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J. Weng and W. Hwang, "Online Image Classification Using IHDR,"
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, accepted March 13, 2002. |
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C. Yang and J. Weng, "Visual Motion Based Behavior Learning Using
Hierarchical Discriminant Regression,"
Pattern Recognition Letters, accepted Feb. 2002. |
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J. Weng and Y. Zhang, "Developmental Robots: A New
Paradigm," an invited paper in Proc.
Second International Workshop on Epigenetic
Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems, Edinburgh,
Scotland, August 10 - 11, 2002. Download PDF
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X. Huang and J. Weng,
"Novelty and Reinforcement Learning in the Value System of
Developmental Robots," in Proc. Second International
Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic
Systems, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 10 - 11, 2002.. Download PDF
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J. Weng, "A Theory for
Mentally Developing Robots," in Proc. 2nd International
Conference on Development and Learning, June 12 - 15, MIT, Cambridge,
MA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. Download PS
file or PDF
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J. D. Han, S. W. Zeng,
K. Y. Tham, M. Badgero and J. Weng, "Dav: A Humanoid Robot Platform for
Autonomous Mental Development," in Proc. 2nd International
Conference on Development and Learning, June 12 - 15, MIT, Cambridge,
MA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. Download PDF
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N. Zhang, J. Weng and Z.
Zhang, "A Developing Sensory Mapping for Robots," in Proc. 2nd
International Conference on Development and Learning, June 12 - 15,
MIT, Cambridge, MA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002. Download PDF
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Y. Zhang and J. Weng,
"Action Chaining by a Developmental Robot with a Value System,"
in Proc. 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning,
June 12 - 15, MIT, Cambridge, MA, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2002.
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Y. Zhang and J. Weng, "Chained Action Learning through Real-time
Interactions," in Proc. of IEEE/INNS International Joint Conference of
Neural Networks (IJCNN 2002), part of the World Congress on Computational
Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, May 12-17, 2002. Download
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Georgios Theocharous and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Learning the Hierarchical
Structure of Spatial Environments using Multiresolution Spatial Models,"
in Proc. ,
Lausanne, Switzerland, September 30th - October 4th, 2002. |
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Sridhar Mahadevan, "Spatiotemporal Abstraction of Stochastic Sequential Processes," in Proc. Symposium on Abstraction, Reformulation, and Approximation
(SARA), Lectures Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 2371, Sven Koenig
and Robert Holte (editors), Springer-Verlag, pp. 33-50, 2002. |
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Mohammad Ghavamzadeh and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Hierarchically Optimal Average
Reward Reinforcement Learning," in Proc. Nineteenth International Conference on
Machine Learning , Sydney, Australia, July 8-12, 2002. |
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Georgios Theocharous and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Approximate
Planning with Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes
for Robot Navigation,"
in Proc. IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) , Washington,
D.C. May 2002. |
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Mohammad Ghavamzadeh and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"A Multiagent Reinforcement
Learning Algorithm by Dynamically Merging Markov Decision Processes," in Proc.
First International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Bologna, Italy, 2002. |
2001
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J. Weng and K. Y. Guentchev, "3-D Sound Localization from a Compact
Noncolpanar Array of Microphones Using Tree-Based Learning," Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, vol. 110, no. 1, pp. 310 - 323, July 2001. |
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J. Weng, J. McClelland, A. Pentland, O. Sporns, I. Stockman, M. Sur and E. Thelen,
"Autonomous Mental Development by Robots and Animals," Science, vol. 291, no. 5504, pp. 599-600, Jan. 26, 2001.
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N. Zhang, J. Weng and X. Huang, "Progress in Outdoor Navigation by the
SAIL Developmental Robot," in Proc. SPIE Int'l Symposium on Intelligent
Systems and Advanced Manufacturing, vol. 4573, Newton, MA, Oct. 28 -
Nov. 2, 2001. |
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W. S. Hwang and J. Weng, "Incremental Hierarchical Discriminating
Regression for Indoor Visual Navigation," in Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image
Processing, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 7-10, 2001. |
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Y. Zhang and J. Weng, "Autonomous Speech Acquisition of a
Robot," in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC
2001), Tucson, AZ, pp. 524-529, October 7-10, 2001. |
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J. Weng and W. S. Hwang, "Incremental Hierarchical
Discriminant Regression for Online Image Classification," in Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, WA, Sept. 10 - 13, 2001. |
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Y. Zhang and J. Weng, "Developing Auditory Skills By the SAIL
Robot," in Proc. Int'l Symposium , on Computational Intelligence for Robotics
and Automation (IEEE CIRA 2001), Banff, Alberta, CA, pp. 155 - 160, July 29 - Aug. 1,
2001. |
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Y. Zhang and J. Weng, "Grounded Auditory
Development by a Developmental Robot," in Proc. INNS/IEEE
International Joint Conference of Neural Networks 2001 (IJCNN 2001),
Washington DC, pp. 1059-1064, July 14-19, 2001. Download PDF
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J. Weng, Y. Zhang and W. S. Hwang, "Teaching a Learning Vehicle - A
Developmental Perspective," an invited paper, in Proc. Robotics and Mechatronics Congress (RMC
2001), Singapore, June 6 - 8, 2001. |
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W. S. Hwang and J. Weng "An Incremental Algorithm for Vision Guided
Navigation," an invited paper, in Proc. Robotics and Mechatronics Congress, Singapore (RMC 2001), June 6 - 8,
2001. |
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Khashayar Rohanimanesh and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Decision-Theoretic Planning
with Concurrent Temporally Extended Actions," in Proc. Seventeenth Conference on
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence , August 3-5, 2001. |
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Mohammad Ghavamzadeh and Sridhar Mahadevan
"Continuous-time Hierarchical
Reinforcement Learning", in Proc. Eighteenth International Conference on Machine
Learning (ICML) , June 28-July 1, 2001, Williams College, Massachusetts |
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Rajbala Makar, Sridhar Mahadevan, and Mohammad Ghavamzadeh
"Hierarchical
Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning", in Proc. Fifth International Conference on
Autonomous Agents, Montreal, 2001. Best Student Paper Award |
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Georgios Theocharous, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, and Sridhar Mahadevan
"Learning Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes for
Robot Navigation", in Proc. IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation
(ICRA), 2001, Seoul, South Korea. |
2000
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W. Hwang and J. Weng, "Hierarchical Discriminant Regression," IEEE Trans.
Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 1277 - 1293, Nov. 2000.
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S. Chen and J. Weng, "State-Based SHOSLIF for Indoor Visual
Navigation," IEEE Trans. Neural Networks, vol. 11, no. 6,
pp. 1300 - 1314, Nov. 2000. |
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J. Weng and S. Chen, "Visual Learning with Navigation as an
Example," IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 63-71, 2000. |
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Y. Cui and J. Weng, "Appearance-Based Hand Sign Recognition from
Intensity Image Sequences," Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
vol. 78, pp. 157-176, 2000. |
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W. S. Hwang and J. Weng, "Hierarchical Discriminant Regression for Incremental and Real-Time
Image Classification," in Proc. 2nd International Conf. on Intelligent Data
Engineering and Automated Learning, Hong Kong, Dec. 13 - 15, 2000. |
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W. S. Hwang and J. Weng, "An Online Training
and Online Testing Algorithm for OCR and Image Orientation Classification
Using Hierarchical Discriminant Regression," in Proc. the forth IAPR
International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, Dec. 10 - 13, 2000. |
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J. Weng, W. Hwang, Y. Zhang, C. Yang,
and R. Smith, "Developmental Humanoids: Humanoids that Develop Skills Automatically",
in Proc. First IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, September 7-8,
2000, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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J. Weng, "Autonomous Mental Development and Performance Metrics for Intelligent
Systems," in Proc. on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, pp. 349- 359, August 14 - 16, 2000. |
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J. Weng, W. S. Hwang, C. H. Evans, Y. Zhang, S. Chen, J. Q.
Sperber, C. Yang, G. J. Bloy, M. K. Krishnaswamy, F. -I. Liu, R. J. Smith, and J. A.
Kohler, "Developmental Humanoids: Humanoids that Develop Skills
Automatically," in Proc. NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and
Learning, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, pp. 123- 132, April 5-7, 2000. |
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J. Weng, C. H. Evans and W. S. Hwang, "An Incremental Learning Method for Face Recognition under Continuous
Video Stream," in Proc. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Grenoble, France. March 28 - 30, 2000. |
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J. Weng and W. Hwang, "An incremental learning algorithm with automatically derived
discriminating features," in Proc. Fourth Asian Conference on Computer Vision, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 426 - 431, Jan. 8 - 9, 2000. |
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Georgios Theocharous, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, and Sridhar Mahadevan
"Learning and Planning with Hierarchical Stochastic Models for
Robot Navigation", ICML 2000 Workshop on Machine Learning of Spatial
Knowledge, July 2, 2000, Stanford University. |
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Khashyar Rohanimanesh, Georgios Theocharous, Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Hierarchical Map Learning for Robot
Navigation", AIPS Workshop on Decision-Theoretic Planning, April 14, 2000, Breckenridge, Colorado. |
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Natalia Hernandez and Sridhar Mahadevan, "Hierarchical Memory-based Reinforcement
Learning", International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
(NIPS), Nov. 27-December 2nd, 2000. |
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Georgios Theocharous, Khashayar Rohanimanesh, and Sridhar Mahadevan,
"Learning Hierarchical Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Models
for Robot Navigation", submitted to IEEE Conference on Robotics and
Automation, 2001. |
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Jindong Tan, Ning Xi, Wei Kang, "Tracking Control of Nonholonomic Mobile
Robots",
Proceedings of the IEEE Computational Intelligence on Robotics Automation, 77-82, 2000. |
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Imad Elhajj, Ning Xi, Yun-hui Liu, "Real-Time Bilateral Control of Internet-Based Teleoperation",
The Third World Congress on Intelligent Control and Automation, 2000. |
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Wei Kang, Ning Xi, Jindong Tan, "Non-time Based Tracking Controller and Its Application to Nonholonomic Mobile
Robots",
submitted to IEEE Transaction on Robotics and Automation. |
1999
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D. L. Swets and J. Weng, "Hierarchical discriminant analysis
for image retrieval," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 386 - 401, May 1999. |
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J. Weng, C. Evans, W. S. Hwang, and Y. B. Lee,
"The Developmental Approach to Artificial Intelligence:
Concepts, Developmental Algorithms and Experimental Results" in Proc. NSF Design
and Manufacturing
Grantees Conference, Long Beach, CA, Jan. 5-8, 1999. |
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J. Weng, C. H. Colin and W. S. Hwang, "Modeling Developmental
Learning,"
in Proc. 1st International Seminar on Bioelectronic Interfaces and 3rd International Workshop on Cybernetic Vision,
Campinas, Brazil, pp. 115 - 120, Feb. 23-26, 1999. |
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J. Weng, Y. B. Lee and C. H. Evans, "The developmental approach to multimedia speech
learning,"
in Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Phoenix, Arizona, vol. 6, pp. 3093 - 3096,
March 15 - 19, 1999. |
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J. Weng, C. H. Evans and W. S. Huang, "Automated
animal-Like learning for developing a face recognition system," in Proc. 2nd Int'l Conf. on Audio and Visual-Based
Person Authentication, Washington, DC, pp. 49 - 54, March 22-24, 1999. |
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W. S. Hwang, J. Weng, M. Fang, and J. Qian, "A Fast Image Retrieval Algorithm with Automatically Extracted
Features", in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Content-based Access of Image and Video
Libraries, Fort Collins, Colorado, pp. 8-15, June 1999. |
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J. Weng, W. S. Hwang, Y. Zhang and C. Evans, "Developmental robots: Theory, Method and Experimental
Results," in
Proc. 2nd Int'l Symposium on Humanoid Robots, Tokyo, Japan, pp. 57- 64, Oct. 8- 9, 1999. |
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J. Weng, "Learning in Computer Vision and Beyond:
Development,"
in C. W. Chen and Y. Q. Zhang (eds.), Visual Communication and Image
Processing, Marcel Dekker Publisher, New York, NY, pp. 431 - 487, 1999. |
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Y. Cui and J. Weng, "A Learning-based prediction-and-verification
segmentation scheme for hand sign image sequences," IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 798-804, August 1999. |
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Ning Xi, Wei Kang, "Control and Adaptation of Multiple Vehicle Formation", the
Proceeding of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 17-21, 1999 Hyongju, Korea. |
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Ning Xi, Wei Kang, "Formation Control of Multiple Autonomous Vehicles", the
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, August, 1999, Hawaii, USA. |
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Jindong Tan, Ning Xi, Wei Kang,"Non-time Based Tracking Controller for Mobile Robots",
Proceedings of the IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, 919-924, May
9-12,1999. |
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Wei Kang, Ning Xi, Jindong Tan, "Analysis and Design of Non-Time Based Motion Controller for Mobile Robots",
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics Automation,2964-2969, Detroit, Michigan, May 1999. |
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Jindong Tan, Ning Xi, Wei Kang, "The role of sensing in motion stability of mobile
robots", Proceedings of IEEE/SICE/RSJ International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent
Systems, 62 -67, 1999. |
1998
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J. Weng and S. Y. Chen, "Vision-guided navigation using
SHOSLIF,"
Neural Networks, vol. 11, pp. 1511-1529, 1998. |
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Sridhar Mahadevan, Georgios Theocharous, Nikfar
Khaleeli, "Rapid Concept Learning For Mobile
Robots", Autonomous Robots Journal, (also in Machine Learning
Journal), Joint special Issue on Learning in Autonomous Robots , vol. 5, pp. 239-251, 1998. |
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1993
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Jonathan Connell and Sridhar Mahadevan (editors), "Robot Learning", Kluwer Academic Press , June 1993. |
1992
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Sridhar Mahadevan and Jonathan Connell,
"Automatic Programming of Behavior-based Robots using Reinforcement
Learning", Artificial Intelligence , vol. 55, Nos. 2-3, pp. 311-365, June, 1992 . |
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Sridhar Mahadevan, "Enhancing Transfer in Reinforcement Learning by Building Stochastic Models of Robot
Actions", Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Machine
Learning, Aberdeen, Scotland, pp. 290-299, July, 1992. |
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