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Areas of interest: 

Robotics, artificial intelligence, activity recognition

IQA: Visual Question Answering in Interactive Environments

D. Gordon, A. Kembhavi, M. Rastegari, J. Redmon, D. Fox, A. FarhadiCVPR: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2018.

Re3: Real-Time Recurrent Regression Networks for Visual Tracking of Generic Objects

D. Gordon, A. Farhadi, D. FoxICRA: International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018.

Visual Semantic Planning Using Deep Successor Representations

Y. Zhu, D. Gordon, E. Kolve, D. Fox, L. Fei-Fei, A. Gupta, R. Mottaghi, A. Farhadi2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2017.

Self-supervised Visual Descriptor Learning for Dense Correspondence

T. Schmidt, R. Newcombe, D. FoxIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 2:2, 2017.  Winner, Best Vision Paper Award

SE3-Nets: Learning Rigid Body Motion using Deep Neural Networks

A. Byravan, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)IEEE, 2017.  Finalist, Best Vision Paper Award

Towards Learning to Perceive and Reason About Liquids

C. Schenck, D. FoxInternational Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2016.

Evaluating Task-Dependent Taxonomies for Navigation

Y. Sun, A. Singla, T. Yan, A. Krause, D. FoxForth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 2016.

NEOL: Toward Never-Ending Object Learning for Robots

Y. Sun, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016.

DynamicFusion: Reconstruction and Tracking of Non-rigid Scenes in Real-Time

R. Newcombe, D. Fox, S. SeitzIEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2015.  Best Paper Award

Gaussian Processes for Data-Efficient Learning in Robotics and Control

M. Deisenroth, D. Fox, C.E. RasmussenIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) 37:2, 2015.

Depth-Based Tracking with Physical Constraints for Robot Manipulation

T. Schmidt, K. Hertkorn, R. Newcombe, Z. Marton, M. Suppa, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015.  Finalist, Best Vision Paper Award

Graph-Based Inverse Optimal Control for Robot Manipulation

A. Byravan, M. Monfort, B. Ziebart, B. Boots, D. FoxInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2015.

Building Hierarchies of Concepts via Crowdsourcing

Y. Sun, A. Singla, D. Fox, A. KrauseIJCAI, 2015.

A Bayesian developmental approach to robotic goal-based imitation learning

M. Chung, A. Friesen, D. Fox, A. Meltzoff, R. RaoPLoS ONE 10:11, 2015.

Building Hierarchies of Concepts via Crowdsourcing

Y. Sun, A. Singla, D. Fox, A. KrauseInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, 2015.

DART: dense articulated real-time tracking with consumer depth cameras

T. Schmidt, R. Newcombe, D. FoxAutonomous Robots, 2015.

DART: Dense Articulated Real-Time Tracking

T. Schmidt, R. Newcombe, D. FoxProceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems, 2014.

Space-Time Functional Gradient Optimization for Motion Planning

A. Byravan, B. Boots, S.S. Srinivasa, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

ST-HMP: Unsupervised Spatio-Temporal Feature Learning for Tactile Data

M. Madry, L. Bo, D. Kragic, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

Unsupervised Feature Learning for 3D Scene Labeling

K. Lai, L. Bo, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.  Finalist, Best Vision Paper Award

Multi-Task Policy Search for Robotics

M.P. Deisenroth, P. Englert, J. Peters, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.  Best Cognitive Robotics Paper Award

Toward Online 3-D Object Segmentation and Mapping

E. Herbst, P. Henry, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

Hierarchical Sparse Coded Surface Models

M. Ruhnke, L. Bo, D. Fox, W. BurgardIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

Learning from Unscripted Deictic Gesture and Language for Human-Robot Interactions

C. Matuszek, L. Bo, L. Zettlemoyer, D. FoxConference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014.

Learning Predictive Models of a Depth Camera & Manipulator from Raw Execution Traces

B. Boots, A. Byravan, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

Learning to Identify New Objects

Y. Sun, L. Bo, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

RGB-D Cameras for 3D Modeling and Recognition

X. Ren, D. Fox, K. KonoligeRobotics & Automation Magazine 20, 2013.

Control Strategies for the Index Finger of a Tendon-driven Hand

A. Deshpande, J. Ko, D. Fox, Y. MatsuokaThe International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) 32:1, 2013.

RGB-D Flow: Dense 3-D Motion Estimation Using Color and Depth

E. Herbst, X. Ren, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.

Multipath Sparse Coding Using Hierarchical Matching Pursuit

L. Bo, X. Ren, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2013.

Compact RGBD surface models based on sparse coding

M. Ruhnke, L. Bo, D. Fox, W. BurgardProc. of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2013.

Attribute Based Object Identification

Y. Sun, L. Bo, D. FoxIEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2013.

Learning to Parse Natural Language Commands to a Robot Control System

C. Matuszek, E. Herbst, L. Zettlemoyer, D. FoxInternational Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), 2012.

A Joint Model of Language and Perception for Grounded Attribute Learning

C. Matuszek, N. FitzGerald, L. Zettlemoyer, L. Bo, D. FoxProceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2012.

DuploTrack: A Realtime System for Authoring and Guiding Duplo Block Assembly

A. Gupta, D. Fox, B. Curless, M. CohenACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2012.

Classification and Semantic Mapping of Urban Environments

B. Douillard, D. Fox, F. Ramos, H. Durrant-WhyteInternational Journal of Robotics Research 30:1, 2011.

Gambit: An Autonomous Chess Playing Manipulator

C. Matuszek, B. Mayton, R. Aimi, L. Bo, M. Deisenroth, R. Chu, M. Kung, L. LeGrand, J. Smith, D. FoxICRA, 2011.

HeatWave: Thermal Imaging for Surface User Interaction

E. Larson, G. Cohn, S. Gupta, X. Ren, B. Harrison, D. Fox, S. PatelCHI, 2011.  Honorable Mention Award

Learning to Navigate Through Crowded Environments

P. Henry, C. Vollmer, B. Ferris, D. FoxICRA, 2010.

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Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filters for Recognizing Activities and Spatial Context From Wearable Sensors

A. Raj, A. Subramanya, D. Fox, J. BilmesExperimental Robotics: The 10th International SymposiumSpringer Verlag 39, 2008.

Distributed Multirobot Exploration, Mapping, and Task Allocation

R. Vincent, D. Fox, J. Ko, K. Konolige, B. Limketkai, B. Morisset, C. Ortiz, D. Schulz, B. StewartAnnals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 52:2–4, 2008.

Hierarchical Conditional Random Fields for GPS-based Activity Recognition

L. Liao, D. Fox, H. KautzRobotics Research – Results of the 12th International Symposium ISRR, 2007.

Learning and Inferring Transportation Routines

L. Liao, D.  J. Patterson, D. Fox, H. KautzArtificial Intelligence 171:5-6, 2007.  2012 Prominent Paper Award

Centibots: Very large scale distributed robotic teams

K. Konolige, D. Fox, C. Ortiz, A. Agno, M. Eriksen, B. Limketkai, J. Ko, B. Morisset, D. Schulz, B. Stewart, R. VincentExperimental Robotics: The 9th International SymposiumSpringer Verlag 21, 2006.

Distributed Multi-robot Exploration and Mapping

D. Fox, J. Ko, K. Konolige, B. Limketkai, B. StewartProc. of the IEEE 94:7, 2006.  

Probabilistic Robotics

S. Thrun, W. Burgard, D. FoxProbabilistic RoboticsMIT Press, 2005.  

A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to the Revisiting Problem in Mobile Robot Map Building

D. Fox, J. Ko, K. Konolige, B. StewartRobotics Research: The Eleventh International SymposiumSpringer Verlag, 2005.

Fine-Grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage

D. Patterson, D. Fox, H. Kautz, M. PhiliposeProc. of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2005.  Best Paper Award

Real-time particle filters

C.T. Kwok, D. Fox, M. MeilăProceedings of the IEEE 92:2, 2004.  

Opportunity Knocks: a System to Provide Cognitive Assistance with Transportation Services

D. Patterson, L. Liao, K. Gajos, M. Collier, N. Livic, K. Olson, S. Wang, D. Fox, H. KautzUbiComp, 2004.

Map-based Multiple Model Tracking of a Moving Object

C.T. Kwok, D. FoxRoboCup 2004: Robot Soccer World Cup VIII 3276, 2004.  Best Paper Award

Mapping and Localization with RFID Technology

D. Hähnel, W. Burgard, D. Fox, K. Fishkin, M. PhiliposeICRA, 2004.

CentiBOTS: Large-Scale Robot Teams

K. Konolige, C. Ortiz, R. Vincent, A. Agno, M. Eriksen, B. Limetkai, M. Lewis, L. Briesemeister, E. Ruspini, D. Fox, J. Ko, B. Stewart, L. GuibasMulti-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent AutomataKluwer II, 2003.

Inferring High-Level Behavior from Low-Level Sensors

D. Patterson, L. Liao, D. Fox, H. KautzUbiComp, 2003.  10 Year Impact Award

Bayesian Filtering for Location Estimation

D. Fox, J. Hightower, L. Liao, D. Schulz, G. BorrielloIEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine 2:3, 2003.  

Research on Statistical Relational Learning at the University of Washington

P. Domingos, Y. Abe, C. Anderson, A. Doan, D. Fox, A. Halevy, G. Hulten, H. Kautz, T. Lau, L. Liao, J. Madhavan, D. Mausam, M. Richardson, S. Sanghai, D. Weld, S. WolfmanProc. of the IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Learning Statistical Models from Relational Data, 2003.

Bayesian Techniques for Location Estimation

D. Fox, J. Hightower, H. Kautz, L. Liao, D.  J. PattersonProc. of the UbiComp-2003 Workshop on Location-Aware Computing, 2003.

Distributed Multi-Robot Mapping

D. Fox, J. Ko, B. Stewart, K. Konolige, B. LimetkaiMulti-Robot Systems: From Swarms to Intelligent AutomataKluwer II, 2003.

Map merging for distributed robot navigation

K. Konolige, D. Fox, J. Ko, B. Limketkai, B. StewartIROS, 2003.

PlantCare: An investigation in practical ubiquitous systems

A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S.B. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. BorrielloUbiComp, 2002.

Real-time Particle Filters Using Mixtures of Samples Sets

C.T. Kwok, D. Fox, M. MeilăAAAI/KDD/UAI-2002 Joint Workshop on Real-Time Decision Support and Diagnosis Systems, 2002.

Making sensor networks practical with robots

A. LaMarca, W. Brunette, D. Koizumi, M. Lease, S.B. Sigurdsson, K. Sikorski, D. Fox, G. BorrielloPervasive, 2002.

Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing to Support Alzheimer's Patients: Enabling the Cognitively Disabled

D. Patterson, O. Etzioni, D. Fox, H. KautzUbiCog '02: First International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing for Cognitive Aids, 2002.

An Overview of the Assisted Cognition Project

H. Kautz, L. Arnstein, G. Borriello, O. Etzioni, D. FoxAAAI Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, 2002.

Robust Monte Carlo localization for mobile robots

S. Thrun, D. Fox, W. Burgard, F. DellaertArtificial Intelligence 128:1-2, 2001.

Integrated Plan-based Control of Autonomous Service Robots in Human Environments

M. Beetz, T. Arbuckle, T. Belker, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.B. Cremers, D. Fox, H. Grosskreutz, D. Hähnel, D. SchulzIEEE Intelligent Systems 16:5, 2001.

Probabilistic Algorithms and the Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot Minerva.

S. Thrun, M. Beetz, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. SchulzInternational Journal of Robotics Research 19:11, 2000.

Coordination for Multi-Robot Exploration and Mapping

R. Simmons, D. Apfelbaum, W. Burgard, D. Fox, M. Moors, S. Thrun, H. YounesAAAI, 2000.

Collaborative Multi-Robot Exploration

W. Burgard, M. Moors, D. Fox, R. Simmons, S. ThrunICRA, 2000.

Web Interfaces for Mobile Robots in Public Places

D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, S. Thrun, A.  B. CremersIEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine 7:1, 2000.

Soccer-Robot Locatization Using Sporadic Visual Features

S. Enderle, M. Ritter, D. Fox, S. Sablatnög, G. Kraetzschmar, G. PalmIAS, 2000.

Coordinated Deployment of Multiple, Heterogeneous Robots

R. Simmons, D. Apfelbaum, D. Fox, R.P. Goldman, K.Z. Haigh, D.J. Musliner, M. Pelican, S. ThrunIROS, 2000.

Efficient multi-robot localization based on Monte Carlo approximation

D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, S. ThrunRobotics Research: the Ninth International SymposiumSpringer-Verlag, 2000.

Markov Localization for Mobile Robots in Dynamic Environments

D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. ThrunJournal of Artificial Intelligence Research 11, 1999.  Honorable mention: 2004 IJCAII-JAIR best paper prize

Experiences with two deployed interactive tour-guide robots

S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. Schulz, W. SteinerFSR, 1999.

MINERVA: A second generation mobile tour-guide robot

S. Thrun, M. Bennewitz, W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, F. Dellaert, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, C. Rosenberg, N. Roy, J. Schulte, D. SchulzICRA, 1999.

Probabilistic Methods for Mobile Robot Mapping

D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. ThrunProc. of the IJCAI-99 Workshop on Adaptive Spatial Representations of Dynamic Environments, 1999.

Experiences with an Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot

W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. ThrunArtificial Intelligence 114:1-2, 1999.

Monte Carlo Localization: Efficient Position Estimation for Mobile Robots

D. Fox, W. Burgard, F. Dellaert, S. ThrunAAAI, 1999.  AAAI 2017 Classic Paper Award

Markov Localization for Reliable Robot Navigation and People Detection

D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. ThrunModelling and Planning for Sensor-Based Intelligent Robot SystemsSpringer Verlag, 1999.

Coastal navigation: Mobile robot navigation with uncertainty in dynamic environments

N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, S. ThrunICRA, 1999.

Collaborative Multi-Robot Localization

D. Fox, W. Burgard, H. Kruppa, S. ThrunKISpringer Verlag, 1999.

Sonar-Based Mapping of Large-Scale Mobile Robot Environments Using EM

W. Burgard, D. Fox, H. Jans, C. Matenar, S. ThrunICML, 1999.

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An Experimental Comparison of Localization Methods

J.S. Gutmann, W. Burgard, D. Fox, K. KonoligeIROS, 1998.  Best Paper Award

Real Robots for the Real World –- The RHINO Museum Tour-guide Project

W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. Thrun, A.  B. CremersProc. of the AAAI 1998 Spring Symposium on Integrating Robotics Research: Taking the Next Leap, 1998.

The Interactive Museum Tour-Guide Robot

W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. ThrunAAAI, 1998.  AAAI 1998 Outstanding Paper Award, AAAI 2016 Classic Paper Award

The Museum Tour-Guide Robot RHINO

W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, D. Fox, D. Hähnel, G. Lakemeyer, D. Schulz, W. Steiner, S. ThrunProc. of Fachgespräch Autonome Mobile Systeme (AMS'98), 1998.

Integrating Active Localization into High-level Robot Control Systems

M. Beetz, W. Burgard, D. Fox, A.  B. CremersRobotics and Autonomous Systems 23, 1998.

Active Markov Localization for Mobile Robots

D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. ThrunRobotics and Autonomous Systems 25, 1998.

Probabilistic Mapping of an Environment by a Mobile Robot

S. Thrun, D. Fox, W. BurgardICRA, 1998.

Coastal Navigation: Robot Motion with Uncertainty

N. Roy, W. Burgard, D. Fox, S. ThrunProc. of the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 1998.

Probabilistic State Estimation in Robotics

S. Thrun, D. Fox, W. BurgardProc. of the Workshop on Self-Organization of Adaptive Behavior, Ilmenau, GermanyVDI-Verlag, 1997.

The Dynamic Window Approach to Collision Avoidance

D. Fox, W. Burgard, S. ThrunIEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 4:1, 1997.

Active Mobile Robot Localization by Entropy Minimization

W. Burgard, D. Fox, S. ThrunProc. of the Second Euromicro Workshop on Advanced Mobile RobotsIEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.

Active Localization for Service Robot Applications

M. Beetz, W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, D. FoxProc. of the 5th Symposium for Intelligent Robotics Systems (SIRS'97), Stockholm, Sweden, 1997.

Estimating the Absolute Position of a Mobile Robot Using Position Probability Grids

W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hennig, T. SchmidtAAAI, 1996.  Honorable mention: AAAI 2014 Classic Paper Award

Map Learning and High-Speed Navigation in RHINO

S. Thrun, A. Bücken, W. Burgard, D. Fox, T. Fröhlinghaus, D. Hennig, T. Hofmann, M. Krell, T. Schimdt, 1996.

Position Tracking with Position Probability Grids

W. Burgard, D. Fox, D. Hennig, T. SchmidtProc. of the First Euromicro Workshop on Advanced Mobile RobotsIEEE Computer Society Press, 1996.

The Mobile Robot RHINO

J. Buhmann, W. Burgard, A.  B. Cremers, D. Fox, T. Hofmann, F. Schneider, J. Strikos, S. ThrunAI Magazine 16:2, 1995.