Publications
Journals
PLISS: Labeling Places Using Online Changepoint Detection (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
Autonomous Robots, 32(4):351-368, 2012.
Online Probabilistic Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
International Journal of Robotics Research, 30(6):755-771, May 2011.
Online Sparse Matrix Gaussian Process Regression and Vision Applications (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Jeffrey Ho.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 20(2):391-404, Feb 2011.
iSAM: Incremental Smoothing and Mapping (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24(6):1365-1378, Dec 2008
Bayesian Inference in the Space of Topological Maps (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Emanuele Menegatti, and Frank Dellaert.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 22(1):92-107, Feb 2006.
Note- The published version of the paper has an error in Figure 13 where the ground truth is wrongly indicated. The above link points to the corrected version. The published version can be found here. Thanks to Patrick Beeson for pointing out the error.
Conferences
Light-weight Precise Localization for Vehicles using Roadmarkings (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, David Ilstrup, and Tao Wu
IROS 2013, Tokyo.
Vehicle Localization using Road Markings (pdf)
Tao Wu and Ananth Ranganathan
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2013, Gold Coast, Australia.
Towards Illumination Invariance for Visual Localization (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Shohei Matsumoto, and David Ilstrup
ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany
A Practical System for Road Marking Detection and Recognition (pdf)
Tao Wu and Ananth Ranganathan
IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium 2012, Madrid.
Visual Place Categorization in Maps (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Jongwoo Lim
IROS 2011, San Francisco
Stereo Depth Map Fusion for Robot Navigation (pdf)
Christian Hane, Christopher Zach, Jongwoo Lim, Ananth Ranganathan, and Marc Pollefeys
IROS 2011, San Francisco
Keyframe Guided Automatic Non-linear Video Editing (pdf)
Vaishnavi Rajgopalan, Ananth Ranganathan, Ramgopal Rajagopalan,
and Sudhir P. Mudur
ICPR 2010, Istanbul.
PLISS: Detecting and Labeling Places using Online Change-point Detection (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2010, Zaragoza, Spain.
Semantic Scene Segmentation Using Random Multinomial Logit (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
BMVC 2009, London.
Bayesian Surprise and Landmark Detection (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan.
Online Sparse Matrix Gaussian Process Regression and Vision Applications (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Ming-Hsuan Yang
ECCV 2008, pg 468-482, Marseille, France.
Place Recognition-based Fixed-Lag Smoothing for Environments with Unreliable GPS
(pdf)
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, Richard Roberts and Frank Dellaert
ICRA 2008, Pasadena.
Fast 3D Pose Estimation With Out-of-Sequence Measurements (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan, Michael Kaess, and Frank Dellaert
IROS 2007, San Diego.
Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), 2007.
iSAM: Fast Incremental Smoothing and Mapping with Efficient Data Association (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
ICRA, Rome, 2007.
Fast Incremental Square Root Information Smoothing (pdf)
Michael Kaess, Ananth Ranganathan, and Frank Dellaert.
IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad
Ananth Ranganathan, Michael Kaess, and Frank Dellaert.
IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad
A Rao-Blackwellized Particle Filter for Topological Mapping (pdf)
(Best Conference Paper Finalist)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
ICRA, pages 810-817, Orlando, 2006.
Data driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
Robotics: Science and Systems, 2005.
Inference In The Space Of Topological Maps: An MCMC-based Approach (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
IROS, pages 1518-1523, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-Based and Cell-Based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
IROS, pages 2799-2806, Sendai, Japan, 2004.
A Reactive Robot Architecture with Planning on Demand (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
IROS, pages 1462-1468, Las Vegas, 2003.
Workshops
A compositional approach to learning part-based models of objects (pdf)
Roozbeh Mottaghi, Ananth Ranganathan and Alan Yuille
ICCV 2011, 3DRR-11 Workshop.
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-based and Cell-based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig
Workshop on Bridging the gap between task and motion planning
ICAPS 2009.
Semantic Modeling of Places using Objects
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
First IEEE Workshop on Visual Place Categorization (VPC ’09), CVPR 2009.
Toward Topological Localization with Spherical Fourier Transform and Uncalibrated Camera
Francesco Rossi, Ananth Ranganathan, Frank Dellaert, and Emanuele Menegatti
Omnidirectional Robot Vision Workshop
International Conference on Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, SIMPAR 2008, pages 319-330.
Technical Reports
Automatic Landmark Detection for Topological Mapping Using Bayesian Surprise (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
IC Tech Report GT-IC-08-04, 2008.
Probabilistic Topological Mapping for Mobile Robots using Urn Models (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-07-03, 2007.
A Variational inference method for Switching Linear Dynamic Systems (pdf)
Sang Min Oh, Ananth Ranganathan, James M. Rehg and Frank Dellaert.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-05-16, 2005.
Data Driven MCMC for Appearance-based Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-05-12, 2005.
PDRRTs: Integrating Graph-Based and Cell-Based Planning (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Sven Koenig.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-04-10, 2004.
Dirichlet Process based Bayesian Partition Models for Robot Topological Mapping (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan and Frank Dellaert.
GVU Tech Report GIT-GVU-04-21, 2004.
Invited Talks
BIRS 2006 Workshop on Mathematical Methods in Computer Vision,
Banff Internation Research Station (BIRS), Alberta, Canada
Thesis
Probabilistic Topological Maps (pdf)
Ananth Ranganathan
PhD Dissertation, College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb 2008
Following is a list of my publications. A chronological list can be found here. The paper titles link to summaries of the corresponding projects.
