- Date: October 10, 2019
Awarded to: Devesh Jha, Nurali Virani, Zhenyuan Yuan, Ishana Shekhawat and Asok Ray
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Control, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Robotics
Brief - MERL researcher Devesh Jha has won the Rudolf Kalman Best Paper Award 2019 for the paper entitled "Imitation of Demonstrations Using Bayesian Filtering With Nonparametric Data-Driven Models". This paper, published in a Special Commemorative Issue for Rudolf E. Kalman in the ASME JDSMC in March 2018, uses Bayesian filtering for imitation learning in Hidden Mode Hybrid Systems. This award is given annually by the Dynamic Systems and Control Division of ASME to the authors of the best paper published in the ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems Measurement and Control during the preceding year.
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- Date: April 28, 2019
Where: 3rd IAVSD Workshop on Dynamics of Road Vehicles: Connected and Automated Vehicles
MERL Contact: Stefano Di Cairano
Research Areas: Control, Optimization, Robotics
Brief - Stefano Di Cairano, Distinguished Scientist and Senior Team Leader in the Control and Dynamical Systems Group, will give an invited talk entitled: "Modularity, integration and synergy in architectures for autonomous driving" that covers recent work in the lab concerning building a modular, robust control framework for autonomous driving.
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- Date: October 15, 2018 - October 19, 2018
Where: CEATEC'18, Makuhari Messe, Tokyo
MERL Contacts: Daniel N. Nikovski; Diego Romeres; William S. Yerazunis
Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Data Analytics, Robotics
Brief - MERL's work on robot learning algorithms was demonstrated at CEATEC'18, Japan's largest IT and electronics exhibition and conference held annually at Makuhari Messe near Tokyo. A team of researchers from the Data Analytics Group at MERL and the Artificial Intelligence Department of the Information Technology Center (ITC) of MELCO presented an interactive demonstration of a model-based artificial intelligence algorithm that learns how to control equipment autonomously. The algorithm developed at MERL constructs models of mechanical equipment through repeated trial and error, and then learns control policies based on these models. The demonstration used a circular maze, where the objective is to drive a ball to the center of the maze by tipping and tilting the maze, a task that is difficult even for humans; approximately half of the CEATEC'18 visitors who tried to steer the ball by means of a joystick could not bring it to the center of the maze within one minute. In contrast, MERL's algorithm successfully learned how to drive the ball to the goal within ten seconds without the need for human programming. The demo was at the entrance of MELCO's booth at CEATEC'18, inviting visitors to learn more about MELCO's many other AI technologies on display, and was seen by an estimated more than 50,000 visitors over the five days of the expo.
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- Date & Time: Thursday, November 29, 2018; 4-6pm
Location: 201 Broadway, 8th floor, Cambridge, MA
MERL Contacts: Elizabeth Phillips; Anthony Vetro
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Control, Data Analytics, Dynamical Systems, Electric Systems, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Multi-Physical Modeling, Optimization, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
Brief - Snacks, demos, science: On Thursday 11/29, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) will host an open house for graduate+ students interested in internships, post-docs, and research scientist positions. The event will be held from 4-6pm and will feature demos & short presentations in our main areas of research including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, speech processing, optimization, machine learning, data analytics, signal processing, communications, sensing, control and dynamical systems, as well as multi-physyical modeling and electronic devices. MERL is a high impact publication-oriented research lab with very extensive internship and university collaboration programs. Most internships lead to publication; many of our interns and staff have gone on to notable careers at MERL and in academia. Come mix with our researchers, see our state of the art technologies, and learn about our research opportunities. Dress code: casual, with resumes.
Pre-registration for the event is strongly encouraged:
merlopenhouse.eventbrite.com
Current internship and employment openings:
www.merl.com/internship/openings
www.merl.com/employment/employment
Information about working at MERL:
www.merl.com/employment.
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- Date: July 13, 2015 - July 17, 2015
Research Area: Machine Learning
Brief - SA group members (M. Liu, S. Lin (intern), S. Ramalingam, O. Tuzel) presented a paper at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference in Rome July 13-17 called 'Layered Interpretation of Street View Images'. The results they reported are now listed as the leader of the benchmark competition sponsored by Daimler. [Note that at that URL ref 2 is from collaboration with Daimler and it uses a FPGA for high speed, whereas MERL result is obtained with desktop computer and GPU.].
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- Date: May 14, 2013
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Point-Plane SLAM for Hand-Held 3D Sensors" by Taguchi, Y., Jian, Y-D, Ramalingam, S. and Feng, C. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: September 27, 2012
Where: International Journal of Computer Vision
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "A Theory of Minimal 3D Point to 3D Plane Registration and Its Generalization" by Ramalingam, S. and Taguchi, Y. was published in International Journal of Computer Vision.
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- Date: May 8, 2012
Where: The International Journal of Robotics Research
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Fast Object Localization and Pose Estimation in Heavy Clutter for Robotic Bin Picking" by Liu, M.-Y., Tuzel, O., Veeraraghavan, A., Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Chellappa, R. was published in The International Journal of Robotics Research.
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- Date: March 26, 2012
Where: European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP)
MERL Contact: Bingnan Wang
Research Areas: Applied Physics, Electric Systems
Brief - The paper "Analysis on Wireless Power Transfer to Moving Devices Based on Array of Resonators" by Wang, B., Ellstein, D. and Teo, K.H. was presented at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP).
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- Date: September 25, 2011
Where: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
MERL Contact: Tim K. Marks Brief - The paper "Entropy-Based Motion Selection for Touch-Based Registration Using Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filtering" by Taguchi, Y., Marks, T.K. and Hershey, J.R. was presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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- Date: July 14, 2011
Where: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The paper "Compressed Inference for Probabilistic Sequential Models" by Polatkan, G. and Tuzel, O. was presented at the Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI).
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- Date: October 18, 2010
Where: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
MERL Contact: Matthew Brand Brief - The paper "SKYLINE2GPS: Localization in Urban Canyons Using Omni-skylines" by Ramalingam, S., Bouaziz, S., Sturm, P. and Brand, M. was presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
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- Date: February 15, 2010
Where: International Journal of Robotics Research
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Vision-guided Robot System for Picking Objects by Casting Shadows" by Agrawal, A.K., Sun, Y., Barnwell, J.C. and Raskar, R. was published in International Journal of Robotics Research.
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- Date: July 16, 2006
Where: AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Brief - The paper "From the Programmer\'s Apprentice to Human-Robot Interaction: Thirty Years of Research on Human-Computer Collaboration" by Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
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- Date: March 2, 2006
Where: ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Brief - The paper "The Effect of Head-Nod Recognition in Human-Robot Conversation" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Morency, L.-P. and Forlines, C. was presented at the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).
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- Date: May 17, 2005
Where: Artificial Intelligence Brief - The article "Explorations in Engagement for Humans and Robots" by Sidner, C.L., Lee, C., Kidds, C.D., Lesh, N. and Rich, C. was published in Artificial Intelligence.
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- Date: April 26, 2004
Where: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
MERL Contacts: Matthew Brand; Daniel N. Nikovski
Research Area: Optimization
Brief - The paper "Optimal Parking in Group Elevator Control" by Brand, M.E. and Nikovski, D.N. was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
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- Date: May 31, 2003
Where: Journal of Graphics Tools
Research Area: Computer Vision
Brief - The article "Simple and Efficient Traversal Methods for Quadtrees and Octrees" by Frisken, S. and Perry, R. was published in Journal of Graphics Tools.
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