Selected Papers
by Randal Nelson and Students

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• Brandon Sanders, Randal C. Nelson, and Rahul Sukthankar, "A Theory of the Quasi-static World", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR02), Quebec City, Quebec, August, 2002, volume 3, 1-6. Abstract, pdf (preprint)
  
  
• Randal Nelson and Isaac Green, "Tracking Objects Using Recognition", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR02), Quebec City, Quebec, August, 2002, Volume 2, 1025-1039. Abstract, pdf (preprint)
  
  
• Brandon Sanders, Randal C. Nelson, and Rahul Sukthankar, "The OD Theory of TOD: The Use and Limits of Temporal Information for Object Discovery" Proceedings of AAAI, Edmunton, Alberta, July 2002, 777-784. Abstract, pdf (preprint)
  
  
• Andrea Selinger and Randal C. Nelson, "Minimally Supervised Acquisition of 3D Recognition Models from Cluttered Images", Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR01), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, Volume 1, 213-220. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Andrea Selinger and Randal C. Nelson, "Appearance-Based Object Recognition Using Multiple Views" Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR01), Kauai, Hawaii, December, 2001, Volume 1, 905-911. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Andrea Selinger and Randal C. Nelson, "Improving Appearance-Based Object Recognition in Cluttered Backgrounds", International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR00), Barcelona, Spain, September 2000, Volume 1, 46-50. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Randal C. Nelson and Andrea Selinger "Learning 3D Recognition Models for General Objects from Unlabeled Imagery: An Experiment in Intelligent Brute Force" Invited paper, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR00), Barcelona, Spain, September 2000, Volume 1, 1-8. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Andrea Selinger and Randal C. Nelson, ``A Perceptual Grouping Hierarchy for Appearance-Based 3D Object Recognition'', Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 76, no. 1, October 1999, pp.83-92. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Olac Fuentes and Randal C. Nelson ``Learning Dextrous Manipulation Strategies for Multifingered Robot Hands Using the Evolution Strategy'', Special combined issue of Machine Learning, Vol. 31, 223-237, 1998, and Autonomous Robots, Vol 5, 395-405, 1998. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Randal C. Nelson and Andrea Selinger ``Large-Scale Tests of a Keyed, Appearance-Based 3-D Object Recognition System'', Vision Research, Special issue on computational vision, Vol. 38, No. 15-16, Aug. 1998. Abstract, gzipped postscript (preprint)
  
  
• Randal C. Nelson and Andrea Selinger ``A Cubist Approach to Object Recognition'', International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV98), Bombay, India, January 1998, 614-621. Abstract, gzipped postscript, also in an extended version with more complete description of the algorithms, and additional experiments.
  
  
• Ramprasad Polana, and Randal C. Nelson, ``Detection and Recognition of Periodic, Non-rigid Motion'', International Journal of Computer Vision, Vol. 23, 3, June/July 1997, 261-282. Abstract, gzipped postscript
  
  
• Olac Fuentes and Randal C. Nelson ``Learning Dextrous Manipulation Skills Using the Evolution Strategy'' Proc. of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'97) Albuquerque NM, April, 1997. Abstract, gzipped postscript
  
  
• Martin Jagersand, Olac Fuentes, and Randal C. Nelson, ``Experimental Evaluation of Uncalibrated Visual Servoing for Precision Manipulation'', Proc. of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'97), Albuquerque NM, April 1997. Abstract, gzipped postscript
  
  
• Olac Fuentes and Randal C. Nelson, ``The Virtual Tool Approach to Dextrous Telemanipulation'' Proc. International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA96), Minneapolis Minnesota, April 1996. Abstract, gzipped postscript
  
  
• Martin Jagersand, Olac Fuentes, and Randal C. Nelson, ``Acquiring Visual-Motor Models for Robot Hand Fine-Manipulation'', Proc. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV96), Cambridge England, April 1996. Abstract, gzipped postscript
  
  

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