rekleitis
International Conference in Image Processing, 1996

Steerable Filters and Cepstral Analysis for Optical Flow Calculation from a Single Blurred Image

I. Rekleitis, VI 1996

Mobile robot navigation and control: A case study

N. Roy, G. Dudek, and M. Daum
AAAI 1996

Surface Sensing and Classification for Efficient Mobile Robot Navigation

N. Roy, G. Dudek, and P. Freedman
International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1996

On The Automated Selection of Viewpoints for Image Based Maps

Kenong Wu
Master's Thesis - McGill University 1996

Vision-based Robot Localization Without Explicit Object Models

G. Dudek and C. Zhang
International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1996

Using multiple models for environmental mapping

Dudek, Gregory, Paul Freedman, Souad Hadjres,
Journal of Robotic Systems (Volume 13 Number 8), August 1996. (pp. 539-559)

Shape from Darkness in 3 Dimensions Using Information from Solar Trajectories

Daum, Michael, Gregory Dudek,
Proc. US/Japan Student Forum (in affiliation with RSJ/IEEE IROS conference), Nagoya, Japan, 1996. (20 pages)

Human Integration of Visual Object Recognition and itsImplication in Category Specific Visual Agnosia

Arguin, Martin, Daniel Bub, Gregory Dudek,
Visual Cognition (Volume 3 Number 3), 1996. (pp. 221-277)

Environment mapping using multiple abstraction levels

Dudek, Gregory,
Proceedings of the IEEE (Volume 84 Number 11), November 1996. (pp. 1684-1704)

Environment Mapping Using Just-In-Time Sensor Fusion

Dudek, Gregory, Paul Freedman, Yiannis Rekleitis,
Proceedings of Vision Interface, Toronto ON, April 1996. (pp. 96-103)

Enhanced 3D Representation Using a Multiple Models

Nigel Ayoung-Chee, Gregory Dudek, Frank Ferrie,
Proc. Vision Interface, Toronto ON, April 1996. (pp. 104-109)

A hybrid approach to 3D representation

Nigel Ayoung-Chee, Gregory Dudek and Frank P. Ferrie
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 1144, Jun 1996, Pages 321 - 333, Editors: Jean Ponce, Andrew Zisserman, Martial Hebert. (Based on ECCV '96 International Workshop Cambridge, U.K., April, 1996 Proceedings).

Using local information in a non-local way for mapping graph-like worlds

G. Dudek and M. Jenkin
International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS), 1993

Finding the Parts of Objects in Range Images

Andre Lejeune and Frank P. Ferrie
McGill University TR-CIM-93-8, 1993.

Partitioning Range Images Using Curvature and Scale

Andre Lejeune and Frank P. Ferrie, McGill University.

What does aphasia tell us about object recognition

Arguin, Martin, Daniel Bub, Gregory Dudek,
Proceedings of the Academy of Aphasia, Tucson, AZ, October 1993.

Robust Positioning with a Multi-Agent Robotic System

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots (IJCAI-93), Chambery, France, August 1993. (pp. 118-123)

Organizational Characteristics for Multi-Agent Robotic Systems

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
Proceedings of Vision Interface 1993, Toronto, Ontario, July 1993. (pp. 91-96)

On the Utility of Multi-Agent Autonomous Robot Systems

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference of Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots (IJCAI-93), Chambery, France, August 1993. (pp. 101-108)

Multi-Transducer Sonar Interpretation

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
Proceedings 1993 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Atlanta, GA, May 1993. (pp. 392-397)

Model Based Map Construction for Mobile Robot Localization

Dudek, Gregory, Paul MacKenzie,
Proceedings of Vision Interface 1993, Toronto, Ontario, July 1993. (pp. 97-102)

Local information use in a non-local way for mapping graph-like worlds

G. Dudek, P. Freedman, Hadjres,
International Joint Conference in Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1993.

A Taxonomy for swarm robotics

Dudek, G., Jenkin, M., Milios, E., and Wilkes, D.,
Proceedings IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Yokohama, Japan, July 1993. (pp. 441-447)

A Multi-Layer Distributed Environment for Mobile Robots

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin,
Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS-3), Pittsburgh, PA, February 1993. (pp. 542-550)

Reflections on modelling a sonar range sensor

D. Wilkes, G. Dudek, M. Jenkin and E. Milios
CIM Technical Report, 1992

Using Curvature Information in the Decomposition and Representation of Planar Curves

Dudek, Gregory, John K. Tsotsos,
Active Perception and Robot Vision ediyed by A. Sood and H. Weschler - Springer-Verlag, 1992. (pp. 527-536)

Shape Description and Classification using Scale-Space Measurement

Dudek, Gregory,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Shape in Picture, Driebergen, Holland, August 1992.

Shape Classification and Scale-Space Texture

Dudek, Gregory,
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (The Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology), Sarasota, FL, May 1992.

Robot Map-Making Using Weak Sensory Feedback

Gregory, Dudek,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Sensor-Based Mobile Robotics, Nice, France, May 1992.

Modelling Sonar Range Sensors

Wilkes, David, Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios,
Advances in Machine Vision: Strategies and Applications edited by Archibald and Petriu, Singapore, 1992. (pp. 361-370)

Algorithms for Active Exploration of Unknown Environments: Using Uncertain Sensing Data to Create Reliable Map

Dudek, Gregory, Souad Hadjres, Paul Freedman,
Proceedings of the International Society for Optical Engineering Symposium on Advances in Intelligent Robotics Systems (Conference on Mobile Robotics VII), Boston, MA, November 1992.

Dynamically Estimating Mobile Range Camera Pose From Invariant Feature Measurements

Duncan L. Baird, McGill University Masters Thesis, 1991

The Simulation of Sonar Mapping in Complex Environments Using Multiple Reflecting Surfaces

Wilkes, David, Gregory Dudek, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios,
Proceedings of Vision Interface 1991, Calgary, Alberta, July 1991. (pp. 213-217)

The Integration and Action and Perception in Robotic Systems

Tsotsos, John K., Evangelos Milios, Gregory Dudek,
Proceedings of the First Annual IRIS-Precarn Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 1991.

Sonar and Obstacle Modelling

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Military Robotic Applications (Defense Research Establishment Suffield Special Publication 149), Medicine Hat, Alberta, September 1991. (pp. 198-205)

Shape Metrics from Curvature-Tuned Smoothing

Dudek, Gregory,
Geometric Methods in Computer Vision edited by B. Vemuri, 1991.

Shape Metrics From Curvature Scale-Space and Curvature-Tuned Smoothing

Dudek, Gregory,
Proceedings of the Conference on Geometric Methods in Computer Vision, San Diego, CA, July 1991.

Robustly recognizing curves using curvature-tuned smoothing

Dudek, Gregory, John K, Tsotsos,
1991 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Maui, HA, July 1991. (pp. 35-41)

Robotic Exploration as Graph Construction

Dudek, Gregory, Michael Jenkin, Evangelos Milios, David Wilkes,
IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (Volume 7 Number 6), 1991. (pp. 859-865)

A Framework for Active Vision

Cohen P., G. Dudek, M. D. Levine, F. Ferrie, S. W. Zucker,
Proceedings of the First Annual IRIS-Precarn Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 1991.