Recent Publications

Atanas Georgiev and Peter Allen, Two-Stage Robotic Crystal Mounting of Protein Crystals for X-Ray Data Collection, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineeeering (CASE), Aug. 2008.

Corey Goldfeder and Peter Allen, Autotagging to Improve Text Search for 3D Models, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 2008, Pittsburgh

Matei T. Ciocarlie and Peter K. Allen, On-Line Interactive Dexterous Grasping, Eurohaptics 2008, Madrid, June 10-13, 2008. Video

Corey Goldfeder, Haoyun Feng, and Peter Allen Training Set Expansion via Autotags, IEEE International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications (SMI-SHREC), June 4-6 2008.

Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen, Nancy J. Hogle and Dennis L. Fowler, Insertable Surgical Imaging Device with Pan, Tilt, Zoom, and Lighting, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 23, 2008, Pasadena.

Alejandro Troccoli and Peter K. Allen, Building illumination coherent 3D models of large-scale outdoor scenes, International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Volume 78, Numbers 2-3 / July, 2008, p. 261-280. Videos

Matei Ciocarlie, Corey Goldfeder and Peter Allen, Dimensionality reduction for hand-independent dexterous robotic grasping, IROS 2007, San Diego, Oct. 29- Nov. 2

Paul S. Blaer and Peter K. Allen, Data Acquisition and View Planning for 3-D Modeling Tasks, IROS 2007, San Diego, Oct. 29- Nov. 2

Tie Hu, Peter K. Allen and Dennis L. Fowler, In-Vivo Pan/Tilt Endoscope with Integrated Light Source, IROS 2007, San Diego, Oct. 29- Nov. 2

Corey Goldfeder, Peter K. Allen, Claire Lackner, Raphael Pelossof, Grasp Planning via Decomposition Trees, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, April 13, 2007, Rome.

M. Ciocarlie, C. Lackner and P. Allen, Soft finger model with adaptive contact geometry for grasping and manipulation tasks, IEEE Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, Tsukuba, JP, March 19-21, 2007. (Best Student Paper Award)

Alejandro Troccoli and Peter K. Allen, Shadow based texture registration for 3D modeling, Machine Vision and Applications, V. 18, No. 2, April 2007, pp. 65-72.

Atanas Georgiev, Sergey Vorobiev, William Edstrom, Ting Song, Andrew Laine, John Hunt and Peter Allen, Automated streak-seeding with micromachined silicon tools. Acta Cryst. (2006). D62, 1039-1045.

Alejandro Troccoli and Peter Allen, Illumination and texture factorization using ratio images of an object of known geometry. Intl. Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, June 2006.

Paul S. Blaer and Peter K. Allen, Two Stage View Planning for Large-Scale Site Modeling. Intl. Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission, June 2006.

Paul Blaer and Peter K. Allen, View Planning for Automated Site Modeling, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2006, Orlando, pp. 2621 - 2626.

Matei Ciocarlie, Andrew Miller, and Peter K. Allen, Grasp Analysis Using Deformable Fingers Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2005), August 2005, Edmonton.

Alejandro Troccoli and Peter K. Allen, Relighting Acquired Models of Outdoor Scenes 5th International Conference 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling (3DIM), June 2005, Ottawa.

Atanas Georgiev, Peter K. Allen Ting Song, Andrew Laine, William Edstrom and John Hunt, Microrobotic Streak Seeding for PRotein Crystal Growth Robotics Systems and Science, June 2005.

Andrew Miller, Peter K. Allen, V. Santos, and F. Valero-Cuevas, From Robot Hands to Human Hands: A Visualization and Simulation Engine for Grasping Research, Industrial Robot, V. 32, N. 1, 2005, pp. 55-63.

Andrew Miller and Peter K. Allen, Graspit!: A Versatile Simulator for Robotic Grasping, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, V. 11, No.4, Dec. 2004, pp. 110-122.

Atanas Georgiev,Peter K. Allen and William Edstrom, Visually-Guided Protein Crystal Manipulation Using Micromachined Silicon Tools Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Sytems (IROS 2004), Oct. 2004.

Atanas Georgiev and Peter K. Allen, Localization Methods for a Mobile Robot in Urban Environments, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, V. 20, N. 5, Oct. 2004, pp. 851-864.

P. Allen S. Feiner A. Troccoli H. Benko E. Ishak B. Smith, Seeing into the Past: Creating a 3D Modeling Pipeline for Archaeological Visualization 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission Symposium, Thessalonika, Greece, Sep. 6-9, 2004.

Andrew Miller, Peter K. Allen, V. Santos, and F. Valero-Cuevas, From Robot Hands to Human Hands: A Visualization and Simulation Engine for Grasping Research, International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping (IMG04), Genoa, July 1-2, 2004

Alejandro Troccoli and Peter K. Allen, A Shadow Based Method for Image to Model Registration, Second IEEE Workshop on Image and Video Registration (IVR'04), Washington DC, July 2nd, 2004.

Rafael Pelossof, Andrew Miller, Peter Allen and Tony Jebara, An SVM Learning Approach to Robotic Grasping, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, New Orleans, April 29, 2004, pp. 3512-3518.

Andrew Miller, Peter Allen, and Dennis Fowler, In-Vivo Stereoscopic Imaging System with 5 Degrees-of-Freedom for Minimal Access Surgery, Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference (MMVR), Jan. 16, 2004, Newport Beach.

Peter K. Allen, Ioannis Stamos, Alejandro Troccoli, Benjamin Smith, M. Leordeanu and Stephen Murray, New Methods for Digital Modeling of Historic Sites, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Nov/Dec 2003, pp. 32-41.

Atanas Georgiev, Peter Allen and Youcef Mezouar, Microrobotic Crystal Mounting Using Computer Vision, Microrobotics for Biomanipulation Workshop, IROS'03, Las Vegas, NV.

Peter K. Allen, Ioannis Stamos, Alejandro Troccoli, Benjamin Smith, M. Leordeanu and Y. C. Hsu, 3D Modeling of Historic Sites using Range and Image Data, ICRA 2003, Sep. 14-19, 2003 Tapei, pp. 145-150.

Paul Blaer and Peter K. Allen, TopBot: Automated Network Topology Detection with a Mobile Robot, ICRA 2003, May 11-16, Tapei.

Andrew T. Miller, Steffen Knoop, Henrik I. Christensen and Peter K. Allen, Automatic Grasp Planning using Shape Primitives, ICRA 2003, Sep. 14-19, 2003, Tapei, pp. 1824-1829.

Ioannis Stamos and Peter Allen, Geometry and Texture Recovery of Scenes of Large Scale Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 88, No. 2, Nov. 2002, pp. 94-118.

Georguiev, Atanas and Peter K. Allen Vision for Mobile Robot Localization in Urban Environments, Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Sytems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 1-3, 2002, pp. 472-477.

Mezouar, Youcef and Peter K. Allen Visual servoed micropositioning for protein manipulation, Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots and Sytems (IROS 2002), Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct. 1-3, 2002, pp. 1766-177.

Blaer, Paul and Peter K. Allen, Topological mobile robot localization using fast vision techniques, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 11-15, 2002, Washington.

Reed et. al., U.S. Patent 6,249,600, System and Method for Generation of a Three-Dimensional Solid Model

Stamos, Ioannis and Peter K. Allen, Automatic registration of 2-D with 3-D imagery in urban environments, Int. Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2001)", July 9-12, 2001, Vancouver.

Peter Allen, Ioannis Stamos, Atanas Gueorguiev, Ethan Gold and Paul Blaer, AVENUE: Automated Site Modeling in Urban Environments , Third International Conference on 3D Digital Imaging and Modeling, May 28 - June 1, 2001, Quebec City, pp. 357-364.

Danica Kragic, Andrew Miller and Peter K. Allen, Real-time Tracking Meets Online Planning, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 22-28, 2001, Seoul.

Oh, Paul, and Peter K. Allen, Visual Servoing by Partitioning Degrees-of-Freedom, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, V. 17, N. 1, February 2001, pp. 1-17.

Michael Reed and Peter Allen Constraint-Based Sensor Planning for Scene Modeling, IEEE Trans. on PAMI, Dec. 2000

Oh, Paul and Peter K.Allen, Joint Coupled Compensation Effects in Visually Servoed Tracking, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, April 24-28, 2000, San Francisco, pages 2094-2099.

Ioannis Stamos and Peter Allen, 3-D Model Construction Using Range and Image Data, CVPR2000.

Gueorguiev A., Allen P., Gold E., and P. Blaer, Design, Architecture, and Control of a Mobile Site Modeling Robot, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, April 24-28, 2000, San Francisco.

Abrams, Steven and Peter K. Allen, Computing Swept Volumes, Journal of Visualization and Computer Animation, V. 11, 2000, pp. 69-82.

Miller, Andrew T. and Peter K. Allen, GraspIt!: A Versatile Simulator for Grasp Analysis. In Proceedings ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Orlando, FL, November 2000.

Michael Reed and Peter Allen 3-D Modeling from Range Imagery: An Incremental Method with a Planning Component, Image and Vision Computing, V. 17, pp. 99-111, 1999.

Miller, Andrew and Peter Allen Examples of 3-D Grasp Quality Computations IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 10-15, 1999, Detroit, MI., pp. 1240-1246.

Oh, Paul and Peter K. Allen, Performance of a Partitioned Visual Feedback Controller, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 10-15, 1999, Detroit, MI, pp. 275-280.

Abrams, Steven , Allen, Peter K. and Tarabanis, Konstantinos, Computing Camera Viewpoints in a Robot Work-Cell International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 267-285, March 1999.

Allen, P., Miller, Andrew T., Oh, P., and B. Leibowitz, Integration of Vision, Force and Tactile Sensing for Grasping Int. Journal of Intelligent Mechatronics,Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1999, pp. 129-149.

Allen, Peter K. and Ruigang Yang, Registering, Integrating, and Building CAD Models from Range Data'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 18-20, 1998, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 3115-3120.

Oh, Paul and Peter K. Allen, Design of Partitioned Visual Feedback Controller, IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, May 18-20, 1998, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 1360-1365.

Allen, Peter, Reed, Michael, and Ioannis Stamos, View Planning for Site Modeling Proc. DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Monterey, November 21-23, 1998. 2.6MB in PDF format

Stamos, Ioannis and Peter K. Allen, Interactive Sensor Planning , Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), June 23-25, 1998, Santa Barbara, pp. 489-495. .6MB in PDF format

Michael Reed, Solid Model Acquisition from Range Imagery, Ph.D Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, Columbia University, 1998.) 1.1MB in PDF format.,

Michael Reed, P. Allen, and I. Stamos, Automated Model Acquisition from Range Images with View Planning, in Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Puerto Rico. 3MB compressed postscript

Michael Reed, P. Allen, and I. Stamos, 3-D Modeling from Range Imagery: An Incremental Method with a Planning Component, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in 3-D Digital Imaging and Modeling, Ontario, Canada, 1997. 2.8MB compressed postscript

Michael K. Reed and Peter K. Allen, A Robotic System for 3-D Model Acquisition from Multiple Range Images, In Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, New Mexico, USA. 1MB compressed postscript