Ashutosh Saxena PhD advisor: Andrew Y. Ng Now: Assistant Professor Cornell University Department of Computer Science asaxena at cs.stanford.edu Research interests:     Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics. Secondary interests: Computer Vision, Video Processing, Web Data: Social/Videos. I joined as an assistant professor in Cornell University. My web presence will be here from now on.

SELECTED PROJECTS

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Make3D: Single Image Depth Perception

Learning algorithms to predict depth and infer 3-d models, given just a single still image. Applications included creating immersive 3-d experience from users' photos, improving performance of stereovision, creating large-scale models from a few images, robot navigation, etc.

STAIR: Mobile Robot Manipulation

Learning algorithms to predict robotic grasps, even for objects of types never seen before by the robot. Applied to tasks such as unloading items from a dishwasher, clearing up a cluttered table, opening new doors, etc.

Visual Navigation: High speed obstacle avoidance

Use monocular depth perception and reinforcement learning techniques to drive a small rc-car at high speeds in unstructured environments. Also fly a indoor helicopter autonomously using a single onboard camera.

Other projects

See projects page for more. E.g., 6-D wireless sourceless mouse, Bio-sensitive watch to prevent electric Shock, Noise tolerant Locally Linear Isomaps, Data driven robotics, etc.