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Benjamin Kuipers
Ben was a professor at UTCS from 1985 to 2008, when he moved to the EECS Department at the University of Michigan.
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Moving Object Segmentation Using Motor Signals Changhai Xu, Jingen Liu, and Benjamin Kuipers In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), 2012. 2012
Object Detection Using Principal Contour Fragments Changhai Xu and Benjamin Kuipers In Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV-11), 2011. 2011
Motion Segmentation by Learning Homography Matrices from Motor Signals Changhai Xu and Benjamin Kuipers In Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV-11), 2011. 2011
Learning Geometry from Sensorimotor Experience Jeremy Stober, Risto Miikkulainen, and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic R... 2011
Towards the Object Semantic Hierarchy Changhai Xu and Benjamin Kuipers In International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-10), 2010. 2010
Autonomously Learning an Action Hierarchy Using a Learned Qualitative State Representation Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09), 2... 2009
A stereo vision based 3D mapping algorithm for detecting ramps, drop-offs, and obstacles for safe local navigation Aniket Murarka and Benjamin Kuipers In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009. 2009
A Comparison of Strategies for Developmental Action Acquisition in QLAP Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-09), , 2009. 2009
Learning the Sensorimotor Structure of the Foveated Retina Jeremy Stober, Lewis Fishgold, and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, 2009. 2009
Sensor Map Discovery for Developing Robots Jeremy Stober, Lewis Fishgold, and Benjamin Kuipers In AAAI Fall Symposia Series: Manifold Learning and Its Applications, 2009. Appears in AAAI T... 2009
A framework for planning comfortable and customizable motion of an assistive mobile robot Shilpa Gulati, Chetan Jhurani, Benjamin Kuipers, and Raul Longoria In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2009. 2009
Towards a Safe, Low-Cost, Intelligent Wheelchair Aniket Murarka, Shilpa Gulati, Patrick Beeson, and Benjamin Kuipers In Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles (PPNIV), 2009. 2009
Skill Reuse in Lifelong Developmental Learning Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In IROS 2009 Workshop: Autonomous Mental Development for Intelligent Robots and Systems, , 2... 2009
3D pose estimation for planes Changhai Xu, Benjamin Kuipers, and Aniket Murarka In ICCV Workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-09), 2009. 2009
Construction of the Object Semantic Hierarchy Changhai Xu and Benjamin Kuipers In Fifth International Cognitive Vision Workshop (ICVW-09), 2009. 2009
Towards the Application of Reinforcement Learning to Undirected Developmental Learning Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-08), 2008. 2008
Continuous-domain reinforcement learning using a learned qualitative state representation Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-08), 2008. 2008
From pixels to policies: a bootstrapping agent Jeremy Stober and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2008. 2008
Ray-based color image segmentation Changhai Xu, Yong Jae Lee, and Benjamin Kuipers In Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, 2008. 2008
Detecting obstacles and drop-offs using stereo and motion cues for safe local motion Aniket Murarka, Mohan Sridharan and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-08), 2008. 2008
Trajectory generation for dynamic bipedal walking through qualitative model based manifold learning Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-08), 200... 2008
High Performance Control for Graceful Motion of an Intelligent Wheelchair Shilpa Gulati and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2008. 2008
Self-Organizing Distinctive State Abstraction Using Options Jefferson Provost, Benjamin J. Kuipers, and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics, 2007. 2007
Learning distinctions and rules in a continuous world through active exploration Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob-07), 2007. 2007
Learning to predict the effects of actions: synergy between rules and landmarks Jonathan Mugan and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-07), 2007. 2007
Sneaking up on the Hard Problem of consciousness Benjamin Kuipers In AI and Consciousness, AAAI Fall Symposium Series, 2007. 2007
Autonomous Development of a Grounded Object Ontology by a Learning Robot Joseph Modayil and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07),... 2007
Where do actions come from? Autonomous robot learning of objects and actions Joseph Modayil and Benjamin Kuipers In AAAI Spring Symposium Series 2007, Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cogn... 2007
Integrating Multiple Representations of Spatial Knowledge for Mapping, Navigation, and Communication Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Aniket Murarka, Benjamin Kuipers, and Brian Stankiewi... In AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants, 2007. AAA... 2007
Adapting proposal distributions for accurate, efficient mobile robot localization Patrick Beeson, Aniket Murarka, and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automaton (ICRA-06), 2006. 2006
Bootstrap learning of foundational representations Bootstrap learning of foundational representations %RefShort% 2006
Developing navigation behavior through self-organizing distinctive state abstraction Jefferson Provost, Benjamin J. Kuipers, and Risto Miikkulainen Connection Science, 18:159-172, 2006. 2006
Autonomous Shape Model Learning for Object Localization and Recognition Joseph Modayil and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automaton, 2006. 2006
Qualitative hybrid control of dynamic bipedal walking Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers In G. S. Sukhatme, S. Schaal, W. Burgard and D. Fox, editors, Robotics: Science and Systems II 2006
Parametrization and computations in shape spaces with area and boundary invariants Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin J. Kuipers and Lothar Wenzel In Proc. Fall Workshop on Computational and Combinatorial Geometry, Northampton, MA, 2006. 2006
Designing Safe, Profitable Automated Stock Trading Agents Using Evolutionary Algorithms Harish Subramanian and Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Peter Stone and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 2006. 2006
Building local safety maps for a wheelchair robot using vision and lasers Aniket Murarka, Joseph Modayil, and Benjamin Kuipers In Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV-06), 2006. 2006
Consciousness: Drinking from the Firehose of Experience Benjamin Kuipers In National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), 2005. 2005
Bootstrap Learning of Foundational Representations. Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil and Jefferson Provost In Developmental Robotics, AAAI Spring Symposium Series, 2005. 2005
Towards autonomous topological place detection using the Extended Voronoi Graph Patrick Beeson, Nicholas K. Jong, and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-05), 2005. 2005
Self-Organizing Perceptual and Temporal Abstraction for Robot Reinforcement Learning Jefferson Provost, Benjamin J. Kuipers and Risto Miikkulainen In AAAI-04 Workshop on Learning and Planning in Markov Processes, 2004. 2004
Bootstrap learning for object discovery Joseph Modayil and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-04), 2004. 2004
Using the topological skeleton for scalable global metrical map-building Joseph Modayil, Patrick Beeson and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-04), 1530--1536,... 2004
Local metrical and global topological maps in the Hybrid Spatial Semantic Hierarchy Benjamin Kuipers, Joseph Modayil, Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, and Francesco Savelli In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-04), 2004. 2004
Loop-closing and planarity in topological map-building Francesco Savelli and Benjamin Kuipers In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS-04), 1511--1517,... 2004
Controller synthesis using qualitative models and simulation Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Benjamin J. Kuipers In J. de Kleer and K. Forbus, editors, International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR-2004)<... 2004
Controller synthesis using qualitative models and constraints Subramanian Ramamoorthy, Benjamin Kuipers In J. de Kleer and K. Forbus, editors, Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Qualitat... 2004
Constructivist Learning: A Neural Implementation of the Schema Mechanism Harold H. Chaput, Benjamin Kuipers and Risto Miikkulainen In Proceedings of WSOM '03: Workshop for Self-Organizing Maps, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2003. 2003
Exploiting local perceptual models for topological map-building Patrick Beeson, Matt MacMahon, Joseph Modayil, Jefferson Provost, Francesco Savelli and Benjamin Kui... In IJCAI-2003 Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR-03), 2003. 2003
The skeleton in the cognitive map: a computational and empirical exploration Benjamin Kuipers, Dan Tecuci and Brian Stankiewicz Environment and Behavior, 35(1):80--106, 2003. 2003
Qualitative heterogeneous control of higher order systems Subramanian Ramamoorthy and Benjamin Kuipers In O. Maler and A. Pnueli, editors, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Lecture Notes in Com... 2003
Bootstrap learning for place recognition Benjamin Kuipers and Patrick Beeson In Proceedings of the Eighteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-02), 20... 2002
Towards a general theory of topological maps Emilio Remolina and Benjamin Kuipers Technical Report TR-02-293, University of Texas at Austin Artificial Intelligence Lab, 2002. 2002
Qualitative modeling and heterogeneous control of global system behavior Benjamin Kuipers and Subramanian Ramamoorthy In C. J. Tomlin and M. R. Greenstreet, editors, Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, Lecture ... 2002
Toward bootstrap learning for place recognition Benjamin Kuipers and Patrick Beeson AAAI Technical Report FS-01-01, ISBN 1-57735-135-5 2001
Learning from uninterpreted experience in the SSH Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil and Jefferson Provost In AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Learning Grounded Representations, Stanford, CA, 2001. 2001
Toward Learning the Causal Layer of the Spatial Semantic Hierarchy using SOMs Jefferson Provost, Patrick Beeson, and Benjamin J. Kuipers In AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Learning Grounded Representations, 2001. 2001
The skeleton in the cognitive map: a computational hypothesis Benjamin Kuipers In J. Peponis, J. Wineman and S. Bafna, editors, Space Syntax: Proceedings of the Third Internati... 2001
The Spatial Semantic Hierarchy Benjamin Kuipers Artificial Intelligence(1-2):191-233, 2000. 2000
Boundary region relations Emilio Remolina and Benjamin Kuipers In Cognitive Robotics, Papers from the 1998 AAAI Fall Symposium, 117--124, Menlo Park, CA, 19... 1998
Towards a formalization of the spatial semantic hierarchy Emilio Remolina and Benjamin Kuipers In Fourth Symposium on Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning (Common Sense 98), Lon... 1998
Navigation and mapping in large scale space Benjamin J. Kuipers and T. Levitt AI Magazine, 9(2):25--43, Summer 1998. Reprinted in Advances in Spatial Reasoning, Volume 2, ... 1998
Integrating vision and spatial reasoning for assistive navigation W. S. Gribble, R. L. Browning, M. Hewett, E. Remolina and Benjamin J. Kuipers In V. Mittal and H. Yanco and J. Aronis and R. Simpson, editors, Assistive Technology and Artific... 1998
A hierarchy of qualitative representations for space Benjamin Kuipers In Working Papers of the Tenth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning About Physical Sys... 1996
Learning to explore and build maps D. Pierce and Benjamin Kuipers In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), 1994. AAAI/MI... 1994
The composition and validation of heterogeneous control laws Benjamin J. Kuipers and K. Astrom Automatica, 30(2):233--249, 1994. 1994
Short Algernon Reference Manual (for Algernon version 1.3.0) Benjamin J. Kuipers and J. M. Crawford 1994. Unpublished manuscript. 1994
Learning Qualitative Models for Systems with Multiple Operating Regions Sowmya Ramachandran, Raymond J. Mooney, and Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical Syste... 1994
The semantic hierarchy in robot learning Benjamin Kuipers, R. Froom, W.-Y. Lee and D. Pierce In J. Connell and S. Mahadevan, editors, Robot Learning, 1993. 1993
Algernon for Expert Systems Benjamin Kuipers Unpublished manuscript 1993
Automatic Abduction of Qualitative Models Bradley L. Richards, Ina Kraan, and Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning about Physical System... 1992
Learning hill-climbing functions as a strategy for generating behaviors in a mobile robot David M. Pierce and Benjamin J. Kuipers In J.-A. Meyer and S. W. Wilson, editors, From Animals to Animats: Proceedings of the Internation... 1991
A robot exploration and mapping strategy based on a semantic hierarchy of spatial representations Benjamin J. Kuipers and Y.-T. Byun Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 8:47--63, 1991. Reprinted in Walter Van de Velde ... 1991
The composition of heterogeneous control laws Benjamin Kuipers and Karl Astrom In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, 630--636, 1991. 1991
Algernon -- a tractable system for knowledge representation J. M. Crawford and Benjamin J. Kuipers SIGART Bulletin, 2(3):35--44, June 1991. 1991
Negation and proof by contradiction in access-limited logic J. M. Crawford and Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91), 1991. AAAI/MI... 1991
ALL: formalizing access-limited reasoning J. M. Crawford and Benjamin J. Kuipers In John Sowa, editors, Principles of Semantic Networks, 299--330, San Mateo, CA, 1991. Morgan... 1991
QPC: a compiler from physical models into qualitative differential equations J. M. Crawford, A. Farquhar, Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the Eighth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-90), 365-37... 1990
Toward a theory of access-limited logic for knowledge representation J. M. Crawford and Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation an... 1989
A robust qualitative method for spatial learning in unknown environments Benjamin J. Kuipers and Y.-T. Byun. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-88), 1988. 1988
The Map-Learning Critter Benjamin Kuipers Technical Report AI TR 85-17, University of Texas at Austin, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Aus... 1985
The cognitive map: Could it have been any other way? Benjamin J. Kuipers In H. L. Pick, Jr. and L. P. Acredolo, editors, Spatial Orientation: Theory, Research, and Applic... 1983
Modeling human knowledge of routes: partial knowledge and individual variation Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-83), 1983. Morgan ... 1983
The `Map in the Head' metaphor Benjamin J. Kuipers Environment and Behavior, 14:202--220, 1982. 1982
On representing common sense knowledge Benjamin J. Kuipers In N. V. Findler, editors, Associative Networks: The Representation and Use of Knowledge by Compu... 1979
Commonsense knowledge of space: learning from experience Benjamin J. Kuipers In Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-79)<... 1979
Modeling spatial knowledge Benjamin J. Kuipers Cognitive Science, 2:129--153, 1978. 1978
Representing Knowledge of Large-Scale Space Benjamin J. Kuipers PhD Thesis, Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,... 1977
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