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

(Click here to see all projects.)

 

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.

Selected Papers: NIPS'05, IJCV'07, ICCV-3dRR'07, AAAI-Nectar'08, IEEE-PAMI'08. NIPS'08.
Research/Code/Data: 2005, 2007, data.
Online demo: Make3D.Stanford.edu.

 

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.

Selected Papers: ICML'05, IJCV'07.
Research/Code/Data: here.
Video: Youtube.

 

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.